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Coprosma.] glabrous branchlets, and still larger more distantly placed leaves; and Mr. Kirk's Opunake specimens are very similar. Bishop Williams's specimens, from Portland Island, are remarkable for the very pale bark and densely tomentose branchlets, the leaves being broader than the Ahipara specimens. The ripe fruit is unknown in all the forms, and the Ahipara plant is the only one of which good flowering specimens have been obtained.

30. C. linariifolia, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 118.—A much-branched shrub or small tree 6–20 ft. high; trunk sometimes 9 in. diam.; branches slender, spreading, younger ones puberulous; bark dark-grey. Leaves all opposite, ½–1½ in. long, $1⁄8$–$1⁄3$ in. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, rarely oblong-lanceolate, acute, suddenly narrowed into a short slender petiole, flat, coriaceous, blackish when dry; veins indistinct. Stipules glabrous or puberulous, upper ones connate into a long sheath; margins usually ciliate. Flowers terminating leafy branchlets, involucellate. Males in 2–5-flowered fascicles, fascicles involucellate. Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄8$ in. long, broadly campanulate, 4–5-lobed to the middle; lobes revolute. Females solitary. Calyx-limb with 4–5 large and erect linear-oblong lobes. Corolla $1⁄8$ in. long, tubular, 4–5-lobed. Drupe ⅓ in. long, broadly oblong, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes, at first pale and translucent, ultimately black.—''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 246; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 95; Students' Fl.'' 242. C. propinqua ''var. γ, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 109.

31. C. Solandri, ''T. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxix. (1897) 522.—A much-branched shrub; branches stout, rigid, obscurely tetragonous; branchlets numerous, short, erect; bark whitish, setose. Leaves erect, loosely imbricating, ⅓ in. long, $1⁄10$ in. broad, linear-lanceolate, acute or apiculate, very coriaceous; midrib sunken on both surfaces. Stipules setose, ciliate, loosely sheathing. Flowers not seen. Drupes solitary, terminal, seated in an involucel composed of two depauperated leaves and their stipules, ¼ in. long, broadly ovoid, crowned bv the persistent calyx-lobes.—Students' Fl. 242.

32. C. fœtidissima, ''Forst. Char. Gen.'' 138.—Usually a slender sparingly branched shrub 6–15 ft. high, but occasionally forming a small tree 20 ft. high, with a trunk 1 ft. in diam. or more;