240 CAPRIFOLIACE. [Alsewosmia. 
A small order, comprising 14 genera and about 200 species, mostly natives of 
the Northern Hemisphere, with few tropical or southern representatives. The 
order is of little economical importance, but many of the species are cultivated 
in gardens for the beauty or fragrance of their flowers, as the various kinds of 
honeysuckles and woodbines, &c. The single New Zealand genus is endemic. 
1. ALSEUOSMIA, A. Cunn. 
Evergreen shrubs, usually of small size; branchlets slender. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, entire or toothed, very variable in shape, 
coriaceous or almost membranous; stipules wanting. Flowers axil- 
lary, solitary or fascicled, very sweet-scented ; pedicels bracteolate 
at the base. Calyx-tube ovoid; limb deeply 4-5-lobed, deciduous. 
Corolla tubular or funnel-shaped ; tube long, equal at the base ; 
limb of 4-5 spreading lobes; margin of lobes inflexed, toothed or 
lobulate. Stamens 4-5, inserted near the mouth of the corolla; 
filaments short; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-celled; style filiform ; 
stigma clavate; ovules numerous in each cell, in a double row on 
axile placentas. Berry ovoid or oblong, 2-celled, crimson. Seeds 
several in each cell, angular; testa bony. 
A small genus of four species, confined to New Zealand, and differing from 
the rest of the order in the alternate leaves. The species are exceedingly 
variable and difficult of discrimination. 
Leaves large, 3-7 in. Flowers 1-14 in. long,usually 5-merous 1. A. macrophylla. 
Leaves 1-4in., ovate-oblong to linear-oblong. Flowers 
4-3 in., usually 4-merous : 2. A. quercifolia. 
Leaves 4-2 in., orbicular to obovate- oblong. Flowers 4-41 in. 3. 4. Banksii. 
Leaves 4-3 in., narrow-linear to lanceolate. Flowers 3-3in. 4. A. linariifolia. 
1. A. macrophylla, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 494.—A perfectly 
glabrous much-branched shrub 4-8 ft. high. Leaves 3-7in. long, 
obovate or obovate-lanceolate to linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 
narrowed into a short stout petiole, remotely sinuate-dentate or 
nearly entire, rather coriaceous. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of . 
2-4, large, 1-14in. long, bright-crimson. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, 
acute. Corolla-lobes 5, rarely 4, margins fimbriate or toothed. 
Berry oblong, crimson, $-4in. long. —faoul, Choix, 46; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 102, t. 93 : Handb. N.Z. Fl. 109; Kirk, Students’ 
Fl. 227. 
Nortu Isnanp: Abundant in woods from the North Cape to the East Cape, 
rare and local further south. SourH Isuanp: Apparently very rare. Marl- 
borough, J. Rutland! Collingwood, Dall! Kelly’s Creek, Westland, Cockayne ! 
Sea-level to 3200 ft. September—November. 
A very beautiful and exceedingly fragrant plant, well worthy of general 
cultivation. It is easily distinguished from all the other species by the large 
flowers. 
2. A. quercifolia, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 493.—A small slender 
sparingly branched shrub 1-5 ft. high. Leaves excessively vari- 
able in size and shape, 1-5 in. long, ovate-oblong, elliptic-oblong, 
obovate-lanceolate, or linear-oblong, obtuse or acute, narrowed into 
