Tab. 7868. 

 ARISTOTELIA eacemosa. 

 Native of New Zealand. 



Nat, Ord, TiLiACBiB.— Tribe El^ocarpk^. 

 Genus Aristotelia, L'Her,; (Benth. ^ Book.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 239.) 



AiusTOTBLTA racemosa ; frutex v. arbuscula dioica, ramulis petiolis foliis imma- 

 turis paniculisque pubescentibus, foliis longe petiolatis oppositis sub- 

 oppositisve oyatis acuininatis argute serratis basi rotnndatis subcordatisve 

 niembrauaceis, pauiculis axillaribus oppositis et ramulos breves tertni- 

 nantibus breviter pedunculatis confertidoria, floribus breviter pedicellatis 

 ^-J poll, latis, sepalia 4 oblongis, petalis late cuneatis apice obtuse 3-4- 

 lobis roseis rarius integiis, disci glandulis globosis, filamentis antheris 

 oblongis brevioribus puberulis, ovario 3-4-loculari, stylis basi connatis, 

 Bupra medium liberie gracilibus decurvis sigmoideie, haccis pisiformibua 

 3-4-locuIaribu8 3-4-spermis rubris demum nigris, seminibua sub trigono- 

 globosis, testa dura extus carnosula. 



A. racemosa, ITooi:. f. FL N. Zel. vol. i. p. 33; Handb. N. Zeal Fl p. 33. 

 T. Kirk, For. FL N. Zeal. p. 223, t. 113 ; Student's Fl. N. Zeal. p. 76, z»W. 



Friesia racemosa, A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. vol. iv. (1840), p. 24. Hook./, 

 in Hook Ic. PI. t. 601. 



Triphalia rubicunda, Banks <fe Sol. mss. cum ic. 



Makoroako incolarum. Wineberry, Colonorum. 



Aristotelia is a small genus, common to Australia, New- 

 Zealand, the New Hebrides, and temperate S. America. 

 It was founded in 1784; upon the Chilian species, 

 A. Macqui, L'Herit. (Stirp. Nov. p. 31, t. 16). 



A. racemosa is one of the commonest shrubs or small 

 trees in New Zealand, from the northern districts to 

 Stewart's Island, chiefly in lowland districts, but ascending 

 to two thousand feet, flowering in October and November. 

 The late Mr. Kirk, in his admirable "Forest Flora of 

 New Zealand," describes it as being " the first shrub to 

 make its appearance after the forests have been cleared, 

 especially in the southern parts of the islands," adding 

 that, " in many parts of the colony its straight stems may 

 be found growing by road-sides or in abandoned clearings, 

 in a way that at once calls to mind the hazel copses of 

 Europe." The wood is light, often figured, and used for 

 cabinet work, as also in the manufacture of gunpowder. 

 It has long been in cultivation at Kew, where it flowers 

 annually in the Temperate House in May. The figure 



D£C£MBEK 1st, 1902. 



