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only male flowers of Ralphs’ specimen, which lias smaller, oblong acuminate leaves. A most 
distinct form of species, from the slender habit, very membranous, ciliate (at length glabrous) 
cuspidate leaves, minute flowers, and didymous drupe. 
10. C. ciliata, Hook.f. FI. Antarct. i. 22. A lax or densely-branched 
shrub, 4-10 ft. high. Branches stout or slender, ultimate villous with rather 
rigid hairs ; bark very pale, nearly white. Leaves tufted on short lateral 
branchlets, y— f in. long, oblong, rounded or subacute at the tip, Hat, rather 
membranous, very shortly petioled, petiole margin and under surface more or 
less ciliated, dusky brown when dry ; veins few, nearly parallel to margin, 
not reticulated ; stipules broad, villous, cuspidate. Blower and fruit un- 
known. 
Lord Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Island, abundant, J. I). H. I have seen 
no New Zealand specimens of this most distinct species, which a good deal resembles C. pilosa, 
Endl., of Norfolk Island. 
11. C. tenuicaulis, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 106. An erect shrub, 4-6 
ft. high. Branches slender, divaricating, but not at right angles, pubemlous, 
bark pale-grey or brown. Leaves generally in distant pairs, y— y in., orbi- 
cular-spathulate, or broadly ovate-spatliulate, obtuse or subacute, flat, puberu- 
lous on the under surface, veins few, reticulated in large areoles, suddenly 
narrowed into short petioles, not coriaceous ; stipules pubescent, not ciliated. 
Flowers axillary; — male solitary or fascicled ; calyx cupular, minute, 4-toothed; 
corolla i in. diam., between funnel- and bell-shaped, 4-lobed nearly to the 
base ; anthers nearly as large as the lobes ; fem. : unknown. Drupes very 
small, globose, yk— §- in. diam. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Colenso, etc. What I have described in FI. N. Z. as 
the female flower of this, I now refer without hesitation to C. divaricata, which this species 
closely approaches, but differs in the bark, in the less divaricating branches, leaves in series 
of pairs on the twigs (not in terminal pairs on lateral branchlets), pubescent, reticulated 
veined below, and in the globose drupe. 
12. C. rhamnoid.es, A. Gann. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 107. A densely branched 
bush, 2-4 ft. high or more. Branches slender, much diva'ricating, divided 
often flexuous and interlaced, pubescent ; bark pale, not smooth and even. 
Leaves y — \ in. long, A — \ broad, orbicular or oblong, rounded retuse or acute, 
narrowed suddenly into a short petiole, Hat, greenish-brown, quite glabrous ; 
veins very indistinct, not reticulated. Flowers minute, solitary, axillary, y' (y 
in. long, on short curved bracteolate peduncles ; — male: calyx cupular, 4-lobed, 
membranous; corolla bell-shaped, 4-lobed;— -fem. : calyx-tube ovoid, glabrous, 
limb shortly tubular, 4- or 5-lobed; corolla tubular, rather slender, curved, 
mouth shortly 4- or 5-cleft ; styles filiform. Drupe very small, yiy-A in. diam., 
globose or oblong. — ? C. gracilis, A. Cunn. 
Northern and Middle Islands: not uncommon from the Bay of Islands to Otago. 
The divaricating slender pubescent branches, small broad glabrous leaves, minute axillary 
flowers, and tubular female corolla, are the best marks of this species, which in Cunning- 
ham’s Herbarium is mixed with the following. 
13. C. divaricata, A. Cunn. A laxly branched shrub, 8-10 ft. high ; 
branches very slender, widely divaricating, glabrous or minutely pubescent ; 
bark dark red-brown, quite even. Leaves in pairs on very short lateral shoots, 
i-f in. long, orbicular or obovate-spathulate, shortly petioled, in small varieties 
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