Flora of New Zealand Series

"Folia ovata vel anguste ovata, acuta vel acuminata. Sunday Island. Type specimen collected by W. R. B. Oliver in Dominion Museum (DM. 44). . . [leaf] length 5-6·5 cm., breadth 2-2·9 cm. On an average, too, the flower pedicels are shorter."

The type specimen consists of the upper part (38 cm.) of a branch with several pairs of apparently ascending racemes. Lvs with petioles 1-2 mm. long; lamina broadly to rather narrowly ovate-oblong, acuminate (tips mostly broken off) 4-5·5 × 1·5-2.5 cm. Racemes up to c. 15 cm. long; fls close-set, on pedicels 2-3-(5) mm. long.