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Tihacee. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 21 
native name, which signifies to bind or tie. Branchlets and peduncles pubescent. Leaves smooth (young ones 
pubescent), very variable in size, breadth, and depth of toothing, ovate or lanceolate, 2-5 inches long, on petioles 
2 inch long, veined, generally sharply and coarsely doubly toothed, at other times finely serrate. Flowers variable in 
size, i-$ inch broad, white. Petals linear-oblong, blunt, oblique or toothed on one side, pubescent, rarely smooth at 
the back. Carpels produced outwards into an oblong short blunt ascending wing, longer than broad. That of 
var. y. angustifolia, as figured in M. Raoul’s work, is much narrower and longer than in the specimens he gave me. 
Subgenus II. APTEROGARPA.  Carpels and styles 10, the latter not winged. 
2. Hoheria Zyallii, Hook. fil.; arbuscula, foliis petiolatis ovato-cordatis utrinque cano-pubescentibus 
regulariter dupli- triplicato inciso-crenatis, lobulis obtusis, pedunculis 1-floris, floribus amplis, petalis late 
ovato-oblongis obtusis apices versus obliquis. Tas. XI. 4. 
Var. 8 ? foliis glabratis duplicato-dentatis lobulis acutis. Tas. XI. B. 
Has. Middle Island. Hills west of Canterbury, Lyall. Nat. name, “ Whau-whi" Lyall. Var. B. 
Dusky Bay, Forster ; Milford Sound, Zyall. 
A small tree, of which I have seen but three specimens; one in flower from Canterbury, the two others in 
fruit from the West Coast, and possibly belonging to a different species. eaves in both similar in size and form, 
2-4 inches long, ovate-cordate, with pubescent petioles 3—1 inch long; pubescent on both surfaces, the margin 
deeply and regularly cut into lobes which are twice or thrice obtusely crenate; in var. a, they are smooth or 
nearly so, and the margin is irregularly toothed, the lobules being rather sharp. Peduncles about as long as the 
petioles. Flowers large and handsome, nearly an inch across, pure white.  Calyz thickly downy. Petals obscurely 
notched at one side towards the apex. Fruit (in var. B) size of a large pea, of ten very flat reniform membranous 
carpels, collected into a globose head, surrounded at the base with the persistent calyx. Seed solitary, compressed, 
curved; testa hardly coriaceous, pale red-brown; albumen scanty; embryo large, with a long curved radicle, and 
convolute broad cotyledons.—PrATrE XI. Fig. 1 and 2, flowers; 3, pistil; 4, ovarium cut open; 5, ripe seed; 6, 
vertical section of the same :—all magnified. 
Nar. Orb. XI. TILIACEA, Juss. 
Gen. I. ENTELEA, Br. 
Sepala 4-5, acuminata. Petala 4-5. Stamina 00, omnia fertilia; antheris 2-locularibus, dorso 
affixis. Ovarium hispidum, globosum, 4—6-loculare ; stylo angulato ; stigmate umbilicato. Capsula globosa, 
hispido-echinata, supra medium 4-6-valvis ; loculis polyspermis. 
A small branching tree, 3—5 feet high, generally growing in patches near the sea, and whose light wood is 
used as floats for nets. Whole plant more or less densely covered with appressed stellate tomentum. Leaves 
alternate, large (4-8 inches long), on long petioles, obliguely ovato-rotundate, deeply cordate at the base, pointed, 
irregularly dupli- triplicate crenate or serrate, angled, sometimes obscurely lobed, five- to seven-nerved at the base; 
stipules small, persistent. Inflorescence an irregular, erect, spreading panicle, with subumbellate stout branches and 
peduncles, bracteate at the axils, and drooping white flowers, 3-1 inch broad. Sepals four to five, ovate, acuminate, 
densely pubescent. Petals crumpled. Stamens very numerous, forming a densely packed row round the globose 
hispid germen. Capsules as large as a hazel-nut, four- to six-angled, as many celled and valved, densely covered with 
long, spreading, stiff, pointed, spinous bristles, nearly an inch long, splitting from the crown nearly half-way down; 
cells gaping, Seeds small, oblong, in two rows along the inner angle of each cell, whose walls are almost woody 
and transversely wrinkled ; testa hard, pale grey; albumen oily. (Name from evreAns, perfect, all the stamens being 
fertile, in which respect it differs from Sparmannia.) 
