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Tel roUindalis binc fere obovatisj basi acutis vel attennatis, 

 uninerviis sparse yeuiilosis, glabriuscalis, tenuiter coriaceis, 

 margiiiibus brevi -hirlellis, racemis ia ramiilis brevibns di- 

 pbyliis lermiiialibiis pauciHoris, baccis pedicellatis elliptiuis 

 palllde citriuis. 



Crcscit in Nova Zeelaudia. (A. Conningham n. 7. in 

 Herb, cit.) 



Rami teretes sordide grisei laeves cortice leviter rugu- 

 loso, calamnm scriptorium crassi, ad foliornm insertionem 

 continni, ramuli aotem articulatim inserti nee valde fragiles, 

 tcrctiuscnli. Gemmulae in axillis foliorDm globosae peru- 

 latae. Petioli brevissirni vel fere nulli planiusculi caualicn- 

 lati. Folia in sicco atro - olivacea obscara tenuiter coriacea, 

 forma diversa, inter ellipticaro et fere obovato-rotundatam 

 subrbombcara intermedia, majora 21/3 cent. longa, 1 — 11/3 

 lata, alla dcplo roiuora et brcviora, marginibns obsolete al- 

 bido-marginala, nervo medio fere ad apicem ducto in ntra- 

 que pagina venuloso, Ramuli patuli uninodes apice diphylli 

 (folia minora) racemum terminalem gcrunt vix 1 cent. lon- 

 gum, 5 — 7-flonim, ajci hirtello tetragono, pedicellis oppo- 

 sitis vel verticillatis articulatis, terminali solitario, glabrins- 

 cnlis. In ramornra primarioram apice racemus contractus 

 fere cymam simiilans. 



Observ. Generis Tupciac a eil. Charais so etSchlech- 

 tendal (Linnaea III. p. 203) e Viseo antarctico Forst, 

 conditi characler, comparata Forslcri descriptioue accura- 

 tissima nunc demum a cl. Richard 1. c. in lucem protracta, 

 ita exhibendus vidctur: 



Flores polygami in distiuctis stirpibus. Hermaphr. 

 Calyjc 4- (5?-) partilus, lacinlis lanceolatis apice concavis 

 praeHoratione valvatis, sub antbesi palrutibus. Stamina 4 

 (an €t 5?) calycis segmentis opposita iisquv basi iuserta, 



