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the cells, connate at the base, free and recurved at the tips. Fruit 
broadly ovoid, 3—-5-celled and -seeded.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 101; Kirk, 
Students’ Fl. 217. 
SoutH Isutanp: Subalpine forests from Nelson to Preservation Inlet, 
chiefly on the western side of the island. 2500-4000 ft. January—Heb- 
ruary. 
2. P. simplex, Forst. Prodr. n. 399.—A shrub or small tree 
8-25 ft. high, everywhere smooth and glabrous. Leaves excessively 
variable, polymorphous; of very young plants either ovate or 
broadly ovate, serrate, or 3—8-foliolate with the leaflets deeply 
lobed or pinnatifid: both these states are succeeded by 3-foliolate 
leaves with lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate sharply serrate leaflets. 
Leaves of mature trees 1-foliolate, variable in size, 2-5 in. long, 
lanceolate to oblong- or obovate-lanceolate, coriaceous and glossy, 
acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, sharply serrate or nearly entire ; 
petiole 1-3 in. long, jointed at the top. Umbels small, shorter than 
the leaves, axillary or terminal, icregularly compound; secondary 
umbels 8-16-flowered, the terminal one usually female, the lateral 
male. Flowers small, greenish-white. Ovary 2-celled; styles 2, 
free to the base, recurved. Fruit tin. diam., orbicular, compressed ; 
seeds 2.—A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 280, t. 31; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 
509; Raoul, Choiw, 46; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 18, t.12; Fl. Nov. 
Zel. i. 938; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 100; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 106, 107; 
Students’ Fl. 217. 
Var. quercifolium, Kirk, /.c.—Leaves of mature plants 1-foliolate, 3-5 
long, lanceolate, deeply lobulate or pinnatifid.—Forest Fl. t. 106, f. 2. 
Var. parvum, Kirk, J.c.—Leaves of mature plants 1-foliolate, ?-lin. long 
acute or subacute, crenate or serrate. Umbels few-flowered. 
NortH AND SoutH IsLANps, STEWART IsLAND, AUCKLAND IsLANDS: From 
the Thames Goldfields southwards, but local north of the East Cape. Var. 
quercifoliwm: Canterbury—Upper Waimakariri, Hnys! Var. parvum: Various 
localities from Nelson to Stewart Island, Kirk! Petrie! H. J. Matthews! 
Ba Me Os Sea-level to over 4000 ft. Haumakaroa. November-January. 
3. P. Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 94.—A small graceful 
tree 20-40 ft. high; trunk 12-18in. diam. Leaves very aromatic, 
bright glossy green, smooth and shining, membranous, dimorphic : 
of mature plants 1-foliolate; petiole jointed to the blade, slender, 
1-3 in. long; blade 2-8 in., oblong- or obovate-lanceolate to lan- 
ceolate, acute or acuminate, quite entire: of young plants 3-d-fo- 
liolate with the leaflets deeply and irregularly lobed or pinna- 
tifid. Umbels small, }-2in. diam., 10-12-flowered, in slender 
axillary or lateral panicles 1-2in. long. Flowers small, greenish- 
white. Ovary 3-4-celled; styles as many as the cells, connate at 
the base. Fruit tin. diam., globose; seeds 3-4.—Handb. N.Z. £7. 
101; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 44; Students’ Fl. 217. Raukana Edgerleyi, 
Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. (1866) 352. 
