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Veronica. | SCROPHULARIACEAE. (Fehra) C+A. 819 poz. 
SoutH IstanpD: Nelson—Cobb Valley, F. G. Gibbs! Wairau Mountains, Rough, | 
W. 7. L. Travers; Wairau Gorge, T. Ff. C.; Mount Charon (Hanmer), Cockayne !/ 
Canterbury — Rangitata Valley, Haast, J. B. Armstrong. 2500-5000 ft. January— 
March. 
This has been much misunderstood, the name having been erroneously applied, both 
in England and in the Dominion, to the plant described herein as V. propingua, from 
which it differs in the more erect habit, in the stouter strict branches, and in the more 
closely placed broader and shorter leaves. My specimens gathered in the Wairau Gorge 
exactly match one of the type specimens collected by Travers in almost the same locality. 
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72, V. Armstrongii;Johnson in N.Z. Country: Journ. (January, 1879) 
59.—A small much-branched shrub 1-3 ft. high; branches spreading, often 
flabellate ; branchlets very numerous, slender, terete, clothed with appressed 
imbricating leaves, 7;-,;in. diam. Leaves of mature plants closely 
imbricating, appressed but not very closely so, about ;4,in. long, opposite , 
pairs connate for the greater part of their length, forming a sheath investing 
the branch which is wider at the top than the base, and thus almost 
obconic in shape, truncate or nearly so at the apex, tumid and coriaceous, 
smooth and rounded on the back, margins usually ciliolate. Leaves of 
young plants (frequently produced by reversion on old ones as well) 
spreading, z'9-}1n. long, linear, acute, flat, entire or irregularly lobulate. 
Flowers #—-+in. diam., white, 4-8 or more towards the tips of the branchlets, 
forming small terminal heads; rhachis villous. Calyx-segments unequal, 
oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube short, about equalling the calyx ; 
lobes spreading. Capsule din. long, about twice as long as the calyx, 
oblong-ovoid, compressed, obtuse or slightly retuse-—7'. Kirk wn Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xi (May, 1879) 464; J. B. Armsir. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xin (1881) 
352; Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi (1899) 396, tt. 28, 29; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 532; Adamson in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl (1912) 263. 
Souru Isuanp: Mountain districts from Nelson to Otago, apparently rare and local. 
Upper Wairau Valley and Amuri, 7. Kirk / Upper Rangitata, J. B. Armstrong! Kurow 
Mountains, Petrie / 2500-4500 ft. December—February. “A/l : & */93B S57: 402, 
Closely allied to V. Hectori and V. salicornioides, from both of which it differs in 
the more spreading and much more copiously branched habit, and especially inethe leaves, 
which are connate into an almost obconic sheath which is free from the branch at the 
tip, and truncate, or nearly so. Very rare in the wild state, but quite common in 
cultivation, where it varies considerably, producing leaf-sheaths much longer than 
any wild specimens I have seen. 
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43. VW. annulata Cockayne in N.Z. Plants and their Story (1919) 192.— 
A small much-branched shrub with much of the habit of V. Armstrongat, 
but the main branches are stouter, shorter, and more copiously divided, 
and the ultimate branchlets are shorter and much more closely packed. 
Branchlets 7;in. diam., slender, terete; bark dark-brown. Leaves in 
opposite pairs, »,-7; in. long, the margins connate for nearly the whole 
of the length, thus forming a short sheath or cup surrounding the branch, 
and which more closely invests it than in V. Armstrong; margins 
of the cup quite truncate, sparsely ciliate. Inflorescence much as in 
V. ArmstrongviV. Armstrongii var, annulata Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
xlv (1913) 273. | . 
SoutH Istanp: Southland, rock-faces on the northern slope of the Takitimu 
Mountains, alt. 3000 ft., Cockayne / Petrie / 
Doubtless closely allied to V. Armstrongii, but differs in its much more dwarfish — 
habit of growth, and tight-fitting leaf-sheaths, with their truncate margins. 
