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256 obscure. Stipules deltoid, glabrous. Flowers involucellate, solitary or in 2–4-flowered fascicles. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄5$ in. long, campanulate, 4–5-partite. Females: Calyx-limb minutely 4–5-toothed. Corolla tubular, $1⁄6$–$1⁄7$ in., deeply 3–5-lobed. Drupe ¼–⅓ in. long, oblong or obovoid, yellow.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 239. C. divaricata, Hook f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 107 in part (not of A. Cunn.). C. aurantiaca, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxii. (1890) 464. C. lentissima, Col. l.c. 465. C. turbinata, Col. l.c. xxiv. (1892) 389.

24. C. obconica, Kirk, Students' Fl. 237.—An erect shrub 4–5 ft. high or more; bark pale; branches numerous, spreading, interlaced, younger ones pubescent or puberulous. Leaves $1⁄8$–$1⁄4$ in. long, $1⁄16$–$1⁄12$ broad, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or minutely apiculate, sessile or very shortly petiolate, coriaceous, glabrous; margins thickened, recurved; veins obscure. Flowers solitary or geminate, terminating short arrested branchlets, involucellate, decurved. Male flowers: Calyx shortly funnel-shaped, teeth deltoid. Corolla broadly funnel-shaped, 4-lobed to the middle; lobes ovate, recurved. Females: Corolla tubular, slightly ventricose at the base, teeth short, straight. Styles very long. Drupes $1⁄8$–$1⁄6$ in. diam., broadly obconic or obcordate, yellowish-white, almost translucent.

25. C. rubra, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xvii. (1885) 269.—An open or closely branched shrub 5–12 ft. high; branches slender, divaricating, glabrous or the very young ones puberulous; bark reddish-brown. Leaves ¼–¾ in. long or more, broadly oblong or obovate to orbicular, rounded or subacute or apiculate, abruptly narrowed into long or short ciliolate petioles, rather membranous; veins obscurely reticulated. Flowers involucellate, solitary or in 2–4-flowered fascicles. Male flowers: Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄6$ in. long, campanulate, 4-partite. Stamens 4. Females: Calyx-limb minutely 4-toothed. Corolla $1⁄8$ in. long, tubular, 4-lobed. Drupe ¼ in. long, oblong, yellowish-white, translucent.—''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 243; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 239. C. divaricata var. latifolia, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 107.