Myrsine.| MYRSINEZ. 431 
A. Petals united at the base (often very slightly in M. salicina). 
Leaves 1-941 in. long; <a al or obovate- oblong wey 
acute 1. M. kermadec- 
ensis. 
Leaves 3-7 in. long, linear or linear-oblong ig .. 2. M. salicina. 
B. Petals quite free. 
Tree 10-20ft. Leaves 1—-2in., oblong or obovate, rather 
thin, margins undulate. Fruit tin. diam. .. 3. M. Urvillet. 
Tree 10-20ft. Leaves 1- -2}in., obovate, coriaceous, mar- 
gins flat. Fascicles many- flowered. Fruit t-4in. diam. 4. M. chathamica. 
Shrub 8-15 ft. ; branches stout, pubescent. Leaves 4—-?in., 
narrow-obovate, coriaceous. Flowers solitary or few to- 
gether, almost sessile ar oe Xe ae On Ue Comi. 
Shrub 8-15ft.; branches slender, glabrous. Leaves 
#-1fin., obovate, rather thin. Flowers in 2-5-flowered 
fascicles ; pedicels slender, distinct .. 6. M. montana. 
Shrub 4-12 ft.; branches spreading, tortuous and inter- 
laced. Leaves #+41n., broadly obovate or obcordate, 
retuse or 2-lobed .. ie .. 7. M. dwaricata. 
Trailing or prostrate shrub 4-18 in. long. Leaves small, 
4-4 in., broadly oblong or orbicular .. Ah -. 8. MW. nummularia 
M. brachyclada, Colenso in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii. (1890) 478, is a small 
state of Aristotelia fruticosa. 
1. M. kermadecensis, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv. 
(1892) 410.—A small glabrous tree 8-l5ft. high; bark rough, 
blackish-brown. Leaves 14-24 in. long, elliptic- oblong or obovate- 
oblong, acute or obtuse, narrowed into” petioles 4-4+in. long, entire, 
coriaceous, glandular-dotted, veins copiously reticulated, margins 
slightly recurved. Flowers in many-flowered fascicles on the old 
wood neta the leaves, small, ,,—-in. diam., unisexual; pedicels 
short, $-tin. long. Calyx minute, 4-5- lobed : lobes short, broad. 
Gorslla’ Givided nearly to the base into 4 or 5 ovate acute lobes, 
which are fringed on the margins. Anthers nearly as large as the 
lobes. Female flowers not seen. Fruit globose, fe _tin. diam., 
black when fully ripe, 1-seeded.—Rapanea kermadecensis, Mez 
in Pflanzenreich, Heft 9, 371. 
KerMADEC Isnanps: Sunday Island, abundant throughout, 7. F. C. 
Sea-level to 1500 ft. August. 
This and the following are the only New Zealand species in which the 
petals cohere at the base. 
2. M. salicina, Heward wm Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. (1842) 
283, im note.—A small tree 15-30 ft. high, perfectly glabrous in all 
its parts; bark black or dark-red; branches usually leafy at the 
tips only. Leaves spreading, 3-7in. long, 4-3 in. broad, linear or 
linear-oblong, obtuse, narrowed into a short stout petiole, quite 
entire, marked with oblong pellucid glands, veined, margins flat. 
Flowers in dense many-flowered fascicles on the branches below 
