3. Veronica cheesemani, Benth.
(Hook. f., Icones Plantarum, t. 1366, a.)

Small, greyish green, densely tufted, forming rounded cushions 2–5 inches in diameter, pubescent in all its parts. Branches slender, closely compacted and intertwined. Leaves ⅛–½ inch long, narrow obovate, lobulate, or pinnatifid, lobes obtuse, narrowed into a long or short broad petiole. Flowers white, solitary, axillary, very shortly pedicelled, ⅛ inch diameter. Calyx deeply divided into four spreading linear-spathulate segments, that are coarsely toothed towards the top. Corolla slightly longer than the calyx, four-lobed, lobes obovate, emarginate. Ovary broadly ovoid, hispid. Capsule much shorter than the sepals, broadly didymous, slightly compressed, hispid, ultimately splitting to the base into four oblong obtuse valves.