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cellular, patent, white, acuminate, acute, their bases thick- 

 ened, semi-bulbous. Petioles iin.— fin. long, thickly hairy; 

 hairs patent, reflexed. Stipules in pairs, large, obtusely 

 deltoid, finely cut-laciniate, filmy, pellucid, shining, silvery. 

 Flowers opposite to leaf in small globular heads, on short 

 peduncles 1-2 lines long. Umbels 10-20-fiowered ; flowers 

 small, sessile (but usually 2-3 (at top?) on very short pedicels), 

 crowded, each with a minute oblong-obovate greenish-white 

 2-nerved bracteole at its base, the nerves very distinct and 

 dark-coloured ; petals valvate, broadly ovate sub-acute, pale 

 dashed with red streaks on the outside, minutely pink-dotted 

 within (brown and recurved in age) ; teeth of epigynous disc 

 dark -red; anthers yellow, oblate - orbicular ; styles large, 

 thickish, erect, knobbed, divergent, longer than anthers, per- 

 sistent. Fruit small, jVi^^- diameter, slightly oblate-orbicular, 

 broadest at b.;.se, flattish, glabrous ; at first pale-green without 

 ribs and the dorsal edge very obtuse, but when quite ripe and 

 dry brown, with a fine raised narrow ridge on each mericarp 

 and on dorsal edge ; mericarps closely conjoined without any 

 apparent hollow between. 



Hah. Shaded woods near Dannevirke, County of Waipawa ; 

 1887 : W. C. 



Obs. This species has near affinity with H. Jiirta, Br., and 

 II. tasmauica, Hook. f. ; also H. colorata, Col. (" Trans. N.Z. 

 Inst.," vol. xviii., p. 260), but is distinct from them all in several 

 important characters. It has been specifically named sib- 

 tliorpioides from its general likeness to Sibtliorpia europcea, 

 Linn., :^ Cornish moneywort. It is the plant on which Oro- 

 banclic hydrocotylei, Col., is a parasite. (See paper on that 

 curious plant.)''' 



Obdee XXXVIIL— EUBIACE^. 

 Genus 1. Coprosma, Forst. 



1. C. 2^ endula, STp. nov. 



Shrub slender, erect, 6ft. -10ft. high, much branched above, 

 trunk bare below ; bark thin, smooth, bright reddish-brown, 

 somewhat papery and peeling on trunk ; branches very long, 

 implexed and pendulous ; branchlets slender, divaricate at 

 right angles, tips of the youngest puberulous. Leaves small, 

 few, opposite, distant lin.-2in. apart, usually a pair at tips of 

 short lateral branchlets and of branches, orbicular, sometimes 

 broadly elliptic and very obtuse, 3-5 (rarely 6-8) lines long, 

 entire, narrowly margined; margins red, slightly recurved, 

 ciliolate — in age as if slightly muricated (sub Icnte) ; tips broadly 

 rounded ; base sub-truncate, abruptly tapering, sub-membra- 



• See above, Art. III., p. 41. 



