Tas. 8466. 
COROKIA vireara. 
New Zealand 
CorNACEAE. Tribe CoRNEAR. 
Corogta, A. Cunn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 949. 
Corokia virgata, Turrill; species C. Cotoneaster, Raoul, valde affinis sed 
foliis majoribus ramis haud divaricato-tortuosis petalorumque squamulis 
diversis differt. 
Frutex 2°5 m. altus, ramosus; ramuli teretes haud divaricato-tortuosi, 
juniores albo-tomentosi mox glabrati fusco-brunnei. Folia alterna, 
oblongo-spathulata, apice acuta, minute apiculata, ad 4°5 cm. longa et 
1°5 cm. lata, brevissime petiolata, supra nitida, infra dense adpresse albo- 
tomentosa, juniora supra pubescentia, nervis obscuris. ores in racemos 
terminales vel axillares trifloros dispositi, bibracteolati, pedunculis 
1-2 mm. longis, adpresse albo-tomentosis suffulti. Sepala 5, triangularia, 
1°5 mm. longa, dorso adpresse albo-tomentosa. Petala 5, patentia, 
oblonga, 5 mm. longa, apice breve acuminata ineurvata, flava, ima basi 
intra squamula in segmenta 3-5 divisa instructa. Stamina 5; filamenta 
glabra 2 mm. longa; antherae 1‘5 mm. longae. Discus carnosus, glaber, 
integer, aurantiacus. Receptaculum turbinatum, albo-tomentosum. 
Ovarium uniloculare, ovulis solitariis; stylus 3 mm. longus, stigmate 
capitato obscure trilobato. Fructus adhuc ignotus.—W. B. TurRILu. 
The genus Corokia, of which the species most familiarly 
known in English gardens, C. Cotoneaster, Raoul, has been 
already figured in this volume at t. 8425, is endemic in 
New Zealand. The other previously described species are 
C. buddleoides, A. Cunn., and C. macrocarpa, T. Kirk. 
But in his Manual of the New Zealand Flora, Mr. Cheese- 
man notes that what may prove to be a fourth species of 
Corokia has been collected by himself at Spirit’s Bay in the 
North Cape district. This plant Mr. Cheeseman describes 
as a twiggy bush, six to twelve feet high, with slender 
branches which are not tortuous, and with alternate leaves 
one half to one and a half inch long, which are narrowly 
linear-obovate or oblanceolate contracted at the base into 
very short petioles. It is, therefore, just possible that the 
species encountered by Mr. Cheeseman, of which he failed 
to obtain flowers, is that now for the first time described. 
The material for our plate has been supplied from a plant 
which has been in cultivation at Kew since 1907, when it 
November, 1912. 
