248 RUBIACEZ. [Coprosma. 
Nearest to C. robusta, but distinguished by the more compact habit, glossy 
almost fleshy obtuse leaves with recurved margins, smaller heads of flowers, and 
rounder fruit. 
Mr. Kirk’s variety oblongifolia (Students’ Fl. 232), with densely pubescent 
branchlets and small linear-oblong leaves, will probably prove to be a distinct 
species. 
6. C. chathamica, Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiy. 
(1902) 317.—A tree 15-40 ft. high, with a trunk sometimes 2 ft. 
in diam.; bark greyish-brown; branchlets obscurely tetragonous, 
more or less clothed with short stiff greyish hairs. Leaves 
14-3in. long, about lin. broad, oblong or obovate-oblong or 
obovate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a rather slender 
petiole, subcoriaceous, dark-green or glossy above, paler beneath, 
glabrous except the petioles and a few scattered hairs along the 
midrib and margins; veins conspicuously reticulated beneath. 
Male flowers not seen. Female flowers in few-flowered fascicles. 
Calyx-limb cupular, truncate. Corolla deeply 4-lobed. Drupe 
large, oblong-ovoid, rather more than }in. long, yellowish-red. 
CHaTHAM IsLANDS: Abundant, H. H. Travers; Captain G. Mair! Cox 
and Cockayne ! 
I have only seen two very imperfect specimens of this, and the above de- 
scription is mainly based upon that given by Mr. Cockayne. It was referred to 
C. petiolata by Sir J. D. Hooker (Handb., p. 731), but appears to differ in the 
very much larger size, the coarser almost shaggy pubescence on the young 
branchlets (in C. petiolata the pubescence is very short, fine, and even), and in 
the larger leaves. 
7. C. petiolata, Hook. f. im Journ. Linn. Soc. i. (1857) 128.— 
A shrub or small tree 6-15ft. high; bark pale-grey; branchlets 
terete or obscurely tetragonous, uniformly clothed with a fine ashy- 
grey pubescence. Leaves 1-2in. long, elliptic-oblong or obovate, 
rounded at the apex, narrowed into a short slender petiole, sub- 
coriaceous, glabrous or the petiole and veins beneath puberulous ; 
margins flat or very slightly recurved. Stipules deltoid, acuminate. 
Male flowers in compact rounded heads on short axillary puberulous 
peduncles. Calyx-limb obscure. Corolla companulate, +in. long, 
deeply 4-lobed. Females in 3-6-flowered fascicles. Calyx cupular 
or obscurely toothed. Corolla tubular, 3-5-toothed. Mature fruit 
not seen.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 113; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 232. 
KeERMADEC Istanps: Abundant throughout the group, McGillivray, T. F.C. 
Very closely allied to C. Bauweri, but easily separated by the uniform grey 
pubescence of the branchlets, and by the smaller flat leaves with much more 
slender petioles. I have seen no specimens from the mainland of New Zealand, 
and fear that the locality of ‘‘ maritime rocks south of Castlepoint,” given in the 
+« Handbook,”’ is erroneous. 
8. C. robusta, Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. iti. 2 (1844) 121.— 
A stout erect glossy-green shrub 5-15 ft. high, perfectly glabrous in 
all its parts; bark greyish-brown. Leaves numerous, 14-6 in. 
long, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse, 
