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XXXV. CORNEA!. 
[ Corokia . 
1. C. buddleoides, A. Cunn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 98. An erect shrub or 
small tree, 10^40 feet high. Leaves shortly petioled, 2-6 in. long, narrow- 
lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, shining above, densely silky-tomen- 
tose beneath. Panicles short, 6 -20-llowered. Pedicels bracteolate at the 
base, short. Mowers £ in. long ; petals oblong-spathulate, obtuse. Drupe 
red, \ in. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 424. 
Var. (8, FI. N. Z. 1. c. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, broader, not shining above, more 
densely toinentose below. 
Northern Islands : margins of woods, etc., from the Bay of Islands to the east coast, 
Banks and Solander, etc. Var. /3. Chatham Islands, Dieffenbach. 
2. C. Cotoneaster, Raoul, Chuix, 22. t. 20 ,• — FI. iV. Z. i. 98. A low, 
rigid, spreading, much-branched bush, with woody, black, tortuous branches. 
Leaves alternate or fascicled, -|-1 in. long, orbicular obcordate oblong ovate or 
obovate, suddenly contracted into a hat linear petiole; margins recurved; tip 
rounded or emarginate, shining above, white beneath. Mowers axillary or 
terminal, solitary or few together. Pedicels much shorter than the petioles, 
bracteolate at the middle. Flowers as in C. buddleoides, but petals narrower 
and drupe shorter. 
Northern Island : east coast, at Matapouri and Manukan Bay, etc., Colenso. Middle 
Island : common from Nelson to Otago, on the east side. 
Order XXXYI. LORANTHACE^. 
Parasitical shrubs, with opposite or alternate, quite entire, coriaceous, ex- 
stipulate leaves, or jointed leafless branches. Flowers hermaphrodite or uni- 
sexual ; bracts and bracteoles 1 or 3, sometimes connate or 0. — Calyx- 
tube adherent to the ovary ; limb 0 or truncate or 4-8-toothed. Petals as 
many, rarely 0, sometimes united into a tubular corolla with valvate lobes. 
Stamens as many as the petals, opposite to and usually inserted on them. 
Ovary inferior, 1 -celled ; style long or short ; stigma simple ; ovule solitary, 
erect, adnate to the walls of the cavity. Berry 1-seeded. Seed albuminous ; 
embryo straight ; radicle superior. 
A large tropical and subtropical Order of parasites, often very handsome, to which the 
common Mistletoe belongs. It is not Tasmanian, though extending to the south islaud of 
New Zealand. 
Leaves opposite. Flowers hermaphrodite . : 1. Loeanthus. 
Leaves opposite and alternate. Flowers dioecious 2. Tupeia. 
Leaves 0. Branches jointed, flattened 3. Viscum. 
1. LOEANTHUS, Linn. 
Parasitic shrubs. Leaves opposite or subopposite in the New Zealand 
species, jointed to the stem. Flowers axillary, solitary racemed or pani- 
cled, jointed to the pedicels and these to the peduncles. — Calyx-tube ovoid; 
limb short, truncate, cup-shaped. Corolla tubular, the petals 4, usually 
narrow, free or united into a tube below, upper part spreading or recurved. 
Stamens 4, filaments filiform; anthers linear, 2-celled. Style slender, jointed 
to the top of the ovary, deciduous, stigma capitate or clavate. 
A very large tropical genus, of which many species differ from the character given above, 
in their alternate leaves and other characters. 
