440 APOCYNACES. [Parsonsia. 
Flowers tin. long. Calyx 4 as long as the corolla-tube. 
Anthers included .. ae as ts .. 1. P. heterophylla. 
Flowers tin. long. Calyx about as long as the corolia- 
tube. Anthers exserted Ee ne Ah .. 2. P. capsularis. 
1. P. heterophylla, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 402.—A tall and 
slender branching climber, often ascending trees to a considerable 
height; stems tough and pliant, in old specimens woody towards 
the base; young branchlets terete, more or less pubescent. Leaves 
extraordinarily variable in size and shape; of young plants 1—din. 
long, narrow-linear, linear- or oblong-spathulate, or linear-oblong, 
entire or irregularly sinuate or provided with 2-4 rounded lobes on 
each side, sometimes linear and expanding at the tip into an oblong 
or rounded blade; of mature plants 14-34in. long, usually from 
ovate or oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic - lanceolate, 
sometimes obovate, more rarely narrower and lanceolate or linear, 
acute, petiolate, coriaceous, deep shining green above, paler be- 
neath, veins transverse. Cymes large, many-flowered, 14-4 in. 
long, terminal and axillary. Flowers white, sweet-scented, + in. 
long. Calyx-lobes about 4+ as long as the corolla-tube. Corolla 
with a long tube often inflated below the throat; lobes much 
shorter than the tube. Anthers included within the corolla-tube. 
Capsule 3-6 in. long, terete, acute.—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 181. 
P. albiflora, Raoul, Choix, 17. Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 187. 
P. variabilis, Lindl. 1 Journ. Hort. Soc. v. (1850) 196. P. maero- 
carpa, Col. im Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) 331. 
NortH anp SourH Isranps: Abundant from the Three Kings Islands and 
the North Cape to Foveaux Strait. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Kaiku ; Kai- 
whiria. November—March. 
I have restored Cunningham’s name for this species, it having at least five 
years’ priority over that of Raoul. 
2. P. capsularis, &. Br. mm Mem. Wern. Soc. i. (1809) 65.— 
Habit of P. heterophylla, but smaller and more slender. Leaves 
equally variable, of young plants ?-3in. long, narrow-linear or 
lanceolate to spathulate, entire or sinuate or irregularly lobed; of 
adult plants varying from extremely narrow-linear, 1-4 in. long by 
sometimes barely ;4,in. broad, to oblong or oblong -lanceolate, 
1-24in. long by 4-2 in. broad, obtuse or subacute, coriaceous ; 
margins usually entire. Cymes few or many-flowered, axillary 
and terminal, usually shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, ~ 
tin. long. Calyx-lobes equalling the corolla-tube or very little 
shorter. Corolla campanulate, tube short; lobes revolute, as long 
as the tube. Anthers exserted.—dA. D.C. in D.C. Prodr. viii. 401 
(in part) ; Raoul, Chow,17; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i.180. P. rosea, 
Raoul, l.c. 16; Hook. f. l.c.; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 188. P. Forsteri, 
G. Don. Gen. Syst. iv. 79. P. ochracea, Col. m Trans. N.Z. 
inst. xxii. (1890) 480. Periploca capsularis, Forst. Prodr. n. 126; 
A. Rich. Fl. Now. Zel. 205. 
