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, 18–13 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 18 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 18 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.
North and South Islands: Not uncommon from the Tiiames River southwards. Sea-level to 3000 ft. October–November.
Easily recognised by the long sheathing stipules. In several respects it approaches C. propinqua and C. Cunninghamii, but is easily distinguished by the difierent habit, thinner acute leaves, and by the long calyx-lobes of the female flowers.
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, 110 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.
North Island: East Cape district. Banks and Solander.
This was described by Mr. Kirk from some specimens in the set of Banks and Solander's plants presented to the colony by the Trustees of the British Museum. The specimens, with many others, are now missing from the set, having probably been mislaid at the time of Mr. Kirk's decease. The species is apparently closely allied to C. linariifolia.
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; disgust-
