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254 villous; bark pale-grey. Leaves usually close-set, fascicled on short lateral branchlets, ¼–¾ in. long, obovate or linear-obovate or linear-oblong, rounded at the top or rarely subacute, narrowed into a short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous or the petioles and midrib pubescent; margins flat or slightly recurved; veins not conspicuous. Stipules broad, pubescent or villous. Flowers involucellate, solitary or in 2–4-flowered fascicles. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄10$ in. long,, broadly campanulate, 4–5-partite almost to the base. Females: Calyx-limb minutely 4–5-toothed. Corolla $1⁄12$ in., tubular, 4-lobed. Drupe globose, $1⁄8$ in. diam., variable in colour, bluish or violet-blue or quite black.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 116; Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 241; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 238. C. myrtillifolia, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 21; Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 108.

20. C. ramulosa, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxvii. (1895) 405.—A slender much-branched prostrate or decumbent shrub 2–4 ft. high; branches wide-spreading, the younger ones faintly pubescent; bark pale-brown or grey. Leaves opposite or fascicled on opposite twigs, ⅓ in. long, about $1⁄6$ in. broad, linear-obovate, rounded at the apex, narrowed into a short petiole or almost sessile, coriaceous or almost membranous, margins flat, veins indistinct. Stipules deltoid, acute, pale-grey or almost white. Male flowers solitary, terminating short lateral branchlets, involucellate. Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄3$ in., campanulate, 4–5-partite. Female flowers not seen. Drupe globose, $1⁄8$ in. diam., dark-red.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 236. C. pubens, Petrie, l.c. xxvi. (1894) 267 (not of A. Gray).