270 Transactions. — Botany. 



Order XXXVIII. Eubiace^. 

 Genus 1. Coprosma, Forst. 



1. C. lanceolata, sp. nov. 



A large shrub or small tree (specimens") ; branchlets stout, 

 woody, 6 in. -8 in. long, wholly glabrous ; bark pale-brown, 

 smooth, regularly scarred sub lin. apart, the main branch 

 having an angled subtetragonal form. Leaves 8-12 at top, 

 rather distant, loose, spreading, shining, subrecurved, lanceo- 

 late, 5|in. long (including petiole), IJin.-l^in. wide; tip 

 very acute produced; base tapering, subcoriaceous, margins 

 plain, very slightly uneven, dark-green above, pale below ; 

 veins 7-jugate ; veinlets largely anastomosing ; midrib promi- 

 nent on both surfaces ; petiole 1 in. long, stout, firm, smooth 

 above, not furrowed, connate at base with stipules ; stipules 

 large, deltoid, broad and sharply pointed, cuspidate. Flowers 

 not seen. Fcem. : Fruit (immature) subterminal, axillary on 

 long peduncles ^ in. -fin. long, usually 3 drup^ together 

 (sometimes 2 or only 1), sessile, with two long linear brac- 

 teoles at base. Drupas broadly elliptic, 4 lines long, smooth, 

 shining, with hollow crown. On same specimens higher 

 up young undeveloped flower-buds— a/a&as^7*07i — on stout 

 peduncles fin. long, each bearing three small clusters or 

 fascicles, 2 on lateral subpeduncles opposite and containing 

 3 each, and the central one 6, all alike compact, sessile, 

 erect, ovoid, every one enclosed in a simple cup-like calyx 

 or perianth, showing at top 4-5 closely packed flowers, each 

 cluster having a pair of long linear green leafy bracteoles at 

 base. 



Hab. Thickets, slopes Euahine Mountain-range, east side; 

 1898 : Mr. H. Hill. 



Obs. This plant, though specimens received were incom- 

 plete, is so greatly diverse in its foliage and striking general 

 appearance from all other Coprosmce known to me that I have 

 no hesitation in describing it as a species nova. 



2. C. sagittata, sp. nov. 



Shrub 8ft.-10ft. high, erect and diffuse (specimens 

 lft.-2ft. long, straight); branches slender, glabrous; bark 

 pale, smooth. Leaves submembranous, various in size, 

 distant, scattered, glabrous, green above, rather dull, not 

 shining, pale below, the largest lin. long |^in. wide, the 

 smaller and more numerous less than half that size, broadly 

 lanceolate, oblong, acute and obtuse, base cuneate, tapering 

 nearly to base of petiole ; veins few — usually 5-jugate — foveo- 

 late ; midrib prominent, lower half above ; veinlets curiously 

 and closely anastomosing; petioles narrow, 2-3 lines long, 



