Ele@ocarpus. | TILIACEA. 85 
A large genus, containing about 60 species. Most plentiful in the hotter 
parts of India and the Malay Archipelago, a few species only extending to 
Australia, the Pacific islands, and New Zealand. loth our species are en- 
demic. 
Branchlets silky. Leaves linear-oboyate, margins re- 
curved vs Bhs a Ps if .. 1. EH. dentatus. 
Branchlets glabrous. Leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
margins flat 2. H. Hookerianus. 
1. BH. dentatus, Vahl. Symb. Bot. iii. 66—A round-headed 
tree 40-60 ft. in height; trunk slender, straight, 1-3 ft. diam. ; 
branchlets often bare of leaves except at the tips, silky when 
young. Leaves erect, on short stout petioles 4-lin. long; 
blade 2-4in., linear-oblong obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, 
narrowed below, obtuse or shortly acuminate, coriaceous, ob- 
scurely sinuate-serrate, often white with fine appressed silky hairs 
beneath; margins recurved. Racemes numerous, 8-12-flowered, 
silky, usually shorter than the leaves. Flowers drooping, +4 in. 
diam., white. Petals obovate-cuneate, lacerate. Stamens 10-20; 
filaments very short; anthers linear, with a flat recurved tip. 
Ovary silky, 2-celled. Drupe about 4in. long, oblong or ovoid, 
purplish-grey ; stone rugose, 1-celled, 1-seeded.—Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. 384; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 11; Students’ Fl. 76. 3k. 
Hinau, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 602; Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 602; Hook. ji 
Fil, Nov. Zel.i. 32. EH. Cunninghamii, Raoul, Choix de Plantes, 25. 
Dicera dentata et D. serrata, Forst. Char. Gen. 80. Eriostemon 
dentatus, Colla. Hort. Ripul. 52, t. 30. 
NorrH AnD SoutH Is~taAnps: Not uncommon in lowland forests from the 
North Cape to Catlin’s River, Otago. Altitudinal range from sea-level to 
2000 ft. Hinau. October—November. 
The fruit was formerly eaten by the Maoris, the pulpy part being rubbed 
off the stone, steeped in water, and then made into large cakes, which were 
baked for a day or two. They also obtained a black dye from the bark, which 
was used for dyeing their flax cloaks, and is still employed for that purpose 
by a few of the inland tribes. The wood is durable, but is little employed, 
although a figured variety is now coming into use for panelling and furniture. 
2. HE. Hookerianus, Fiaouwl, Choir de Plantes, 26, t. 25.—A 
small glabrous tree 20-40 ft. high, with a trunk 1-3 ft. diam.; bark 
pale. Young plants with numerous tortuous and_ interlaced 
branches, which bear narrow-linear leaves 3-2 in. long, sinuate or 
regularly toothed or lobed or almost pinnatifid, occasionally 
broadly obovate or almost orbicular. Leaves of mature plants 
13-3 in. long, elliptical or linear-oblong or lanceolate, coriaceous, 
obtuse, sinuate-crenate or serrate; margins flat; petioles short, 
4-4 in. long. Racemes slender, spreading, shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers greenish-white, small, drooping. Sepals lanceolate. 
Petals slightly longer than the sepals, 4—5-lobed at the tip. Drupe 
similar to that of H. dentatus, but smaller, Lin. long.—Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 32; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 34; T. Kirk, Forest FI. 
t. 12,13; Students’ Fl. 76. 
