marked compound species, with its jordanons very similar to one another, which occurs in the Sounds-Nelson District, the junction of this district with the North-western District, the North-eastern District, the Eastern District—in the two last districts extremely abundant—and, judging from certain specimens in Petrie's herbarium, “the eastern part of Otago,” wherever that may be, but evidently rare. Cheeseman gives Nelson to Otago as its distribution, but it is absent in the North-western (except as stated above), the Western, the Fiord, and we are almost certain the South Otago Districts. It crosses readily with H. salicifolia var. communis; for the series of hybrids we propose the name×Hebe leiosala Ckn. et Allan. and for the form intermediate between the parents×Hebe Kirkii (J. B. Armstg.) Ckn. et Allan as hybrid. (a.) var. strictissima (Ckn.) Ckn. et Allan comb. nov. = Veronica leiophylla (Cheesem.) var. strictissima (T. Kirk) Ckn. in The Cawthron Lecture 1 (1920) 11. This we believe to be Veronica parviflora Vahl var. strictissima T. Kirk the locality of which is given as Akaroa where, so far as we know, the only shrub which could fit Kirk's description is the Banks Peninsula form of Hebe leiophylla. This is not constant, but consists of more than one jordanon. Hybrids with H. salicifolia var. communis have not been recorded, but it is most unlikely that such do not occur, and those which come near to var. strictissima might quite well account for much of its diversity. [*Veronica longiracemosa Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. 49 (1917) 52.] This was based upon a cultivated plant which came from the garden of H. J. Matthews, who explained it had been collected by himself in the Awatere Valley (North-eastern District). Petrie remarks “it shows no signs of being intermediate between any of the larger-leaved species of the genus, and it seems impossible to me that it should be a hybrid.” Cheeseman in the Manual ed. 2, refers it to H. salicifolia var. paludosa. Certainly Matthews's specimen is very like the last-mentioned plant, and if they are identical we think Matthews may have confused his localities, a quite possible mistake, since his garden plants were never labelled according to locality or habitat. On the other hand, the plant might be a form of×Hebe leiosala greatly resembling H. salicifolia var. paludosa. In any case it is not the type of a valid species. [*Veronica gracillima (T. Kirk) Cheesem. in Man. N.Z. Flora ed. 1 (1906) 510.] Hebe angustifolia and H. salicifolia var. communis cross and form a polymorphic series of hybrids including the forms usually placed under Veronica gracillima. These are found not merely “in the vicinity of Westport,” as stated in the Manual ed. 2, but they occur in abundance along the valley of the Buller and its tributaries, and probably throughout the North-western district, excepting its southernmost part, and extend into the western part of the Sounds-Nelson District. For the group we propose the name×Hebe angustisala Ckn. et Allan hyb. nov., while the name×Hebe gracillima(T. Kirk)