Nearest to C. robusta, but distinguished by the more compact habit, glossy almost fleshy obtuse leaves with recurved margins, smaller heads of flowers, and rounder fruit.
Mr. Kirk's variety oblongifolia (Students' Fl. 232), with densely pubescent branchlets and small linear-oblong leaves, will probably prove to be a distinct species.
6. C. chathamica, Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxiv. (1902) 317.—A tree 15–40 ft. high, with a trunk sometimes 2 ft. in diam.; bark greyish-brown; branchlets obscurely tetragonous, more or less clothed with short stiff greyish hairs. Leaves 1½–3 in. long, about 1 in. broad, oblong or obovate-oblong or obovate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into a rather slender petiole, subcoriaceous, dark-green or glossy above, paler beneath, glabrous except the petioles and a few scattered hairs along the midrib and margins; veins conspicuously reticulated beneath. Male flowers not seen. Female flowers in few-flowered fascicles. Calyx-limb cupular, truncate. Corolla deeply 4-lobed. Drupe large, oblong-ovoid, rather more than ⅓ in. long, yellowish-red.
Chatham Islands: Abundant, H. H. Travers; Captain G. Mair! Cox and Cockayne!
I have only seen two very imperfect specimens of this, and the above description is mainly based upon that given by Mr. Cockayne. It was referred to C. petiolata by Sir J. D. Hooker (Handb., p. 731), but appears to differ in the very much larger size, the coarser almost shaggy pubescence on the young branchlets (in C. petiolata the pubescence is very short, fine, and even), and in the larger leaves.
7. C. petiolata, Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. (1857) 128.—A shrub or small tree 6–15 ft. high; bark pale-grey; branchlets terete or obscurely tetragonous, uniformly clothed with a fine ashy-grey pubescence. Leaves 1–2 in. long, elliptic-oblong or obovate, rounded at the apex, narrowed into a short slender petiole, subcoriaceous, glabrous or the petiole and veins beneath puberulous; margins flat or very slightly recurved. Stipules deltoid, acuminate. Male flowers in compact rounded heads on short axillary puberulous peduncles. Calyx-limb obscure. Corolla companulate, ⅕ in. long, deeply 4-lobed. Females in 3–6-flowered fascicles. Calyx cupular or obscurelv toothed. Corolla tubular, 3–5-toothed. Mature fruit not seen.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 113; Kirk, Students' Fl. 232.
Kermadec Islands: Abundant throughout the group, McGillivray, T. F. C.
Very closely allied to C. Baueri, but easily separated by the uniform grey pubescence of the branchlets, and by the smaller flat leaves with much more slender petioles. I have seen no specimens from the mainland of New Zealand, and fear that the locality of "maritime rocks south of Castlepoint," given in the "Handbook," is erroneous.
8. C. robusta, Raoul in Ann. Sci. Nat. Ser. iii. 2 (1844) 121.—A stout erect glossy-green shrub 5–15 ft. high, perfectly glabrous in all its parts; bark greyish-brown. Leaves numerous, 1½–5 in. long, elliptic-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or rarely obtuse,
