Coprosma.] 
XXXVIII. RUBIACE.'E. 
US 
rarely-branched, 3-many-flowered. Mowers l—} in. long, capitate ; — 
male : calyx minute, shortly 4-lobed ; corolla bell-shaped ; anthers broad ; — 
fern. : calyx-limb short, truncate or 4-lobed ; corolla-tube short, terete, lobes 
4, short, obtuse, spreading ; styles very stout, about twice as long as the co- 
rolla. Drupe broadly obovoid, ^ in. long. — Endl.'Icon. PL iii. ; C. return. 
Banks and Sol. ; Hook. f. in Journ. Bot. iii. 415. 
Northern Island: common on maritime rocks. Middle Island: Massacre Bay, 
Lyall. This precisely accords with Endlicher’s figure, drawn from a Norfolk Island specimen, 
and differs from the following in the perfectly glabrous branchlets and young leaves. 
4. C. petiolata, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. i. 128 (1857). A 
maritime shrub, very similar indeed to C. Baueriana, but the leaves are less 
fleshy, and the young foliage and branches covered with a minute pubescence. 
Leaves 1-2| in. long, oblong-obovate, obtuse rounded or retuse, narrowed 
into rather slender petioles. Peduncles and flowers as in C. Baueriana , but 
the latter rather smaller. 
Northern Island : maritime rqeks south of Castle Point, Colenso. Kermadec 
Islands, M‘ Gillivray. A variable plant. Coleuso’s specimens are very small, from a small 
dense rigid shrub ; the Kermadec Island ones have small leaves with margins hardly recurved. 
The same plant in Norfolk Island and Lord Howe’s Island has much larger, more obovate 
leaves, rather green when dry. It may prove to be a variety of C. Baueriana, but the pu- 
bescent branches at once distinguish it. 
5. G. robusta, Raoul; — FI. N. Z. i. 105. A large erect, stout, per- 
fectly glabrous, leafy, glossy green shrub. Branches glabrous ; bark pale- 
brown, wrinkled, shining. Leaves numerous and close-set, 2-3 in. long, 
^-lf broad, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, narrowed into 
short stout petioles, when dry brown, paler below, margins slightly recurved. 
Flowers very densely capitate, sessile or on short stout peduncles, heads 
nearly \ in. diam . ; — male : calyx minute, cupular, 4- or 5-toothed ; corolla 
in. long, bell-shaped, 4- or 5-lobed or -parted ; anthers linear-oblong ; — -fern. : 
calyx-tube tubular, truncate, entire or with 5-8 glandular points; corolla 
tubular, unequally 2-5-toothed ; styles very stout. Drupe small, less than 
£ in. long. — Raoul, Choix, xxiii. t. 21. 
Abundant in forests throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. Raoul’s figure is 
not characteristic of the excellent specimens he gave me. I suspect that this species may vary 
i into the following. 
6. C. Ctmningliamii, Hook. /., n. sp. An erect twiggy bush, with 
slender or stout, erect, rarely divaricating, glabrous branches and twigs, and 
pale-brown bark. Leaves erect, often crowded, ^—2 in. long, ■§— i broad, 
linear or linear-lanceolate or -oblong, obtuse or acute, dark-brown when dry, 
paler below, coriaceous, flat ; veins few, dark ; stipules short, rather mem- 
branous. Flowers sessile, glomerate on lateral branchlets, ^ in. long; — - 
| male : calyx-limb cupular, short, 4- or 5-toothed ; corolla bell- shaped, 4- or 5- 
partite ; — -fern. : calyx-limb tubular, 5-8-toothed ; corolla shortly bell-shaped, 
4-5-lobed to the middle or lower. Drupe ovoid, J in. long, crowned with 
the tubular calyx-limb. — C. feetidissima, A. Cunn. in part, not Forst. 
Northern Island : common towards the seacoast. Chatham Island, Dieffenlach. 
Middle Island : Akaroa, Raoul. An extremely variable plant, perhaps a form of C. ro- 
busta, but very different-looking, with much smaller narrower leaves, sessile •flowers, and 
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