238 xxxvili. EUBIACEAE. [Coprosma. 



Mowers not seen. Drupe subglotose, jq^^- in diameter, black. — Handbk. 

 115. 



AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands. ANTIPODES Island, T. K. 



This species forms almost impenetrable thickets, especially on Campbell Island. The form 

 with linear-oblong leaves is characterized by more robust branches than the type. It is to be 

 regretted that only a solitary drupe has been seen, while the flowers are quite unknown. 



21. C. parviflora, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 107. Erect, rigid, densely 

 branched, and leafy, 4ft. -14ft. high. Bark pale-brown, nearly smooth. Young 

 branches densely pubescent or villous, often divaricating. Leaves Jin.— jin. 

 long, coriaceous, mostly close-set, fascicled on short lateral branches, obovate 

 linear-obovate or linear-oblong, rounded at the tip or rarely subacute ; margins 

 slightly recurved or flat, narrowed into the short petiole ; veins obscure. 

 Stipules broad, pubescent or villous. Flowers involucellate, solitary or in 2—4- 

 flowered fascicles. Male : calyx ; corolla -^qVC^- long, broadly campanulate, 

 4— 5-partite. Female: calyx-limb 4— 5-toothed, teeth minute; corolla i^j™- 

 long, narrow, tubular, 4-cleft. Drupe spherical, whitish or violet-tinged, 

 translucent, ultimately black. — Handbk. 116; Cheesem., Trans. N.Z.I, six. 241. 

 C. myrtillifolia, Hoofcl f., Fl. Antarc. i. 31 ; Fl. N.Z. i. 108. 



From the North Gape to STBWaBT Island : common. AUCKLAND Islands, Hook. f. 

 CAMPBELL Island, T. K. Sea-level to 4,000ft. Nov. to Jan. 



An extremely variable plant, the variations depending largely upon soil, situation, and elevation. 

 Luxuriant lowland specimens sometimes have subvertioillate branches with crowded pubescent 

 or villous branchlets arranged in the same plane. Mountain specimens, on the other hand, frequently 

 have short stout rigid divaricating branches, the bark villous or shaggy, and the coriaceous leaves 

 less than Jiu. long. . A form from the Amuri has perfectly glabrous plum-coloured bark with rigid 

 deourved branchlets,' and leaves with ciliate margins, but it is not possible to separate any of these 

 as permanent varieties. The fruits appear to vary greatly in colour, being sometimes of a deep 

 rich violet. I have never seen fruits absolutely white. 



22. C. craSSifolia, Col., Excurs. North Isl. 75. A shrub, 4ft.-12ft. high, 

 with stiff or rigid opposite divaricating branches. Bark pale- brown or reddish, 

 twisted in young branches, longitudinally fissured in old specimens. Young 

 branchlets glabrous or rarely puberulous. Leaves ^in.— fin. long, glabrous, 

 broadly oblong, ovate, orbicular or obovate, thick and coriaceous, rounded at 

 the apex or retuse, abruptly narrowed into a short petiole ; margins thickened ; 

 veins obscure. Flowers involucellate, solitary or in 2— 3-flowered fascicles, 

 sessile, axillary, or terminating very short arrested branchlets. Male : calyx ; 

 corolla ^in. long, campanulate, deeply 4-partite, lobes broad ; stamens 4. 

 Female : calyx truncate or minutely 4-toothed ; corolla tubular, 

 long, 4-eleft, lobes linear, acute, revolute. Drupe broadly oblong, 

 in diameter. — C. divaricata, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 107 {in part); Cheesem. in 

 Trans. N.Z.I, xix. 242. C. aurantiaca, Col., I.e. xxii. (1889) 461. 



NORTH Island : widely distributed, but very local. Auckland : Hokianga, Kaipara, and 

 Great Omaha, T. K. Whangarei and sandhills between Helensville and the West Coast, Cheese- 

 man I Head of the Manukau Harbour ; Hawke's Bay ; Golenso. Wellington : Karori, T. K. 

 SOUTH Island : Nelson : Maitai "Valley and other places, Cheesenmn I Otago : near the sea and 

 inland, Petrie I 



Originally discovered by Golenso in 1842. Best distinguished by the rigid divaricating 

 branches, few coriaceous leaves with thickened margins, and yellow drupes. 



