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412 with numerous broad obtuse imbricating bracts. Corolla-tube hardly longer than the calyx-lobes, its divisions glabrous within. Berry large, globose, ⅓–½ in. diam.—C. acerosa var. latifolia, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 163; F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is.'' 43.

3. C. empetrifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 164.—A small depressed or prostrate heath-like shrub, with slender wiry tomentose oranches 4–18 in. long, ascending at the tips. Leaves numerous, uniform, erect or ascending when young, spreading or reflexed when old, ⅛–⅕ in. long, linear, obtuse, convex above, glaucous beneath, glabrous or pubescent or hoary; margins recurved, ciliate. Flowers small, axillary or terminal, solitary or 2–4 clustered at the top of the peduncle. Peduncle short, curved, clothed with imbricating ovate obtuse bracts. Calyx-lobes short, ovate, ciliate. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx; lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous. Drupe small, ovoid, $1⁄10$ in. long, 3–5-celled.—''Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 177. Androstoma empetrifolia, ''Hook. f. Fl. Antarct.'' i. 44, t. 30.

4. C. Colensoi, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 177.—Stems stout, decumbent or prostrate below; branches 4–18 in. high, erect or ascending, leafy, pubescent at the tips. Leaves erect or erecto-patent, ¼–⅓ in. long, linear-oblong or narrow obovate-oblong, obtuse or shortly mucronate, glabrous, convex above, glaucous beneath, with 3 or 5 stout parallel veins, the outer of which often branch towards the edge of the leaf; margins often dilated and membranous towards the tip of the leaf, finely ciliolate. Flowers in 3–5-flowered short and stout terminal racemes; bracts 2 or 3, broadly ovate, obtuse. Calyx-lobes concave, obtuse, ciliolate. Corolla-tube longer than the calyx; lobes densely bearded within. Drupe globose, ⅕ in. diam., white or red.—Leucopogon Colensoi, ''Hook. f. FL. Nov. Zel.'' i. 165.