Flora of New Zealand Series

C. pubens Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 26, 1894, 267 non Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts Sci. 4, 1860, 49.

C. ramulosa Petrie in T.N.Z.I. 27, 1895, 406.

Type locality: Ruahine Range. Type: K, Colenso 1527.

Prostrate, with long slender rooting branches; branchlets finely pubescent. Lvs on petioles 2-4 mm. long. Stipules rather large, long-triangular, ± pubescent, ciliate; sheath short, whitish. Lamina coriac., broad-ovate, obtuse to subobtuse, 5-7-9 × 1-3-5 mm. Midrib and us. a few secondary veins evident, at least below. Fls solitary, terminal on short branchlets. ♂ without calyx; corolla funnelform, lobes acutely ovate, ± = tube. ♀ with narrow-triangular, acute calyx-teeth; corolla with narrow-triangular acute lobes. Drupe red, globose, 5-6 mm. diam.

DIST.: N., S., St. Montane to subalpine tussock-grassland, shrubland, forest, from Mount Hikurangi southwards.

The type has lvs 5 × 1-1·5 mm. There is a fragment of the type in W, together with other Colenso specimens labelled 1527. The type of Petrie's C. pubens, and therefore of C. ramulosa (in W), is from Arthur Pass, and, as Oliver (loc. cit. 51) points out, has the white stipules of C. depressa.