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the tall slender lax-flowered usually branched flowering-stems, the upper part 
of which is male and the lower female; the small broad anthers, on rather long 
filaments; and the small almost globose drupe. It is probably a widely dis- 
tributed plant. 
3. G. flavida, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1886) 260.— 
Rhizome creeping, slender. Leaves 14-3 in. long; petiole slender, 
glabrous or sparingly clothed with short white hairs; blade $-1in. 
long, ovate or elliptic-ovate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse, cordate or 
rounded or truncate at the base, finely crenate or sinuate-crenate 
or almost entire, rather membranous, glabrous or slightly hairy. 
Spikes unisexual. Males 1-3in. long, rather slender; flowers lax 
or close together, on very short unbranched pedicels ; each pedicel 
with a linear bract near the base, and 2 linear-cucullate deci- 
duous bracteoles just under the flower. Sepals 2, small, narrow- 
linear. Stamens 2; filaments very short, almost wanting; anthers 
broadly ovate, apiculate. Femaie peduncles }-lin. long in the 
flowering stage; flowers crowded. Calyx-teeth 2, short. Styles 2, 
long. Fruiting peduncles 1-4in. long, overtopping the leaves. 
Drupes $in., spreading, obconic, sessile or shortly pedicelled, red 
or pale-yellow.—AKirk, Students’ Fl. 153. G. ovata, Petrie in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xxv. (1893) 274 (in part). 
Nortu Istanp: Upper Waikato and Taupo, 7. #'. C.; between Taupo and 
Napier, Hill! Petrie! Sour Istanp: Abundant in Otago and Southland, 
Buchanan ! Petrie! Kirk! Hamilton! Sea-level to 3000 ft. December— 
January. 
A comparison of a type specimen from Mr. Colenso with the types of Petrie’s 
G. ovata prove that the two species are identical. In foliage it greatly re- 
sembles G. microcarpa, but the slender branched moneecious inflorescence of 
that species, together with the minute globose drupes, are altogether different 
from the short unisexual unbranched spikes of G. flavida, with their larger 
obconie fruit. G. »rorepens only differs in the much larger size, and the two 
may prove to be forms of the one plant. 
4. G. prorepens, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 66.—A large and stout 
species, sometimes 12in. high, although ordinarily less; rhizomes 
stout, creeping. Leaves 3-Sin. long; petioles 2-6in., slender, gla- 
brous or sparingly pilose; blade 1—2in., ovate or oblong, obtuse, 
rounded or cordate at the base, crenulate, glabrous or slightly 
hairy. Flowers not seen. Fruiting peduncles usually longer than 
the leaves, simple, bearing many sessile lax or densely spiked 
drupes, which are tin. long, red, fleshy, obconic or nearly globose, 
with an irregular deep furrow at the top from whence the styles 
protrude.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 68 (excl. var. b). 
NorrH Istanp: In subalpine wet localities, Colenso! SoutH IsLanpD: 
West Coast, Lyall. 
The only specimens I have seen that I can refer with certainty to this 
species are two in Mr. Colenso’s herbarium. Mr. N. BE. Brown has kindly com- 
pared one of them with the type at Kew, and informs me that it exactly corre- 
sponds. G. flavida does not seem to differ except in the smaller size of all its 
parts, and I should not be surprised at the two species proving to be states of 
one variable plant. 
