600 MONIMIACEZ. [Hedycarya. 
Male perianth 4—-41in. diam., saucer-shaped, pubescent. Stamens 
very numerous ; anthers sessile, pubescent along the back. Female 
perianth tin. across. Carpels 8-20. Drupes 4-10, crowded, stipi- 
tate, 4in. long, oblong, obtuse, bright-red, succulent; endocarp 
hard, crustaceous.—H. dentata, Forst. Prodr. n. 8379; A. Rich. Fl. 
Now. Zel. 354; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 3386; Raoui, Choix, 30, t. 30; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.i. 219; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 240; Kirk, Forest 
Fl. t. 110. H. scabra, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 337. GZanthoxylum 
nove-zealandiz, A. Rich. Hl. Nouv. Zel. 291, t. 33. 
NortH anp SoutH Istanps: Abundant in woods from the Three Kings 
Islands and the North Cape to Banks Peninsula and Milford Sound. Sea- 
level to 2500 ft. Porokaiwhirt. October—November. 
The specific name arborea was applied in J. and G. Forster’s ‘‘ Characteres 
Generum,”’ published in 1776, and must therefore take precedence over that of 
dentata, published by G. Forster in the ‘‘ Prodromus”’ in 1786. 
2. LAURELIA, Juss. 
Tall aromatic forest-trees. Leaves opposite, coriaceous. Flowers 
dicecious or polygamous, in axillary cymes or racemes. Male 
flowers: Perianth-tube short, campanulate ; lobes 5-12, in 2 or 3 
series, subequal or the outer shorter. Stamens 6-12; filaments 
short. 2-glandular at the base; anthers 2-celled, opening by 2 up- 
turned valves. Female flowers (or hermaphrodite): Perianth elon- 
gating after fertilisation, narrow-urceolate or tubular, ultimately 
3-5-cleft. Stamens reduced to scales, or the outer series alone per- 
fect. Carpels numerous, fusiform, pilose, narrowed into long plu- 
mose styles; ovule solitary, erect, anatropous. Achenes small, 
densely pilose, included in the enlarged perianth. Seed albuminous; 
embryo small, radicle inferior. 
Besides the New Zealand species, which is endemic, there is a second found 
in Chili. The genus is very closely allied to the Australian Atherosperma, 
which principally differs in the flowers being seated within 2 cymbiform bracts. 
1. L. novee-zealandize, A. Cunn. Precur. n. 354.—A tall forest- 
tree, often attaining a height of 80 to 100 or even 120ft.; trunk 
4-6 ft. diam., usually with radiating buttresses at the base; bark 
pale, almost white; branchlets opposite, tetragonous, the younger 
ones faintly pubescent. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 14-3 in. long, 
oblong or elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse, cuneate at the base, 
coarsely and bluntly serrate, coriaceous, dark-green and glossy above, 
paler beneath, glabrous or silky-pubescent when young. Flowers 
small, 4-1 in. diam., polygamo-dicecious, in axillary racemes 4-1 in. 
long; pedicels silky, as is the perianth externally. Male perianth 
shallow, 5-6-partite almost to the base; stamens about 12. 
Female (or hermaphrodite) perianth with a swollen tube contracted 
above; segments of the limb short, spreading. Stamens either all 
reduced to erect scales, or some or all of the outer row perfect. 
