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820 SCROPHULARIACEAE. [| Veronica, 
74. V. propinqua Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 583.—A small much- 
branched shrub 1-3 ft. high; branches spreading, sometimes decumbent 
or tortuous; branchlets numerous, slender, about s45in. diam. Leaves 
of mature plants densely imbricated, the opposite pairs connate for the 
greater part of their length, each pair forming a closed sheath round the 
branch 7>—-tin. long, the lower part of which is adnate to the branch, the 
upper part free and somewhat expanded, the free tips of the leaves very 
short, obtusely triangular, thick and coriaceous ; margins ciliolate. Leaves 
of young plants free, linear or spathulate, entire or irregularly lobulate- 
pinnatifid. Flowers $-}in. diam., white, 4-8 near the tips of the 
branchlets, forming small termina! heads; rhachis villous. Calyx small; 
segments linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube about equalling 
the calyx; lobes spreading, unequal, the dorsal the largest. Capsule nearly 
twice as long as the calyx, about din. long, ovoid, compressed, obtuse.— 
V. salicornioides Hort. (not of Hook. f.). V. cupressoides var. variabilis 
N. HE. Brown wm Gard. Chron. 1 (1888) 20, f. 5 (exclude F). 
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Var, major (Cockayne)n. var.—Much taller and stouter and more erect. 
South Isnanp: Otago—Upper Waipori and Maungatua, Petrie / various stations 
in eastern Otago, H. J. Matihews! Var. major : Not uncommon in the uplands of 
Otago, Cockayne ! 2500-5000 ft. December—February. 
This has been cultivated in gardens for many years under the name of JV. sali- 
‘ornioides, from which, however, it is altogether distinct, as was first pointed out 
by Mr. N. E. Brown in the Gardeners’ Chronicle. It was referred by Mr. Brown to 
V. cupressoides, but it differs from that plant in size, mode of growth, leaves, and in the 
flowers and capsule, and Mr. Brown now agrees with me in considering it to be a distinct 
species. Its nearest affinity is with V. Armstrongii, but the branches are much more 
slender, and the leaves smaller and narrower. 
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75. ‘V. eupressoides ‘Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 212.—A much 
and closely branched round-topped shrub 3-6 ft. high; branches divari- 
cating; branchlets numerous, green, very slender, =, in. diam. or less, terete, 
very minutely puberulous or glabrous, clothed with decussate scale-like 
leaves resembling those oi a cypress. Leaves of mature plants in rather 
remote pairs, considerably shorter than the internodes, 4-4; in. long, not 
broader than the branch, ovate-oblong, obtuse, opposite pairs connate at 
the base, appressed or patent, rather fleshy, glabrous or minutely ciliolate. 
Leaves of young plants (often produced by reversion on the branches of 
old ones) ;44-¢1n. long, linear-oblong or oblong to oblong-spathulate, acute, 
narrowed into short free petioles, entire or irregularly lobulate or pinnatifid. 
Flowers small, {-¢in. diam., pale bluish-purple or rarely white, sessile or 
nearly so, 3-8 near the tips of the branchlets, forming small terminal heads. 
Calyx unequally 4-lobed ; lobes short, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube very 
short; lobes spreading, dorsal the largest, oblong-obovate, anticous the 
smallest, lmear-oblong. Capsule small, 4; in. long, about twice as long as 
the calyx, linear-obovoid or narrow cuneate-obovoid, retuse at the tip.— 
J.B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z, Inst. xiii (1881) 351; N. BE. Brown in Gard. 
Chron. i (1888) 20, tt. 4,6; T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 
520; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 520; Ill. N.Z, Fl. ii (1914) t. 154; 
Adamson in Journ, Linn. Soc. xl (1912) 264. 
SoutH IsLaNnD : Nelson—Upper Wairau Valley, Sinclair, T. I. C. ; Lake Tenny- 
son, 7’. F. C., R. M. Laing ! Fowler’s Pass and Stanley River, 7’. Kirk / Waiau Valley, 
W. We ds, Travers ! Marlborough—Inland Kaikouras, Cockayne. Canterbury—Broken 
River basin, J. D. Enys! 1. Kirk! T. F.C. ; Ashburton Valley and Harper’s Pass, 
