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.
Chatham Islands: Apparently not uncommon, Dieffenbach, H. H. Travers! Capt. G. Mair! Cockayne and Cox! Rutitira.
Distinguished from C. acerosa, to which it is closely allied, by the larger broader leaves, which are not at all pungent, but end in obtuse callous tips, and by the larger fruit.
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, 110 in. long, 3–5-celled.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 177. Androstoma empetrifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 44, t. 30.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Auckland and Campbell Islands: Abundant in hilly and mountainous districts from Cape Colville and Rotorua southwards. Ascends to 4500 ft.; descends to sea-level in Stewart Island and in the Auckland Islands. November–January.
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.
North Island: Lake Taupo, Tongariro, and Ruapehu, Colenso! Capt. G. Mair! H. Hill! Ruahine Range, Colenso! South Island: Not uncommon on the mountains of Nelson and Canterbury, rare and local in Otago. 2000–5000 ft. December–January.
This was originally placed in Leucopogon, and in many of its characters it approaches that genus, although the habit is that of Cyathodes.
