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generally hairy, as are the peduncles. Leaflets broadly obcordate, glabrous, rather fleshy, glaucous below. Scapes 
one-flowered, often twice as long as the petioles, bearing two bracteola above the middle. Sepals oblong, blunt. 
Petals pure white, 4-1 inch long, oblong-obovate or obcordate, obliquely lobed or retuse, but variable in this last 
particular, often ciliated. Capsule membranous, globose.—1 have but two specimens of the Magellanic plant, which 
are rather smaller and more fleshy than the New Zealand ones; and the petals are not ciliated ; but these characters 
are all variable, both in New Zealand and Tasmanian individuals, some of which are very small and fleshy, scarcely 
an inch high, others elongated, more membranous, and 3-4 inches long. The petals are broadly obovate or more 
oblong, quite smooth or ciliated, obliquely notched, or regular in outline. The large membranous stipules and 
white flowers are its best characters, which it has in common with the very nearly allied O. 4cetosella, L. (wood- 
sorrel) of England, and the north temperate zone generally.—PrATE XIII. Fig. 1, flower; 2, petal; 3, stamens and 
styles; 4, germen :—all magnified. 
NAT. Og». XIX. RUTACEA, Juss. 
Gen. I. MELICOPE, Forst. 
Calyx 4-partitus, persistens. Petala 4, patentia. Stamina 8; filamentis subulatis. Ovaria 4, disco 
inserta, 1-locularia, 2-ovulata, plus minusve inter se coalita; stylo erecto; stigmate capitato. Curpedla 4, 
coriacea, venosa, 2-valvia, abortu l-sperma. Semen funiculo filiformi appensum; testa coriacea. 
A genus confined to New Zealand, containing two species, which are shrubby, opposite- or fasciculate-leaved 
plants or small trees. . Leaves one- or three-foliolate, with pellucid dots. Flowers axillary, paniculate or fascicled, 
greenish. Calyx four-partite, small. Petals four, spreading, much longer than the calyx. Stamens eight; filaments 
smooth, longer or shorter than the petals. Ovarium surrounded by four cleft glands at the base, of four more or less 
combined carpels, with one erect straight style and a capitate stigma. Fruit of four diverging two-lobed carpels, 
each two-valved and splitting down the inner angle, whence the black seeds project, attached by the long funi- 
culus. (Name from ue, honey, and korn, a division, because of the cleft honey-secreting glands round the ovarium.) 
- 1, Melicope ternata, Forst. ; glaberrima, foliis oppositis longe petiolatis, foliolis 3 obovato- v. lineari- 
oblongis acutis in petiolum angustatis, paniculis subtrichotome ramosis, petalis ovatis staminibus longioribus, 
stylo brevi. Forst. Prodr. p. 166. DC. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 603. 
Entoganum levigatum, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. Gartner, fruct. 
Has. Northern Island, and northern parts of Middle Island, Banks and Solander, ete. Cloudy Bay, 
Dieffenbach. Nat. name, “ Wharangi,” Colenso. 
A tree 12-15 feet high, everywhere quite smooth. Leaves opposite, with three leaflets, which are longer than 
the petioles, 3-4 inches long, oblong-ovate, sharp. Flowers greenish-white, small, in axillary trichotomous 
panicles as long as the petioles. Stamens shorter than the corolla. Carpels four, spreading, coriaceous, very much 
reticulated: each splits down the inner face, and projects a small black shining seed, which remains attached by the 
funiculus for some time. 
2. Melicope simplex, A. Cunn. ; fruticosa, foliis (parvis) sparsis oppositis v. ramulis brevissimis fasci- 
culatis 1-foliolatis late ovatis obtusis subduplicato-crenatis, petiolo subulato, pedunculis 2—4 gracilibus axil- 
laribus simplicibus v. 2-4-floris, floribus parvis, petalis lineari-oblongis, filamentis corolla longioribus, stylo 
elongato, ovario hirsuto. 4. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 585. Astorganthus Hugelii, End/. MSS. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; Bay of Islands, and East Coast, Cunningham, Colenso. Nelson, 
Bidwill. Banks’ Peninsula, Raoul. 
