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44 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [ Coriariez. 
A shrub, 6-8 feet high, with slender twiggy branches, and scattered small leaves. Petioles 4-3 inch long, 
broader above and channelled, almost winged. Leaflet one, 3—3 inch long, smooth, dotted, sometimes obscurely 
pubescent, ovate, blunt, doubly crenate. Pedicels several together, axillary, slender, longer than the petioles, each 
bearing a very small green flower, sometimes forked or trichotomous, bearing small bracteole at the fork. Petals 
linear-oblong. Stamens longer than the corolla; four shorter than the others, according to Mr. Cunningham. Ovary 
oblong, usually an with elongated style. Fruit as in M. ternata, but much smaller.—I have occasionally seen 
three leaflets upon a petiole, but this is very rare; the lateral ones in this case were much the smallest. 
Gen. II. PHEBALIUM, Vent. 
Calyx parvus, 5-lobus. Petala 5, linearia. Stamina 10, petalis longiora, alterna breviora. Ovaria 
5, sessilia, 1-locularia ; loculis 2-ovulatis; stylo elongato, gracili; stigmate simplici. Carpella 5, coriacea, 
1-locularia, 2-valvia, 1-sperma. 
A large Australian and Tasmanian genus, containing many species; one only is a native of New Zealand. Tt 
forms a shrub or small tree, 12-15 feet high, with twiggy branches and alternate leaves, smooth in every part. 
Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong, blunt, narrowed into very short petioles, 1-14 inch long, coriaceous, obscurely 
crenated, paler and dotted below. Flowers numerous, + inch across, in terminal corymbs, pale-coloured, on short 
pedicels 2-3 lines long. Calyx very small, five-toothed. Petals four, linear, blunt, between valvate and imbricate 
when in bud. Stamens ten, long and exserted, on slender filaments. Ovaries five, very small, placed close together 
and having but one slender simple style, each one-celled, with two ovules. Fruit of five spreading coriaceous 
wrinkled carpels, of which one to three are often abortive, each is one-celled, two-valved, splitting first down 
the front. (Name adopted by Ventenat, under the erroneous impression that this genus was allied to the 
Myrtle, which bears the same name in the works of some Greek comic poets.) 
1. Phebalium nudum, Hook.; glaberrimum, foliis linearibus lineari-oblongisve obtusis subcrenatis 
punctatis, floribus in corymbum terminalem dispositis. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 568. 
Has. Northern Island. Bay of Islands, 4. Cunningham ; East Coast, Colenso, Edgerley ; Auckland, 
Sinclair. 
NAT. Og». XX. CORIARIEZ, DC. 
~ Gen. I. CORIARIA, Mss. 
Flores hermaphroditi v. abortu l-sexuales. Calya 5-partitus. Petala 5, parva v. glanduleeformia. 
Stamina 10, hypogyna.  Carpella 5-6, 1-locularia; ovulo solitario, pendulo; stylis 5-6, filiformibus. 
Carpella perianthio carnoso incrassato inclusa, crustacea. Semina pendula, exalbuminosa; embryo 
rectus; cotyledonibus carnosis; radicula brevi, hilo proxima. 
Small trees or shrubs, generally with trailing or straggling branches, akoo opposite, sessile, three- to five- 
nerved leaves, and axillary racemes of many flowers. Flowers pedicellate, bracteated. Calyx hemispherical, five- 
lobed. Petals five, small, like glands, becoming fleshy, and surrounding the fruit. Stamens ten, with short 
filaments, and large two-lobed anthers. Ovaries about five, almost united into one, each with a filiform spreading 
style, one-celled ; cells with one pendulous ovule. Fruit baccate, from being surrounded by the fleshy petals, of five 
crustaceous carpels, each containing a solitary pendulous exalbuminous seed.—This genus contains but few species ; 
possibly only two (of which one presents two varieties, described below as two species), both of which are common 
to South America and New Zealand; the other is a European plant, apparently also found in the Himalaya 
Mountains. The genus is unknown in Australia, Polynesia, North America, and Africa. The proper place of this 
