872 RUBIACEAE. [Coprosma. 
It is possible that more species than one may be included in the above description, 
but the material at my disposal is insufficient to determine this. Mr. Kirk's original 
specimens from Tapotopoto Bay are from a procumbent shrub with closely placed 
fascicled leaves and pubescent branchlets, and my own, from near the North Cape, | 
agree in habit and the pubescent branches, but have larger spreading leaves. The 
Ahipara plant is erect, with. lax almost glabrous branchlets, and still larger more 
distantly placed leaves; and Mr. Kirk’s Opunake specimens are very similar. Bishop 
Williams’s specimens, from Portland Island, are remarkable for the very pale bark and 
densely tomentose branchlets, the leaves being broader than the Ahipara specimens. 
The ripe fruit is unknown in all the forms, and the Ahipara plant is the only one of 
which good flowering specimens have been obtained. 
34. C. linariifolia Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 118—A much- 
branched shrub or small tree 6-20 ft. high; trunk sometimes 9 in. diam. ; 
branches slender, spreading, younger ones puberulous; bark dark-grey. 
Leaves all opposite, $-l4in. long, 4-4 in. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, 
rarely oblong-lanceolate, acute, suddenly narrowed into a short slender 
petiole, flat, coriaceous, blackish when dry; veins indistinct. Stipules 
glabrous or puberulous, upper ones connate into a long sheath; margins 
usually ciliate. Flowers terminating leafy branchlets, involucellate. Male 
flowers in 2-5-flowered fascicles, fascicles involucellate. Calyx wanting. 
Corolla 4-+in. long, broadly campanulate, 4-5-lobed to the middle ; lobes 
revolute. Female flowers solitary. Calyx-limb with 4-5 large and erect 
linear-oblong lobes. Corolla din. long, tubular, 4—5-lobed. Drupe 4in. long, 
broadly oblong, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, at first pale and 
translucent, ultimately black—Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix (1887) 
246; T. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 95; Students’ Fl. (1899) 242; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 259. C. propinqua var. y Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 
(1853) 109. 
NortH anpD Sours Istanps: Not uncommon from the Thames River southwards. 
Sea-level to 3000 ft. October—November. 
Kasily recognized by the long sheathing stipules. . In several respects it approaches 
C. propinqua and C. Cunninghamii, but is easily distinguished by the different habit, | 
thinner acute leaves, and by the long calyx-lobes of the female flowers. 
L drofbpb.d by wOtdv. Le. p.@. | 
35. C. Solandri 7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxix (1897) 522.—A much- 
branched shrub; branches stout, rigid, obscurely tetragonous ; branchlets 
numerous, short, erect; bark whitish, setose. Leaves erect, loosely im- 
bricating, din. long, 7oin. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, 
very coriaceous ; midrib sunken on both surfaces. Stipules setose, ciliate, 
loosely sheathing. Flowers not seen. Drupes solitary, terminal, seated 
in an involucel composed of two depauperated leaves and their stipules, 
4 in. long, broadly ovoid, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes.—Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 242 ; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 259. 
Nortx Istanp: East Cape district, Banks and Solander / 
This was described by Mr. Kirk from some specimens in the set of Banks and 
Solander’s plants presented to the Dominion by the Trustees of the British Museum. 
The specimens, with many others, are now missing from the set, having probably been 
mislaid at the time of Mr. Kirk’s decease. There are specimens, however, in the set of 
Banksian plants presented to my own herbarium from the same source. Unfortunately, 
they are not in flower, but the aspect of the plant appears to resemble that of. 
C. linarisfolia. 
