Grisdinia.] 
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brous, broad, green, very oblique ; veins irregularly netted, the main ones very 
oblique, the petiole expanded into a small sheath, jointed on the stem. Flowers 
in axillary panicles, dioecious. — Male: Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. 
Stamens 5 ; filament very short. Female : Calyx-tube adherent to the ovary ; 
limb 5-toothed. Petals 5, obscurely imbricate. Stamens 0. Ovary ovoid, 
1- or 2-celled ; styles 3, very short, recurved, subulate. Fruit a fleshy 1- or 2- 
celled, 1-seeded berry ; cotyledons divaricating. 
To this should be referred Decostea, Ruiz and Pavon, of Peru and Chili, a genus of 
several species. It is also very nearly allied to the Japanese Aucuba of our gardens. Raoul 
figures petals in the female flower of G. littoralis, but I do not find them. I am doubtful 
whether the following species may not be varieties of one ; both are in cultivation and look 
remarkably distinct. In the ‘ New Zealand Flora ’ they are regarded as varieties. 
Leaves 2-7 in. Veins strong beneath 1.(7. lucida. 
Leaves 1-3 in. Veins very indistinct 2. G. littoralis. 
1. G. lucida, Ford. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 98. An erect much-branched 
bush, 10-12 ft. high. Leaves 2-7 in. long, very obliquely ovate obovate or 
oblong, quite entire, obtuse or rounded at the tip, very unequal towards 
the base, one side much narrower than the other, which is often gibbous, in 
the upper shoots narrowed at the base, bright green, polished ; veins very dis- 
tinct on the under surface ; petioles f— 1 in. long, rather slender. Panicles 
axillary, often as long as the leaves, much branched, minutely pubescent 
with spreading, golden (when dry) hams. Flowers minute; pedicels jointed, 
very short. Drupe -§■ in. long, the fleshy part full of oil canals. 
Var. £. macropkylla , very robust. Leaves almost orbicular, almost cordate at the base 
(perhaps only young shoots of G. lucida). 
Northern Island : not unfrequent, Banks and Solander, etc. Paliser Bay, Cape Tura- 
kirae, on maritime rocks, and head of Ruamahanga river, Colenso. Middle Island : Dusky 
Bay, Menzies; Chalky Bay, Lnjall. Var. /8. Northern Island: Bay of Islands, A. Cun- 
ningham. Auckland, growing on Metrosideros tomentosa, Sinclair. 
2. G. littoralis, Raoul, Choix, xxii. t. 19. A small bush (or tree* 60 ft. 
high, Raoul), with paler foliage, less glossy than the two preceding. Leaves 
1-3 in., ovate or oblong, less oblique at the base, wedge-shaped or narrowed 
into the slender rather long petiole ; veins very obscure below. Peduncles 
much shorter than the leaves, pubescence and flowers as in G. lucida. 
Northern and Middle Islands : not uncommon. Hawkes Bay, Colenso ; ascending 
to 2500 ft. in the Canterbury forests, Eaast ; Otago, Hector and Buchanan. In cultiva- 
tion, this is a very small shrub, more yellow-green and less shining than G. lucida. 
2. COROKIA, A. Cunn. 
Shrubs or small trees ; branchlets and leaves below silvery with appressed 
pubescence. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, evergreen, quite e At ire, coriaceous. 
Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary or in panicles. — Calyx-tube turbinate, 
silky ; limb 5-toothed, valvate. Petals 5, small, valvate, with a small scale 
at their base, silky outside, yellow. Stamens 5, filaments short; anthers 
linear. Ovary 1- or 2-celled ; style short, stigma 2-lobed. Drupe small, ovoid, 
1- or 2-celled. Seeds elongated, with a small slender embryo. 
A small genus, confined, in so far as is at present known, to New Zealand. 
Leaves lauceolate 1 . C. buddleoides. 
Leaves spathulate 2. C. Cotoneaster. 
