Colexso. — On the Botany of New Zealand. o31 



glabrous, greenish "with purple spots : male, calyx- excessively minute, corolla 

 campanulate spreading, tube very short, teeth rather large, obtuse, minutely 

 piibescent 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 -J- 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 pah, sub-spathulate or oblong 

 rounded at tips and 1 -nerved, clasping the fruit, like a little involucel ; 

 each berry bearing 2 seeds l-§- lines long, largely convex, sub-ovoid, slightly 

 acute. 



Hub. Dry woods between Xorsewood 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 divaric.ata. 



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 why, 1-2 inches high, 

 erect, tips of branchlets level. Leaves sub-orbicular and broadly ovate, 

 spreading, membranous with muricated white dots on upper surface, 1|— 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 infundibuliform, 3i 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, why, 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 



