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534 ones) $1⁄10$—$1⁄4$ in. long, linear-oblong to oblong or oblong-spathulate, acute, narrowed into short free petioles, entire or irregularly lobulate or pinnatifid. Flowers small, ⅛–⅙ in. diam., pale bluish-purple or rarely white, sessile or nearly so, 3—8 near the tips of the branchlets. forming small terminal heads. Calyx unequally 4-lobed; lobes short, oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube very short; lobes spreading, dorsal the largest, oblong- obovate, anticous the smallest, linear-oblong. Capsule small, $1⁄12$ in. long, about twice as long as the calyx, linear-obovoid or narrow cuneate-obovoid, retuse at the tip.—Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiii. (1881) 351; N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. (1888) vol. i. 20, t. 4 and 6; Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxviii. (1896) 520.

58. V. Haastii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 213.—A prostrate or decumbent much or sparingly branched glabrous shrub, black when dry; stems woody, tortuous, 4—12 in. long; branches ascending, densely uniformly leafy, obscurely tetragonous, ⅓—⅔ in. diam. with the leaves on. Leaves closely quadrifariously imbricated, opposite pars connate at the very base, spreading or suberect, ¼–½ in. long, broadly oblong to obovate, obtuse, concave in front, not keeled at the back, fleshy when fresh, extremely coriaceous and rigid when dry; margins ciliate at the very base. Flowers small, white, most densely compacted in terminal ovoid heads ½–1½ in. long, formed of numerous reduced spikes in the axils of leafy bracts. Bracts oblong or ovate-oblong, about equalling the calyx. Calyx 4-partite; segments linear-oblong, obtuse. Corolla-tube longer than the limb, rather shorter than the calyx; limb exserted, ^in. diam., 4-lobed; lobes ovate, subacute. Capsule about equalling the calyx, ovoid-oblong, acute.—''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 350.

Var. macrocalyx.—Much more copiously branched, prostrate and trailing, brown when dry. Leaves ⅓–⅔ in. long, obovate or broadly obovate-spathulate, obtuse, bright green and fleshy when fresh. Bracts lanceolate or linear, acute. Calyx-segments linear, obtuse or subacute, almost equalling the corolla. Corolla-tube longer than the narrow limb.—V. macrocalyx, ''Armstr. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xiii. (1881) 353.

Nelson—Mount Arthur, T. F. C. Canterbury—Mount Torlesse and Mount Dobson, Haast, T. F. C.; mountains above the Broken River, ''Enys! T. F. C; Mount Darwin and Mount Cook, Haast.'' Var. macrocalyx: Mount Rolleston and Waimakariri Glacier, ''Armstrong! T. F. C., Cockayne! Rangitata Valley, Armstrong.'' 3500–6500 ft. December–February.