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Coprosma grandifolia.—Add to the synonyms C. lati-folia, Col. ex Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. (1887) 229; and G. lanceolata, Col. l.c. xxxi. (1899) 270. |
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C. Cunninghamii.—To this should be referied G. conferta, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 471. |
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C. tenuifolia.—Mount Kakaramea, and forests near the base of Tongariro, abundant, T. F. C.page 1141 |
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C. areolata.—Mr. Carse informs me that the fruit requires from fourteen to sixteen months to ripen. |
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C. crassifolia.—Mr. Colenso's C. arcuata (Excurs. North Island, 84) is probably the same as this species. |
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27 bis. C. rugosa, Cheesem. n. sp.—A much and densely branched rigid erect shrub 4–8 ft. high; branches stout, divaricating, often interlaced, glabrous or the younger ones puberulous; bark fissured and uneven, dark-brown or dark red-brown, of the branchlets yellowish-brown. Leaves in opposite pairs or fascicles, ¼–¾ in. long, 1/25 in. broad, narrow-linear or narrow linear-spathulate, subacute or acute, spreading, veinless, narrowed into a short petiole or sessile; stipules ciliolate. Flowers involucellate, axillary, terminating minute arrested branchlets. Males solitary or in 2–3-fiowered fascicles; calyx wanting; corolla 1/7 in. long, campanulate, deeply 4-partite; stamens 4. Females solitary or rarely two together; calyx-limb 4-toothed; corolla deeply 4-lobed. Drupe ¼–⅓ in. long, broadly oblong or almost globose, pale-blue, almost translucent. |
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South Island: Nelson—Buller Gorge, W. Towmson Clarence Valley, T. F. C. Canterbury—Arthur's Pass and Mount Cook District, T. F. C. Otago—Near Dunedin, Petrie! Sea-level to 3000 ft. |
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Closely allied to C. acerosa var. brunnea, from which it differs in the much larger size and erect habit, longer and narrower often petioled leaves, in the longer calyx-lobes of the female flowers, and in the more oblong drupe. It is probably common in mountain districts throughout the South Island. |
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