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1 0-13 inches long, patent, rachis or main stem straight; secondary alternate, spreading at right angles to the main
stem, with an oblong acuminate deciduous bractea at the base. Flowers in very numerous, small, irregularly formed,
pedunculate umbels, alternate along the branches. Female flowers with ten short styles, collected at the base into
one short conical column. Bejry smaller than a pepper-corn, witli ten cells united together; purple-black, pulpy,
teu-lobed when diy.— P late XXII. Fig. 1, 3, male flowers; 3, female umbels; 4, fru it; 5, tbe same cut open
transversely :—all but Jig. 3 magnified.
§ c. Ar -\,l i .\, L. Shrubby or arboreous. Stipules wanting. Leaves simple or digitate. Primary branches o f the
umbels umbellate. Styles united at the base.
3. Aralia Banks et S o l.; subarborea, dioica v. polygama, foliis polymorphis jun io rib u s
simplicibus V. 2-3-foIiolatis longissime linearibus adultis simplicibus lineari-oblongis omnibus profunde
sinuato-dentatis rarius integerrimis crassissimis e t coriaceis, umbellis terminalibus, pedunculis primariis 5 -1 0
elongatis umbellas racemosas 8 -10-floras pedunculatas gerentibus, stylis 5 in columnam accretis apice liberis,
bacca globosa coriácea 5-loculari. Ba n k s et Sol. M S S . et Ic. A . Cmm. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Pla n t, t. 583, 584.
Xylopliylla longifolia. B a n k s et Sol. 3 IS S . et Ic.
H a b . Thro u g h o u t th e Is la n d s ; abundant. Ba n k s a n d Solander, etc. Chatham Island, Dieffenbach.
N a t. names, "H o ro e k a ,” Cunn.; " Hohoeka,” Middle Islan d , L y a ll. (Cultivated in England.)
A very remarkable plant, on account of the variable form of its leaves, which renders it diñicult to decide
whether or no there may be more than one species included under the name of A . crassifolia. A small erect tree,
2 0 -3 0 feet high. Young plants forming simifle flexible poles, 13 feet high, witb cmious spreading, distant, alternate,
hnear, very thick and coriaceous, remotely toothed leaves, 8 inches to a foot long, and 4 inch b ro ad ; these leaves
are dull green, with a broad yellow blotch at the base of each tooth. Towards the top of the plant the leaves are
petiolate and trifoliolate; each leaflet like one of the simple lower leaves. In this state the plant is common in cultivation,
presenting two varieties however, one slender, never branched, and with green bark and broader leaves; the
other stouter, sometimes branched, with brownish bark, all the leaves simple and broad in proportion to their length.
This latter I suspect to be the A . Lessoni. Dried specimens in flower have always simple leaves, sessfle or narrowed
into short very stout petioles, not jointed at tbe apex; they are 6-10 inches long, linear-oblong or cuneate, gradually
broader upwards, never more than 1 -14 inch broad, usually inch, deeply irregularly sinuate, or toothed,
rarely entire. Inflorescence terminal; primary branches five to ten, sessile, elongate, of nearly equal length, bearing-
pedunculate racemes or rarely h-regular umbels of pedicellate flowers. Styles five, united into a column, free at the
top. Berries coriaceous, globose, five-celled.— In Dr. Lyali’s specimens from the Southern Island, the ultimate
umbels of female flowers are regularly umbellate, not at all racemose.
4 . Aralia Lessoni; subarborea, dioica v. polygama, fohis (polymorphis junioribus simpbcibus?)
adultis longe petiolatis 3-5-foliolatis, foliolis sessilibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis sinuato-dentatis crassis
et coriaceis, umbelbs terminabbus, pedunculis primariis elongatis secundariis racemoso-florifcris, stylis 5 in
columnam concretis, bacca oblonga 5-loculari. Cussonia, A . Rich. Flora, p . 2 85. t. 32. A. C%mn. Prodr.
Pan ax ? De Cand. Prodr. Aralia trifolia. B a n k s eb Sol. MSS.
H a b . N o rth e rn Islan d . E a st coast, Cunningham; Auckland, Sin c la ir; Middle Islan d , Bream Bay,
jy V r v ille . N a t. name, "W h a u whau,” R . Cunn. (Cultivated in En g lan d .)
A small tree, apparently closely resembling in habit and inflorescence A. crassifolia, but the old leaves are very
like those of Panax Colensoi, and the berry is larger and oblong, not rounded. The foliage of the young plants 1
suspect to be as protean as that of the former, and possibly the plant has hence been overlooked by Mr. Colenso,
who has never sent specimens.
