234 ARALIACES. [Pseudopanax. 
obovate to obovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, narrowed at 
the base, acute or acuminate, glossy and coriaceous, sharply ser- 
rate. Umbels terminal; male of 4-10 slender rays 2-3 in. long, 
bearing numerous racemose flowers on pedicels 4-+in. long; 
females (or hermaphrodite?) of much shorter rays 3-2.in. long 
terminating in 2-—6-flowered umbellules. Flowers 4in. diam. 
Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, connate at the base, very short, tips erect 
or slightly recurved. Fruit +in. long, broadly oblong, 5-celled.— 
Panax discolor, Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. vii. (1871) 178. P. dis- 
colorum, Students’ Fl, 219. 
Nort Isnanp: Auckland—Whangaroa North, Great Barrier Island, and 
Omaha, Kirk! Little Barrier Island, Kirk, Shakespear! T. F'. C.; Thames 
Goldfields, Kirk! Adams! T. F. C. Sea-level to 2800 ft. December — 
January. 
The ovary-cells and styles are very exceptionally less than 5, and the species 
certainly falls into Pseudopanax as that genus is characterized in the ‘‘ Genera 
Plantarum.’’ Its nearest ally is P. Lessoni. 
2. P. Lessonii, C. Koch in Wochenschrift, ii. (1859) 336. — A 
glabrous much-branched shrub or small tree 8-—20ft. high; 
branches robust. Leaves dark-green, 3-5-foliolate; petioles stout, 
2-6in. long, not sheathing at the base; leaflets 1-4in., sessile, 
obovate- or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, entire or sinuate- 
serrate, smooth and shining, very thick and coriaceous; veins 
indistinct. Umbels terminal, compound; males with 4-8 primary 
rays 1-6in. long, each ending in 4-10 secondary rays bearing 
numerous racemose flowers; females with shorter and fewer rays 
and less numerous flowers, not so conspicuously racemose. Flowers: 
tin. diam. Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, very short, connate at the 
base, their tips at length recurved. Fruit broadly oblong, in. 
long, 5-celled.—Kirk, Students’ Fl. 221. Panax Lessonii, D.C. 
Prodr. iv. 253; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 102. Cussonia Lessonii, 
A. Rich. Fl. Nowv. Zel. 285, t.32; A. Cunn. Precur.n. 511; Raoul, 
Choix, 46. Hedera Lessonii, A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Hapl. Exped. 719. 
Nortu Istanp: From the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape to 
Poverty Bay, usually near the coast. Houmapara ; Houpara. January— 
February. 
3. P. Gilliesii, 7. Kirk, Students’ Fl. 221.—A shrub or small 
tree 10-15 ft. high; branches slender. Leaves mostly 1-foliolate, 
mixed with a few 3-foliolate ones; petiole slender, 3-14in. long; 
blade 14-24in., variable in shape, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, coarsely sinuate-toothed, rather 
coriaceous. Flowers long past in all the specimens seen, but ap- 
parently arranged in a racemose manner on numerous terminal 
peduncles 2-4in. long; pedicels 4-1lin. Fruit din. long, broadly 
oblong, 5-celled ; styles 5, very short, connate, free at the very tip. 
Norru Isuanp: Auckland—Whangaroa North, Buchanan! Gillies and Kirk ! 
T have seen but few specimens of this curious plant, which may be nothing 
more than a variety of P. Lessonti. 
