Flora of New Zealand Series

Veronica macrocarpa Vahl in Symb. Bot. 3, 1794, 4.

Diffusely or stiffly branched shrub to 2.5 m. tall. Branchlets glab. to finely pubescent, stout, length of internodes much > diam. Lvs spreading, (3)-6-12-(14) × 1-3 cm., narrow-elliptic to elliptic-oblong, coriac. and often almost fleshy; lf-bud without sinus; lamina subacute, entire, glab. except for occ. fine pubescence above midrib or on margin near base. Infls lateral, simple, c. 6-15 cm. long, peduncle 1-2 cm. Pedicels 2-5 mm. long, > small ciliolate bracts. Calyx-lobes short and broad, c. 2.5 × 2 mm., some or all quite obtuse, ciliolate, us. with stomata. Corolla large and open, tube 2-4 mm. wide, lobes 3-6 mm. long, broad and rounded, the lateral lobes ± cordate. Capsule large, 6-12 mm. long, glab., much > calyx.