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188 COPROSMA LINARIIFOLIA. 
It occurs in all the districts of the South Island, and ascends from the sea-level 
to nearly 3,oooft. : 
DESCRIPTION. 
Coprosma linariifolia, Hook. f., ‘‘ Handbook of the New Zealand 
Plora;” ps £18, 
C. propingua, A. Cunn, Var. y, linarufolia, Hook. f., ‘‘ Flora Nove- 
Zelandiz,”’ 1., p. 109. 
A shrub or small tree, rarely 25ft. high; branches slender, puberulous, when 
young. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, glabrous, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute, #in. to r}in. long, rarely exceeding jin. wide, slightly coriaceous. Stipules 
puberulous, ciliate, connate, more or less sheathing the branchlet. Flowers 
terminating branchlets. Male, in two- to five-flowered fascicles, seated in an 
involucre formed of two or, rarely, four linear foliaceous bracts, connate by their 
expanded bases, which are sometimes lobulate, with a pair of sheathing stipules 
beneath ; calyx none; corolla campanulate, four- or five-lobed, lobes reflexed ; 
stamens, four or five, exserted. Female, solitary, involucre as in the male; 
calyx equalling the corolla, deeply cleft into four linear-oblong lobes; corolla 
yoin. to din. long, tubular; lobes narrow. Drupe ovoid, two-seeded, at first 
translucent, ultimately black, crowned with the remains of the calyx. 
EXPLANATION OF PLaTE XCY. 
Coprosma linarufolia, Hook. f. 1. Flowering specimen of the male plant. 
2. Flowering specimen of the female plant. Both natural size. 3. Male flower. 
4. Female flower. 5. The same with the involucre removed. Magnified. 
