Entelea. | TILIACEAS. 83 
district, Banks and Solander! J. Adams; Hawke’s Bay, Colenso! Cape Pal- 
liser and Paikakariki, Airk; Urenui, Taranaki, 7. F. C. SourH IsLAND 
Collingwood, Hector; islands near Cape Farewell, Kingsley. Whau, Hawma. 
October—January. 
Greedily eaten by cattle and horses, and consequently fast becoming rare on 
the mainland, except in comparatively inaccessible situations. It is still plenti- 
ful on most of the small outlying islands on the north-east coast of the Auckland 
District, often exhibiting great luxuriance. On Cuvier Island I measured leaves 
with petioles 2 ft. long, “with a blade 1ft. Gin. diam. The wood is extremely 
light, the specific gravity being much less than that of cork. It is frequently 
used by the Maoris for the floats of fishing-nets. 
2, ARISTOTELIA, L’Herit. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or nearly so, entire or 
toothed, exstipulate. Flowers small, unisexual, axiliary or lateral, 
racemose or rarely solitary. Sepals 4-5, valvate. Petals the same 
number, 3-lobed, toothed or entire, inserted round the base of the 
thickened torus. Stamens numerous or 4-5, inserted on the torus. 
Ovary 2-4-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; styles subulate. Fruit a 
berry. Seeds ascending or pendulous, often pulpy on the outside 
of the hara testa. 
A small genus of 9 species, 3 of which are found in Australia, 1 in the New 
Hebrides, 2 in South America, and the 3 following in New Zealand. 
Leaves large, membranous. Racemes panicled, many- 
flowered .. at oc ae Ae .. 1. A. racemosa. 
Leaves large, not so membranous as the _ preceding. 
Racemes simple or only slightly compound .. 2. A. Colensoi. 
Leaves small, coriaceous. Flowers few together or solitary 3. A, fruticosa. 
1. A. racemosa, Hook. /. Hl. Nov. Zel. 1. 33.—A small graceful 
tree 8-25 ft. high; bark of young branches red, becoming darker 
with age; branchlets, young leaves, petioles, and inflorescence 
pubescent. Leaves opposite or nearly so, 2—5in. long, ovate or 
ovate-cordate, acuminate, thin and membranous, deeply and 
irregularly acutely serrate, often reddish beneath ; petioles long and 
slender. Flowers small, 4in. diam., rose-coloured, in many- 
flowered axillary panicles, dicecious; the males rather larger than 
the females; pedicels slender. Petals 4, 3-lobed at the tip, smaller 
in the female flowers. Stamens numerous, minutely hairy; anthers 
longer than the filaments. Female flowers: Ovary 3-4-celled ; 
styles the same number. Fruit a 3-4-celled berry about the size of 
a pea, dark-red or almost black. Seeds usually about 8, angular.— 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 33; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 118; Students’ Fl. 75. 
Friesia racemosa, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 603; Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 
48; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 601. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLANDS, STEWART ISLAND: Common in lowland forests 
throughout, ascending to nearly 2000 ft. Makomako, wineberry. Sep- 
tember—November. 
An abundant and well-known plant, usually the first to appear after the 
forest has been cut down. The wood is largely employed for making charcoal 
for the manufacture of gunpowder. 
