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and more open panicles than the fem., petals 4, spreading, 4 lines 
diameter, somewhat sub-spathulate or sub-obovate, obsoletely 1-nerved, 
light yellowish-green, tips sub-cucullate and slightly pubescent-ciliate ; 
filaments spreading, rather longer than the anthers; anthers broadly-oblong, 
apiculate ; pedicels 8 lines long, jointed: female flower glabrous, shining, 
very small, 1 line diameter, petals 4 (sometimes 8 or 5), linear-lanceolate, 
acute, obscurely 1-nerved, spreading and reflexed, tips obtuse incurved, 
margins minutely pubescent; light yellowish-green ; style long, exserted ; 
stigma capitate, large, sub-globular, depressed, obscurely lobed, light-yellow. 
Fruit a drupe, broadly-elliptic, smooth, pink thickly spotted or splashed 
with dark pink, retaining large discoidal scar from style; pedicels 14-2 lines 
long ; pulp very viscid; the panicle becoming very much elongated when in 
fruit. 
Hab. Parasitical on Panaw arboreum, Petane Valley, near Napier, 
1883: Mr. 4. Hamilton; flowering in PES, and bearing the ripe last 
year’s fruit at the same time. 
Obs.—It is not without some considerable amount of hesitation that I 
announce this plant as a sp. nov. of this peculiar and variable genus of 
(hitherto) only one species ; but it differs so much in bark and leaf, in flower 
and fruit, from T. antarctica, that I cannot but consider it to be truly dis- 
tinct. In its general appearance also it widely differs, being a much larger 
plant of more straggling growth, while the constant and great difference in 
its dark-coloured and more oblong-shaped fruit, and undulated adult leaves 
(resembling those of Myrsine d’urvillei) is apparent at first sight. I have 
had plenty of good specimens for examination. The plant emits a pecu- 
liarly strong odour in drying (reminding me of that of green figs when 
peeled), remaining fixed for sometime in the many thicknesses of drying 
papers. 
Orper XXXVIII. RUBIACEZa 
Genus 1. Coprosma, Forster. 
Coprosma concinna, sp.n 
A small erect shrub, AP feet high, of irregular growth, thickly branched 
above, branches slender, spreading ; bark smooth, yellowish-brown ; branch- 
lets short, opposite and decussate, but distant, spreading at right angles, 
filiform, arcuate, pubescent ; leaves few, scattered, 8-4 lines diameter, sub- 
membranaceous, orbicular trowel-shaped and broadly elliptic, very obtuse, 
sometimes sub-apiculate, slightly sub-crenulate, glabrous, light-green dashed 
with yellowish spots, margined, foveolate beneath in axils of lower veins 
and midrib, blade abruptly decurrent, petiole 1 line long and (with lower 
half of midrib) hirsutely pubescent, veins (and margins) red, finely reticulate ; 
stipules acuminate acute, pubescent. Flowers very small, membranaceous, 
