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Veronica.] lobes subequal, oblong, obtuse. Capsule elliptic-ovate, acute, compressed, twice as long as tbe calyx.—''Bot. Mag. t. 6390, and t. 7296, f. 5; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1873, p. 1046; Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 351.

32. V. subalpina, Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxi. (1899) 420.—A much-branched erect shrub 3–6 ft. high; branches suberect or spreading, terete, glabrous or the younger ones minutely puberulous, leafy above, below ringed with the sears of the fallen leaves. Leaves spreading, sessile, ¾–1½ in. long, ⅕–⅓ in. broad, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, broadest below the middle, acute or subacute, subcoriaeeous, pale glistening green, slightly concave above when fresh, flat when dry, margins entire. Racemes 2–4 near the tips of tbe branches, equalling the leaves or longer than them, 1–2 in. long, simple, dense- or lax-flowered; rhachis slender, puberulous; lower pedicels slender, usually exceeding the calyx; bracts small. Calyx deeply 4-partite; segments ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute, margins ciliolate. Corolla-tube short and broad, hardly exceeding the calyx; limb longer than the tube, 4-lobed; lobes oblong, obtuse. Capsule ¼ in. long, ovate, acute, compressed, about twice as long as the calyx.

Nelson—Clarence Valley, ''Kirk! T. F. C.; Lake Tennyson, T. F. C. Canterbury—Arthur's Pass and Upper Waimakariri, Enys! Kirk!''