Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Koromiko. Type: CM, H. Jenkins.

Much-branched shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches spreading to divaricate; branchlets long, slender, often drooping, pubescent at tips. Lvs of juveniles up to 1 cm. long, linear, acute to acuminate, entire to irregularly toothed or lobed. Lvs of adults mostly fascicled on short arrested branchlets, linear to narrow-obovate, subacute to obtuse, 10-15 × 1-3 mm., coriac. Fls solitary, terminal on arrested branchlets or on long branchlets. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, pale, ciliate; petals 5-8 mm. long, very dark red. Capsules subglobose to ovoid, 4-5 mm. long; valves granulate to smooth; seeds 2-5, rarely more.

DIST.: Lowland to montane forest margins and scrub. N. Near Karioi; Trentham, A. D. Beddie; east of Wellington Harbour: Mukumuku, A. D. Beddie; Wainui-o-mata, L. B. Moore; Butterfly Creek. S. Maitai River, L. B. Moore; Lead Hills, G. Simpson; Spenser Mountains, East Sabine River, Mount Travers, R. Mason; Pelorus Valley, F. H. Macmahon; Koromiko, between Blenheim and Picton, H. Jenkins.

FL.- FT. 10-1.