96 MELIACEZ. (Dysoxylum. 
rarely axillary, sparingly branched. Flowers waxy-white, 14 in. 
diam., shortly pedicelled. Calyx-lobes small, ciliate. Petals 5, 
linear, spreading or recurved. Staminal tube cylindric, fleshy, 
crenate. Style slender, exserted beyond the staminal tube ; stigma 
discoid. Capsule large, broadly obovoid, lin. long, 3-4-celled. 
Seeds 2 in each cell, enveloped in an orange aril.—Kirk, Forest FI. 
t. 64, 65; Students’ Fl. 87. Hartighsea spectabilis, A. Juss. in 
Mem. Mus. Par. xix. (1830) 228; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 597; Raoul, 
Chotz, 47; Hook. Ic.. Plant. t,.616, 617; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zell. 
i.39. Trichilia spectabilis, Forst. Prodr. n. 188; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. 
Zel. 306. 
NortH Istanp: Abundant from the North Cape southwards. Souru 
Istanp: Marlborough, D’Urville Island. Ascends to 1500 ft. Kohekohe.. 
May-July. 
Timber suitable for inlaying and furniture; leaves bitter and tonic. 
Orper XVI. OLACINE. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Leaves alternate, rarely 
opposite, simple or lobed, exstipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphro- 
dite or unisexual, usually cymose. Calyx 4~-5-toothed or -lobed, 
free or adnate to the disc. Petals usually 4-5, free or more or less 
connate into a tube, valvate or rarely imbricate. Stamens as many 
or twice as many as the petals, free or adnate to them; anthers 
2-celled. Disc hypogynous, usually cup-shaped, free or adnate to 
the ovary or calyx. Ovary free or partly immersed in the dise, 
1-celled or imperfectly 2-5-celled ; style simple; stigma entire or 
lobed; ovules 2-3, rarely 1, pendulous from the apex of a central 
placenta or from the side or apex of the cavity. Fruit usually 
drupaceous, 1-celled, 1-seeded; albumen fleshy, rarely wanting ; 
embryo minute, radicle superior. 
Genera about 40; species not far from 200; widely spread in tropical and 
subtropical regions, many of them very imperfectly known. The single New 
Zealand genus extends through Norfolk Island to Australia. 
1. PENNANTIA, Forst. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves entire or toothed. Flowers in ter- 
minal corymbose panicles or cymes, dicecious or polygamous. Ca- 
lyx minute, 5-toothed. Petals, 5, hypogynous, glabrous, valvate. 
Stamens 5, hypogynous, alternating with the petals; filaments 
filiform. Ovary 1-celled; stigma nearly sessile, entire or 3-lobed ; 
ovule solitary, pendulous. Drupe small, fleshy; stone obtusely 
trigonous, grooved at the back to receive a flattened cord which 
passes through a perforation just below the apex, and bears the 
pendulous seed at its tip. 
Besides the New Zealand species, which is endemic, there is one in Norfolk 
Island, and another in New South Wales. 
