Discovered in 1769, near Tigada, Tolaga, Opuragi, 
and Motuaro, in New Zealand, by Sir Joszerpn Banks 
and Dr. Soranner. It grows in its native country into 
a small tree, the wood of which is remarkably light, 
and, for this property, is used by the natives to float 
their fishing nets with, == 
Enrexéa belongs to the natural order of Tiliacee, and ap- 
$a the genus SparrManniA, from which Mr. Brown , 
istinguishes it by its want of the sterile filaments (nec 
taria of Linnzus), all of them in Enteléa bearing anthers; " 
by its capsules ‘being undivided to the base, and not as_ 
in Sparrmannia longitudinally dehiscent into six distinct 
valves ; by the segments of the calyx being awned, and by 
the cells of the capsule containing many seeds, instead of 
only’ two, as described by Tuunzere; but the value of 
this ha is much weakened by Mr. Brown’s observa 
oa} at the ovarium in Sparrmannia has certainly many 
ovula, Saar | 
For this very rare plant, which perhaps never flowered 
in Europe before, we are indebted to Messrs. Wuirtsr, 
Brame, and Mite, in whose stove, at Fulham, it blo 
somed in May 1823. 1 
