Coprosma.] xxxvni. rubiaCEAE. 245 



quarter-way down. Drupe very small, globose, ■j^q^'^- ^^ diameter. — Haadbk. 



118. 



NOETH Island : tops of the Ruahine Jlountains, Golenso. Perhaps a variety o£ C. cuneata. 



I have ventured to copy the above from the Handbook, not having seen any plant fully agree- 

 ing with it. A plant which is most probably identical, however, but of which flowers and frait have 

 not been obtained, differs in the following trivial particulars : Branchlets often glabroas, sometimes 

 rather stout. Leaves rarely exceeding |in. in length, submembranous or very coriaceous, acute or 

 obtuse; petiole minute. A single imperfect tubular corolla, doubtless female, has 4 short acute 

 lobes, scarcely spreading. Hab. North Island : Ruahine Range, T. K. ; Taupo, G. Mair ! South 

 Island : Ahaura Plain, Nelson, T. K. ; high ranges north of Oxford Forest, Canterbury, T. K. ; 

 Otago, Buchanan ! 



38. C. depressa, Col. ex Hook.f., Fl. N.Z. i. 110. A much-branched 

 bush, 1ft.— Ift. high. Branches often prostrate or trailing. Bark often grey- 

 ish-brown or black. Young branchlets puberulous. Leaves mostly in opposite 

 fascicles, iin.— iin. long, j^^in.— ^in. broad, spreading or recurved, sessile or 

 with a short stout petiole, linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, coriaceous, rigid, 

 veinless but with the midrib obvious beneath in some forms, usually glabrous. 

 Stipules short, broad, pubescent and ciliate. Flowers solitary, terminal, invo- 

 lucellate. Male : calyx ; corolla campauulate, xc™- long, 4-lobed. Female : 

 calyx-limb 4:-toothed ; corolla x'c^^- long, 4-lobed; styles short and stout. 

 Drupe Jin. long, globose, orange-yellow. — Handbk. 118; Cheesem. in Trans. 

 N.Z.I, xix. 250. 



NORTH Island : Lake Taupo, top of Ruahine and Hawke's Bay Ranges, Oolenso. Ngauruhoe 

 and Ruapehu, T. K. SOUTH Island: Mount Arthur, Nelson, Cheeseman. STEWART Island: 

 near the summit of Mount Anglem, T. E. Identified in the absence of flowers. Dec, Jan. 



In its ordinary form this approaches C. cuiieata, but is a more slender plant, with fewer and 

 more distant leaves. 



39. C. repens, Hook. /., Fl. Antarc. i.' .22, t. 16a. A small glabrous 

 creeping matted species. Bark grey. Branches from lin. to 2ft. in length, 

 sometimes flaccid, densely leafy. Leaves close-set, rarely distant or fascicled, 

 suberect or spreading, j-^gin.— ^in. long, linear-oblong or broadly oblong to linear 

 or broadly obovate, rounded at the tips or subacute, narrowed into verv short 

 broad petioles, veinless, very coriaceous ; margins thickened. Stipules broad, 

 obtuse, usually glabrous. Flowers solitary, terminal. ^lale : erect, conspicu- 

 ous ; calyx-limb small, 4— 8-toothed ; corolla erect or slightly curved, tubular, 

 4— 8-toothed or -lobed ; stamens 4—8 ; filaments twice as long as the corolla, erect 

 when first extruded. Female : less conspicuous, iin.— Jin. long ; calyx-limb 

 4— 8-toothed ; corolla iin.— lin. long, tubular, 4— 8-lobed, lobes short ; styles 

 2^, rarely 3 or 5. Drupe globose, iin.— iin. iu diameter, orange-yellow or 

 red; pyrenes 2-4. — Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 110; Handbk. 119; Cheesem. in 

 Trans. N.Z.I, xix. 250. 



Var. pumila (sp.). Hook f., PI. Antarc. ii. 543, t. 16b. Forming small, matted, subherhaceous 

 patches less than lin. in height. Leaves ^j^fin.—^^in. long, obtuse. Stipules minute. Male flowers : 

 corolla slightly funnel-shaped, shortly 4-lobed. Female : corolla nearly as long as male, shortly 

 4-toothed. Drupe "orange-yellow." — Handbk. 119. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : common in hilly and mountainous districts ; descending to 

 below 1,000ft. on the Longwood Range, ascending to 6,000ft. in the Southern Alps. STEWART 



