98 ELORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Cornee. 
on to the stem, very oblique, oblong, ovate, obovate, or rounded, quite entire, very thick and coriaceous, the petiole 
obscurely expanded into a sheathing base. Panicles axillary or terminal, pubescent with yellowish down, as long as 
or longer than the leaves, male largest; in bud surrounded with coriaceous, ovate, acuminate, sheathing bracteolee ; 
main branches bracteolate at the base. Male flowers have a five-toothed calyx, five subimbricated petals, and as many 
alternating stamens. Female, an inferior one- to two-celled ovarium, crowned with a five-toothed calyx-limb, five 
valvate petals, and three short, erect, conical, recurved stigmata. Ovules solitary, pendulous. Berry ovoid, crowned 
with the styles and five-toothed calyx, one rarely two-celled (one always empty). Seed pendulous.—A very fine 
genus, closely related to 4ucuba of Japan, and still more nearly to Decostea of Chili. The corolla, being valvate 
in the female and subimbricate in the male flowers, is curious, but involves only a question of degree, which, however 
important in most cases, is of none here. 
1. Griselinia Zueida, Forst. Prodr. A. Cunn. Prodr. G. littoralis et G. lucida, Raoul, FT. p. 22. 
4.19. Pdukateria, Raoul, in Ann. Soc. Nat. 1844. p. 120. Scopolia, Forst. Gen. Lissophyllum, Banks 
et Sol. MSS. 
Has. Throughout the Islands; from the Bay of Islands to Dusky Bay, Forster, ete. Fl. October. 
Nat. name, “ Poukater," Raoul. (Cultivated in England.) 
Very variable in size and shape of the foliage, the leaves being 1-5 inches long, more or less remarkably unequal 
and oblique, and the petioles extremely variable in length. I have seen but one species from New Zealand. 
Gen. LI. COROKIA, 4. Cunn. 
Flores hermaphroditi v. l-sexuales. Calyeis tubus turbinatus, ovario adnatus; limbo 5-dentato, val- 
vato. Petala 5, extus sericea, valvata, intus basi squamula aucta. Stamina 5, petalis alterna, sub disco 
5-lobo inserta. Stylus erectus, apice bilobus. Ovarium 2-loculare; ovulis loculis solitariis, pendulis. 
Bacca 2-locularis (abortu 1-locularis). Semen pendulum; testa membranacea; albumine carnoso; em- 
bryone lineari ; radicula hilo proxima.—Frutices pilis medio affivis sericei. Folia alterna, exstipulata, inte- 
gerrima. Flores paniculati v. fascieulati, sericei. 
A genus of evergreen shrubs, containing two species, both natives of New Zealand, having alternate, exstipulate, 
entire leaves, which, as well as the young branches and flowers, are densely clothed below with white silky hairs ; 
the latter, if examined with a microscope, are seen to be attached by the middle to the surface of the leaf, and thus 
point two opposite ways. Flowers fasciculate or paniculate, white or yellow. Calyw tube obconical; limb of five 
valvate teeth. Petals five, valvate, silky on the back, with a small scale at the base inside. Stamens five. Ovary 
two-celled; ovules solitary, pendulous. Style erect, two-lobed at the top. Berry ovoid, fleshy, red, with a one- 
to two-celled nut; cells one-seeded; seed pendulous, albuminous. (Name derived by Cunningham from the 
native one.) 
1. Corokia duddletoides, A. Cunn.; fruticosa, erecta, folis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, floribus 
paniculatis, paniculis axillaribus terminalibusque multifloris. 4. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 424. 
Var. 8; foliis latioribus elliptico-lanceolatis, baccis majoribus. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, Cunningham, ete.; Auckland, Sinclair; East coast, Colenso, 
ete. Nat. name, “ Korokio-taranga," Colenso. Var. 8. Chatham Island, Diefenbach. (Cult. in England.) 
A shrub 6-8 feet high. Leaves shortly petiolate, lanceolate, 2—4 inches long, acuminate. Flowers yellowish, 
in axillary and terminal panicles, densely silky. Berries 4 inch long, red, fleshy.—In var. 8 the leaves are broader 
and the berry larger, but I see no other differences in the imperfect specimens I possess. 
2. Corokia Cotoneaster, Raoul; frutex ramosissimus, ramis atris tortuosis, foliis (parvis) alternis v. 
fasciculatis spathulatis orbiculatis obovatis v. obcordatis emarginatis in petiolum latum linearem angustatis, 
floribus axillaribus fasciculatis. Raoul, Fl. Nov. Zeal. p. 22. t. 20. 
