100 63. RUBIACRJE. 



This is very near N. depressa BANKS ; but differs from it in having 

 black coloured berries, and in the leaves which are quite obtuse or even 

 rounded at the apex, and slightly cordate at the base. N. depressa has 

 yellow coloured fruits, and the leaves are more or less acute at the apex 

 and much more cordate at the base. 



29. Coprostna FORST. 



Coprosma Kawakamii HAY ATA Plater. Fl. Formos. p. 145. Branches 

 strong, tetragonous, longitudinally rugose, gray or nigricant, branchlets strong, 

 divaricate, dark gray, slender, tetragonous, 2-3 cm. long, 1^ mm. in diameter, 

 pulvinus approximately cruciately arranged 1 mm. long, f mm. broad, articulate 

 with petioles. Leaf- buds pyramidal, tetragonous, perulas oblong-triangular, 2 mm. 

 long, 1-J mm. broad, acute at the apex, cariuate on the back, persistent. Leaves 

 opposite, cruciately arranged towards the apex of branches, obovate, obspathulate 

 or obovate-oblong, thick, 1 cm. long, 5 mm. broad, obtusely acute or rounded 

 or cuneate-rounded at the apex, acute or cimeate-acute at the base, both 

 surfaces glabrous, costa and veins impressed, veinlets reticulate and im- 

 pressed on the upper surface, costa prominent on the lower surface, veins and 

 veinlets slightly prominent on the lower surface, rubescent, lower surface 

 albescent, with a small reddish membrane at the ramification of veins, margin 

 entire and slightly reflexed on the lower surface, petioles 1^-2 mm. long, 

 concave on the inside and convex on the outside, base articulated with 

 pulvinus. Flowers on the axiles of upper leaves long pedunculate, peduncles 

 solitary, 7 mm. long, glabrous, with 4-bracts at the apex, 2 of them some- 

 what larger, narrow, 3 mm. long, 1 mm. broad, carinate on the back, the 

 other two smaller quadrangular 1 mm. long, f mm. broad, truncate at the 

 apex, margin with long cilia ; flowers two on the apex of a peduncle, sessile. 

 Calyx-limb cupuliformed, irregularly dentate, margin scarcely ciliate, disk 

 annular. 



HAB. Mt. Morrison. 



Near Coprosma myrtiUifdia HOOK. f. and also C- pun- (flora HOOK, f., 

 but differs from both in having obovate leaves and long stalked fruits. 



