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826 SCROPHULARIACEAR. [ Veronszea. 
Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Upper Wairau, W. 7. L. Travers, Monro ; Upper Clarence, 
Jollie’s Pass, Jack’s Pass, 7’. F. C. ; Waiau Valley, 7. Kirk / Lake Tennyson, &. M. Laing! 
Marlborough—Awatere Valley, abundant, Cockayne. Canterbury—Banks Peninsula, 
Raoul, J. B. Armstrong ! Kowai River, Haast, Petrie! Broken River basin, J. D. Enys/ 
T. Kirk ! Cockayne! T. F. 0, 500-3500 ft. October-November. 
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87. V. pulvinaris Hook. f. and Benth. Gen. Plant. 1 (1876) 964.— 
A small densely tufted hoary moss-like plant, forming soft rounded 
cushions 1-3in. diam.; branches closely compacted, 4in. diam. Leaves 
very densely imbricate, ,,in. long, linear-oblong or linear-spathulate, 
obtuse or subacute, not coriaceous, quite entire, the margins and both 
surfaces above the middle hispid with copious long white hairs. Flowers 
terminal, solitary, very shortly pedicelled, about fin. long, white. Calyx 
deeply 5-partite: segments linear, ciliate. Corolla salver-shaped; tube 
narrow, slightly longer than the calyx; limb flat, spreading, 5-lobed. 
Stamens included ; filaments very short. Ovary pilose at the tip. Capsule 
not seen.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 540. Pygmaea pulvinaris Hook. 
f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 217; Ic. Plant. (1867) t. 1047; Buch. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 352, t. 32, f. 2. 
SoutH Istanp: Mountains of Nelson, Marlborough, and Canterbury, abundant. 
3500-6500 ft. 
This and the two following species differ from Veronica in the 5- or 6-partite corolla 
and in the leaves not being quadrifariously arranged, and constituted the genus 
Pygmea of the Handbook. In the “Genera Plantarum” the genus was reduced to a 
section of Veronica, and this view has also been followed by Wettstein in “ Die 
ee a Pflanzenfamilien.”’ 
88. V. Thomsoni Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 540.—Very similar 
in most respects to V. pulvinaris, but rather larger and_ stouter. 
Leaves very densely imbricate, =4,in. long, rhomboid-obovate or obovate- 
oblong, obtuse or subacute, somewhat thick and fleshy towards the tip, 
membranous towards the base, quite entire, usually copiously hispid on 
the margins and back above the middle, upper surface often glabrous. 
Flowers solitary, terminal, rather larger than in V. pulvinaris. Calyx 
deeply 5-partite; segments linear, obtuse, ciliate. Corolla-tube much 
longer than the calyx; limb spreading, 5-lobed. Stamens included; 
filaments very short. Ovary pilose at the tip. Capsule narrowly obcor- 
date, turgid, about as long as the calyx—-Pygmaea Thomsoni Buch. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 353, t. 32, £. 3. == —— 
Var. glabra Cheesem. l.c.—Glabrous, or with a few scattered hairs on the margins 
of the leaves. 
SoutH Istanp: Otago—Mount Alta, Buchanan and McKay! WKurow Mountains, 
Mount St. Bathan’s, Mount Pisa, Petrie! Eyre ‘Mountains and Garvie Mountains, 
Poppelwell. “ ; 
Very near to V. pulvinaris, but the leaves are broader and the corolla larger, with 
a much Iqnger tube. It is easily confounded with M yosotis pulvinaris. 
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89. W ciliolata Hook. f. and Benth. Gen. Plant. ii (1876) 964.— 
A small densely tufted moss-like plant, forming rounded cushions 1-3 in. 
diam.; branches rather stout, 4—lin. high, rarely more, with the leaves 
on ¢-lin. diam. Leaves densely imbricate, 4in. long, broadly obovate- 
spathulate, rounded at the tip, Coriaceous, quite entire, both services 
glabrous or nearly so, margins ciliate from below the middle with long stiff 
white hairs. Flowers solitary, terminal, sessile or nearly so, ;4,-41n. long, 
