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C. Flowers in terminal compound umbels or corymbs. 
Tree with white bark. Leaves auseti 2-4in. Flowers 
yellow. Capsules small, 4 in. af -. 18. P. eugeniordes. 
1. P. tenuifolium, Banks and Sol. ex Gertn. Fruct. i. 286,. 
t. 59, 7. 7.—A small tree 15-30 ft. in height, with a slender trunk 
and dark almost black bark; young leaves and branchlets usually 
pubescent, becoming glabrous when mature. Leaves alternate, 
1-24 in. long, oblong-ovate or elliptic-obovate, obtuse acute or 
shortly acuminate, quite entire, membranous or slightly coriaceous, 
iargins ee petiole short. Flowers axillary, solitary or 
rarely fascicled, +4 in. long; peduncles about as long as the calyx, 
pubescent, straight or curved. Sepals oblong to ovate, obtuse or 
subacute, silky or glabrous. Petals dark-purple. Ovary silky. 
Capsule $in. diam., = valved, broadly obovoid or subglobose, downy 
when young, glabrous and minutely rugose when old ; valves rather 
thin.—A. Cunn. Precur. n.615; Raoul, “Choix de Plantes, 48 ; Hook. 
jf. #l. Nov. Zel. 1. 21; Handb. NZ. Fl. LD ge Kane, Forest Fi. t. 46 ; 
Students’ Fl. 47. Trichilia monophylla, A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 
306, t. 34, bes. 
NortH anpd SourH Istanps: Abundant from the North Cape to the 
Bluff. Altitudinal range from sea-level to 3000 ft. Kohuhu. October— 
November. 
An abundant and variable plant, the best distinguishing characters of which: 
are the small submembranous leaves with waved margins, axillary and usually 
solitary flowers, and small capsules with rather thin valves. The leaves are 
often pale-green, especially on young plants. 
2. P. Colensoi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 22.—A small tree, very 
closely allied to the preceding, but larger and more robust, with 
stouter branches. Leaves 2-4 in. long, oblong-lanceolate elliptical- 
oblong or oboyate-oblong, acute, coriaceous, margins usually flat ; 
petiole short, stout. Flowers axillary and solitary in the typical 
form, rarely fascicled ; peduncles short, erect or decurved, glabrous. 
or pubescent; bracts not so caducous as in P. tenwifolium. Sepals 
broadly oblong, glabrous or pubescent. Capsule globose; valves 
thick and woody. — Handb. N.Z. Fl. 19. P. tenuifolium, var. 
Colensoi, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 47. 
Var. fasciculatum.—Leaves as in the typical form. Flowers in many- 
flowered fascicles, both terminal and in the axils of the uppermost leaves. 
Sepals lanceolate, acute, and with the peduncles densely covered with soft 
tomentum.—P. fasciculatum, Hook. f. F'l. Nov. Zel. i. 24; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 20. 
P. tenuifolium, var. fasciculatum, Kirk, Students’ Fl. 47. 
NortH and SoutH Istanps, Stewart IstAND: From Rotorua and the 
Patetere Plateau southwards, but often local. Ascends to 3000 ft. Octo- 
ber—November. 
Very closely allied to P. tenwifoliwum, and connected with it by numerous. 
intermediates. Mr. Kirk unites the two, and there is much to be said in 
favour of such a course. But it must be admitted that P. Colensoi, with its. 
