346 XXXVIII. RUBIACBAE. {Nertera. 



Island, T. K. AUCKLAND and CAMPBELL Islands, from sea-level to 2,000fb, Hook. f. ANTI- 

 PODES Island, T. K. MAGQUABIB Island, Scott ! A. Bamilton ! Var. pumila, Amuri and 

 STEWAKT Island, T. E. 



This plant attains the extreme limit of ligneous vegetation in the Southern Hemisphere, and 

 is the only woody plant found on Macquarie Island. All the fruits seen by me on the Auckland 

 Islands were orange-yellow, but in " Flora Antarctica " they are represented by Hooker as red. On 

 the other hand, I have not seen yellow fruits in either the North or South Island. 



40. C. Petriei, Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z.I, xviii. (1885) 316. Stems 

 creeping and densely matted or prostrate with distant short rigid branches. 

 Leaves usually elose-set^ rarely fascicled, erect or spreading, j-\jin.— jin. long, 

 linear-obovate or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, narrowed into very short 

 petioles, veinless, glabrous or margins and both surfaces ciliate. Flowers 

 solitary, terminal, involucellate. Male : calyx ; corolla ^in.— |^in. long, 

 tubular, campanulate or slightly funnel-shaped at the mouth, shortly 4-lobed. 

 Female : ^-^gin.-^in. long ; calyx-limb 3— 5-toothed ; corolla broadly tubular, 

 deeply 4-lobed. Drupe ^in.— ^in. long, globose or broadly oblong, red or bluish, 

 2-seeded. 



SOUTH Island : Mount Arthur, Nelson, Cheeseman ! Lake Lyndon and Lake Pearson, T. K. 

 Mountains near Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, Cheeseman. Abundant in the interior of Otago, Petrie! 

 Prom coast-level to 6,000ft. Dec, Jan. 



Too nearly related to G. repens, which it closely resembles, except when, from growing in dry 

 situations, it assumes a rigid habit. Both campanulaie and funnel-shaped corollas may be found on 

 the same plant. The drupes are rather larger than those of typical C. repens, and often almost 

 translucent. 



2. NERTERA, Banks and Sol. 

 Calyx-limb truncate or obscurely -i-toothed. Corolla tubular or funnel- 

 shaped, 4— 5-lobed, valvate in the bud. Stamens 4 or 5, inserted at the base of 

 the corolla-tube ; filaments long ; anthers exserted. Ovary 2-celled ; cells 

 1-ovuled. Styles divided nearly to the base into 2 long filiform arms, papillose, 

 hirsute. Fruit a red fleshy drupe with 2 one-seeded pyrenes. Slender, pro- 

 strate, or creeping perennial herbs, with minute interpetiolar stipules and 

 solitary axillary or terminal usually sessile hermaphrodite flowers. 



A small genus, of which species are found in New Zealand, Australia, Andine and antarctic 

 America, the Indian Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. Two of the New Zealand species are 

 endemic, another is widely distributed, and the fourth extends to the Philippine Islands. 



Olabrous. 

 Leaves glabrous, broadly ovate, green .. .. .. .. ..1. N. depressa. 



Leaves glabrous, narrow-ovate, acute, reddish 



Hispid or ciliate 

 Leaves hairy or villous. Petiole exceeding the blade 

 Leaves ciliate. Petiole shorter than the blade . . 

 Leaves, flowers, and fruit hispid 



2. N. Cunninghamii. 



3. N. dichondraefolia. 

 i. N. ciliata. 



5. N. setulosa. 



1. N. depressa, Bmik.s and Sol. ex G. Forst., Prod. n. 501. A glabrous 

 perennial, forming small or large patches. Stem rooting at the nodes. Leaves 

 shortly petioled, broadly ovate or almost orbicular, obtuse or acute, truncate, 

 rounded or almost cordate at the base, green. Flowers terminal. Calvx-limb 

 minutely 4-toothed. Corolla funnel-shaped, minutely 4-lobed ; lobes short. 



