Corokia
(from Korokia, the native name). ORD. Cornaceoe. A genus containing a couple of species of ornamental half-hardy evergreen shrubs, confined-as far as is at present known-to New Zealand. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary, or in panicles; calyx limb five-toothed; petals five, small, valvate, with a small scale at their base, silky outside, yellow; stamens five, filaments short. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, evergreen, quite entire, coriaceous. Branchlets and leaves below silvery, with appressed pubescence. C. Cotoneaster has proved quite hardy in a few districts, and would probably be such in many more, if afforded a little protection during winter. Corokias are of easy culture, in moderately good garden soil. They may be propagated by cuttings, planted in sand, under a glass; or by layers, put down in autumn. C. buddleioides (Buddleia-like). fl. similar to those of C. Cotoneaster, but borne in short terminal panicles, from six to twenty-flowered. l. shortly stalked, narrow lanceolate, or oblong-lanceolate, 2in. to 6in. long, 1/2in. wide. h. 10ft. to 40ft. 1835. An upright shrub or small tree. (R. G. (679.) C. Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster).* fl. yellow, sweet-scented, 1/4in. long; petals downy on the outer surface; peduncles solitary, axillary. l. alternate or fascicled, 1/3in. to 1in. long, orbicular. oblong-ovate or obovate, suddenly contracted in a flat linear petiole; margins recurved. A low, rigid, spreading, much-branched shrub.