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FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Eloeocarpeoe.
1. Entelea arborescens, Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2480. A. Cunn. Prodr. Âpeiba australis. A. Jiick. Fl.
Nov. Zeal. p. 301. t. S4. Corchorus sloanoides. Banks et Sol. Ic. et MSS.
H a b . Nortliern and Middle Islands, not unfrequent, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, "Whau,
Colenso, and " Hauama,” in tlie Middle Island. (Cultivated in England.)
This, the only known species, is confined to New Zealand. It is veiy nearly alhed to the Cape of Good Hope
genus Sparmannia.
N a t . O e d . XII. BLÆOCAIlPEiE, Juss.
Gen. I. ELÆOCAEPUS, I .
Sépala 5, valvata. Petala 5, apice lacera. Stamina 00 ; antheris pubescentibus elongatis, loculis in-
æqualibus, muticis v. unico aristato. Disais carnosus, lobatns. Ovarmm 2-5-loculare; ovubs pendulis;
stylo recto; stigmate simpUoi. Drupa monopyrena, nuce tuberculata, 2-5- (abortu 1-) loculare. Semen
inversum.
Trees with veiy hard but splitting wood, furnishing a brown or black permanent dye from the bark, mucli
used by the natives. Branches fastigiate, leafy at their erect apices. Flowers in axillary racemes. Sepals four to
five 'petals four to five, toothed or fimbriated. Stamens with long pubescent anthers and short filaments, placed ,
on a swollen lobed disc. Ovary two- to five-celled, with straight style, simple stigma, and one to two pendulous
ovules in each cell. Fruit an oblong drupe, containing a very hard granulated one- to five-celled nut.—This genus
is almost entirely Asiatic and tropical ; many species are Austraban. (Name from Amu, an olive, and eafuos, fruit,
the bei-ry resembling an olive.)
1. Elæocarpus Hinau, A. Cunn.; glaberrima, ramulis noveUis sericeis, foliis Hneari-oblongis obovato-
obloiKdsve obtusis acutis acuminatisve in petiolum angustatis coriaceis marginibus obscure serratis recurvis
subtus palbdis rarius pube appressa sericeis, nervis validis sæpissime ad costam impressis, racemis sericeis
V glabratis erectis fobo æquilongis v. brevioribus, floribus pendulis albis, petalis lobatis lacerisve, antheris
aririatis, drupa plerumque abortu 1-loculari. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant, t. 602. Dicera dentata,
Porst DeCand. A. Mich. T,. Eaoul, Choix de Plantes, p. Zl>.
Ha b . Northern Island, and northern parts of Middle Island, Forster, etc. Nat. name, "Hmau,”
CimninghoM. (Cultivated in England.)
A small erect tree, with fastigiate branches at the top of its slender straight trunk. Leaves Z-3 inches long,
erect very coriaceous, variable in shape, linear-oblong, obovate or lanceolate, narrowed into a short stout petiole,
blunt or with a long acumen, the margins reemwed and obscurely serrate, underside whitish, sometimes sbming
with very closely appressed silky down, with strong veins, and generally a deep hollow where these jom the midnb.
Bacanes silky or smooth (as are the sepals), as long or shorter than the leaves, of many white pendulous flowers
> inch broad. Fetab three- to five-lobed or fimbriated. Stamens with very short filaments, and long four-angled
hispid anthers, terminated on one side by an awn. Drupes i - i inch long, oblong; the pulp rubbed off from the
nuts is eaten by the natives, and has an astringent taste. Nut deeply furrowed, very hard, generally^ 1 -celled, with
hardly a trace of the other cells.-The E. Ounmngliamii of M. Eaoul, founded on a comparison of a single specimen
of E. Hinau, Cunn., with another solitary individual in Eorster’s herbarium, of the ongmal Dieera dentata, appears
to me not even a variety, judging from the variations in the foliage of my specimens.
2. E l æ o c a r p u s Eaoul; arboreus, glaberrimus, ramis fastigiatis, foliis petiolatis lineari-oblongis
obtusis (junioribus linearibus varie siuuato-pinnatifidis) coriaceis sinuato-crenatis, racemis folio ^ brevioribus,
floribus parvis, petalis cuneatis laeeris, antheris vix aristatis, ovario 2-locnlarc, drupa ovoidea, nuce
abortu l-loculari. Raoul, Choix de Plantes, p . 26. t. 25. E. serratus, Linn, fil., fid. Banks et Sol. Ic.
et MSS.
H a b . Northern and Middle Islands; east coast. Banks and Solander, Colenso; Nelson, BidwiU;
Akaroa, Eaoul. Nat. name, “ Hinau,” Eaoul; “ Pokaka,” and “ Maliimahi,” Colenso.
