Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Palliser Bay. Type: W, B. C. Aston.

Erect shrub up to 2 m. tall and in diam.; stems many, up to 1 cm. diam., much branched; branchlets slender, flexuous, divaricate and ± interlacing; canelike shoots often developed from near base. Lvs in fascicles of 2-3 on short branchlets, or distributed along elongate branch-lets; lamina 3-10 mm. diam., us. broad-obcordate, cuneately narrowed to short slender petiole, submembr., us. entire, occ. incised at apex. Fls minute, on very short peduncles in small axillary fascicles. ♂ not seen; ♀ ± 2.5 mm. diam.; tepals green to white or pinkish; staminodes us. 8; ovary bluntly trigonous, faces grooved; stigmas 3, fimbriate. Fr. 2-2.5 × 1·25 mm., dull, rugulose; tepals succulent or dry.

DIST.: N. Palliser Bay. S. Coastal to lowland on eastern riverbeds and terraces from lat. 41° 30' to a little south of 43°.

FL.- FT. 12-2.