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ovate, ovate-oblong, or ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate or even linear, 
generally sharply and coarsely dentate or serrate, more rarely ob- 
tusely serrate; in young plants often deeply and irregularly lobed 
or toothed; petioles slender. Flowers in axillary fascicles, snow- 
white, usually produced in great profusion. Peduncles jointed, 
pubescent. Carpels produced outwards and upwards into a mem- 
branous wing, longer than broad.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 80; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 31; Kirk, Students’ Fl. 71. 
Can be most conveniently divided into the following 3 varieties, which pos- 
sibly should have the rank of species :— 
Var. a, vulgaris, Hook. f. l.c.—Leaves coriaceous, ovate, with large sharp 
teeth ; blade 8-5 in. long; petioles 1-2in. Leaves of young plants differing in 
size only. Fascicles 5-10-flowered. Flowers 4-3in. diam.—Hook. Ic. Plant. 
t. 565, 566; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 53. (H. Sinclawii, Hook. f. Handb. 31, appears 
to be a form of this with broader more coriaceous obtusely serrate leaves and 
2-3-flowered fascicles.) 
Norra Istanp : North Cape to the Waikato River, abundant. March- 
May. 
Var. b, lanceolata, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 30.—Leaves of mature trees 
coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate oblong-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
sharply toothed, 2-4in. long; of young plants smaller, thinner, ovate or 
rounded-oyate, deeply and irregularly lobed and cut. Flowers smaller and 
fewer.— Kirk, Forest Fl. tt. 54 f£.2, 54a f. 1,2, 55 f. A. H. sexstylosa, Col. in 
Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvii. (1885) 238. (Var. crategifolia, Hook. f., is based upon 
the leaves of young trees.) 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps: Bay of Islands to Canterbury, but local 
north of the Waikato River. February—April. 
Var. c, angustifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 30.—Leaves of mature trees 
smaller, 1-2in., rarely 1-3in., membranous, oblong or linear-oblong, obtuse or 
acute, spinulose-toothed. Flowers smaller; fascicles 2-4-flowered. Leaves of 
young plants small, suborbicular or obovate-orbicular, 3—5-toothed at the tip, 
cuneate at the base.—Kirk, Forest Fi. tt. 54 £..1, 54a f. 3, 54n f.2, 557.1, 2. 
H. angustifolia, Raowl, Choix de Plantes, 48, t. 26. Mr. Kirk’s subspecies 
obtusifolia connects this with the previous variety. 
Nort AnD SourH Istanps: Hawke’s Bay to Southland, not uncommon, 
ascending to 1500 ft. December—February. 
An excellent account of the remarkable tendency to variation exhibited by 
this almost protean species will be found in Kirk’s ‘‘ Forest Flora.’’ The 
Maoris apply the names hoihere or howhere to varieties a and b indif- 
ferently ; the European settlers usually call all the forms ‘‘ribbon-wood”’ or 
‘‘Jacebark,’’ names which are, unfortunately, also used for Plagianthus betulinus 
and Gaya Lyallit. 
3. GAYA, H.B. K. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely small trees, usually tomentose with 
stellate hairs. Flowers pedunculate, axillary or terminal. Bracteoles 
wanting. Calyx d-fid. Staminal column split at the apex into 
numerous filaments. Ovary many-celled; style-branches as many 
as the cells, filiform ; stigmas capitate or truncate; ovules solitary 
in each cell. Mature carpels membranous, connivent at the apex, 
separable from the axis, 2-valved at the back and leaving a free 
