Pennantia. | OLACINES. 97 
1. P. corymbosa, Forst. Char. Gen. 134.—A small slender tree 
15-35 ft. high; branchlets, petioles, and inflorescence pubescent. 
Young stage a straggling bush with numerous spreading flexuous 
and interlaced slender branches; leaves distant, alternate or 
fascicled, cuneate, +-4in. long or more, 3-lobed or 3-6-toothed at 
the tip. Leaves of mature plants shortly petioled, alternate, 1—4 in. 
long, obovate oblong-ovate or oblong, obtuse, sinuate or irregularly 
toothed or lobed, rarely entire. Flowers small, white, fragrant, 
dicecious. Males: Panicles and flowers larger than in the females. 
Filaments exceeding the petals; anthers large, oblong-sagittate, 
versatile, pendulous. Ovary rudimentary. Females: Filaments 
shorter than the petals; anthers erect. Ovary oblong; stigma 3- 
lobed. Drupe black, fleshy, about +in. long.—dA. Rich. Fl. Nouv. 
Zel. 8368; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 576; Raoul, Choix, 50; Hook. f. Fl. 
Nov. Zel. i. 35, t. 12; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 41; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 77, 
78; Students’ Fl. 88. 
Norte anp SoutH IsnAnps: From Kaitaia southwards, but local to the 
north of the Waikato River. Ascends to 2000 ft. Kaikomako. Novem- 
ber—December. 
Wood formerly used by the Maoris to obtain fire by friction ; now occa- 
sionally employed for turnery, furniture, &c. 
Orper XVII. STACKHOUSIEA. 
Perennial herbs, usually of small size. Leaves alternate, nar- 
row, quite entire, often somewhat fleshy. Stipules wanting or very 
minute. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite, in terminal spikes or 
rarely solitary. Calyx 4-5-lobed or -partite, imbricate. Petals 5, 
perigynous, inserted on the throat of the calyx, linear or spathu- 
late, claws long, free at the base but more or less connate above, 
limb reflexed. Disc thin, clothing the base of the calyx-tube. 
Stamens 5, inserted on the edge of the disc. Ovary free, globose, 
2-5-lobed, cells the same number; style single at the base, 
2-5-lobed above; ovules 1 in each cell, erect, anatropous. Fruit of 
2-5 globose angular or winged indehiscent 1-seeded cocci. Seed 
erect, with a membranous testa; albumen fleshy; embryo straight, 
radicle inferior. 
A small order of 2 genera and 15 species. With the exception of the New 
Zealand plant and another found in the Philippine Islands, the whole of the 
species are confined to Australia. 
1. STACKHOUSIA, Smith. 
Characters as above. 
1. S. minima, Hook. 7. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 47.—A minute slender 
glabrous herb, with numerous creeping often matted underground 
stems, and short slender erect leafy branches $-2in. high. Leaves 
crowded or distant, rather fleshy, 4-4 in. long, linear or linear-oklong 
4—Fl, 
