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forms an erect, much and widely branching shrub, 3-4 feet high; branches slender, puberulous. Leaves very nar- 
row, needle-like, 4 inch long, 3-3 line broad, convex above, channelled below. Flowers small, solitary ; male calyx 
proper 0. Corolla in both sexes broadly campanulate, with four broad lobes, always surrounded at the base by a 
cup-shaped false calyx —Fruit edible. 
15. Coprosma microcarpa, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus humilis, ramosissimus, ramis divaricatis ramulisque 
cicatricatis puberulis, foliis parvis (2 unc.) longis anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis breviter petiolatis 
planis coriaceis enerviis, baccis solitariis minimis globosis brevissime pedunculatis cernuis. 
Has. Northern Island. Top of Ruahine range, Colenso. 
A small, very much branched shrub, a few inches high. Branches slender, spreading, covered with whitish 
bark, pubescent, scarred. Leaves towards the ends of the branches, few, very small, + inch long, quite smooth, 
coriaceous, nerveless, plane, narrow, elliptic-oblong, acuminate, shortly petioled. Berries very small, li line in 
diameter, globose, on very short bracteate peduncles at the ends of the branches.—Apparently a very distinct little 
species, of which I have seen fruiting specimens only. 
16. Coprosma depressa, Col. ; fruticulus humilis, rigidus, prostratus v. suberectus, divaricatim ramosus, 
ramis ramulisque validis ultimis puberulis, foliis parvis (4-4 unc. longis) subfasciculatis rigidis crassis 
coriaceisque enerviis patulis subrecurvis anguste lineari-oblongis subcuneatisve superne concavis planisve 
subtus convexis, fl. foem. ovario stipulis calyciformibus immersis, calycis tubo ovoideo limbo truncato v. 
4-lobo, baccis globosis aurantiacis ramulis terminalibus. 
Haz. Northern Island; high ground on the east coast, etc., Colenso. Middle Island; Port Cooper, 
Iyall. 
A small, prostrate, smooth, woody, branching shrub, a span to a foot high, with rigid, spreading, stout, oppo- 
site branches, and very small coriaceous deep green or yellowish thick patent recurved leaves, 4-4 inch long, linear- 
oblong, narrow, blunt, shining, veinless, narrowed into a very short petiole. Female flowers alone seen, and after 
the corolla has fallen away. Ovarium ovoid, sunk in the cup-shaped connate stipules. Calyx tube quite smooth; 
limb 4-lobed or wanting. The calyx-lobes appear sometimes to lengthen a little as the fruit ripens. Berry 
globose, fleshy, about 3 lines in diameter, sweet and eatable.—This much resembles a very small state of C. cuneata. 
17. Coprosma euneata, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus lignosus, rigidus, ramosissimus, erectus v. prostratus, ramis 
validis cortice pallido cicatricatis foliosis ultimis pubescentibus, foliis patulis recurvis crassis coriaceisque 
enerviis brevissime petiolatis (2-4 unc.) longis marginibus subrecurvis anguste lineari-cuneatis lanceolatis 
elliptico-oblongisve rarius late cuneato-oblongis obovatisve subacutis obtusis retusis emarginatisve, stipulis 
villosis glabratisve, floribus magnis solitariis stipulis calyciformibus suffultis, calyce masc. 0, foem. ore trun- 
cato v. breviter 4-lobo, corolla late campanulata lobis lineari-oblongis patulis, antheris majusculis, baccis 
rubris calycis dentibus brevissimis coronatis. /'/. Antaret. p. 21. 
Haz. Northern Island, on the mountains. Tongariro, Bidwill. Ruahine range, etc., Colenso. 
A very rigid, woody, much-branched, small, prostrate or erect species, with whitish bark and leafy branches, 
very variable in habit, and in the size and form of the foliage. Leaves numerous, 4-3 inch long, very thick and 
rigidly coriaceous, margins somewhat recurved, shortly petioled, linear-cuneate, lanceolate or oblong, rarely obo- 
vate, blunt or notched, rarely sharp; stipules generally woolly at the mouth. Flowers large for the plant, 2—3 lines 
long, solitary, sessile. — Calyz 0 in the male flower; female with the mouth truncate or four-lobed. Corolla broadly 
campanulate, with four linear blunt lobes.—This species was first found in Lord Auckland’s Group. 
$ d. Stems shrubby or herbaceous, creeping. 
18. Coprosma repens, Hook. fil. ; fruticulus longe repens, glaberrimus, ramosissimus, -foliosus, ramis 
ramulisque brevibus, foliis parvis 4-1 unc. longis rigidis coriaceo-carnosis patulis elliptico-ovatis obovatisve 
