2. F. Colensoi, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 728.— A small shrub with long stragyHng branches, sometimes producing slender tlexuous unbranched shoots several feet in length. Leaves alternate, very variable in size, ½–2 in. long including the petiole, ovate or orbicular-ovate, rounded or corriate at the base, thin and membranous, entire or obscurely toothed; petioles often longer than the blade. Flowers much as in F. excorticata, but shorter and proportionately broader, and petals smaller.—Kirk, Students' Fl. 181.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island: From the Northern Wairoa River southwards, but often local. Sea-level to 1500 ft. October–February.
A very variable plant, large forms of which almost pass into F. excorticata.
3. F. procumbens, R. Cunn. ex A. Cunn. Precur. n. 534.—Stems very slender, much branched, prostrate and trailing, often several feet long. Leaves alternate; blade ¼–¾ in. long, roundedovate or almost orbicular, cordate at the base, obscurely sinuate-toothed, membranous; petioles very slender, longer than the blade. Flowers axillary, solitary, erect, ½–¾ in. long; peduncles short, ¼–½ in. Calyx-tube cylindric, without raised ridges, pale-orange; lobes sharply reflexed, purple at the tips, green at the base. Petals wanting. Stamens erect, always exserted; filaments slender. Style longer or shorter than the stamens, or equal to them. Berry large, oblong or obovoid, ¾ in. long, bright-red, glaucous.—Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 421; Raoul, Choix, 49; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 57; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 76. 728; Bot. Mag. t. 6139; Kirk, Students' Fl. 181. F. Kirkii, Hook. f. in Ic. Plant. t. 1083.
North Island: Sandy and rocky places near the sea, rare and local. North Cape district, J. Adams and T.F.C.; Ahipara, R. J. Matthews! Matauri, A. Cunningham; Whangaruru, Kirk! Whangarei Heads and near Ngunguru, T.F.C.; Cape Colville Peninsula, J. Adams! Great Barrier Island, Kirk!
A beautiful and graceful little plant, remarkable for being the only species known with erect flowers. As in F. excorticata, the flowers are trimorphic. In the long-styled form the flowers are smaller and narrower, much less brightly coloured, the style is exserted far beyond the anthers, the stigma is very large, and the anthers rather smaller. The mid-styled and short-styled forms appear to vary into one another: in the first the style usually equals the anthers, in the second it is shorter and included within the calyx-tube. The stamens are of equal length in all the forms.
Order XXX. PASSIFLOREÆ.
Climbing herbs or shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves usually alternate, entire or lobed or palmateiy divided, stipulate; petiole generally provided with glands. Tendrils often present, axillary. Flowers
