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funnel-shaped and campanulate, 4-5-lobed. Stamens, 4-5. 

 Females : solitary, or in 3-5-flowered fascicles. Calyx adnate to 

 the ovary, limb minute, cupular, sometimes with a few irregular 

 teeth. Corolla ^-^ inch long, tubular, shortly 3-5-lobed. 

 Styles long and stout, often 1 inch long, cohering up to the 

 mouth of the corolla. Drupe broadly oblong or sub-globose, 

 J--^ inch long, reddish. 



A remarkably distinct plant, at once recognized by the 

 minutely serrulate leaves. It is usually found in sheltered 

 places on steep mountain slopes, and rarely attains a greater 

 height than four or five feet. The bark of the stem and 

 branches is white and papery, and is easily detached. The 

 leaves are often very coriaceous, perhaps more so than in most 

 of the species. The male fascicles are often reduced to three or 

 four flowers, and occasionally to a single one. The female 

 flowers are generally solitary, although there is no difficulty in 

 finding specimens with fascicles of three, and, more rarely, with 

 five flowers. 



It may be remarked, in passing, that in several of the 

 species the very j'oung leaves have their margins minutely 

 incised or serrate, but the character is always an obscure one, 

 and is never present in fully mature leaves, except in C. serrulata. 



4. C. baueriana. 



Endl., Iconog., t. iii. ; Hook, fil., Flora Nov. Zeal., i., p. 105 ; Handbk. N.Z. 

 Flora, p. 112. C. lucida, Endl., Prodr. Flor. Ins. Norfolk, p. GO, non 

 Forst. C. retusa, Hook, fil., Lond. Journ. Bot., iii., p. 416. Pelaphia 

 retusa, Banks et Sol., MSS. 



North Island. — Abundant all round the coasts, on maritime 

 rocks and sand-hills, but not found inland, save where planted 

 by the Maoris in the cultivations, etc. 



South Island. — Southern shores of Cook Strait, fi'om Col- 

 lingwood to Picton, but not common. 



Chatham Island. — J. Buchanan (" Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vii., 

 p. 33G). Also found in Norfolk Island. 



A shrub or small tree, very variable in size and habit of 

 growth, in exposed rocky places often not more than 2-3 feet 

 high, with almost prostrate branches ; in rich sandy soils some- 

 times 15-25 feet, with a close head of spreading branches. 

 Branches stout, glabrous, or the young ones minutely pubescent. 

 Leaves bright shining gieen, almost fleshy, black when dry, 1-3 

 inches long, broadly ovate or oblong, rarely narrow oblong, 

 obtuse or retuse, rarely sub-acute, quite glabrous; margins 

 usually recurved, and often conspicuously so ; veins finely 

 reticulated. Stipules short aiid broad. Male flowers clustered 

 in dense heads on short axillary peduncles. Calyx minute, 

 cupular, obsoletely 4-tot»thed. Corolla campanulate, ^-^ inch, 



