1. E n tele a arborescens, Br. in B o t. Mag. t. 24 8 0 . A. Cunn. Prodr. Apeiba an strab s, A . R ich . F l.
Nov. Zeal. p . 301. t. 34. Corchorvis sloanoides, B a n k s et Sol. Ic. et MS S .
H ab. N o rth e rn and Middle Islands, n o t unfrequent. B a n k s a n d Solander, etc. N a t. name, “ Wh an ,
Colenso, and “ Hauama,” in th e Middle Islan d . (Cultivated in England.)
Tills, the only known species, is confined to New Zealand. I t is very nearly allied to the Cape of Good Hope
genus Sparmannia.
N a t . O r d . X II. ELÆOCARPEÆ, Juss.
Gen. I . E LÆ O C A R PU S , I .
Sepala 5, valvata. Pe ta la 5, apice lacera. Stamina 00 ; antheris pubescentibus elongatis, loculis iii-
æqualibus, muticis v. unico aristato. Discus carnosus, lobatus. Osaúum 2 -5 -lo c u la rc ; ovulis p en d u lis;
stylo re c to ; stigmate simpUci. Drupa mouopyrena, nuce tu b e rcu lata, 2 - 5 - (abortu 1-) loculare. Semen
inversum.
Trees with very hard but splitting wood, furnishing a brown or black permanent dye from the bark, much
used bv the natives. Branches fastigiate, leafy at their erect apices. Flowers in axillary racemes. Sepals four to
five. Peíais four to five, toothed or fimbriated. Stamens with long pubescent anthers and short Haments, 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 Australian. (Name from Ama, an oliwe, and rapaos, frm t,
the berry resembling an olive.)
1. Elæocarpus Hinaxs, A. Cunn. ; glaberrima, ramulis novellis sericeis, folds lineari-oblongis obovato-
obloiigisve obtusis acutis acuminatisve in petiolum angustatis coriaceis margmibiis obscure serratas recurvis
subtus pallidis rarius pube appressa sericeis, nervis validis sæpissime ad c o s tam impressis, racemis sericeis
V o-labratis erectis foUo æquilongis v. brevioribus, floribus pendulis albis, petahs lobatis lacerisve, antheris
aristatis, dru p a plerumque ab o rtu 1-loculari. A . Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. P la n t, t. 602. Dicera dentata,
Forst. B eC a n d . A . R ich . Fi. C\swá\Xíffia\Ní\, Raoul, Choix de P la n te s ,p . %b.
H ab. N o rth e rn Islan d , and n o rth e rn parts of Middle Islan d , Forster, etc. N a t. name, “ H m au ,”
Cimningham, (Cultivated in England.)
A small erect tree, with fastigiate branches at the top of its slender straight trunk. Leaves 2 -3 inches long,
erect veiw coriaceous, variable in shape, linear-oblong, obovate or lanceokte, narrowed into a short stout petiole,
b lu n io rw ith a loug acumen, the margins recnrved and obscurely serrate, underside whitish, sometimes sb.mng
with very closely appressed silky down, with strong veins, and generally a deep hollow where these join the midnb.
Racemes m y or smooth (as are the sepaü), as long or shorter than the leaves, of many white pendulous flowers
> inch broad Petah three- to five-lobed or fimbriated. Siamens with very short filaments, and long four-angled
hispid anthers, terminated on one side by an awn. Drupes inch long, oblong; the pulp rubbed off j tae
nuts is eaten by tbe natives, and has an astringent taste. N u t deeply furrowed, very hard, generally 1-celled, with
hardly a trace ot the other c e lls .-T h e K Cunnimghamii of M. Eaoul, founded on a comparison of a singde specimen
of E Hina,X, Cunn., with another solitary individual in Forster’s herbarium, of the origmal Bxcera dentata, appears
to me not even a variety, judging from the variations in the foliage of my specimens.
