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gradually narrowing into a sort of petiole ; veinless above, the 

 veins below indistinct and diverging but slightly from the 

 midrib. 



Stipules prominent, white, membranous, connate into a 

 rather long ciliate triangular lobe between the petioles ; in 

 age ruptured by the growth of the twigs. 



Flowers not seen. 



Drupes solitary, often in opposite pairs, sessile or sub- 

 sessile in the axils of the opposite leaves on the younger lateral 

 shoots, deep-red, but not so dark as the drupes of C. rliam- 

 7ioides, A. Cunn., which they closely resemble but somewhat 

 excel in size. 



Hah. Arthur's Pass (3,000ft.), and Kelly's Hill (2,500ft. to 

 3,500ft.), both in Westland. 



This is a very distinct plant. It is, perhaps, most closely 

 related to G. deprcssa, Colenso— a species which also occurs 

 on Kelly's Hill, differing in its broader obtuse leaves, long 

 w^hite stipules, red drupe, and rambling habit. It has been 

 compared at Kew with the plants recently described as new 

 species by Mr. Colenso, F.E.S., but it has no resemblance to 

 any of these forms of the genus. 



4. Coprosma retusa, sp. no v. 



A slender, sparingly-branched, procumbent shrub, emitting 

 a very disagreeable odour when crushed. 



Bark of twigs pale -grey, marked by two opposite broad 

 bands of pubescence, the planes of wdiich lie at right angles in 

 successive internodes. 



Leaves ^in. long and about half as broad, close-set, spread- 

 ing, obovate-cuneate, retuse, coriaceous, nerveless, recurved at 

 the edges, and fringed by a delicately erose membranous 

 border ; depressed above, and strongly keeled below. Stipules 

 coriaceous, connate into short broad ciliated sheaths invest- 

 ing the twigs, 3-lobed, the lobes forming prominent, pale, 

 horn -like processes. 



Flowers terminal on the short lateral shoots of the main 

 twigs, rather large ; males, ^in. long ; calyx cupular, 4-lobed, 

 two opposite lobes rather long and acute, the others short and 

 subulate ; corolla campanulate deeply 4- or 5-lobed ; fila- 

 ments long, anthers pendulous : females rather larger than 

 the males ; calyx tubular, short, with 4 remote subulate teeth 

 on the limb ; corolla narrow campanulate, deeply divided into 

 4 narrow acute lobes ; styles 2, long, stout, diverging. 



Drupes orange, ovoid, fin. long, the top crowned by the 

 persistent calyx teeth. 



Hab. Clinton Saddle, Lake Te Anau (3,000ft.), and Kelly's 

 Hill, Otira Eiver, Westland (3,500ft.). 



The present species is intermediate between C. cuneata, 



