Hedycarya. | MONIMIACEZ). 599 
globose, hemispherical or subcampanulate, limb 4-16 - toothed. 
Stamens usually indefinite, in one or many series on a disc lining 
the perianth-tube, all fertile or some reduced to staminodia; fila- 
ments short; anthers 2-celled, opening by slits or valves. Carpeis 
usually many, rarely solitary, free, sessile on the base or sides of 
the perianth-tube, 1-celled; style long or short; stigma small; 
ovule solitary, erect or pendulous. Fruit of several (rarely only 
one) drupes or achenes, resting on the expanded receptacle or 
enclosed within the enlarged perianth. Seed solitary, testa mem- 
branous; albumen fleshy; embryo variable, radicle inferior or 
superior. 
A small order, best represented in tropical South America, but also found 
in tropical Asia, the Mascarene Islands, Australia, and Polynesia. Genera 22; 
species estimated at 150. Of the 2 New Zealand genera, Hedycarya is found 
in Australasia and the Pacific islands, while Lawrelia is confined to South 
America and New Zealand. 
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. Ovule pendulous. 
Drupes stipitate .. te se 3 .. 1. Hepycarya. 
Anthers opening by ascending valves. Ovule erect. 
Achenes with plumose styles A: de .. 2, LAURELIa. 
1. HEDYCARYA, Forst. 
Small trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. 
Flowers dicecious, in axillary cymes or racemes. Male flowers: 
Perianth broad, cup-shaped; segments 5-10, inflexed, more or 
less connate at the base. Stamens numerous, covering almost 
the whole of the disc; filaments very short or almost wanting; 
anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by introrse or lateral slits. Female 
flowers: Perianth similar to that of the males, but rather smaller. 
Staminodia wanting. Carpels numerous, covering the whole disc, 
sessile, terminated by a thick conical style; ovule pendulous, 
anatropous. Fruit of few or several drupes crowded on the top 
of the disc-shaped receptacle. Seed pendulous; albumen copious ; 
embryo axile, radicle superior. 
A genus of 8 or 10 species, one of which is endemic in New Zealand, and 
another in Australia, the remainder being natives of New Caledonia, Fiji, 
Samoa, and Tonga. 
1. H. arborea, fForst. Char. Gen. 128, t. 64.—A small tree 
20-40 ft. high with a trunk 9-20in. diam. or more; bark dark- 
brown ; branches ascending, pubescent at the tips. Leaves oppo- 
site, petiolate, 2-5in. long including the petiole, linear-oblong to 
obovate-oblong or obovate, acute or obtuse, distantly coarsely ser- 
rate or rarely entire, coriaceous, dark-green above, paler beneath, 
glabrous or more or less pubescent, especially on the petiole and 
midrib beneath. Racemes axillary, often corymbosely branched, 
shorter than the leaves; pedicels variable in length, pubescent. 
