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Veronica. | SCROPHULARIACEAE. R27 
white. Calyx deeply 5-partite ; segments linear-spathulate, ciliate. Corolla 
salver-shaped; tube cylindrical, rather longer than the calyx; limb flat, 
spreading, 5- or rarely 6-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse. Stamens usually 
included; filaments short; anthers large. Ovary glabrous. Capsule not 
seen.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 540. Pygmea ciliolata Hook. f. 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 217; Ic. Plant. (1871) t. 1047; Buch. wn Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xiv (1882) 352, t. 32, f. 1. 
Sourn Isuanp: Nelson—Discovery Peaks, W. T. L. Travers. Canterbury—Mount 
Sebastopol, Mount Cook district, 7. F. C.; Hopkins River, Haast. _Otago—Mount 
Alta and Hector’s Col, Buchanan! Garvie Mountains, Poppelwell. 5000-6500 ft. 
Distinguished from the two preceding by the stouter branches and more coriace- 
ous broader leaves, ciliate on the margins only. When dry the margins of the leaves 
are incurved, the hairs all pointing inwards. — 
> 90. V. loganioides J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xin (1881) 359.— 
A dwarf shrub 6-14in. high; stems woody, decumbent at the base, 
erect above; branches numerous, slender, terete, leafy above, ringed with 
the scars of the fallen leaves below, pubescent or almost villous with lax 
soft greyish-white hairs. Leaves decussate, in rather close-set opposite 
pairs, erecto-patent, sessile, 11in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, entire Or 
sometimes with 1 or 2 small teeth on each side, dull-green, coriaceous, 
keeled. Racemes near the tips of the branches, forming a small corymb- 
like head, short, few-flowered, rhachis and pedicels pubescent or almost = 
villous. Flowers 4in. diam., white or white with pink veins. Calyx deeply | 
4-partite ; segments ovate-oblong, acute, ciliolate. Corolla-tube broad and | 
short, not equalling the calyx; limb 4-lobed; dorsal and lateral lobes 
subequal, orbicular-oblong, obtuse ; anticous lobe narrower, oblong. Cap- 
sule elliptical-oblong, didymous, turgid, notched at the tip, rather shorter 
than the calyx.—Hook. f. Bet. Mag. (1895) t. 7404; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl. (1906) 541; Adamson in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl (1912) 262. . 
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South IstanD: Canterbury—Rangitata Valley, J. B. Armstrong ! Clyde Valley, 
W. Gray. 
A very remarkable plant, of dubious affinity, quite unlike any other. Mr. Kirk ‘i 
has pointed out that the capsule is didymous, with the septum across the narrowest 
diameter; and the short tube of the corolla and large rounded lobes also show a 
relationship to the herbaceous section of the genus. But the habit of the plant, with 
its woody stems and small close-set leaves, is nearer that of the section including 
V. lycopodioides and its allies. Mr. Armstrong’s original description 1s by no means | 
characteristic of the specimens cultivated by him in the Christchurch Botanical 
Gardens. , : IF} 
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91. V. linifolia Hook. f) Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 214.—A sma muci| “* +30. 
and diffusely branched procumbent herb; branches slender, often rooting | 
below, ascending at the tips, terete, glabrous, 2-9in. long or more. Leaves 
numerous, closely placed, spreading, 4-lin. long, ;,-§in. broad, linear, 
obtuse at the tip, narrowed into a rather long broad petiole, flat, 
subcoriaceous, quite entire; margins of petiole ciliate. Racemes 1-5 
towards the ends of the branches, 1—2 in. long, slender, naked below, 2-5- 
flowered; bracts 4-1 in. long, linear, obtuse ; pedicels long, ¢-1 in., slender, 
curved. Flowers large, 4-}in. diam., white or pale-rose. Calyx ¢ in. 
long, deeply 4-partite ; segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube very 
short; limb broad, spreading, 4-lobed; lobes broad, rounded, veined. 
Stamens equalling the corolla-lobes. Capsule broadly obcordate, rather 
