3. Coprosma petriei, n. sp.

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A small alpine species, with prostrate and creeping stems. Branches long or short, 6–18 inches, usually densely matted, creeping and rooting, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves close set or distant, erecto-patent, coriaceous, 1/10–¼ inch long, linear-oblong or linear-obovate, acute or obtuse, gradually narrowed into very short broad petioles or sessile, veinless, glabrous or margins, or both surfaces with short white hairs. Stipules rather long, puberulous and ciliate. Flowers solitary, terminating short erect branchlets. Males: ⅕–3/10 inch long. True calyx wanting, but in its place a series of from 1–3 involucels composed of depauperated leaves and their stipules. Carolla tubular at the base, above broad and campanulate, 4-lobed. Filaments very long. Females: Minute, hardly