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Veronica. | SCROPHULARIAUEAE, | 833 
Capsule shorter than the calyx, broadly didymous, slightly compressed, 
hispid, 4-valved to the base.—Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv (1883) 299 ; 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 547. 
SoutH Istanp: Nelson—Summit of Gordon’s Knob and the Raglan Mountains, 
T. fF. C.; Mount Richmond, Mount Starveall, Ben Nevis, and on most of the higher 
mountains of eastern Nelson, VY. G. Gibbs / Canterbury—Shingle-slopes near the source 
of the Otira River, 7'. F. C., Cockayne ! 3900-5500 ft. 
A peculiar little plant, with much of the aspect of a small Huphrasia. 
103. V. eanescens 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. ix (1877) 503, t. 19.— 
A small creeping and rooting herb with intricately branched stems 
1-4 in. long, often forming broad matted patches, everywhere hispid with 
greyish-white hairs. Leaves minute, spreading, shortly petioled or subsessile, 
rz-7'5 In. long, obtuse, entire, more or less densely clothed on both surfaces 
with curved hispid hairs. Flowers solitary and axillary, large for the size 
of the plant, $-}in. diam., pale-blue; peduncles short, slender, +1n. long, 
with 2 hispid bracts below the middle. Calyx 4-5-partite ; segments 
linear-oblong, hispid. Corolla-tube very short; limb spreading, 4-lobed ; 
lobes unequal, oblong, often emarginate. Capsule small, broadly oblong, 
slightly compressed, retuse, altogether included in the calyx. — Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxviii (1896) 516; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 547. 
Sourn Istanp: Canterbury—Lake Forsyth, 7. Kirk / Lake Ellesmere, J. B. Arm- 
strong ; Lake Lyndon, J.D. Enys! UT. Kirk! T. F.C. ; Mackenzie Plains, Lakes Tekapo 
and Pukaki, 7’. F.C. Otago—Near Oamaru, Buchanan! Central Otago, plentiful, 
Petrie! Wycliffe Bay, near Dunedin, B. C. Aston / Sea-level to 3000 ft. December— 
March. | 
Usually found on the dried-up margins of lakes and pools. I[t is probably not 
uncommon in suitable localities on the eastern side of the South Island, but is easily 
overlooked, except when in flower. 
8. OURISIA Comm, ' 7 ® 1% 
Perennial herbs, erect or decumbent or more or less prostrate, 
Leaves opposite, mostly radical, entire or more usually crenate. Flowers 
axillary and solitary, or racemose or subumbelled on a scapiform peduncle. 
Calyx 5-lobed or 5-partite. Corolla more or less oblique or curved: tube 
long or short; lobes 5, spreading, imbricate in the bud, one of the lateral 
ones on the outside. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filaments short ; 
anthers reniform, the cells diverging at the base, confluent at the tip. 
Ovary 2-celled; style filiform ; stigma capitate; ovules numerous in 
each cell. Capsule 2 celled, turgid or subcompressed, grooved on each 
side, loculicidally 2-valved, the placentas attached to the middle of the 
valves. Seeds numerous; testa loose, reticulate. 
A handsome genus of about 25 species, confined to Andine South America, New 
Zealand, and Tasmania. All the New Zealand species are endemic. 
A, rect or decumbent at the very base. Leaves all radical, (Stems often creeping in 
O, sessilifolia. ) 
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Stout, glabrous or nearly so, 9-24 in, high. Leaves coriaceous, 
long-petioled. Upper bracts whorled. Flowers 2-lin. diam... 1. O. macrocarpa. 
More slender, pubescent or pilose, 6-24 in. high. Leaves sub- 
membranous, long-petioled. Upper bracts whorled. Flowers 
3-2 in. diam. ne a on 7 oa -» 2, O, macrophylla, 
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