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the plant. Its leaves lose their colour in drying, becoming 

 yellowish. 



2. C. Ie7itisstma, sp. nov. 



A small sub-erect slender weak glabrous shrub, 4ft. -5ft. 

 high ; bark pale-brown, on its younger branches slighth' yet 

 closely puberulent ; branches few, distant, very long and 

 straggling, often simple, the younger ones sub-tetragonal ; 

 branchlets mostly simple, very slender and very long, 12in.-18in. 

 and upwards, often supported by other neighbouring shrubs 

 and plants. Leaves not numerous, in distant opposite pairs, 

 almost regularly disposed sub lin. apart on their long 

 branches, oblong and sub-oblong-obovate, 5-7 lines long, 3-4 

 lines broad, membranous ; margins entire, thickened, and 

 slightly recurved ; tips rounded ; veins much reticulated but 

 nearly obsolete ; dull-green above, paler below and shining ; 

 petiole short, 1 line long, slender, glabrous. Stipules small, 

 broad, somewhat sub-quadrangular, minutely ciliolate. 

 Flowers : Male, axillary and at tips of very short lateral 

 branchlets (1-3 lines long), usually 4-fascicled (sometimes 

 3 or only 2), shortly-peduncled, glabrous. Calyx small, green. 

 Corolla (unexpanded) oblong, 2 lines long, green, striate ; tips 

 slightly ciliolate. Anthers (immature) long, narrow linear, 

 dark-purple. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Hab. Outer edges of woods, open plains south of Danne- 

 virke. County of Waipawa; 1889 : W. C. 



Ohs. This is a very peculiar species, from its long slender 

 simple and very pliant branches. Its leaves and male flowers 

 resemble {prima facie) those of the preceding species (C. 

 aurantiaca) , but the size, form, habit, colour, and general ap- 

 pearance of the two plants are totally distinct. The leaves- 

 of this species, too, are much more regularly disposed, less 

 obovate, thinner in texture, with their margins not coloured 

 , and tips not ciliolate, and of a paler green, keeping their 

 colour in drying ; the petiole longer and more slender ; its 

 calycine lobes are also much smaller. Although I have known 

 it for some time, and often visited its locality, where it is 

 common (yet at the wrong seasons), I have not met with female 

 flowers or fruit. 



3. G. orbiculata, sp. nov. 



Shrub small, erect, 5ft. -7ft. high, slender, graceful, much 

 branched above, bark smooth, light-brown; branches short, 

 opposite, patent ; branchlets small, very slender, pubescent ; 

 hairs short, light-grey. Leaves numerous, orbicular, 3-4 

 lines diameter, often a little broader than long, sometimes 

 minutely apiculate ; margins slightly recurved ; lamina rather 

 abruptly contracted at petiole, membranous, light-green on 

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