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glabrous branchlets, and still larger more distantly placed leaves; and Mr. 
Kirk’s Opunake specimens are very similar. Bishop Williams’s specimens, from 
Portland Island, are remarkable for the very pale bark and densely tomentose 
branchlets, the leaves being broader than the Ahipara specimens. The ripe 
fruit is unknown in all the forms, and the Ahipara plant is the only one of which 
good flowering specimens have been obtained. 
30. C. linariifolia, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 118—A much- 
branched shrub or small tree 6-20 ft. high ; trunk sometimes 9 in. 
diam.; branches slender, spreading, younger ones puberulous ; 
bark dark-grey. Leaves all opposite, 4-14 in. long, 4-4 in. broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate, rarely oblong-lanceolate, acute, suddenly 
narrowed into a short slender petiole, flat, coriaceous, blackish when 
dry; veins indistinct. Stipules glabrous or puberulous, upper ones 
connate into a long sheath; margins usually ciliate. Flowers ter- 
ininating leafy branchlets, involucellate. Males in 2-5-flowered 
fascicles, fascicles involucellate. Calyx wanting. Corolla 4-4 in. 
long, broadly campanulate, 4-5-lobed to the middle; lobes revo- 
lute. Females solitary. Calyx-limb with 4-5 large and erect 
linear-oblong lobes. Corolla } in. long, tubular, 4-5-lobed. Drupe 
4 in. long, broadly oblong, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, at 
first pale and translucent, ultimately black.—Cheesem. in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 246; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 95; Students’ 
Fil. 242. C. propinqua var. y, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1. 109. 
NortH and SourH Istanps: Not uncommon from the Thames River 
southwards. Sea-level to 3000 ft. October-November. 
Easily recognised by the long sheathing stipules. In several respects it 
approaches C. propingua and C. Cunninghamii, but is easily distinguished by 
the different habit, thinner acute leaves, and by the long calyx-lobes of the 
female flowers. 
31. C. Solandri, 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix. (1897) 522. 
—A much-branched shrub; branches stout, rigid, obscurely tetra- 
gonous ; branchlets numerous, short, erect; bark whitish, setose. 
Leaves erect, loosely imbricating, in. long, ;4, in. broad, linear- 
lanceolate, acute or apiculate, very coriaceous; midrib sunken on 
both surfaces. Stipules setose, ciliate, loosely sheathing. Flowers 
not seen. Drupes solitary, terminal, seated in an involucel com- 
posed of two depauperated leaves and their stipules, +in. long, 
broadly ovoid, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes.—Students’ 
Fl. 242. 
NortuH Isuanp: Kast Cape district, Banks and Solander. 
This was described by Mr. Kirk from some specimens in the set of Banks 
and Solander’s plants presented to the colony by the Trustees of the British 
Museum. The specimens, with many others, are now missing from the set, 
having probably been mislaid at the time of Mr. Kirk’s decease. The species is 
apparently closely allied to C. linarwifolia. 
32. C. foetidissima, Morst. Char. Gen. 138.—Usually a slender 
sparingly branched shrub 6-15 ft. high, but occasionally forming a 
small tree 20 ft. high, with a trunk 1 ft.in diam. or more; disgust- 
