Coprosma. | RUBIACEAE. 867 
veins indistinct. Stipules deltoid, acute, pale-grey or almost white. Male 
flowers solitary, terminating short lateral branchlets, involucellate. Calyx 
wanting. Corolla }in., campanulate, 4-5-partite. Female flowers not seen. 
Drupe globose, tin. diam., dark-red—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 236 ; 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 254. C. pubens Petrie lc. xxvi (1894) 267 
(not of A. Gray). SCL av = ' Pe = 
Nortu Istanp: Mount Hikurangi, Petrie / Mount Egmont, T, F. C.; BRuahine 
and Kaimanawa Mountains, B. C. Aston / Mount Hector, Petrie/ SoutTu ISLAND : 
Nelson—Clarence Valley, 7. F. C.; Lake Tennyson, Rk. M. Laing ! Canterbury— 
Mount Torlesse, Cockayne ; Arthur’s Pass and Kelly’s Hill, Petrie / 7’. Kirk / Cockayne ! 
T. F.C. ; Broken River, Cockayne /T. F.C. ; Mount Peel, H. H. Allan ! Mount Arrow- 
smith, Cockayne ; Clinton Valley, Cockayne ; Eyre Mountains, Poppelwell, STEWART 
Istanp: Mount Anglem and Table Hill, Cockayne. 2500-5000 ft. 
In foliage this species approaches certain states of C. parviflora, and the fruit 
resembles that of C. rhamnoides ; but it differs from both in the slender rambling or. 
prostrate habit. 
992. C. Buchanani 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxiv (1892) 424.— 
A much and closely branched shrub 5-10 ft. high; branches numerous, 
ascending, younger ones finely pubescent; bark reddish-brown. Leaves 
distant, 1-1 in. long, broadly oblong or obovate, obtuse or minutely apiculate, 
narrowed into a short pubescent petiole, rather coriaceous, puberulous and 
minutely ciliate when young, margins thickened. Stipules deltoid, acute, 
minutely ciliate. Male flowers unknown. Female flowers axillary, solitary or 
in 2-3-flowered fascicles, involucellate. Calyx-limb minutely 4-5-toothed. 
Corolla narrow-campanulate, 4-5-lobed to the middle; segments acute, 
recurved. Stylesstout. Fruit “ globose, white, translucent” (B. C. Aston).— 
Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 239. i | 
= Relousha = crasafdhiao mee Walw. 
Nortu Istanp: A few localities on the coast near Cape Terawhiti, Cook Strait, 
T. Kirk! Buchanan! B. C. Aston! HE. Phillips Turner ! October. 
Apparently a very distinct species, the true affinities of which cannot be deter- 
mined until male flowers have been observed. Mr. Aston (Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlii (1910) 
26) gives the shape and colour of the fruit as “ globose, white,” but immature specimens 
sent to me by Mr. W. A. Thomson are oblong. | 
23. C. Wallii Petrie n.. sp—A compact rigid much-branched bush 
4-6ft. high; branches stout, spreading, widely divaricating, obscurely 
tetragonous; ultimate branchlets clothed with short fine pubescence ; 
bark greyish-brown, uneven. Leaves in pairs on opposite twigs, or In 
fascicles on short lateral branchlets, 1-1 in. long, »-4in. broad, broadly 
oblong to suborbicular, more rarely broadly ovate-orbicular, obtuse, not 
retuse, thick and coriaceous, suddenly narrowed at the base into a short 
slender faintly pubescent petiole; margins slightly recurved when dry ; 
veins evident beneath, forming large areoles, obscure on the upper surface. 
Male flowers in small fascicles just below the last pair of leaves, sessile, 
broadly campghulate; females solitary or fascicled, tubular. Fruit 
didymous, broader than long, 4in. diam., dark-red. 
SoutH Istanp: Canterbury—Poulter River, Upper Waimakariri, Peel Forest, 
A. Wall / 1800-2500 ft. November- December. 
Apparently a distinct species, probably nearest to ch crassifolia, but amply distinct 
in both foliage and fruit. 
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