Coprosma.] XXXVIII. EUBIACEAE. 243 



or greyish. Leaves almost membranous, variable, fin.— 3^iii. long, iin.— fin. 

 broad, oblong or linear- or obovate-oblong or rounded-ovate, obtuse acute or 

 retuse, suddenly narrowed into long or short petioles ; midrib distinct ; veins 

 usually obscure. Stipules short, cuspidate, puberulous or ciliate. Flowers 

 sessile, terminal or rarely axillary, solitary or rarely geminate, involucellate. 

 Male : calyx 0, or the limb minutely 4-toothed ; corolla iin.— §iu. long, broadly 

 funnel-shaped, 4—5 to 8- or 10-lobed, rarely 6-lobed, lobes one-third the length 

 of the tube, acute ; stamens as many as the lobes. Female : erect ; calyx-limb 

 obscurely toothed or entire ; corolla shorter than the male, 3— 5-lobed. Drupe 

 jin.— ^in. long, yellowish passing into red, rarely white and translucent. — DC, 

 Prod. iv. 578 ; A. Rich., Fl. Nouv.-Zel. 261 ; Hook, f ., Fl. Antarc. i. 20, t. 13 ; 

 Fl. N.Z. i. 105; Handbk. 116; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 471 (in part). C. affinis, 

 Hook, f., Fl. Antarc. i. 21, t. 14. C. pusilla, G. Forst., Prod. n. 513. C. repens, 

 A. Rich., Fl. N.Z. 264; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 478 (not of Hook. f.). 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the southern part of the Thames Goldfields and the East 

 Cape to Poveaux Strait. CHATHAM Islands, Cox ! STEWART Island ; AUCKLAND and CAMP- 

 BELL Islands. Sea-level to 5,000fc. Karamu. Hupiro. Aug. to Oct. 



Easily recognised at sight by the slender twigs, distant leaves, and terminal fuohsia-like 

 flowers. The whole plant has a pungent and intensely nauseating odour. 



34. C. Colensoi, Hook. /., Handbk. 117. A small erect or rarely pro- 

 strate glabrous slender shrub, 2ft.— 5ft. high. Bark pale-brown or whitish. 

 Young branchlets usually puberulous. Leaves varying greatly in form and 

 texture, iin.— l^in. long, iin. -Jin. broad, opposite or fascicled, yellowish-green 

 when dry, submembranous or coriaceous, linear-lanceolate or oblong, obovate to 

 ovate, broadly oblong or obovate, obtuse retuse or emarginate, narrowed into 

 slender petioles ; margins recurved in the coriaceous forms ; veins obscure. 

 Stipules small, acute, mostly deciduous. Flowers solitary on short decurved 

 terminal peduncles, involucellate, the two longer lobes of the involucel being 

 foliaceous and minutely ciliate or erose at the apex. Male : calyx ; corolla 

 broadly campanulate, gin. long, 4-lobed. Female : calyx-limb minutely 4- 

 toothed ; corolla Jin.— ^in. long, tubular, shortly 4-lobed, lobes revolute ; stig- 

 mas 3—4 times longer than the corolla, capillary. Drupe oblong, Jin.— Jin. 

 long, crowned with the persistent calyx and involucel, red, ultimately black. — 

 Cheesem., Trans. N.Z.I, xix. 248. C. myrtillifolia p linearis, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. 

 i. 108. C. Banksii, Petrie MS. 



NORTH Island : Auckland : Mount Wynyard and other peaks of the Cape Colville Range, 

 T. K. Thames Goldfields and To Aroha, J. Adams. Karioi and Pirongia Mountains, Cheeseman ! 

 Waikaremoana, GoUnso, Bishop Williams! Wellington; mountains near Cook Strait, Colenso. 

 Ta,Ta,ima, B.a.nge, Budden ! SO QTH Island: Marlborough: Mount Stokes, T. JT. Westland : Papa- 

 roa Range, iT«ims .' Otago : West Coast sounds and Riverton, T. K. STEWART Island: common 

 throughout. Descends to the sea-level at Riverton and on Stewart Island. Ascends to 3,500ft. and 

 upwards. Oct., Nov. 



A very distinct species, differentiated from most others by the large iuvolucels and solitary 

 flowers on decurved terminal peduncles. The broad-leaved forms might be mistaken for C. spathu- 

 lata. 



35. C. retUSa, Petrie in Trans. N.Z.I, xxvi. (1893) 268 (not of Hook. f. 

 in Lond, Journ. Bot, iii, (1844) 415). A procumbent much-branched shrub. 



