32 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Hleocarpea. 
1. Entelea arborescens, Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 2480. A. Cunn. Prodr. Apeiba australis, 4. Rich. Fl. 
Nov. Zeal. p. 301.1. 34. Corchorus sloanoides, Banks et Sol. Ic. et MSS. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, not unfrequent, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, “ Whau,” 
Colenso, and “ Hauama,” in the Middle Island. (Cultivated in England.) 
This, the only known species, is confined to New Zealand. It is very nearly allied to the Cape of Good Hope 
genus Sparmannia. 
Nat. Orb. XII. EL4AOCARPEAL, Juss. 
Gen. I. ELZEOCARPUS, Z. 
Sepala 5, valvata. Petala 5, apice lacera. Stamina 00; antheris pubescentibus elongatis, loculis in- 
eequalibus, muticis v. unico aristato. Discus carnosus, lobatus. Ovarium 2-5-loculare; ovulis pendulis ; 
stylo recto; stigmate simplici. Drupa monopyrena, nuce tuberculata, 2—5- (abortu 1-) loculare. Semen 
inversum. 
'Trees, with very hard but splitting wood, furnishing a brown or black permanent dye from the bark, much 
used by the natives. Branches fastigiate, leafy at their erect apices. Flowers in axillary racemes. Sepals four to 
five. Petals four to five, toothed or fimbriated. Stamens with long pubescent anthers and short filaments, placed 
on a swollen lobed disc. Ovary two- to five-celled, with straight style, simple stigma, and one to two pendulous 
ovules in each cell. Fruit an oblong drupe, containing a very hard granulated one- to five-celled nut.— This genus 
is almost entirely Asiatic and tropical; many species are Australian. (Name from eda, an olive, and kapros, fruit, 
the berry resembling an olive.) 
1. Eleocarpus Hinau, A. Cunn.; glaberrima, ramulis novellis sericeis, foliis lineari-oblongis obovato- 
oblongisve obtusis acutis acuminatisve in petiolum angustatis coriaceis marginibus obscure serratis recurvis 
subtus pallidis rarius pube appressa sericeis, nervis validis seepissime ad costam impressis, racemis sericeis 
v. glabratis erectis folio equilongis v. brevioribus, floribus pendulis albis, petalis lobatis lacerisve, antheris 
aristatis, drupa plerumque abortu 1-loculari. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. le. Plant. t. 602. — Dicera dentata, 
Forst. De Cand. A. Rich. Y. Cunninghamii, Raoul, Choix de Plantes, p. 25. 
Haz. Northern Island, and northern parts of Middle Island, Forster, etc. Nat. name, “ Hinau,” 
Cunningham. (Cultivated in England.) 
A small erect tree, with fastigiate branches at the top of its slender straight trunk. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 
erect, very coriaceous, variable in shape, linear-oblong, obovate or lanceolate, narrowed into a short stout petiole, 
blunt or with a long acumen, the margins recurved and obscurely serrate, underside whitish, sometimes shining 
with very closely appressed silky down, with strong veins, and generally a deep hollow where these join the midrib. 
Racemes silky or smooth (as are the sepals), as long or shorter than the leaves, of many white pendulous flowers, 
Linch broad. Petals three- to five-lobed or fimbriated. Stamens with very short filaments, and long four-angled 
hispid anthers, terminated on one side by an awn. Drupes 3-3 inch long, oblong; the pulp rubbed off from the 
nuts is eaten by the natives, and has an astringent taste. Nut deeply furrowed, very hard, generally 1-celled, with 
hardly a trace of the other cells. —The Æ. Cunninghamii of M. Raoul, founded on a comparison of a single specimen 
of E. Hinau, Cunn., with another solitary individual in Forster's herbarium, of the original Dicera dentata, appears 
to me not even a variety, judging from the variations in the foliage of my specimens. 
2. Eleocarpus Hookerianus, Raoul; arboreus, glaberrimus, ramis fastigiatis, foliis petiolatis lineari-ob- 
longis obtusis (junioribus linearibus varie sinuato-pinnatifidis) coriacels sinuato-crenatis, racemis folio 4 bre- 
vioribus, floribus parvis, petalis cuneatis laceris, antheris vix aristatis, ovario 2-loculare, drupa ovoidea, nuce 
