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Veronica speciosa, R. Cunn. Stout half-hardy shrub, 2-5 ft. high, with stout, spreading leafy branches and crimson-purple fls.: lvs. 2-4 in. long, obovate or obovate-oblong, subsessile, dark green, thick, smooth, glossy, entire, rounded at apex: racemes axillary and opposite near tips of branches, stout, dense-fld.: fls. large, 1/3 in. diam., purple-crimson: caps. more than twice as long as the calyx. Summer. New Zeal. B.M. 4057. F.S. 1:19. R.H. 1844:60. H.U. 6, p. 349. Var. corymbifera, Hort., is offered in the trade as growing 2 ft. high with rosy fls. Var. rubra, Hort., is offered in the trade. Var. variegata, Hort., is offered as a form growing 6 ft. high with large lvs. variegated with creamy white: fls. light blue. Probably really the variegated form of V. Andersonii. Intro. into S. Calif.—V. imperialis, Hort. (V. speciosa var. imperialis, Boncharlat), seems to be merely a garden name for the true species. F.S. 22: 2317. V. speciosa hybridizes freely and there are several garden hybrids of which the best known is V. Andersonii, Lindl. & Paxt. (V. salicifolia x V. speciosa. V. speciosa var. Andersonii, Hort. V. Hendersonii, Hort.). Fig. 3915, is grown in the greenhouse and is also used as a bedding plant. It grows 18 in. high: lvs. oblong, sessile, entire, thickish: racemes axillary: fls. bluish violet. F.S. 7:658. J.F. 1:103. G.W. 5, p. 20. Var. variegata, Hort., has the foliage variegated with creamy white. G.L. 18:77. Gn. W. 23:829.

Veronica speciosa, R. Cunn. Stout half-hardy shrub, 2-5 ft. high, with stout, spreading leafy branches and crimson-purple fls.: lvs. 2-4 in. long, obovate or obovate-oblong, subsessile, dark green, thick, smooth, glossy, entire, rounded at apex: racemes axillary and opposite near tips of branches, stout, dense-fld.: fls. large, 1/3 in. diam., purple-crimson: caps. more than twice as long as the calyx. Summer. New Zeal. Var. corymbifera, Hort., is offered in the trade as growing 2 ft. high with rosy fls. Var. rubra, Hort., is offered in the trade. Var. variegata, Hort., is offered as a form growing 6 ft. high with large lvs. variegated with creamy white: fls. light blue. Probably really the variegated form of V. Andersonii. Intro. into S. Calif.—V. imperialis, Hort. (V. speciosa var. imperialis, Boncharlat), seems to be merely a garden name for the true species. F.S. 22: 2317. V. speciosa hybridizes freely and there are several garden hybrids of which the best known is V. Andersonii, Lindl. & Paxt. (V. salicifolia x V. speciosa. V. speciosa var. Andersonii, Hort. V. Hendersonii, Hort.). Fig. 3915, is grown in the greenhouse and is also used as a bedding plant. It grows 18 in. high: lvs. oblong, sessile, entire, thickish: racemes axillary: fls. bluish violet. Var. variegata, Hort., has the foliage variegated with creamy white.  

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