Veronica. | _ SCROPHULARIACEAE. 815 
SoutH IstanpD: Nelson—Wairau Mountains, W. 7. L. Travers, T. F. C. ; Mount 
Captain, 7, Kirk / Canterbury—Mount Torlesse, Cockayne / Black Range, J. D. Enys ! 
T'. Kirk! T. F.C., Petrie! Cockayne! Mount Burnett and Mount Arrowsmith, Cockayne ; 
Hopkins River, Haast. 3000-6000 ft. December—March. 
A well-marked plant, the only near ally of which is the following species, which 
may prove to be a form of it. 
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62. V.-quadrifaria 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 521.— 
Habit, size, and general appearance of V. tetrasticha, but the branchlets 
are more slender and wiry, about in. diam. with the leaves on, tetra- 
gonous with the faces flat, not concave. Leaves most densely quadrifari- 
ously imbricated, opposite pairs very shortly connate at the base and 
forming a ring clasping the branch, closely appressed, ,—+; in. long, 
broadly triangular, acute or subacute, coriaceous, concave in front, 
rounded on the back, not keeled; margins ciliolate towards the base or 
throughout their whole length. Flowers small, white, gin. diam., 
arranged in very short axillary 2-4-flowered spikes, the spikes usually 
capitate at the tips of the branchlets. Calyx 4-partite almost to the 
base; segments linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube short, equal- 
ling the calyx; lobes 4, rounded, spreading. Stamens 2; filaments short. 
Ovary seated in a cupular disc. Capsule twice as long as the calyx, 
oblong-obovoid, compressed, obtuse.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 529. 
Mitrasacme Cheesemani Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 348, t. 29, 
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SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Precival, 7. F. C.; Mount Charon, Cockayne ! 
Canterbury — Mount Peel, H. H. Allan; Mount Dobson, 7. F. C. Otago — Mount 
Alta, Buchanan ! 3500-6000 ft. December—March. 
Very near to the preceding, from which it differs in the more slender branchlets, 
which are tetragonous with almost flat sides, not concave; and in the smaller leaves, 
which are more closely appressed, and are broadly triangular with straight edges. In 
V. tetrasticha the leaves are rather suddenly narrowed above the broad base, so that 
the margin is curved, not straight. The flowers and capsules are also smaller than in 
V. tetrasticha. 
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63-—¥. tumida (7. Kirk)in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 521.— 
A prostrate or decumbent much-branched plant forming broad depressed 
patches 6-18in. diam.; branches very numerous, obtusely tetragonous, 
with the leaves on ;s5- jin. diam., black when dry. Leaves densely 
imbricated, opposite pairs connate at the base, ;4;—3'5 1m. long, broadly 
ovate-deltoid, tumid, obtuse, concave in front, rounded or obtusely keeled 
at the back, margins ciliolate. Flowers in 2-4-flowered abbreviated spikes 
at the ends of the branchlets. small, }-4in. diam., white. Calyx deeply 
4-partite; segments linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube short; 
limb with 4 nearly equal spreading oblong obtuse lobes. Stamens 2, 
included; anthers almost as long as the filaments. Ovary seated in a 
cupular disc. Capsule exceeding the calyx, subcompressed, broadly 
oblong, obtuse.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 529. 
SoutH Istanp : Nelson—Gordon’s Nob and St. Arnaud Mountains, Monro, T. F. C., 
H. H. Allan! Mount Rintoul and Ben Nevis, /. G. Gibbs / Mount Starveall, W. H. 
Bryant! Mount Richmond, J. H. Macmahon! Otago— Herb. Buchanan! (exact 
locality not stated). 3000-5000 ft. December—February. 
Nearest to V. tetrasticha, from which it is separated without any difficulty by the 
obtusely tetragonous branchlets, tumid obtuse leaves, and broader shorter capsule. 
Mr. N. E. Brown informs me that the specimens quoted in the Handbook under 
V. tetragona from Gordon’s Knob (Monro) and Waiau-au Valley (Travers) in reality 
belong to this species. 