Gen. I I I . BO TRY OD EN D RUM , Fndl.
Flores polygami. fl. c? 4 -p a rtitu s, im b ric a tu s ; fl. ? tu b u s ovario adna tus, bmbo 6-fido. P e tala
0. Stamina calycis laciniis opposita, fl. 4, fl. ? 6. Ovarmm 6-loculare; ovubs sobtariis, p en d u lis ;
stylis 6, divergentibus. Bacca coriaceo-carnosa, 6 -lo cu la ris; locubs osseis, 1-spermis. Semina péndula
Araliacearum.— Arbores trunco gracili, apice diviso. F o lia Simplicia if- fo lio la td ) ; petiolo opice articulato.
Flores capitati, involucrati; capitulis p a n icu la tis, polygamo-dioicis.
One species alone of this fine genus has been found in New Zealand, but I have seen the leaves o n ly ; two
others inhabit Norfolk Island, and a third Tahiti. They form erect, slender, small trees, with a long simple trunk
13-20 feet high, and with thick pith, branching sparingly at tbe top, and bearing very large, coriaceous, entire,
spreading, simple (imifoliolate) leaves. The flowers are collected into heads, are free or united, unisexual; heads polygamous
and arranged into a stout, sparingly branched, erect panicle. Tbe flowers and fruit are described from
Norfolk Island species, and may not taUy with the New Zealand one. Male f l o w e r s C a l y x four-parted. Corolla 0-
Stamens four, opposite to the ealyx. F e m a l e C a ly x tube adnate with the ovaiy; limb six-parted. Stamens and
styles six. Ovary six-celled. Fruit with six bony one-seeded nuts.—This genus has been called anomalous by
Endlicher on account of its four to six calyx-lobes opposite the same number of stamens, and want of petals, and with
less reason on account of the simple leaves and unisexual flowers. The structure of the ovary aud fruit ivould be anomalous
if, as described by Endbcher, the ovules were erect and seeds margined; but such is uot the case with the Norfolk
Island fruits I have examined. Embryo small, with a terete curved radicle pointing to tbe hilum, and two rather
broad flat cotyledons. (Name from ^orpvs, a cluster, and devbpov, a tree; from tbe densely crowded inflorescence.)
1. Botryodendrum Sinclairii, Hook, fil.; fobis louge petiolatis la te oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis basi
cordatis integerrimis.
H a b . Xfortliern I s la n d ; between Capes Rodney an d Bre tt, Sinclair. Colenso.
Leaf coriaceous, shining above, 12-20 inches long, and the petiole nearly as long. There is a tendency to
become panduriform in the leaf, which contracts above the cordate base; its greatest breadth is 9 inches, the
general ontbne obovate or oblong-lanceolate, and the margin is thickened, quite entire, undulated.—Dr. Sinclair
sends the fruit of Pisonia as belonging to tb is ; the latter has also a very large leaf, but the present exceeds that of
any other dicotyledonous plant in the Colony.
N ote. Polysdas pinnata, Forst., introduced into A. Cnnningham’s ‘ Prodromus’ from De Candolle, is erroneously
stated to be a native of New Zealand. Forster collected it in the island of Tanna.
N a t . O r d . X L . CORNEriE, BC.
Gen. I . G R IS E L IN IA , Forst.
Flores dioici. Calyx 5 -dentatus. Pe ta la 5, valvata (fl. subimbricata). Stamina 5, petalis alterna,
(in 11. ? 0). Ovarium (11. d 0) tubo calycis incliisura, 1 -2 -lo c u la re ; loculis 1-ovula tis; ovulo p é n d u lo ;
stybs 3, brevissimis, recurvis, in tu s stigraatosis. Bacca carnosa, 1-2-locularis, 1-sperma, loculo altero vacuo.
Semen pendulum ; te sta membranácea; albumine copioso, dense ca rn o so ; embryone supero, min im o ; rad icula
brevissima, bilo pro x im a; cotyledonibus divaricatis.— F ru tex lucidus, coriaceus, la te virens, radice
(parasitica?) crassa, tuberosa, Aucubam refercns. Folia alterna, integerrima, lucida, obliqna, petiolo caule
articulato. Flores pa n icu la ti, panícula gmberula.
A bright gi'een, lucid, evergreen, leafy, erect, branching shrub, 10-12 feet high, probably parasitical in its young
state, aud afterwards often epiphytical, forming a thick somewhat tuberous root. Leaves alternate, petioled, jointed
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