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sometimes smaller and procumbent. Brandies slender, not divaricate, the 
ultimate minutely puberulous , bark very pale, white or grey. Leaves 1-2| 
in. long, | broad, oblong or linear- or obovate-oblong, narrowed into a 
rather slender petiole in. long, obtuse or subacute, flat, rather membra- 
nous, pale or dark-brown when dry, not shining ; veins 0, or diverging 
and indistinct, not reticulated ; stipules glabrous or puberulous and minutely 
ciliate, cuspidate, the uppermost sheathing. Flowers terminal on the branch- 
lets, solitary, sessile, pendulous, rather large, | in. long ; — male : calyx cu- 
pular, 4- or 5-toothed ; corolla broadly campanulate, 4- or 8-lobed to the 
middle; anthers large, linear-oblong, as long as the corolla; — -fem. : calyx- 
tube narrow-ovoid, limb short, tubular, toothed ; corolla tubular, curved, 4- 
or 5 -cleft | way down , styles very stout and long, -j-f in. Drupe gene- 
rally large, ovoid, very fleshy, | in. long. — FI. Antarct. i. 20. t. 13; C. 
ajfiuis, FI. Antarct. 1. c. ; C. repens , A. Kich. ; C. pusilla , Forst. ? 
Mountainous districts of the Northern and Middle Islands : abundant. Lord 
Auckland’s group and Campbell’s Tsland : abundant. The fetid odour, oblong leaves, 
and large solitary terminal flowers, well characterize this most distinct species ; the leaves 
are very variable. 
17. C. Colensoi, Hook, f., n. sp. — C. my rtilli folia, y. linearis, FI. N. Z. 
i. 108. A small, subalpine, slender, perfectly glabrous shrub, 3-4 ft. high. 
Branches slender, spreading, puberulous ; bark white or grey. Leaves usually 
fascicled on short lateral twigs, \ in. long, broad, very variable in 
shape, narrow-oblong lanceolate- or obovate-oblong, more or less obtusely 
truncate and emarginate, narrowed into short slender petioles, margins sub- 
recurved, pale yellow-brown when dry, coriaceous, almost veinless ; stipules 
glabrous, not ciliated. Flowers solitary, terminal, on very short curved pedi- 
cels ; — male : -} in. long ; calyx cupular, 4-lobed, 2 lateral lobes much longer, 
patent ; corolla bell-shaped, 4-lobed, but not to the middle ; — -fem. : calyx- 
tube cupular, unequally jagged and ciliate ; corolla T ’^ in. long, 5 -partite, lobes 
spreading. Drupe small, ■§• in. long, ovoid. 
Mountainous regions in the N orthern Island, near Cook’s Straits, Colenso. A very dis- 
tinct species, allied to C. parviflora, in the retuse apices of the coriaceous leaves, the white 
bark, and olive-brown hue when dry ; but differing in the slender habit, lax foliage, leaves 
not recurved, and stipules not ciliated. When out of flower with difficulty to be distinguished 
by descriptions from divaricata, tenuicaulis, and other lowland species, with which it has no 
real affinity however. 
18. C. cuneata, HooJc.f. FI. Antarct. i. 21. t. 15 ; FI. N. Z. i. 110. A 
rigid, woody, much branched, erect or prostrate, very leafy shrub, 1-7 ft. high. 
Branches stout, glabrous or puberulous; bark white brown or black. Leaves 
fascicled, close-set, §■ in. long, i— £ in. broad, cuueate- oblong or obovate- 
laneeolate or linear-obovate, retuse obtuse or subacute, often recurved, very rigid 
coriaceous and shining, a deeply sunk midrib above, almost veinless below; sti- 
pules (young) with fimbriate or densely ciliate margins. Flowers terminal ;— 
male : calyx cupular, jagged and fimbriate at the mouth; corolla i in. long, 
nearly -j diam., with short funnel-shaped limb, and 4 or 5 long spreading 
lobes ; anthers-^- in. long; — -fem: calyx glabrous, with a 4- or 5-lobed limb; 
corolla not seen. Drupe globose or oblong, rather small, jt-L in. long. 
Mountains of the Northern and Middle Islands: Ruabine and Lake Taupo ranges, 
