Coprosma.] XXXVIII. EUBIACEAE. 241 



(2) brunnea. Branches fewer, stouter, with dark-brown bark, often twisted, divaricating. 

 ^ Leaves more distant, often stiff and rather broader. Drupes larger, Jin. long, subglobose or broadly 

 ' oblong, translucent, pale-blue. 



Mr. Cheeseman describes the male flowers of the first as usually solitary : I find them usually 

 fascicled. The larger involucellate leaves often differ but little from the ordinary cauline form. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands; STEWART Island; CHATHAM Islands. Form (1) arenaria, 

 common on blown sand all round the coasts, rarely inland ; (2) brunnea, in river-valleys, &o. ; rare in 

 the North Island, but common in the South, where it ascends to 4,000ft. Very different in appear- 

 ance from arenaria, but cannot be separated. 



28. C. margarita, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxviii. (1895) 594. Bark 

 purplish. Branches very slender, erect, drooping when in fruit, strigosely 

 pubescent. Leaves few, linear, fin. long, xii'i^- hroad, acute or subacute, 

 slightly falcate, narrowed at base ; petiole very short. Stipules small, deltoid- 

 acuminate, pilose. Male flowers not seen. Female : solitary, terminal on short 

 branchlets, involucellate ; peduncles 1 line long ; calyx-teeth minute ; corolla 

 funnel-shaped, jin. long, pale-yellow, lobes subacute, spreading ; stigmas stout, 

 obtuse. Drupes globular, ^o^^- ^^ diameter, white, translucent. 



NORTH Island : Ruahine Mountains, east side, A. Olsen. 



Closely related to C. propinqua, of which it may be a variety, but differs in the strigosely 

 pubescent twigs, acute leaves, larger flowers, and small fruit. I have not seen specimens. 



29. C. propinqua, A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 472. A much-branched shrub 

 or small tree, 6ft.— 20ft. high, forming extensive thickets. Branches divari- 

 cating. Bark brown or greyish. Young branchlets puberulous. Leaves 

 mostly in fascicled pairs on short arrested branchlets, gin.— Jin. long, jJg^in.— Jin. 

 broad, narrow-linear-oblong, mostly obtuse, rarely subacute, gradually narrowed 

 into a short petiole or sessile, slightly coriaceous ; veins obscure. Stipules 

 truncate, glabrous. Flowers solitary or in 2— 5-flowered fascicles ; the fascicles 

 involucrate, the flowers separately involucellate. Male flowers usually fas- 

 cicled ; calyx ; corolla ^in.— Jin. long, broadly campanulate, 4— 5-lobed or 

 -partite. Female: calyx-limb 4-toothed or erose; corolla j^^ii-^Tc''^- ^^^S> 

 tubular, shortly 3— 4-lobed. Styles short. Drupe iin. long, usually globose, 

 yellow, at length black, or rarely white or of a bluish tinge. — Raoul, Enum. 46 ; 

 Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 109; Handbk. 116; Cheesem., Trans. N.Z.I, xix. 245. 

 C. alba. Col., I.e. xxiv. (1891) 388. Pelaphia parvifolia, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from Hokianga and Mangonui to Poveaux Strait. STEWART 

 Island; CHATHAM Islands. Common in open swamps, swampy forests, and by river -sides. 

 Ascends to 1,500ft. Mingiiningi. Sept., Oct. 



Some forms of this closely approach C. Cunninghamii, but may be recognised by the dark 

 bark, involucrate fascicles of male flowers, and the drupes always opaque. 



30. C. Kirkii, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxix. (1896) 391. A procum- 

 bent shrub, forming rounded masses 1ft.— 4ft. high, and the same in diameter. 

 Branches rather stout, often interlaced, subterete or 4-angled when young, with 

 short whitish pubescence. Leaves in opposite pairs or fascicles, close-set, 

 iin.— fin. long, linear or narrow-linear-oblong or narrow-linear-obovate, obtuse 

 or subacute, gradually narrowed into a very short petiole, fiat ; veins indistinct 

 above ; midrib evident below. Stipules very short, broad, ciliate. Flowers on 



