Myrsinee.] FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 173 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; abundant, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. names, “ Mapau,” 
“Sipau,” and “Matipo,” Middle Island, Zyall. “Tipau,” north of the Thames river, and “ Mapau,” 
south of that river, Colenso. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small leafy tree, very closely resembling Pittosporum undulatum in appearance. Bark dark, of the branch- 
lets red-brown. Leaves 1-14 inch long, obovate, blunt, on short petioles, waved, reticulated on both sides, studded 
with little round glands. Flowers fascicled, sessile, very small. Calyx two- to four-lobed or none. Petals revo- 
lute ; anthers as large as or larger than the petals. Ovary with a sessile capitate stigma. Berries clustered, on short 
pedicels, + inch long, oblong. 
8. Suttonia divaricata, Hook. fil.; fruticosa, ramis divaricatis arcuatis tortuosis, foliis alternis v. ra- 
mulis lateralibus brevissimis fasciculatis glaberrimis coriaceis breve petiolatis late obovatis obtusis retusis v. 
obcordatis 2-lobis rarius elliptico-ovatis subacutis, floribus aggregatis, pedicellis brevibus, petalis obovatis. 
Fl. Antarct. p. 51. t. 34. Myrsine? divaricata, A. Cunn. Prodr. Alph. DC. in Prodr. 
Var. B. montana; arbuscula, foliis elongato-obovatis oblongisve obtusis rarius retusis :—potius species 
distincta. 
Has. Abundant throughout the Islands, 4. Cunningham, etc. Var. B. Top of Ruahine range, 
Colenso. 
Very similar to a shrubby Coprosma inhabit and appearance. Branches flexuose, tortuous, woody. Leaves 
scattered, alternate, or fasciculate on abbreviated lateral shoots, 3-1 inch long, coriaceous, broadly obovate, blunt, 
retuse or obcordate and bilobed, marked with rounded glandular dots, finely reticulated, quite entire. Flowers very 
minute, scattered in little bunches. Calyx four- to five-lobed. Petals four or five, obovate. Ovary with a short 
style and broad concave irregularly-cut stigma. Berry depressed, spherical, one-seeded.—This species has a very 
wide range in latitude, being frequent from the Bay of Islands to Lord Auckland’s Group and Campbell’s Island, 
where the leaves of seedling plants are irregularly serrate or lobed. Ihave not ventured to make a different species 
of var. 8 montana, though Mr. Colenso considers it as such. I have no good flowers or fruit of it; what there are 
do not differ from those of M, divaricata, and the very variable nature of the leaves is equally conspicuous in both 
plants. The leaves of the var. 8 are however longer, more obovate, rounded, seldom retuse, and the plant forms 
a small tree: hence, though Mr. Colenso’s specimens are insufficient for description as such, I suspect them to 
belong to a new species, for which the name 8. montana may be retained, 
4. Suttonia nummularia, Hook. fil.; fruticulus prostratus, caulibus gracilibus elongatis parce ramosis, 
foliis parvis breve petiolatis rotundatis reticulatim venosis, floribus sparsis sessilibus solitariis axillari- 
bus ramulisque nudis, calyce brevi 4-lobo, petalis obovato-rotundatis longe ciliatis, bacca subglobosa. 
Tas. XLV. 
Has. Northern Island. Top of Ruahine range. Lake Rotoatara, etc., Colenso. 
A very small, prostrate, alpine species. Stems slender, a span to a foot long, sparingly branched, rooting at 
the base; branches scarred, ascending. Leaves small, uniform, spreading, coriaceous, shortly petiolate, orbicular ; 
margins quite entire, recurved, much wrinkled with reticulated veins, and dotted with rounded glands. Flowers 
scattered, solitary, axillary or growing from the branches, very minute. Oalyx very small, four-lobed. Petals 
four, concave, ciliated. Stamens large for the size of the plant, sessile on the petals. Berry round, the size of a 
peppercorn. —PLATE XLV. 
