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XXXVIII. RU1SIACE.*. 
[ Coprosma . 
smaller fruit. In the ‘New Zealand Flora’ I had confounded it with C. propinqua, to 
which it is very near, hut differs in the fascicled female flowers, larger leaves, and blanches 
rarely divaricating at right angles. In Cunningham’s Herbarium it is mixed with pro- 
pinqua, under the name of fcetidissima, Forst. From C. linariifolia it differs in the fasci- 
cled flowers, calyx and stipules not long and sheathing. I have gathered at the Bay of 
Islauds what appears to he an extremely slender and narrow-leaved form of this, with almost 
white hark, and female flowers sometimes solitary. 
7. C. acutifolia. Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. i. 128 (1857). A 
small tree, quite glabrous. Branches slender; bark pale. Leaves 1-21,- in. 
long, -h- 1 broad, ovate or oblong-ovate, acute, membranous, dark-brown 
when dry ; veins spreading, veinlets finely reticulated below ; petioles slender, 
i in. long ; stipules broad, very deciduous. Peduncles as long as the petioles, 
slender, simple or 3-chotomously branched ; branches 3-flowered ; — male .- | in. 
long ; calyx minute, cupular ; corolla between bell- and funnel-shaped, 4- or 
5-lobed; — -fern.: unknown. 
Kermadec group, from the coast to the mountain-tops, M‘ Gillivray . A most distinct 
species. I have small specimens of a veiy similar and perhaps identical plant, with more 
coriaceous leaves and sessile drupes, gathered by Colenso in the Ruahine district, where it 
forms a tree 12-18 ft. high. 
8. C. spathulata, A. Cunn. ;—Fl. N.Z . i. 106. A slender, glabrous, 
shining shrub, 3-5 ft. high and more, sparingly leafy. Branches spreading, 
twigs obscurely puberulous ; bark pale, ashy or grey. Leaves ^-2 in. long, 
orbicular or broadly ovate, rounded retuse or 2-lobed at the tip, suddenly 
contracted into a flat winged petiole longer or shorter than the blade, rather 
coriaceous, glossy above, paler below, margins recurved, veins few, diverging, 
faint, not reticulated, brown when dry ; stipules cuspidate, deciduous. 
Flowers sessile, axillary, small, in. long -,—male : solitary geminate or 
fascicled ; calyx cupular, 4- or 5-lobed to the base, lobes linear, obtuse ; corolla 
bell-shaped, 4- or 5 -partite ; — fem. : fascicled; calyx-tube ovoid, glabrous, 
limb 4- or 5-partite, lobes linear, erect, ciliate ; corolla 4- or 5-partite to 
the base ; styles twice as long as the corolla. Drupe ovoid, b i n . 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands to Auckland, not uncommon in forests, etc., Banks and 
Solander, etc. A well-marked species, from the linear broad petioles and orbicular blade of 
the leaf, the long lobes of the calyx of both sexes, and deeply divided corolla of the female. 
9. C. rotan difolia, A. Cunn.; — FI. N. Z. i. 109. A large shrub, 
much and diffusely branched, 3-6 ft. high. Branches lax, long, very slender, 
divaricating at right angles ; twigs pubescent, ultimate villous with spreading 
or appressed hairs ; bark grey or pale-brown. Leaves in rather remote pairs, 
j-i in. long, orbicular or broadly oblong, cuspidate or abruptly acute, sud- 
denly narrowed into slender ciliate petioles | in. long, very membranous, 
more or less ciliate and hairy, especially on the under surface ; veins finely 
reticulate beneath ; stipules small, membranous. Flowers very minute, 
in. long ; — male : solitary or 2 or 3, sessile; calyx cup-shaped, mem- 
branous, 4-toothed, teeth equal or 2 longer; corolla short, deeply 4-cleft ; — — 
fem. : calyx-tube hairy, limb shortly tubular, 4- or 5-toothed ; corolla shortly 
funnel-shaped, unequally 4- or 5- cleft to the middle. Drupe very small, didy- 
mous, much broader than long, ■)- in. broad. 
Northern Island: marshy ground, river banks, etc., Bay of Islands, A. Cunningham , 
to Wellington, Ralphs. Middle Island : Otago, Hector and Buchanan (a scrap only). 1 have 
