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Coprosma.] narrowed into a short stout petiole, coriaceous, dark-green and shining above, paler beneath; margins sometimes slightly recurved. Peduncles short, stout, simple or branched, bearing dense many-flowered glomerules. Male flowers: Calyx minute, cupular, obsoletely 4–5-toothed or quite truncate. Corolla campanulate, ¼–⅓ in. long, 4–5-lobed. Females: Much smaller, $1⁄5$–$1⁄6$ in. Corolla tubular, shortly 3–5-lobed. Drupes crowded, oblong to ovoid, ¼–⅓ in. long, yellowish- or reddish-orange.—Choix de Plantes, 23, t. 21; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 105; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 113; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 234; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 233. C. coffæoides, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxi. (1889) 87.

9. C. Cunninghamii, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 113.—A large sparingly branched shrub 6–15 ft. high; bark pale; branches ascending. Leaves erect, ½–2 in. long, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or subacute, gradually narrowed into a short stout petiole, flat, coriaceous. Flowers sessile in 3–12-flowered glomerules or terminating short arrested branchlets. Males: Calyx minute, cupular, truncate or obscurely lobed. Corolla campanulate, $1⁄8$–$1⁄6$ in. long, 4–5-lobed. Females smaller and less numerous. Calyx-limb 4–5-toothed. Corolla tubular, 3–5-lobed. Styles very long and slender. Drupe broadly oblong, ¼ in. long, pale and translucent.—''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 234; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 233. C. fœtidissima, ''A. Cunn. Precur. n. 471 in part (non Forst.).''

10. C. acutifolia, ''Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc.'' i. (1857) 128.—A glabrous shrub or small tree 8–20 ft. high; bark pale; branches slender, spreading. Leaves 1½–4 in. long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acuminate, narrowed into a slender petiole ¼–½ in. long, thin and membranous; veins finely reticulated. Peduncles slender, longer than the petioles, simple or trichotomously divided; branches ending in little fascicles of 2 or 3 flowers. Male flowers rather large, ⅓ in. long. Calyx minute, cupular. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 4–5-lobed. Female flowers smaller and fewer. Calyx-limb with 4–5 linear teeth. Corolla tubular, 3–5-lobed. Drupe oblong. ¼ in. long, reddish-orange.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 114; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. [[../Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute/Volume 20/Article 23#169|xx. (1888) 169; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 233.