CoLenso.—Un the Botany of New Zealand. 881 
glabrous, greenish with purple spots: male, calyx excessively minute, corolla 
campanulate spreading, tube very short, teeth rather large, obtuse, minutely 
pubescent at tips; filaments long, scaberulous, anthers oblong-ovate, 
exserted, sub-apiculate, cordate at base; mostly singly, infra-axillary and 
below, and lateral: female, flowers excessively small, minute; calyx cup- 
shaped with 4 short teeth, very hirsutely pubescent, hairs white ; corolla 
much smaller than male, about + line long, tube slightly funnel-shaped, teeth 
4 oblong ovate, revolute, (sometimes only 2) pubescent ; styles, 2, very long, 
spreading, flexuose, stout, densely pubescent. Drupes underneath on lateral 
branchlets, always under 2 or 4 leaves, globose, shining, 2 lines diameter, 
dark port-wine colour, often 4-6, sometimes 10-18, together in a dense 
semi-cluster ; fruit-stalks very short, opposite each other on the branchlet. 
Stipules below the fruit, small spreading irregular, pubescent on both sides 
and ciliate, usually having a long connate pair, sub-spathulate or oblong 
rounded at tips and 1-nerved, clasping the fruit, like a little involucel ; 
each berry bearing 2 seeds 14 lines long, largely convex, sub-ovoid, slightly 
acute. 
Hab. Dry woods between Norsewood and Danneverke, Waipawa County, 
where it is plentiful, 1876-1883: W.C. 
Obs.—Sometimes a shrub is met with bearing red berries (like small red 
currants in size and colour) ; a fully fruited shrub is a pleasing neat-looking 
object. As a species it will rank naturally near to C. tenuicaulis, rham- 
noides, and divaricata. | 
Genus 2. Nertera, Banks and Solander. 
Nertera pusilla, sp. nov. 
Plant a very small perennial herb, low and prostrate, of densely compact 
(almost mosssy) growth, closely intermixed with other small plants, setosely- 
hispid with long white hairs, much branched below and creeping under- 
ground ; branches woody, rooting at nodes; stems wiry, 1-2 inches high, 
erect, tips of branchlets level. Leaves sub-orbicular and broadly ovate, 
spreading, membranous with muricated white dots on upper surface, 14-2 
lines long, obtuse, slightly decurrent, hispid on both surfaces and coarsely - 
ciliate ; hairs flat with raised bases (glands) on upper surface ; veins anas- 
tomosing ; petioles slender, 1 line long, connate at base; Stipules very minute, 
linear, acute, entire. Flowers lightish-brown or yellowish, longer than the 
leaves, very few, solitary, scattered, sub-terminal and axillary, fugacious ; 
corolla infandibuliform, 8} lines long, hispid without and densely echinate 
at top, tube very slender; hairs white at first, reddish-brown afterwards ; 
teeth rather large, acute ; filaments very long, wiry, spreading, and twisting, 
white at first black afterwards; anthers large, linear-oblong, much apicu- 
late at tip, cordate at base, auricles acute sagittate ; styles 2, exserted (but 
