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260 fœtid when bruised or while being dried. Branches slender, glabrous, or the very young ones minutely puberulous. Leaves variable in size and shape, 1½–2 in. long, ¼–¾ in. broad, usually oblong, but varying from linear-oblong or -obovate to rounded oblong or broad-ovate, obtuse or acute or retuse, abruptly narrowed inco a rather long and slender petiole, slightly coriaceous or almost membranous; margins fiat; midrib distinct; lateral veins obscure. Stipules short, cuspidate. Flowers sessile, terminating the branchlets. Males solitary or 2–3 together. Calyx often wanting, when present minute, obscurely 4-toothed. Corolla ⅓–⅔ in. long, campanulate, 4–5-lobed to the middle, rarely 8–10-lobed. Stamens the same number as the lobes. Females solitary, erect, ¼–⅓ in. long. Calyx-limb truncate or obscurely toothed. Corolla tubular, 3–4-lobed. Drupe $1⁄3$ in. long, oblong or ovoid, red or yellowish-red, sometimes pale and translucent.—''A. rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 261; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 471; Raoul, Choix, 46; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 20, t. 13; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 105; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 116; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 242. C. affinis, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 21, t. 14. C. repens, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 264 (not Hook. f.)''. C. pusilla, ''Forst. Prodr.'' n. 513. C. sagittata, ''Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxxi. (1899) 270.

33. C. Colensoi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 117.—A small and slender erect or rarely procumbent open or closely branched shrub 2–8 ft. high; bark pale-brown or whitish; young branches puberulous. Leaves opposite or fascicled on short lateral twigs, yellowish-green, very variable in size and shape, –1½ in. long, linear-oblong or linear-obovate to broadly oblong or obovate, rarely narrower and linear or linear-lanceolate, obtuse or retuse, narrowed into rather slender petioles, coriaceous or almost membranous; margins flat, or recurved in the coriaceous forms; veins indistinct. Flowers terminating the branchlets, solitary on short decurved peduncles, involitcellate. Males: Calyx wanting. Corolla $1⁄5$ in. long, campanulate, 4-lobed. Females: Calyx-limb minutely 4-toothed. Corolla $1⁄6$ in. long, tubular, 4-lobed; lobes revolute. Drupe $1⁄6$–$1⁄4$ in. long, oblong, dark-red.—''Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 248; Kirk, Students' Fl.'' 243. C. myrtillifolia var. linearis, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 108. C. Banksii, ''Petrie in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxx. (1898) 433.