828 SCROPHULARIACEAE. | Veronaca. 
shorter than the calyx.—J. B. Armstr. in Trans. N.4Z. Inst. xii (1881) 349 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 542; Adamson im Journ. Linn. Soc. x] 
(1912) 272. } 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Mount Owen, W. Townson / Mount Franklin, Park ; 
Lake Tennyson, 7. F. C., R. M. Laing. Canterbury—Broken River, Petrie! Craigie- 
burn Mountains, Cockayne ; Upper Waimakariri, J. D. Enys! T. F. C.; Ashburton 
Mountains, Potts / Clyde Glacier and Mount Darwin, Haast. Westland—Otira Valley, 
T. F. C.; Okarito, A. Hamilton, Otago—Lake Wanaka, Buchanan / mountains near 
Arrowtown, Petrie / Eyre Mountains and Routeburn, Poppelwell ; Haast Pass, Poppel- 
well. 1500-4500 ft. December—January. 
A very distinct and well-marked plant. 
fH . : . Bhaw O- i14u4Le 
92. WV. catarractae Ebert f/ Prodr. (1786) n. 9.—Stems slender, terete, 
sparingly branched, suberect, or prostrate below and then ascending, 
6-241n. long, glabrous or bifariously pubescent, woody at the base. 
Leaves rather distant, shortly petiolate, spreading, 1-4 in. long, lanceolate 
or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely and sharply serrate, coriaceous or 
submembranous, flat, l-nerved, paler beneath. Racemes few or many 
towards the tips of the branches, solitary and axillary, slender, curved or 
erect, 3-9in. long, many-fiowered ; pedicels slender, puberulous, 4-1 in. 
long; bracts linear-subulate. Flowers 4-4in. diam., white or pale-rose. 
Calyx deeply 4-partite ; segments ovate-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, acute 
or acuminate. Corolla with a very short tube and 4 rounded spreading 
lobes. Capsule broadly oblong, turgid, emarginate or almost 2-lobed, 
usually about 4 longer than the calyx—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 
189; A. Cunn. Precur, (1838) n. 380; Raoul Choiz (1846) 43; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 195; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 216; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 542; Adamson in Journ. Linn. Soc. xl (1912) 266. 
V. irrigans 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ii (1870) 94. 
Var. lanceolata Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 195.—Stems shorter and more 
slender. Leaves 3-I}in. long, jin. broad, linear or narrow linear-lanceolate.— 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 216. V. lanceolata Benth. in DC. Prodr. x (1846) 462. 
Var. diffusa Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 216. —Procumbent, diffusely 
branched. Leaves 3-14 in. long, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute. Calyx-segments ovate, 
acute.—V. diffusa Hook. f. Ic. Plant. (1844) t. 645; Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 195. 
Nortu AND SoutH Istanps: From the Thames goldfields to the south of Otago, 
but often local. Most plentiful on the west coast of the South Island. Sea-level to. 
3000 ft. November—January. T- Fi. q2- 
An exceedingly variable plant. Forster’s type, judging from the description given 
by A. Richard, is a rather small-leaved state, with lanceolate leaves 1-2 in. long; and 
according to Mr. N. E, Brown corresponds to the var. minor of the “Flora Novae- 
Zealandiae.” But it passes insensibly into a much more luxuriant state, with leaves 
Sometimes over 4in. long, and with longer racemes. This again varies into vat. 
lanceolata, Mr. Kirk’s V. irrigans being about half-way between the two. Var. diffusa 
is also connected by numerous intermediates. 
ae. £ | Ailan., 64-276. 
93. V. Lyallii Hook. fy} Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 196.—Stems slender, pro- 
strate and rooting, much and diffusely branched, 3-18 in. long, more 
rarely suberect from a prostrate base ; branches terete, usually bifariously 
pubescent, sometimes conspicuously so, rarely almost glabrous. Leaves 
shortly petioled, spreading, {-$in. long, broadly ovate or almost orbicular 
to oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, with 2 or 3 coarse blunt serratures on 
each side, thick and coriaceous, glabrous, often reddish on the midrib 
beneath and on the petiole. Racemes several, few- or many-flowered, on 
slender erect peduncles 2-6 in. long usually springing from near the ends 
