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A shrub, 6-8 feet high, with slender tiviggy branches, and scattered small leaves. Petioles inch long,
broader above and channelled, almost winged. Leaflet one, -j— inch long, smooth, dotted, sometimes obscurely
pubescent, ovate, blunt, doubly crenate. Pedicels several together, axillary, slender, longer than the petioles, each
bearing a very small green flower, sometimes forked or trichotomons, bearing small bracteolm at the fork. Petals
linear-oblong. Stamens longer than the corolla; fom- shorter than the others, according to Air. Cunningham. Ova^y
oblong, usually an with elongated style. Fruit as iu M. iernata, but much smaller.—I have occasionally seen
tliree leaflets upon a petiole, but this is very ra re ; the lateral ones in this case were much the smallest.
Gen. I I . PH E B A L IUM , Vent.
Calyx parvus, 5-lobus. P e ta la 5, Unearia. S tamina 10, petalis longiora, alterna breviora. Ovaria
5, sessilia, 1-locuIaria; loculis 2-ovula tis; stylo elongato, g ra c ili; stigmate simplici. Carpella 5, coriácea,
1 -locularia, 2-valvia, 1 -sperma.
A large Australian and Tasmanian genus, containing many species; one only is a native of New Zealand. It
forms a shrub or small tree, 12-15 feet high, with twiggy branches and alterante leaves, smooth in every part.
Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong, blunt, narrowed into very short petioles, I - I ^ inch long, coriaceous, obscurely
crenated, paler and dotted below. Flowers numerous, I inch across, in teiininal corymbs, pale-coloured, on short
pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx very small, five-toothed. Petals four, linear, blunt, between valvate and imbricate
when iu bud. Stamens ten, long and exserted, on slender filaments. Ovaries five, very smaU, placed close together
and having but one slender simple style, each one-ceUed, with two ovules. Fruit of five spreading coriaceous
wrinkled carpels, of which one to three are often abortive, each is one-celled, two-valved, splitting first down
tlie front. (Name adopted by Ventenat, under the eiToneous impression that this genus was allied to the
Myrtle, which bears the same name in the works of some Greek comic poets.)
1. PhebaUum nudum. H o o k .; glaberrimum, foliis linearibus lineari-oblongisve obtusis subcrenatis
p unctatis, fioribus in corymbum terminalem dispositis. Rook. Ic. P la n t, t. 568.
H a b . N o rth e rn Islan d . Bay of Islands, A . Cunningham; E a s t Coast, Colenso, Edgerley ; Auckland,
Sinclair.
N a t. Ord. XX. C O R IA R IE ^ , BC.
Gen. I . CO R IAR IA , Niss.
Flores hermaphroditi v. abortu 1-sexuales. Calyx 5 -p artitu s. P e ta la 5, parva v. glandulajformia.
S tamina 10, hypogyna. Carpella 5 - 6 , l-lo c u la ria ; ovnio solitario, p én d u lo ; stylis 5 - 6 , filiformibus.
Carpella perianthio carnoso incrassato inclusa, crustácea. Semina péndula, ex a lbuminosa; embryo
r e c tu s ; cotyledonibus ca rn o sis; radicula brevi, hilo proxima.
Small trees or shrubs, generally with trailing or straggling branches, smooth, opposite, sessile, three- to five-
nerved leaves, and axillary racemes of many flowers. Flowers pedicellate, bracteated. Calyx hemispherical, five-
lobed. Petals five, small, like glands, becoming fleshy, and surroimding the fruit. Stamens ten, with short
filaments, and large two-lobed anthers. Ovaries about five, almost united into one, each with a filiform spreading
style, one-celled; cells with one pendulous ovule. Fruit baccate, from being surrounded by the fleshy petals, of five
crustaceous carpels, each containing a solitary pendulous exalbuminous seed.—This genus contains but few species ;
possibly only two (of which one presents two varieties, described below as two species), both of which are common
to South America and New Zealand; the other is a European plant, apparently also found in the Himalaya
Mountains. The genus is unknown in Australia, Polynesia, North America, and Africa. The proper place of this
plant iu the Natural System has been much disputed, it having apparent claims to rank near Chenopodiece aadFhyto-
lacce/a, though stronger, on the whole, to be retained near Bulacea. (Name from mr'mm, le ath er; the bark being
used for tanning.)
