i 
Flowers solitary, or occasionally subrace- 
mose towards the ends of the branches. 
» Dwarf plant up to about 15 om. high; 
branchlets setose; leaves elliptic to 
suborbicular, about 1 cm. long and 0.5 
em. broad, crenate, often setose on. 
the margins, veins impressed; 'fruits! 
large and fleshy, red or white 
Pee 8 eee 7. depressa 
36 Erect plant up to about 2 m. high; 
branchlets setose and sometimes also 
densely pubescent; leaves variable in 
shape, thinner, and with sharper 
serrations than in G, depressa; veins 
slightly prominent; fruiting calyx 
fleshy, red or white, but much smaller 
tnan in G. depressa*, or sometimes dry 
oe tent at, Seedy led niet tig ene apede 
* Unfortunately only dried material is 
available for measuring, but in G. antipoda 
che fleshy fruits seem to average about 
Je4-O0.5 em, in diameter, in G, depressa 
aoout O.7-L1 cm. 
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branches, which thus form leafy racemes; peduncles short, curved, bracteo- 
late, pubescent. Calyx 5- or rarely 6-lobed; lobes ovate-oblong, acute. 
Corolla ~,-}in. long. Capsule usually included in the enlarged and 
succulent calyx-lobes, forming a red or white globose berry-like fruit } in. 
diam., but frequently the lobes remain dry and unaltered—A. Rich. Fl. 
Nouv. Zel. (1832) 211, t. 28; A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) n. 417; Raoul Chow 
(1846) 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i ay 161; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 174 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 405. Ch. ab ae ype ho Qovadke-& 
Var. ereeta. — Erect, much branched. Leaves large, }—2in., broadly oblong Gu toon 
orbicular.—G. epiphyta Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxii (1890) 474. . 
Var. fluviatilis Hook. f. Fl. Nov, Zel. i (1853) 16]. — Erect, virgately branched. KG ‘? we 
Leaves large, }-2in., cblong-lanceolate or lanceolate. Flowers small, almost racemed, 
on longer and more slender pedicels.—G. fluviatilis A. Cunn. Precur, (1838) n. 419. 
NortH AND Souts Istanps, Stewart Istanp: Both varieties abundant through- 
out, from the North Cape southwards. Sea-level to 4000 ft. 
A variable plant in most of its characters, particularly in the fruiting-calyx, which 
may be greatly enlarged, highly coloured, and succulent, or may remain dry and 
unaltered. Both succulent and dry calyces may be found on the same branch. 
. 2. G. depressa Hook. f. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi (1847) 267.—Depressed 
or prostrate. Stems 6-9in. long, creeping and rooting, naked below. 
Branches numerous, much divided, horizontally spreading, 1-4 in. long, 
glabrous or puberulous or more usually clothed with fulvous bristles. 
Leaves alternate, }-4in. long, shortly petiolate, orbicular-obovate to 
broadly oblong, thick and coriaceous, coarsely serrate, teeth often bristle- 
