equalling the pedicel or shorter. Flowers closely placed, spreading; calyx small, 2 mm. long, 4 partite, segments lanceolate, acute, margins membraneous, corolla white, tube short, less than 2 mm. long, not exceeding the calyx; lobes 3 mm. long, wide, rounded at the tip, spreading; stamens as long as the lobes, style longer. Capsule 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, twice as long as the calyx, broadly ovate, sub-acute or with the hardened style forming a short point. Habitat: subalpine scrub on basins at the head of the Estuary Burn, Lake Wanaka. Altitude 1000–1500 m. This is the common Hebe component of the subalpine scrub association in all upper basins in this habitat. It is closely allied to H. subalpina, which has larger and wider leaves. Specimens turn brown in drying. Type in Herbarium, Plant Research Bureau, Wellington. Hebe lapidosa sp. nov. Frutex c. 1 m. altus, erectus, ramosus, ramuli hornotini virides, bifariam pubescentes; ramuli annotini glabri, rufo-brunnei. Folia satis dispersa, suberecta vel patentes, c. 2 cm. longa, 6–8 mm. lata, obovato-oblonga, subacuta, breviter petiolata, crasse coriacea, rigida, supra clare viridia nitentia, subtus glauco-viridia; costa subtus prominente. Inflorescentiae trichotome spicatae in axillis penultimis ramulorum dispositi; spicae dense multiflorae; bracteae obtusae tubo corollae longiores. Calyx 4-lobatus, lobi tubo corollae attingentes, lineari-lanceolati, obtusi; fructus late oblongus vel fere orbiculatus, obtusus, compressus, calycem breviter excedens. A much branched, erect, glabrous shrub, about 1 metre high, older branches stout, erect, reddish-brown, rough by old leaf sears, leafy towards the tips; young wood at the tips green, ringed with brown at the nodes, finely bifariously scaly pubescent above the leaves. Leaves openly spaced, sub-erect or spreading, 2 cm. or longer, 6–8 mm. wide, obovate-oblong, sub-acute, narrowed at the base to a short petiole, coriaceous, light shining green and concave above, convex, glaucous green, and keeled by a yellowish prominent midrib beneath; margins yellowish, entire; petiole attached by a spreading base. Flowers in 2 to 6 short opposite compound spikes near the tips of the branches; spikes slightly exceeding the leaves, dividing above leafy bracts at a brownish node into 3 densely flowered branchlets; bracts shaped as the leaves, 6 mm. long, upper ones greenish with membranous margins, obtuse, longer than the calyx and corolla tube; calyx 4-partite, greenish, segments about equalling the corolla tube, 4 mm. long, linear lanceolate, acute, margins membranous; corolla white; tube about 4 mm. long; lobes widely obovate-lanceolate, obtuse, spreading, about 4 mm. long; stamens shorter and the style longer than the lobes. Capsule 4 mm. long, 2 mm. broad, broadly oblong