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106 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Rubiacee. 
when drying, though when alive and growing it is inodorous. It varies in size, from a small prostrate shrub to a tree 
20-30 feet, and is always perfectly smooth, even the youngest branches. Bark white or pale. Stipules ovate, acute, 
often with a subulate top, deciduous. Leaves oblong or obovate, very variable in length (4-13 inch) and breadth, 
blunt or sharp, narrowed into a petiole 4-4 inch long. Flowers apparently sessile, solitary, being terminal on very 
short axillary branches. Calyx tube truncate; limb none. Corolla very large, $ inch long: of the male tubular, four- 
to eight-cleft ; of the female campanulate, smaller, divided below the middle into four linear recurved lobes, papillose 
on the margin. Stamens often five; anthers very large, as long as the corolla. Styles exserted, very stout, + inch 
long. Berry fleshy, red, very variable in size, ¿-3 inch long, with two linear-oblong seeds.—The perfectly 
smooth branchlets, large flowers, petiolate leaves, and want of a calyx, are amongst the most constant characters of 
this most variable plant. 
6. Coprosma spathulata, A. Cunn. ; fruticosa, erecta, divaricatim ramosa, glaberrima, ramis gracilibus, 
ramulis puberulis, stipulis late ovatis deciduis, foliis spathulatis late ovato-rotundatis rhombeisve acutis 
retusisve in petiolum seepe longissimum planum lineare abrupte angustatis lucidis venosis (3-4 unc. longis), 
foribus parvis solitariis v. 2-3; masc. calyce campanulato 4-partito lobis linearibus obtusis, corolla 4-loba 
1 unc. longa, staminibus 4; fom. calycis limbo irregulariter 4—8-partito lobis linearibus ciliatis, corollæ 
tubo brevi campanulato lobis 4-6 linearibus recurvis, stylis elongatis 3 unc. longis, bacca calycis laciniis 
coronata. A. Cunn. Prodr.  Pelaphoides rotundifolia, Banks et Sol. MSS. 
Has. Northern Island ; abundant. Bay of Islands and east coast, Banks and Solander, Cunningham, 
etc. (Cultivated in England.) 
A shrub 3-5 feet high, with slender spreading branches, perfectly smooth, except the ramuli, which are very 
obscurely downy. Leaves extremely variable in size and form, always suddenly contracted into a linear narrow 
grooved petiole; lamina round, rhomboid, obovate or broadly ovate, or spathulate or obeordate, blunt, apiculate, 
retuse or almost two-lobed, shining above, paler below ; sometimes 4 inches long with the petiole, sometimes not 
1 inch; there is no constant proportion between length of petiole and lamina. Flowers small, axillary, solitary or 
two to three together. Male flowers :—Calyz of four narrow lobes. Corolla subcampanulate, usually four-lobed. 
Stamens four. Female :—Calya tube ovoid; limb of four to eight linear, unequal, ciliated, blunt lobes. Corolla with 
a short campanulate tube, and four linear spreading segments. Styles stout, + inch long. Berry red, very variable 
in size, ovoid, crowned with the calyx lobes.—The calyx lobes offer a very prominent character for this species. 
7. Coprosma tenuicaulis, Hook. fil.; frutex erectus, divaricatim ramosus, ramis ramulisgue gracilibus 
puberulis, cortice fusco, foliis parvis (4 unc.) sparsis subspathulatis late ovato-rotundatis in petiolum 
planum angustatis obtusis subacutisve subtus puberulis reticulatim venosis, floribus puberulis solitariis 
2-3-nisve parvis; masc. corolla calyce spurio cupulari inegualiter 4-lobo v. 4-partito suffulta (4—3 unc.) 
tubo brevi lobis lineari-oblongis, staminibus 4, antheris oblongis; fcem. calycis tubo ovoideo limbo sub- 
elongato obscure 4-lobo ciliato, corolla pubescente tubo brevi lobis 4 elongatis linearibus. 
Haz. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, Colenso, etc. 
A small shrub, with slender downy branchlets, and dark red-brown branches. Leaves small (4 inch), broadly 
obovate-spathulate, narrowed into a short petiole, blunt, downy below. Flowers pubescent, small, 4—4 inch long. 
Male flowers :—Apparent calya four-lobed, cup-shaped, more or less irregular, formed of two connate stipules. Corolla 
very narrow at the base, four-lobed ; lobes spreading, oblong, blunt. Stamens four; anthers oblong. Female :— 
Calyx tube ovoid; limb rather cup-shaped, obscurely four-lobed. Corolla with a short tube, and four long spreading 
lobes.—My specimens of this are very uniform in appearance ; they resemble some states of C. divaricata very closely 
indeed, chiefly differing in the pubescent under surface of the leaves. The enpuliform calyx of the male is the result 
of the union of opposite stipules with rudimentary leaves. Small specimens from Mr. Colenso have the leaves much 
reduced, hardly 1 line long. 
