Veronicas SCROPHULARIACEAS. _ 82i 
Haast ! Mount Arrowsmith, Cockayne. Otago—Lindis Pass and Lake district, Hector and 
Buchanan! Lammerlaw Hills, Petrie! Upper Ahuriri Valley, Cockayne ! 2000-4500 ft. 
December—February. 
A very remarkable species, easily distinguished by its cypress-like appearance, 
very slender branchlets, small scale-like leaves in remote pairs, and smal! narrow 
obovoid capsules. 
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76. V. Haastii Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 213.—A prostrate or 
decumbent much or sparingly branched glabrous shrub, black when dry ; 
stems woody, tortuous, 4-12 in. long; branches ascending, densely uniformly 
leafy, obscurely tetragonous, 4-$in. diam. with the leaves on. Leaves 
closely quadrifariously imbricated, opposite pairs connate at the very base, 
spreading or suberect, ¢-4in. long, broadly oblong to obovate, obtuse, con- 
cave in front, not keeled at the back, fleshy when fresh, extremely coriaceous 
and rigid when dry; margins ciliate at the very base. Flowers small, 
white, most densely compacted in terminal ovoid heads 4-14 in. long, formed 
of numerous reduced spikes in the axils of leafy bracts. Bracts oblong or 
ovate-oblong, about equalling the calyx. Calyx 4-partite ; segments linear- 
oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube longer than the limb, rather shorter than the 
calyx ; lintb exserted, $1in. diam., 4-lobed ; lobes ovate, subacute. Capsule 
about equalling the calyx, ovoid-oblong, acute—J. B. Armstr. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 350; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 534. 
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Var. macrocalyx Cheesem. ‘Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 534.—Much more copiously branched, 
prostrate and trailing, brown when dry. Leaves 4—# in. long, obovate or broadly obovate- 
spathulate, obtuse, bright-green and fleshy when fresh. Bracts lanceolate or linear, 
acute. Calyx-segments linear, obtuse or subacute, almost equalling the corolla. Corolla- 
tube longer than the narrow limb.—V. macrocalyx J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 
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Soutn IstanpD: Nelson—Mount Arthur, 7. fF. C.; Lake Tennyson, R. M. Laing / 
Canterbury—Mount Torlesse and Mount Dobson, Haast, 7. F. C.; mountains above 
the Broken River, J. D. Enys/T. F.C.; Mount Darwin and Mount Cook, Haast. Var. 
macrocalyx : Mount Rolleston and Waimakariri Glacier, J. B. Armstrong! T. F. C., 
Cockayne ! Browning’s Pass, Cockayne; Rangitata Valley, J. B. Armstrong. 3500- 
6500 it. December—February. 
A well-marked species. The var. macrocalyx principally differs in its more branched 
and trailing habit, longer and narrower leaves, which are not so coriaceous when dry, 
longer and narrower bracts and calyx-segments, and shorter narrower corolla. Mr. 
N. E. Brown is inclined to treat it as a distinct species, but it appears to me to be 
connected with the type by intermediate forms. 
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TT. W epacridea econ fi Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 213.—A small much- 
branched prostrate or decumbent rigid shrub; stems wecdy, tortuous, 
38—12in. long; branches curved, ascending at the tips, densely leafy, 
obscurely tetragonous, }-din. diam. with the leaves on, glabrous or 
pubescent above. Leaves closely quadrifariously imbricated, opposite 
pairs connate at the base, spreading and recurved, }-+in. long, broadly 
oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, concave in front, keeled 
at the back, rigid, very coriaceous ; margins usually red, thickened, ciliate 
towards the base. Flowers small, white, densely packed in terminal ovoid 
heads 3-1 in. long, formed of numerous reduced spikes in the axils of leafy 
bracts. Bracts obovate or ovate to linear-obovate, ciliate. Calyx deeply 
4-partite, segments unequal, linear-oblong, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube 
long, narrow, equalling the calyx; limb small, 4in. diam., 4-lobed ; lobes 
ovate, acute, spreading or recurved. Capsule small, ovoid-oblong, exceeding 
the calyx.—J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii (1881) 350; Cockayne 
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