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Evergreen shrubs, usually of small size; branchlets slender. Leaves alternate, petioled, entire or toothed, very variable in shape, coriaceous or almost membranous; stipules wanting. Flowers axillary, solitary or fascicled, very sweet-scented; pedicels bracteolate at the base. Calyx-tube ovoid; limb deeply 4–5-lobed, deciduous. Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped; tube long, equal at the base; limb of 4–5 spreading lobes; margin of lobes inflexed, toothed or lobulate. Stamens 4–5, inserted near the mouth of the corolla; filaments short; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform; stigma clavate; ovules numerous in each cell, in a double row on axile placentas. Berry ovoid or oblong, 2-celled, crimson. Seeds several in each cell, angular; testa bony.

1. A. macrophylla, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 494.—A perfectly glabrous much-branched shrub 4–8 ft. high. Leaves 3–7 in. long, obovate or obovate-lanceolate to linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a short stout petiole, remotely sinuate-dentate or nearly entire, rather coriaceous. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2–4, large, 1–1½ in. long, bright-crimson. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute. Corolla-lobes 5, rarely 4, margins fimbriate or toothed. Berry oblong, crimson, ⅓–½ in. long.—Raoul, Choix, 46; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 102, t. 23; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 109; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 227.

2. A. quercifolia, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 493.—A small slender sparingly branched shrub 1–5 ft. high. Leaves excessively variable in size and shape, 1–5 in. long, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong, obovate-lanceolate, or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, narrowed into