256 RUBIACEH. (| Coprosma.. 
obscure. Stipules deltoid, glabrous. Flowers involucellate, solitary 
or in 2-4-flowered fascicles. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. Corolla. 
tin. long, campanulate, 4-5-partite. Females: Calyx - limb 
minutely 4-5-toothed. Corolla tubular, 4-tin., deeply 3-5-lobed. 
Drupe +-4in. long, oblong or obovoid, yellow.—Kirk, Students’ 
Fi. 239. C. divaricata, Hook f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 107 in part (not 
of A. Cunn.). C. aurantiaca, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 
464. C. lentissima, Col. l.c. 465. C. turbinata, Col. l.c. xxiv. 
(1892) 389. 
NortH AnD SoutH Istanps: Not uncommon in swampy lowland forests.. 
September—October. 
Very close to C. crassifolia, but not so rigid, the leaves narrower and less 
coriaceous, and the drupe narrower. Im Mr. Colenso’s herbarium there are 
numerous specimens of his three species quoted above. There can be no doubt 
whatever that they represent common states of C. rigida, and cannot be 
separated even as varieties. 
24. C. obconica, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 237.—An erect shrub 
margins thickened, recurved; veins obscure. Flowers solitary or 
geminate, terminating short arrested branchlets, involucellate, de- 
curved. Male flowers: Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, teeth deltoid. 
Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 4-lobed to the middle; lobes ovate, 
recurved. Females: Corolla tubular, slightly ventricose at the 
base, teeth short, straight. Styles very long. Drupes 4-4in. 
diam., broadly obconic or obcordate, yellowish- white, almost 
translucent. 
SourH Istanp: Nelson—Wairoa Gorge, Bryant and Kirk. August. 
Iam not acquainted with this, and there are no specimens in Mr. Kirk’s 
herbarium. I have consequently reproduced his description in an abbreviated 
form. 
25. C. rubra, Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 269.— 
An open or closely branched shrub 5-12 ft. high ; branches slender, 
divaricating, glabrous or the very young ones puberulous; bark 
reddish-brown. Leaves +-2in. long or more, broadly oblong or 
obovate to orbicular, rounded or subacute or apiculate, abruptly 
narrowed into long or short ciliolate petioles, rather membranous; 
veins obscurely reticulated. Flowers involucellate, solitary or in 
2-4-flowered fascicles. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. Corolla 4 in. 
long, campanulate, 4-partite. Stamens 4. Females: Calyx-limb- 
minutely 4-toothed. Corolla tin. long, tubular, 4-lobed. Drupe 
4 in. long, oblong, yellowish-white, translucent.—Cheesem. im 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 248; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 239. 
C. divaricata var. latifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 107. 
