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154 sepals, and with 1 or 2 ciliate bracts at the base of the pedicel. Females crowded at the base of the panicle. Calyx-lobes 2, linear, acute. Styles 2, very long. Fruit minute, $1⁄10$ in. diam., globose or broadly ovoid, fleshy or coriaceous, red or white.—Raoul, Choix, t. 8; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 65; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 67; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 152.

2. G. microcarpa, ''T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxvii. (1895) 348.—Rhizomes slender, creeping. Leaves tufted, 2–4 in. long; petiole slender, hairy or strigose; blade about 1 in. long, broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse, crenate or crenate-lobed, both surfaces with scattered white hairs. Peduncles very slender, exceeding the leaves, 1–5 in. long, usually much branched below, rarely simple; upper two-thirds or more male, lower one-third female. Male flowers sessile on the branches or very shortly pedicelled, each with 2 narrow concave deciduous bracts. Sepals 2, minute, linear. Stamens 2; filaments often as long as the small broadly oblong obtuse anthers. Female flowers: Calyx-lobes 2, minute. Styles very long and slender, filiform. Persistent fruiting portion of the peduncle shorter than the leaves, often mclined. Drupes small, sessile, ovoid-globose, red or yellow, about $1⁄10$ in. long.—Students' Fl. 153. G. mixta, Kirk, Students' Fl. 152. G. ovata, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxv. (1893) 274 (in part'').

Otago and Southland, not uncommon, ''T. Waugh! Petrie! B. C. Aston!'' December–January.

Mr. Kirk's type specimens of G. microcarpa are in fruit only, and are few in number and otherwise imperfect. His G. mixta is based upon flowering specimens, to which the tall slender inflorescence gives a somewhat distinct appearance, although the leaves are identical. But the fine series of specimens in all stages of flower and fruit preserved in Mr. Petrie's herbarium prove beyond doubt that both are one and the same species. Its distinguishing characters are