A sweetish milky juice is exuded iu considerable quantity when the bark is 

 wounded. In the early days of colonization it was frequently used with tea instead 

 of milk, and from that the plant received the local names of milk-tree, or cow-tree. 

 The Maori name is turepo. 



Plate 180. Paralrophis helerophylla. dnuvn from specimens (male, female, and l)raucli from a 

 young tree) collected near Mercer, by the Waikato River. Fig. 1, leaf (x2); 2, male flower-bud 

 ( X 6) ; 3, peltate scale ( x 8) ; 4, male flower ( x 6) ; 5, male flower from above ( x 6) ; 6, stamen 

 (x8) ; 7, branclilet, with female flowers (x5) ; 8, section of ovary (x 7) ; 9, longitudinal section of 

 fruit ( x 2i) ; 10, section of seed (x 3) ; 11, embryo (enlarged). 