1. Coriaria n s c ifo lia , L in n .; foliis magnis oblongo-ovatis ovato-cordatisve acutis v. acuminatis
3-5-nerviis, racemis elongatis n u tan tib u s . C. sarmentosa, Forst. Prodr. p . . BC . Prodr. A . R ich .
Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. B o t. Mag. t. 24 7 0 , C. hermaplirodita, B a n k s et Sol. M S S . e t Ic.
H ab . N o rtliern an d Middle Islan d s, ab u n d an t, Forster, etc. N a t. name, " Tupa -kilii,” Colenso.
“ T u tu ” and “ P u h o u ” of Soutliern Islan d , LyaU. (Cultivated in England.)
A shi'ub, 1 0-14 feet high, with long flagellate four-angled branches, and a trunk sometimes 6-8 inches
diameter. The leaves are pretty constantly oblong-ovate, acuminate, sessile or upon very short petioles, 3 -4 inches
long. Racemes slightly pubescent, axiRary, 8-1 2 inches long, gracefully drooping; pedicels i inch long, with a
small subulate bract at the base. Flowers small, green. Oalyx lobes broadly ovate, subacute. Petals small, fleshy.
Stamaa on filiform filaments; anthers sometimes abortive in what hence become female flowers; but I think the
plant is usually hermaphrodite.—Mr. Cunningham describes the flowers as unisexual, and the petals as glands. The
amount of swelUng of these glands, which finally enclose the ripe carpels and give the fruit the appearance of a berry,
varies much. Mr. Colenso, however, considers this a character of importance, and states that the less juicy benies
have seeds that are not poisonous; but I do not find these characters united with any botanical ones. The fruit
yields a purple juice, which is grateful, and much liked by the natives, but soon ferments. A wine may also lie
made from it, tasting very like elder-ben-y wine. The seeds are considered poisonous, producing convulsions,
delirium, and sometimes death. De Candolle states that the like effects were produced upon the French army
in Catalonia by the seeds of C. myrtifoUa, The present species seems identical with the South American one,
which abounds iu South Chili.
2. Coriaria thymifolia, H um b .; foliis parvis (vel miiiimis) ovatis acuminatis lanceolatis liuearibusve
l-5 -n e rv ü s glabris pubescentibusve. Ilum lo ld t in Willdenow. 1 C . Prodr. v. l . p . 739.
I I ab. N o rth e rn and Middle I s la n d s ; n o t so ab u n d an t as C. n s c ifo lia , an d affecting drier localities.
E a st coast and interior, Colenso. Nelson, B idw ill. Milford Sound, L ya ll.
A smaU shrub, with much smaller, longer, and sharper leaves than the former, of which it is most probably a
variety, judging both from South American aud New Zealand specimens, which do not materially differ from one
another. The American have generally broader leaves than this plant, more resembhng those of C. ruscifolia, but
constantly smaller. In New Zealand, though often quite narrow aud linear-lanceolate, they present aU gradations of
size, from i - 1 inch long, and of form between lanceolate and oblong-ovate. The plant varies much in pubescence ;
the flowers differ in no respect from those of 0. nscifolia. In America it ranges from Mexico to Peru, and is a]>
pareutly a mountain plaut, found at elevations of 4000 to 12,000 feet.
N a t . O r d . XXL RIIAMNErE, Br.
Geu. I . POM A D EH fflS , Lab.
Calycis tu b u s obcoiiicus v. hemisphiioricus, ovarii basi com ia tu s; lobis 5, in tu s glabris. Pe ta la 0 v. 5,
parva, erecta. ^ Stamina 5, petalis opposita. Ovarium i-su p c rum , villosuin, 3-loculare; ovulis loculis
so itariis e rec tis; stylo 3-fido. Capsula calycis tubo basi vestita, 3-cocca, coccis in d eh is c en tib u s ; semi-
mbus erectis, funículo brevi incrassato oitpulicformi.
A large genus, composed almost entirely of New Holland and Tasmanian erect or branching pubescent shrubs,
0 w neb two species arc common in New Zoahmd. Leaves alternate. Flowers paniculate or corymbose, rather small.
a y x hairy, with a short tube and five spreading lobes, smooth inside. Petah small, erect, placed on the calyx.
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