Corokia. | CORNACES, 237 
equal to them in number, rarely twice as many. Ovary inferior, 
1—4-celled, crowned by a fleshy disc; style single (3 in Griselima), 
long or short; ovules solitary (rarely 2-3), pendulous from the top 
of the cell, anatropous. Fruit usually drupaceous, indehiscent, 
1-4-celled, or rarely with 2 pyrenes. Seed pendulous, testa thin ; 
albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo axile, radicle superior. 
A small order, scattered over the whole world, but chiefly found in the north 
temperate zone. Genera 12; species 75. Properties unimportant. Of the 2 
New Zealand genera, Corokia is endemic; Griselinia extends to South America. 
Hermaphrodite. Leaves narrow, silky-tomentose below .. 1. Coroxkta. 
Dicecious. Leaves broad, glabrous Sle 36 .. 2. GRISELINIA, 
1. COROKIA, A. Cunn. 
Evergreen shrubs; branches straight or tortuous; bark black. 
Leaves alternate or fascicled, petiolate, entire. Flowers small, 
hermaphrodite, yellow, in axillary or terminal panicles, racemes, or 
fascicles. Calyx-tube turbinate; limb 5-lobed, valvate. Petals 5, 
valvate, furnished with a simall scale at the base, silky outside. 
Stamens 5. Ovary 1—2-celled; style short ; stigma almost capitate, 
2-lobed. Drupe ovoid or broadly oblong, crowned by the persistent 
calyx-limb, 1—2-celled ; seeds 1 in each cell. 
A small genus of 3 species, confined to the New Zealand area. 
Leaves lanceolate. Flowers in terminal panicles .. Ll. C. buddleoides. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate. Flowers in axillary racemes .. 2. C. macrocarpa. 
Leaves orbicular or obovate, narrowed into short flat peti- 
oles. Flowers in few-flowered fascicles or solitary .. 3. C. Cotoneaster. 
1. C. buddleoides, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 579.—An erect much- 
branched slender shrub 6-12 ft. high; young branchlets, under- 
surface of leaves, and inflorescence densely clothed with silvery- 
white tomentum. Leaves alternate, shortly petioled, 3-6 in. long, 
lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coriaceous, 
dark-green and shining above; veins reticulated. Panicles ter- 
minal, leafy at the base. Flowers ++in diam., yellow. Petals 
oblong-lanceolate. Drupe oblong, tin. long, dark-red.—Hook. Ic. 
Plant. t. 424; Raoul, Choiz, 46; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 98; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 106; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 224. 
NortxH Isuanpd: Not uncommon in woods from the North Cape as far 
south as the East Cape. Sea-level to 3000 ft. Korokia-taranga. No- 
vember—December. 
9. C. macrocarpa, 7’. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 224.—An erect shrub 
15-20 ft. high; branches stout, spreading; branchlets, leaves be- 
neath, and branches of the inflorescence densely covered with 
silvery-white tomentum. Leaves alternate, 2-4in. long, oblong- 
lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, acute or apiculate, rarely obtuse, 
coriaceous, gradually narrowed into rather short petioles. Flowers 
tin. diam., yellow, in axillary racemes shorter than the leaves; 
