Eleocarpea. | FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. 33 
abortu 1-loculari. Raoul, Choir de Plantes, p. 26. 4.25. E. serratus, Zinn. fil., fid. Banks et Sol. Ic. 
et MSS. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; east coast, Banks and Solander, Colenso; Nelson, Bidwill ; 
Akaroa, Raoul. Nat. name, “ Hinau,” Raoul; “ Pokaka,” and “ Mahimahi," Colenso. 
A much smaller-leaved plant than the former, guite smooth in every part, except the anthers, which are obscurely 
hispid. Trunk 30-40 feet high, similar to F. Hinau. Leaves coriaceous ; margins not recurved, but repand-sinuate, 
crenate or bluntly serrate; linear-oblong or elliptical, blunt, on petioles 4-4 the length of the lamina, which is 13—2 
inches; young leaves linear and sinuate, almost pinnatifid like the leaflets of several New Zealand Araliacee, also 
like young leaves of Pittosporum rigidum. Racemes erect, shorter than the leaves. Flowers small, drooping. Sepals 
14 line long, lanceolate, acuminate. Petals whitish, as long as the sepals, cleft into unequal linear blunt lobes. 
Stamens as in E. Hinau, but anthers blunter. Berry small, blue, 4 inch long. Nut hard, furrowed and rough on 
the surface. 
Gen. II. ARISTOTELIA, Herit. 
Flores hermaphroditi v. 1-sexuales. Sepala 4-5, valvata v. subimbricata. Petala 4-5, apice integra 
v. lobata, infi. 9 interdum sguamaformia. Stamina 00, disco carnoso inserta; filamentis brevibus; an- 
theris elongatis 2-locularibus, apice rimis v. poris 2 dehiscentibus. Ovarium sessile, 2—4-loculare, ovulis 
quovis loculo 2 superimpositis. Bacca subcarnosa, rotundata, 2—4-locularis, dissepimentis membranaceis. 
Semina loculis 2, v. abortu pauciora, superimposita, angulata; testa crustacea v. ossea, extus membranacea 
v. pulposa, umbilico ventrali appendiculato; endopleura membranacea; albumine carnoso ; embryone axili, 
recto; cotyledonibus dilatatis, planis undulatisve; radicula tereti, supera. Herit. Stirp. Rar. De Cand. 
Prodr., ete. Friesia, Auct. in part. 
G. Don (Gardner’s Dictionary) alludes to the great similarity between the anthers of Aristotelia and those of 
Eleocarpee, and I find the genus referred to that Order (on Don's authority) in Herb. Hook.: M. Planchon con- 
firmed this view, and has called the New Zealand species Aristotelia Forsteri, Planch. MSS. Another species, with 
somewhat dissimilar habit, is found in Tasmania (Zleocarpus peduncularis, Lab., Friesia, DC.) ; its petals are usually 
three-lobed ; those of the 4. racemosa are trifid, of 4. Macgui (the Chilian species) entire, and those of a second 
New Zealand species, 4. fruticosa, nearly so also. All form shrubs or trees, with opposite petiolate leaves, which 
vary much in size and form, and have no stipules.—Flowers in more or less ample panicles or racemes, seldom 
solitary, hermaphrodite or unisexual. Sepals four to five, valvate, pubescent at the margins, which sometimes 
overlap a little, and become imbricate. Petals obovate, entire or lobed, sometimes in female flowers reduced to 
scales. Stamens many, or few in female flowers, inserted on a thick torus; filaments short; anthers long, usually 
hairy, opening by pores. Ovarium two- to four-celled, with two superimposed ovules in each cell; style slender, bifid 
to quadrifid at the apex. Berry surrounded at the base by the persistent calyx, globose, obscurely angled, fleshy, 
two- to four-celled. Seeds two in a cell, or fewer by abortion, angular; testa bony, covered with a thin fleshy or 
membranous covering (inconspicuous in some of the species).—I do not find the cotyledons plicate in the Chili 
plant, as Endlicher describes them, but obscurely undulated ; they are rather broader and thinner, but not otherwise 
different from those of the New Zealand and Tasmanian species. The fruit of 4. Macgui is acid and eatable, and 
is made into a wine used in cases of malignant fever, and was employed by Dombey in Chili during the plague of 
1782 with boasted success. (Name in memory of the Macedonian philosopher Aristotle.) 
1. Aristotelia racemosa (Friesia, A. Cunn.) ; arbuscula, ramulis foliis paniculisque pubescentibus demum 
glabratis, foliis longe petiolatis late ovatis oblongo-lanceolatisve basi cuneatis cordatisve acuminatis grosse 
duplicato-serratis, paniculis axillaribus effusis, floribus 4-meris dioicis, petalis roseis 3-fidis calyce longiori- 
bus, floribus foemineis parvis, staminibus sub-12 pubescentibus, antheris filamentis 4 longioribus, baccis 
globosis, seminis testa crustacea.  Friesia racemosa, A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 601. Dicera? 
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