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both sides, glabrous, sub-trinerved, veins much reticulate ; 

 petiole slender, Jj^in. long, pilose. Stipules small, connate, 

 toothed. Flowers : Male, mostly on small branchlets, axillary 

 and lateral, opposite, 2 together (sometimes solitary), shortly- 

 peduncled. Calyx small, 4-lobed (2 of them larger) ; lobes 

 triangular-ovate ; tips slightly ciliolate. Corolla small, cam- 

 panulate, ^jM^. long, green purple-dashed the base purple, 

 glabrous, 4-cleft, cut half-way down ; lobes obtuse, 1-nerved, 

 spreading, recurved, papillose-ciliate at tips. Stamens 4, ex- 

 serted, 8 lines long ; filaments 2 lines long, slender, thickened 

 at top, papillose ; anthers white, narrow-oblong, 1 line long, 

 tip obtuse, base sagittate. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Hah. Shaded forests south of Dannevirke, County of Wai- 

 pawa ; 1889 : W. G. 



Obs. This is a very neat-looking species, of a pleasing 

 green colour (which it also in great measure retains in drying) : 

 the regularity of its many small and round leaves, on its 

 patent almost horizontal spreading branches, serves greatly to 

 enhance its graceful appearance. It is one of the common 

 undershrubs of those deep forests, and the sole reason of my 

 not detecting any female flowers was my being there too early 

 in the season. It is very distinct from all other species of 

 Coprosma known to me. 



4. C. perpitsilla, sp. nov. 



Shrub small, depressed ; main stem prostrate and creeping 

 (under soil?), 4in.-6in. long, rooting at nodes from lower sur- 

 face ; bark pale, glabrous. Branches secund, erect, about lin. 

 high, opposite in pairs, simple, few-leaved ; young stems gla- 

 brous, sub-succulent. Leaves very close, imbricated, thickish, 

 elliptic, 2 lines long, obtuse, glabrous, dark-coloured ; upper sur- 

 faces minutely and closely papillose ; margins entire, thickened 

 and sHghtly recurved ; veined (seen between eye and light) ; 

 veins branched, anastomosing near margins ; tapering to 

 petiole ; petiole short, broad, 1-nerved ; leaves smaller and 

 narrower (1 line long) at tips and around flower. Stipules 

 narrow, somewhat crescent-shaped, finely ciliolate. Flowers: 

 Male, solitary, terminal; calyx small, thick, 4-lobed, cut to 

 base; lobes deltoid-ovate, obtuse. Corolla thickish, broadly 

 tubular, 2\ hues long, 4-o-lobed ; lobes sub-acute, one-third 

 length of 'tube, 1-nerved ; margins and tips papillose and 

 sub-fimbriate. Stamens 3, 4 (sometimes 6), exserted ; fila- 

 ments very long, 4-5 lines, pendulous ; anthers hnear-oblong, 

 lit lines long, apiculate, sagittate. Female flowers not seen. 



Hah. On low banks of Eiver Wangaehu, near east base of 



Mount Tongariro, County of East Taupo ; 1889 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. A species having pretty close affinity with C. rcpcns, 



Hook, f., and C. puviila, Hook. f. (inhabiting also the same 



