298 A NEW ELZODENDRON. 
divided, compressed, angulose, aureo-pubescent, as also the 
pedicels which are very short. Flowers numerous, white, 
fragrant, resembling in appearance as well as in smell, those 
of the Hawthorn of Europe. Bracteas at the subdivisions of 
the panicle, minute, ovate, acute. Estivation imbricated. 
Calyx 5-partite, externally puberulous ; divisions rotundato- 
ovate. Petals 5, roundish, shortly clawed, alternating with, 
and somewhat smaller than, the divisions of the calyx. Sta- 
mens 7, more usually 8, irregularly inserted between the 
lobes of an annular, fleshy, red, puberulous disk. Filaments 
somewhat longer than the calyx. Anthers ovate, 2-celled. 
Ovary conical, villous, seated on the disk. Style short. 
Stigma obtuse. Drupe the size of a small cherry, with the 
rind glandulose, of a deep purple-colour, 1-pyrene. Nut large, 
chartaceous, l-seeded. Radicle superior, curved, the size of 
that of the common pea. Cotyledons fleshy.—This is a hand- 
some tree. Only some of the trees bear fruit. The flowers 
would therefore appear to be polygamous. The fertile ones; 
however, are furnished with stamens and pistil; in the bar- 
ren, the latter must be imperfect.” 
In Melicocca the flowers are racemose, with the racemes 
spiciform, and the seed is erect with a fleshy arillus. In 
Hypelate, as defined by Cambassédes, the flowers are glo- 
merate or paniculate, the seed pendent, destitute of arillus. 
Tas. VII. Hypelate (Exothea, Macf.) oblongifolia. Fig. 1, 
flower-bud; f. 2, front, and f. 3, back view of a flower; 
J. 4, petal; f. 5, stamen ; f. 6, pistil; magnified. 
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Some account of a new ELÆODENDRON from New Zealand, 
by J. D. Hooxzn, M.D., R.N. F.L.S. 
(Tas. VIII). 
There is a low, straggling, rigid shrub, with generally sub- 
orbicular leaves, growing in the northern island of New 
Zealand, which has struck the attention of botanists, but 
which, for want of flower and fruit, myself and others were — 
