Cheeseman. — On the Genus Coprosma. 236 



Anmtrovg, T.F.C. Otago : near Dunedin ; Milton; Inver- 

 cargill, etc., B. Peine! 



Chatham Islands. — Dicffnibach (" Handbook ") ; Buchanan 

 (" Trans. N.Z. Inst.," vii.', p. 336). 



Altitudinal range from sea-level to 500 feet. 



A large, sparingly-branched shrub, or small tree, 6-15 feet 

 in height ; bark pale. Leaves flat, coriaceous, variable in size, 

 ^-2 inches long, usually linear or linear-lanceolate, but occa- 

 sionally broader and shorter and linear-oblong, acute, gradually 

 narrowed into short stout petioles. Inflorescence composed of 

 3-12-flowered axillary glomerules. Male flowers ^-\ inch long. 

 Calyx minute, cupular, truncate, or obscurely lobed. Corolla 

 campanulate, 4-5-lobed. Female flowers much smaller and 

 narrower. Calyx-limb 4- 5-toothed. Corolla -J --J inch, tubular, 

 3 - 5-lobed. Styles very long and stout. Drupe broad-oblong 

 or sub-globose, pale, and semi-transparent. 



Most closely allied to the preceding species, but in its usual 

 state difl'ering in the more slender open habit, pale bark, much 

 smaller and narrower leaves, smaller fascicles of flowers, and 

 particularly in the rounder, pale, and semi-transparent fruit. 

 Intermediate states are plentiful, and some are very puzzling to 

 place in the absence of fruit, especially some Otago specimens 

 sent by Mr. Petrie, and which may be referable to small and 

 narrow-leaved forms of C. rubiista. It is also related to C. pro- 

 pinqua, which, hov^'ever, can be easily separated by its more 

 spreadmg habit, dark bark, smaller and narrower leaves, fewer 

 flowers, and more elongated drupe. 



8. C. acutifolia. 



Hook, fil., Journ. Linn. Socy., Bot., I., p. 128; Handbook N.Z. 



Flora, p. 114. 



Kermadec Islands. — McGillivray (" Handbook"). 



I am totally unacquainted with this species, and can add 

 nothing to Sir J. D. Hooker's description. It seems to be alhed 

 on the one hand to C. grandi/oUa, and on the other to C. tcnui- 

 foUa, but to be distinct from both. It is confined to the Ker- 

 madec Islands. 



9. C. tenuifolia. 



Cheeseman, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xviii., p. 315. 



North Island. — Euahine Mountains and other localities in 

 Hawke's Bay, W. Colenso ! Pirongia and Karioi Mountains, 

 Mount Egmont Eanges, T.F.C. Forests between the Upper 

 Wanganui and Taupo, T. Kirk! 



I have already given a description of this species in the 

 volume of the " Trans. N.Z. Inst." quoted above, and do not 



