136 SAXIFRAGER. [Quintinia. 
obovate or obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, rarely oblong- or 
elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed into a short stout petiole, acute or 
subacute, remotely and often obscurely sinuate-serrate. Racemes 
2-4 in. long, always much shorter than the leaves. Flowers much 
as in Q. serrata, but filaments usually shorter. Capsule slightly 
larger.—Q. serrata var. b, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 59; Kirk, 
Forest Fl..t.,4295,£. 6,7; 
NortH Istanp: Little Barrier Island, 7. F'.C.; East Cape, Bishop Wil- 
liams! Sourn Istanp: West Coast, from Collingwood to Hokitika, Travers, 
Kirk! Helms! T. F.C. 
An exceedingly puzzling plant. It is certainly connected by numerous 
intermediates with the typical state of Q. serrata, but its extreme forms appear 
much too distinct to admit of the two species being united. It is abundant on 
the Little Barrier Island, where the leaves attain an extreme length of 8in. by a 
breadth of 24in. Southern specimens have smaller and more elliptic leaves. 
3. IXERBA, A. Cunn. 
A small glabrous tree. Leaves opposite, alternate or whorled, 
exstipulate. Flowers white, in terminal panicles. Calyx - tube 
short, adnate to the base of the ovary; lobes 5, imbricate, deci- 
duous. Petals 5, inserted beneath a 5-lobed disc, obovate, clawed, 
imbricate. Stamens 5, alternating with the lobes of the disc; fila- 
ments filiform. Ovary superior, conical, 5-lobed, 5-celled, narrowed 
into a subulate twisted 5-furrowed style; stigma acute; ovules 2 in 
each cell, collateral. Capsule coriaceous, broadly ovoid, 5-celled, 
loculicidally 5-valved; valves extending through the style, ulti- 
mately recurved, cohering below, 2-partite above. Seeds large, 
oblong, compressed, shining; funicle thick; embryo large; albu- 
men very scanty. 
A well-marked monotypic genus, confined to New Zealand. 
1. I. brexioides, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 580.—A small branching 
tree 20-50 ft. high, rarely more, with a trunk 1-2 ft. diam. Leaves 
3-6 in. long, 4-lin. broad, linear or linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, 
glabrous, acute or subacute, obtusely serrate; teeth tipped by a 
gland. Flowers large, 1-ldin. diam.; pedicels jointed, silky. 
Calyx-lobes broadly ovate, silky. Capsule in. diam.—AHook. Ie. 
Plant. t. 577, 578; Raoul, Choix, 44; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 82; 
Handb. N.Z. Fl. 59; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 48; Students’ Fl. 138. 
NortH Isitanp: Hilly forests from Ahipara and Maungataniwha to the 
eerie part of Hawke’s Bay. Ascends to 3000 ft. Tawart. November- 
December. 
A remarkably handsome tree. The wood is hard and dense, and probably 
durable, but has been little used. 
4, CARPODETUS, Forst. 
A shrub or small tree. Leaves alternate, petiolate, exstipulate. 
Flowers small, white, in axillary and terminal cymose panicles. 
