184 RUBIACEAE, [Coprosma. 
Corolla 4—9-parted, with valvate, mostly revolute lobes. Style divided 
to the base into 2 long exserted, divaricate, linear, pubescent branches. 
Ovary 2-celled, with 1 erect ovule in each cell. Froit : a a drupe with 
pergameneous plano-convex pyrenae; the seeds a membranous 
testa. Embryo axile in horny albumen, with a cotyledons and 
an inferior radicle. — Shrubs or trees, with opposite, rarely verticillate 
leaves. Stipules connate with each other inside the petioles. Flowers 
greenish, inconspicuous, mostly axillary, single, or several variously dis- 
posed in imperfectly pes loped branch-like inflorescences, with a pair of 
stipellate connate bracts at the base of the calyx in single and lateral 
flowers. 
About 37 species, principally natives Au New wee and the Sandwich ue a few 
eae | te Australia, range Tahiti and the Vitis, one to Juan Fernandez. Native 
name for all species: «Pilo». None of our Heit emit a fetid eo as = ao some rad br 
: Pp 
eyme o owers, as in C. cymosa, and finally a geod bates er on a naked peduncle, as 
often happens in ‘the last named species and in C. foli 
Leaves linear, I-nerved; lobes of corolla 4, erect in in Sake 1 oes : 
pe black 1. C. ernodeoides. 
Leaves penni-nery ed; lobes of corolla 529, revolute in the fem. fl.; 
drupes yi 
ello id a 
Leaves a 
Flowers saneer on short axillary nese 3 : ; ; : 2. C. montana. 
Flowers nto bo distinct peduncles 
Drupes beaked with the long recani limb of the — ovoid 7. C. rhynchocarp4. 
vp ail rosso with the long discreet calycine lobes, small 
6. C. stephanocarpa. 
Dries shortly dentate, 3 sessile 4 a head, or single 
coriaceous, with nerves y latices above, dive: 
ae aan ovoi 3. C. Menzies. 
Leaves gg acute at both ends; 3 drapes large globose or 
obovo: 4. €. foliosa. 
Drupes Seiad ‘the a apex: 
Drupes ciobeds single or acyme, with the lateral flowers 
pedicelin e 5. C. cymosa. 
Drupes ovoid or ellipsoidal ; flowers numerous, ‘crowded « on 
cles. 8. C. pubens. 
Leaves ne with Jong sheathing stipules : flowers. many, : 
crowded at the ends of long peduncles; drupes ellipsoidal . | 9. €. longifolia. 
