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and more open panicles than the fern., petals 4, spreading. 4 lines 

 diameter, somewhat suh-spathulate or suh-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 3 lines long, jointed : female flower glabrous, shining, 

 very small, 1 line diameter, petals 4 (sometimes 3 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 1^—2 lines 

 long ; pulp very viscid ; the panicle becoming very much elongated when in 

 fruit. 



Hab. Parasitical on Panax arbureum, Petane Valley, near Napier, 

 1883: Mr. A. Hamilton; flowering in September, 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 Myrsi)ie 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. 



Okdee XXXVIII. BUBIACEiE. 

 Genus 1. Coprosma, Forster. 

 Cojnosma concinna, sp. nov. 



A small erect shrub, 2-4 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, 3-4 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 lohg and (with lower 

 half of midrib) hirsutely pubescent, veins [and margins) red, finely reticulate ; 

 stipules acuminate acute, pubescent. Flowers very small, membranaceous, 



