Hebe urvilleana W.R.B.Oliv.
Type locality: Bald Spur. Type: W, 5335, W. R. B. O. 9 Feb. 1943.
Laxly branched shrub to 1·5 m. tall. Branchlets slender, bifariously pubescent when young, lf-scar remaining obvious. Lvs elliptic, 10-25 × 4-9 mm., not strongly glaucous but undersurface often dull; lf-bud without sinus; lamina us. narrowed gradually to tip, margin entire, glab., bevelled. Infls lateral, simple, little > lvs. Bracts < short pedicels. Calyx-lobes 1-1·5 mm. long, obtuse to subacute. Corolla-tube rather narrow, 1·5 × calyx, c. = lobes. Capsule erect, glab., broad-ovate, c. 2 × calyx.
DIST.: S. D'Urville Id, manuka scrub on serpentine.
The type specimen has fls and small elliptic lvs 10-12 × 4-6 mm. The only other collection, of rather different appearance, is represented by W 5336 and BD 89148 from "Kapowai Track, D'Urville Id, Manuka scrub, 23 Nov. 1942, W. R. B. Oliver"; these specimens carry old capsules and the larger more obovate lvs, 20-25 × 5-9 mm., are slightly glaucous beneath. Oliver makes comparisons with H. rigidula and H. rupicola which differ not only in the longer sepals that he mentions but also in ± branched infls and in having a sinus in the lf-bud. There is much closer relationship with H. fruticeti, also mentioned by Oliver. The other records from D'Urville Id are atkinsonii, angustifolia, rigidula, and elliptica.