2 E læ o c a rp u s flb o femM S , R ao u l; arboreus, glaberrimus, ramis fastigiatis, foliis petiolatis hiiean-ob-
longis obtusis (junioribus linearibus varie sinuato-pinnatifidis) coriaceis siuuato-crenatis, racemis folio , bre-
v i o / u s , floribus parvis, petalis cuneatis laceris, antheris vix aristatis, ovario 2-loculare, drnpa ovoidea, nuce
abortu l-lo cu la ri. R a m i, Choix de Plantes, p . 26. t. 25. E . serratus, U n n . f i l ., fid . B a n k s et Sol. Ic.
et MSS.
H ab. N o rth e rn and Middle I s la n d s ; east coast. B a n k s a n d Solander, Colenso; Nelson,
Akaroa Raoul. N a t. name, "H in a u ,” E a o u l; “ Bokaka,” and “ Mahimahi,”
A much smaller-leaved plant than the former, quite smooth in every part, except the anthers, wliich are obscurely
hispid. Trunk 30-40 feet high, similar to E. Hinau. Leaves coriaceous ; margins not recurved, but repand-sinuate,
orenate or bluntly serrate; linear-oblong or elliptical, blunt, on petioles the length of the lamina, which is l i -2
inches ; young leaves linear and sinuate, almost, pinnatifid like the leaflets of several New Zealand Araliaceoe, also
like young leaves of Pittosporum rigidum. Racemes erect, shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, drooping. Sepals
lA line long, lanceolate, acuminate. Petah whitish, as long as the sepals, cleft into imequal linear blunt lobes.
Stamens .as in E. Hinau, but anthers blunter. Berrxj small, blue, A inch long. N u t hard, furrowed and rough on
the surface.
Gen. I I . A R IST O T E L IA , H e r it
Flores hermapliroditi v. Insexuales. Sepala 4 - 5 , valvata v. subimbricata. P e ta la 4 - 5 , apice in teg ra
V. lobata, infl. ? in te rd um squamæformia. Stamina disco carnoso in serta ; filamentis brevibus ; an-
tlieris elongatis 2-locularibus, apice rimis v. poris 2 dehiscentibus. Ovarium sessile, 2 -4 -lo cu la re , ovulis
quovis loculo 2 superimpositis. Bacca subcarnosa, rotu n d a ta, 2-4-locuIaris, dissepimentis membranaceis.
Semina iocnlis 2, v. ab o rtu pauciora, superimposita, an g u la ta ; te sta Crustacea v. ossea, extus membranácea
V. pulposa, umbilico ventrali appendicula to; endopleura membranácea; albumine c a rn o so ; embryone axili,
recto ; cotyledonibus dilatatis, plauis uudulatisve ; radícula tereti, supera. H e r it. S tirp . R a r . B e Cand.
Prodr., etc. Eriesia, Auct. in p a r t.
G. Don (Gardner’s Dictionary) alludes to the great similarity between the anthers of Aristotelia and those of
ElcBocarpecB, and I find the genus refen*ed to that Order (on Don’s authority) in Herb. Hook. : M. Planchón 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 peduncularis, Lab., Friesia, DC.) ; its petals are usually
three-lobed ; those of the A . racemosa are trifid, of A . Macgui (the Chilian species) entire, and those of a second
New Zealand species, A.fruticosa, nearly so also. All form shrubs or trees, with opposite petiolate leaves, which
vary much in size and form, and have no stipules.—Flowers in more or less ample panicles or racemes, seldom
solitary, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals four to five, valvate, pubescent at the margins, which sometimes
overlap a little, and become imbricate. Petals obovate, entire or lobed, sometimes in female flowers reduced to
scales. Stamens many, or few in female flowers, inserted on a thick torus ; filaments short ; anthers long, usually
hairy, opening by pores. Ovarium 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. Macgui is acid and eatable, and
is made into a wine used iu cases of malignant fever, and was employed by Dombey in Chili during the plague of
1782 with boasted success. (Name in memory of the Macedonian philosopher Aristotle.)
1. Aristotelia racemosa (Eriesia^ A . Cu n n ) ; 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, antberis filamentis \ longioribus, baccis
, seminis te sta crustácea. Eriesia racemosa, A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. P la n t, t. 6 0 1 . Dice ra ?