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BOTANICAL NOTES. 
By L. Ropway. 
(Plates.) 
Coprosma moorei, F. v. M.—About two or three years ago Mr. 
T. B. Moore discovered in the vicinity of Mount Tyndall a small 
plant with a conspicuous blue berry, evidently a Coprosma, or 
closely allied to that genus. Baron von Miieller, to whom it 
was sent, could not, in the absence of flowers, safely identify 
it, but considered it probably C. Petrie (Chess) of New 
Zealand, and a paper to that effect appears in our transac- 
tions for 1891. In December, 1892, I was fortunate enough 
to find the plant in quantity, and, more fortunate than my 
friend, Mr. Moore, I discovered it in full flower. The plant 
.was submitted to Baron von Miieller and Mr. Petrie, of 
Dunedin, and its distinctness from C. Petriei, or from any 
plant hitherto described, was thoroughly apparent. With 
von Miieller’s sanction, I have described it under the 
name of its original discoverer. There is one point that 
renders the plant of unusual interest, namely, its hermaphro- 
dite flowers, a unique development in Coprosma, uniting that 
genus, as von Mieller had already suggested, with Nertera. 
From the latter, however, our plant differs in the 4-lobed 
calyx and the insertion of the stamens. 
A small prostrate, creeping, glabrous perennial; stems 
branching, rooting at intervals, sometimes almost entirely 
subterranean. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, spreading, 
thick, shining, concave, acute, narrowed into a short petiole, 
mostly 13 to 2 lines long. Stipules interpeticlar with 2 
minute subulate erect lobes at the junction. Flowers ter- 
minal, sessile, terminating short erect branchlets, hermaphro- 
dite. Calyx broadly oblong, about 1 line long, slightly 
compressed below the lobes; lobes 4, broad, acute, rather less 
than half as long as the tube. Carolla campanulate, about 1 
line long, lobes 4, broad acute, nearly as long as the tube. 
Stamens 4, free from the carolla, and inserted at its base. 
Filaments slightly exceeding the carolla. Anthers erect 
ovate, slightly apiculate. Style divided nearly to the base 
into 2 filiform papillose branches, about half again as long as 
the stamens, and maturing rather before they are fully 
developed. Ovary 2 celled. Fruit blue, broadly oval, 3 
‘lines long, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes. Pyrenes 
2, pale brown, smooth, broadly ovate, but flattened on one 
side, suspended from the top of the inflated mesocarp; each 
one seeded. Embryo minute in a copious albumen. (Plate I.) 
