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874 RUBIACEAE. [Coprosma. 
38. C. Banksii Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxx (1898) 433.—A small 
much-branched shrub 6-12 ft. high; branches slender, spreading; bark 
brownish-yellow, marked with two bands of short rusty-red hairs decurrent 
from the stipules. Leaves in opposite pairs or fascicled on short lateral 
twigs, straight or curved, gradually narrowed into short petioles, linear, 
1-1 in. long, 4 in. broad, obtuse or almost truncate af the tip; margins 
ciliate, recurved ; midrib evident, but leaf otherwise veinless. Stipules 
ovate-subulate, acute. Flowers solitary on short recurved peduncles 
terminating the branchlets, involucellate. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. 
Corolla tin. long, campanulate, 4-lobed. Female fiowers: Calyx-limb 
minutely 4-toothed. Corolla 4in. long, 4-lobed, tubular; lobes revolute. 
Drupe terminal, broadly oblong, $in. long, dark-red.—C. Astoni Petrie on 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xliv (1912) 181. 
Norts Istanp: Mount Hikurangi, Adams and Petrie! Ruahine Mountains, B. C. 
Aston! Tararua Mountains, Buchanan, Petrie! Kaitoke, near Wellington, Petrie / 
SoutH IstanD: Queen Charlotte Sound, J. H. Macmahon ! Nelson—Mount Rochfort, 
W. Townson ! Petrie! Westland—Mount Greenland, Cockayne! Southland—Takitimu 
Mountains, Cockayne ; Longwood Range, Petrie / December—January. 
This is certainly connected with C. Colensoi by transitional forms, and I consequently 
placed it under that species in the first edition of this work. But the usual state of the 
plant, with its narrow-linear curved leaves with their almost truncate apices, has a very 
distinct appearance, and perhaps it is best to treat the two plants as two distinct though 
closely allied species. Mr. Petrie’s C’. Astoni I regard as a mere form with still smaller 
and narrower leaves. ; 
crenmetarn Wely, Taaus 49:155 
39. C. retusa Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvi (1894) 268.—A much- 
branched procumbent shrub; branches short, stout or slender, straggling ; 
14S pO} bark pale, marked by two opposite lines of pubescence interrupted at the 
nodes. Leaves +-2in. long, linear-obovate or oblong-obovate, retuse or 
almost 2-lobed at the tip, gradually narrowed into a short stout petiole, 
thick and coriaceous, flat or concave above, midrib usually distinct beneath ; 
margins thickened and recurved, very minutely crenulate. Stipules broad, 
with 3 cartilaginous teeth, ciliate. Flowers solitary, terminating short 
leafy branchlets. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. Corolla 4-4in. long, 
broadly campanulate, 4-5-partite. Female flowers: Calyx-liimb with 4-5 
subulate teeth. ‘ Corolla narrow-campanulate, 4—5-partite; segments 
narrow, revolute. Styles stout, sometimes 3. Drupe tin. long, ovoid, 
yellowish-red.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 243; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. 
(1906) 261. 
i Sourn Istanp: Nelson—Mount Rochfort, W. Townson / Westland—Kelly’s Hill, 
Petrie / Arthur’s Pass, Cockayne! T. F. C. Southland—Clinton Saddle, Lake Te Anau, 
Petrie ! Longwood Range, T. Kirk / 2000-3500 ft. December—January. 
A very distinct species, easily known by the straggling habit, retuse leaves with 
minutely crenulate margins, and rather large terminal flowers. It has the disagreeable 
odour of C. foetidissima when bruised. | > 
< bscude Cunrteata ‘ wtRKe F (meaiwand pl nwb) 
40. C. cuneata Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. 1 (1844) 21, t. 15.—A stout erect 
or spreading closely branched shrub 2-10 ft. high; branches woody and 
rigid, densely leafy, the younger ones puberulous; bark greyish-white to 
dark-brown. Leaves close-set, usually fascicled on short lateral branchlets, 
¢-3 in. long, ;4-+1in. broad, linear- or oblong-obovate or cuneate-oblong, 
obtuse or subacute, almost sessile, patent or recurved, rigid and coriaeeous, 
often concave above, almost veinless; margins slightly recurved. Stipules 
short and broad, usually densely fimbriate or ciliate. Flowers solitary, 
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