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i-$ uncialibus 4-meris, baccis turbinatis oligospermis. A. Banksii, A. atriplicifolia, et A. paleeformis, 
A. Cunn. Prodr. Fagoides triloba, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Tas. XXIV. 
Has. Northern Island. East coast and Bay of Islands, Banks and Solander, A. Cunningham, Colenso. 
(Cultivated in England.) 
A small shrub, 2-5 feet high, with slender, twiggy, slightly hairy branches. Leaves extremely variable, on 
rather long petioles, linear-obovate, oblong, rhomboid, 3—2 inches long, variously toothed, sinuate or lobed. 
Flowers like those of A. quercifolia, but generally smaller, 1—1 inch long. Berries broad, turbinate or ovoid; cells 
with one or few seeds. —PLATE XXIV. Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the corolla laid open; 3, transverse section 
of ovary; 4, fruit; 5, transverse, and 6, vertical section of fruit; 7, seed; 8, vertical section of seed :—all magnified. 
4. Alseuosmia linariifolia, A. Cunn, ; fruticulus erectus, virgatus, ramulis puberulis, foliis (1-13 une.) 
anguste lineari-lanceolatis oblongisve integerrimis sinuato-dentatisve, floribus parvis (4-3 unc.) 4-meris, 
baccis late ovatis turbinatisve oligospermis. A. Cunn. Prodr. Tas. XXV. 
Var. 8. ligustrifolia; folus majoribus lineari-oblongis. A. ligustrifolia, A. Cunn. Prodr.—Ad A. querci- 
foliam approximat. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, 4. Cunningham, etc. 
A small species much resembling broad-leaved states of Pittosporum pimeleoides. Branches slender, pubescent. 
Leaves 1-13 inch long, very narrow, linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, quite entire or obscurely toothed; in var. 8 
linear-oblong. Flowers small, 4-4 inch long. Bracteole with dark brown hairs. Calyx and corolla five-lobed, the 
latter obscurely toothed on the lobes. Berry rounded or turbinate, few-seeded.— PLATE XXV. B. var. ligustrifolia : 
—natural size. Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same with the corolla laid open; 3, transverse section of ovary; 4, berry; 5, 
transverse section of berry; 6, seed; 7, vertical section of seed :—all magnified. 
Nav. Orp. XLIII. RUBIACEA, Juss. 
Gen. I. COPROSMA, Forst. 
Flores diclines v. polygami. Calycis tubus ovatus; limbo supero 4-5-dentato. Corolla tubulosa v. 
subcampanulata; tubo recto v. curvo; limbo 5-9-lobo. Stamina 4-9, imo corolle inserta; filamentis exsertis; 
antheris lineari-oblongis, connectivo ultra loculos producto. Ovarium 2-8-loculare; loculis 1-ovulatis ; 
stylis 2, filiformibus, elongatis, exsertis, undique piloso-stigmatiferis. Bacca ovoidea v. globosa, pulposa. 
Semina 9 (rarius plura), plano-convexa. Embryo axi albuminis cornei orthotropus; radicula tereti, hilo 
proxima; cotyledonibus foliaceis.— Frutices sempervirentes habitu varii. Flores virides, sessiles v. pedicellati, 
solitarii, pedunculis (ramis floriferis) elongatis ramosis sepius sessiles. Baccæ rubra, sepe edules. 
A very large New Zealand genus of creeping or erect, usually smooth shrubs and small trees, often of fetid 
odour, with bright evergreen leaves, deciduous stipules, and inconspicuous, sessile or pedunculate, hermaphrodite, 
moncecious or dicecious, solitary or crowded greenish flowers. Calyx tube united to the ovarium; limb four- to six- 
toothed or lobed, or wanting; connate bracts often form a cup immediately below the male flowers, resembling a 
calyx (as in C. rhamnoides, etc.). Corolla elongated, tubular or somewhat bell-shaped, with four to nine erecto- 
patent lobes. Stamens four to nine, inserted into the base of the corolla; filaments long, exserted ; anthers large, 
linear-oblong, the connectivum usually produced beyond the cells into a little claw. Ovary two-celled (rarely four- 
celled), with an erect ovule in each cell. Styles two, exserted, filiform, pubescent. Berry round or ovoid, rarely 
didymous, very fleshy, with two (rarely more) plano-convex seeds, placed face to face (like coffee berries).—This 
curious genus is extremely abundant throughout New Zealand, and comparatively so in Norfolk Island, Tasmania, 
and the South Sea Islands, but no species have been found elsewhere ; they are so variable, that I quite despair of re- 
ducing them to anything like proper order; they are most frequently dieeious, and the inconspicuous green flowers in 
