34 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Olacinee. 
serrata, Forst. Prodr. DC. Prodr. A. Rich. Fl. Nov. Zeal. Eleeocarpus dicera, Willd., Banks et Sol. Ic. 
et MSS. Triphalia rubicunda, Sol. MSS. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands, abundant, Forster, etc. Fl. October to January and February. 
Nat. name, “ Mako-Mako," Cunn. (Cultivated in England.) 
A handsome small tree, with large leaves, generally red or purplish beneath, and racemes of small rosy flowers. 
Leaves variable in form, membranous, pubescent, as are the branchlets and panicles, becoming glabrous when old ; 
3-5 inches long, ovate, cordate or oblong lanceolate, deeply and irregularly serrate, acuminate, on long petioles. 
Panicles (though called racemosa, the inflorescence is not a simple raceme) half as long as the leaves, from whose 
axils they arise. Peduncles and pedicels slender. Flowers small, 2-4 lines across; males largest. Petals rosy, three- 
lobed; those of the female flowers very small. Stamens many, bright yellow, covered with microscopic hairs ; 
anthers longer than the filaments. Ovary usually four-celled. Berry as large as a pea, eaten by the natives, acid. 
2. Aristotelia fruticosa, Hook. fil.; fruticulus decumbens v. erectus, rigidus, ramulis petiolisque 
puberulis divaricatis v. suberectis, foliis glaberrimis parvis coriaceis breve petiolatis obovatis ovatis ob- 
longisve obtusis crenatis v. serratis subter venosis, floribus 4-meris dioicis axillaribus, pedunculis 1-3-floris 
basi bracteolatis, sepalis ovatis obtusis, petalis calyce sequilongis obovatis integris v. obscure lobatis infi. foem. 
abbreviatis, staminibus 4—6, filamentis brevibus, antheris pubescentibus, ovario 2—4-loculari, bacca globosa 
4—6-sperma, testa ossea. 
Var. a. suberecta; folis 1 unc. longis coriaceis crenatis. 
Var. B. erecta; foliis 1-14 unc. longis dentatis v. serratis minus coriaceis. 
Var. y. prostrata; foliis parvis 11 unc. longis oblongis coriaceis. 
Var. 8. microphylla; suberecta, ramis divaricatis virgatis laxe foliosis, foliis parvis coriaceis obovato- 
spathulatis obtusis, baccis parvis. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Var. a and 8. East Coast; Ruahine range, at a considerable 
elevation, Colenso. Var. y. Milford Sound, Lyall; Nelson, Bidwill. Var. 8. Base of Tongariro, and at 
Tarawera, Colenso. 
A very variable plant, growing freely as a bush, 4—6 feet high, in damp woods, becoming small and prostrate 
in more alpine and exposed localities, and more rigid and straggling on a drier soil lower down. Some of Mr. 
Colenso's specimens of var. 8 have the leaves more membranous, sharply serrate, and occasionally very irregularly 
lobed, resembling those of a starved plant of 4. racemosa. The flowers and fruit are, however, the same in all these 
localities, varying but little in size, and not at all in structure.—Stems and branches woody, covered with red-brown 
bark; upper and petioles pubescent. Leaves on short petioles, generally very coriaceous, 3 lines to 1 inch long, 
ovate, obovate, or linear-oblong, blunt, crenate, or serrate. Flowers very minute, red, solitary, on short simple 
peduncles, almost buried in sheathing coriaceous bracts, rarely two or three together, and forming a raceme. 
Berries red, fleshy, 1-2 lines across, four-celled, three- to five-seeded. Seeds with a bony more or less tuberculated 
testa, covered with a fleshy cellular coat, which is not separable, and in which the nutrient vessels of the growing 
seed partly ramify.—Two species are perhaps confounded under 4. fruticosa. 
Nar. On». XIII. OLACINEA, Miró. 
Gen. I. PENNANTIA, Forst. 
Flores dioici. Calyæ obsoletus. Petala 5, valvata. Fu. d Stamina 5, petalis alterna; filamentis gra- 
cilibus ; antheris longe exsertis; pollen spheericum, 3-lineatum ; rudimentum ovarii minimum conicum. 
Fr. 9 Stamina abbreviata, inclusa. Ovarium lineari-oblongum, obtuse trigonum, stigmate sessili 3-lobo 