A much smaller-leaved plant than the foi-mer, quite smooth in every part, except the anthers, which are obscurely
hispid. Trunk 30-40 feet high, similar to E. Hinau. Leaves coriaceous ; margins not recurved, but repand-sinuate,
crenate or bluntly serrate ; linear-oblong or elliptical, blunt, on petioles i - i the length of the lamina, which is ly -2
inches ; young leaves linear and sinuate, almost pinnatifid like the leaflets of several New Zealand Araliaceæ, also
like young leaves of Pittosporum rigidum. Racemes erect, shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, drooping. Sepals
1 | line long, lanceolate, acuminate. Fetals whitish, as long as the sepals, cleft into unequal linear blunt lobes.
Stamens as in E. Hinau, but anthers blunter. Berry small, blue, \ inch long. Nut hard, furrowed and rough on
the surface.
Gen. I I . ARISTOTELIA, ffe r it
Flores hermaphroditi v. 1-sexuales. Sépala 4 -5 , valvata v. subimbricata. Peíala 4 -5 , apice integra
V. lobata, infl. ? interdum squamæformia. Slamina QQ, disco carnoso inserta ; filamentis brevibus ; antheris
elongatis 2-locularibus, apice rimis v. poris 2 debiscentibus. Ovarium, sessile, 2-4-loculare, ovulis
quovis loculo 2 superimpositis. Bacca subcarnosa, rotundata, 2-4-locularis, dissepimentis membranaceis.
Semiua loculis 2, v. abortu pauciora, superimposita, angulata; testa Crustacea v. ossea, extus membranácea
v. pulposa, umbilico ventrali appendiculato; endopleura membranácea; albumine carnoso; embryone axili,
recto; cotyledonibus dilatatis, planis undulatisve; radicula tereti, supera. Ilerit. Stirp. Bar. Be Cand.
Frodr., etc. Eriesia, Auct. in part.
G. Don (Gardner’s Dictionary) alludes to the great similarity between the anthers of Aristotelia and those of
Eloeocarpeoe, and I find the genus referred to that Order (on Don’s authority) in Herb. Hook. ; M. Planehon confirmed
this view, and has called the New Zealand species Aristotelia Forsteri, Planch. MSS. Another species, with
somewhat dissimilar habit, is found in Tasmania {Elæocarpus pedunculaiis, Lab., Frieda, DO.) ; its petals are usually
three-lobed ; those of the A. racemosa are trifid, of A. Macqui (the Chilian species) entire, aud those of a second
New Zealand species, A.fruticosa, nearly so also. All form shrubs or trees, with opposite petiolate leaves, which
vai-y much in size and form, and have no stipules.—Flotcers in more or less ample panicles or racemes, seldom
solitary, hermaplu’odite or unisexual. Sepals four to five, valvate, pubescent at the margins, which sometimes
overlap a little, and become imbricate. Petals obovate, enthe or lobed, sometimes in female flowers reduced to
scales. Stamens many, or few in female flowers, inserted on a thick toms ; filaments short ; anthers long, usually
hairy, opening by pores. Ovaritm two- to four-celled, with two superimposed ovules in each cell; style slender, bifid
to quadrifid at the apex. Berry surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx, globose, obscurely angled, fleshy,
two- to four-celled. Seeds two in a cell, or fewer by abortion, angular ; testa bony, covered with a thin fleshy or
membranous covering (inconspicuous in some of the species).—I do not find the cotyledons plicate in the Chili
plant, as Endlicher describes them, but obscurely undulated ; they are rather broader and thinner, but not otherwise
different from those of the New Zealand and Tasmanian species. The fruit of A. Macqui is acid and eatable, and
is made into a wine used in cases of midignant fever, and was employed by Dombey in Cliili during the plague of
1782 with boasted success. (Name in memory of the Macedonian philosopher Aristotle.')
1. Aristotelia racemosa (Driesia, A. Cunn.) ; arbuscula, ramulis foliis paniculisque pubescentibus demum
glabratis, foliis longe petiolatis late ovatis oblongo-lanceolatisve basi cuneatis cordatisve acuminatis grosse
duplicato-serratis, paniculis axillaribus effusis, floribus 4-meris dioicis, petalis roséis 3-fidis calyce longioribus,
floribus foemineis parvis, staminibus sub-12 pubescentibus, antheris filamentis L longioribus, baccis
globosis, seminis testa crustácea. Eriesia racemosa, A. Cunn. Prodr. lIooJc. Ic. Plant, t. 601. Dicera?
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