100 69. RUPIACRX. 
"This is very near JV. depresss Dawk&S; but differs from it in having 
blaek coloured berries, and in the leaves which are quite obtuse or even 
rounded at the apex, aud slightly cordate at the base. JN. depressa has 
yellow coloured fruits, and the leaves are more or less aeute at the apex 
and much more cordate at the base. 
99. Coprosma Fonsr. 
Coprosma Kawakamii Havara Mater. Fl. Formos. p. 145. Branches 
strong, tetragonous, longitudinally rugose, gray or nigricant, branchlets strong, 
divaricate, dark gray, slender, tetragonous, 2-3 em.long, 141 mm.in diameter, 
pulvinus approximately cruciately arranged 13 mm. long, 3 mm. broad, artieulate 
with petioles. Leaf-buds pyramidal, tetragonous, perulas oblong-triangular, 2 mm. 
long, 11 mm. broad, acute at the apex, carinate on the back, persistent. Leaves 
opposite, eruciately arranged towards the apex of branches, obovate, obspathulate 
or obovate-oblong, thick, 1 ecm.long, 5 mm. broad, obtusely acute or rounded 
or cuneate-rounded at the apex, aeute or cuneate-acute at the base, both 
surfaces glabrous, costa and veins impressed, veinlets reticulate and im- 
pressed on the upper surface, costa prominent on the lower surface, veins and 
veinlets slightly prominent on the lower surface, rubescent, lower surface 
albescent, with a small reddish membrane at the ramification of veins, margin 
entire and slightly reflexed on the lower surface, petioles 11-2 mm. long, 
coneave on the inside and convex on the outside, base artieulated with 
pulvinus. Flowers on the axiles of upper leaves long peduneulate, peduncles 
solitary, 7 mm.long, glabrous, with 4-bracts at the apex, 2 of them some- 
what larger, narrow, 3 mm. long, l mm. broad, carinate on the back, the 
other two smaller quadrangular 1 mm. long, $ mm. broad, truneate at the 
apex, margin with long cilia; flowers two on the apex of a peduncle, sessile. 
Calyx-limb , eupuliformed, irregularly dentate, margin seareely ciliate, disk 
annular. 
Hr. Mt. Morrison. 
Near Coprosme. myrtillifola Hook. f. and also €. perviflora Hoo. f., 
but differs from. both in having obovate leaves and long stalked fruits. 
