18 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Escalloniee. 
only one of its genus, much resembling Rhamnez in habit, inflorescence, valvate perianth, and epigynous disc; but 
certainly allied to Escallonia in the structure of the fruit: the latter is an extensive genus, confined to South 
America, and represented by Carpodetus in New Zealand, and by Quintinia in New Holland. The valvate petals are 
found in another allied plant, Cornidia of Chili. (Name from kapros, fruit, and deros, bound ; from the fruit being 
girt by the calyx.) 
1. Carpodetus serratus, Forst. Gen. DC. Prodr. A. Cunn. Prodr. Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 564. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; usually on river-banks. Nat. name, “ Piri Piri Whata,” Cunn. 
(Cultivated in England.) 
Bark grey-brown, tuberculated on the branches, which, with all other parts, are covered with scattered small 
white appressed hairs. Leaves ovate-oblong or elliptical (13 inch), acute, coarsely serrate, narrowed into a petiole 
(ž inch long), clouded red, yellow, and green, paler below ; veins reticulated. Leaves on young plants small, + inch, 
very variable, rounded or obovate, panduriform or deeply sinuate below the middle, displaying that tendency to 
lobation common to so many other New Zealand plants. Panicles shorter than the leaves, branches spreading. 
Flowers white, 2 lines across. 
Gen. II. QUINTINIA, 4. DC. 
Calycis tubus obeonicus, elongatus, ovario adnatus ; limbus 5-dentatus, 7-superus. Petala 5, imbricata. 
Stamina 5. Ovarium 3-4-loculare, superne liberum, conicum, in stylum crassum 3-lobum contractum ; ovulis 
plurimis, angulo interiori loculorum insertis. Capsula lignosa, costata, supra medium calyce persistente 
cincta, superne libera, 3-valvis, incomplete 3-locularis. Semina parva, fusiformia, imbricata, late alata. 
The only New Zealand species are shrubs or small trees, covered more or less with lepidote scales, that secrete 
a viscid exudation; they have alternate, exstipulate, entire, or obtusely serrated leaves, and axillary or terminal 
racemes. Calyx with a rather long obconic tube, united with the ovary; the limb five-toothed. Petals 5, imbri- 
cated. Stamens 5. Ovary three-quarters immersed in the calyx; upper part free, conic, forming a three-lobed 
style, with as many capitate stigmata (rarely four-lobed), three-celled, with many ovules at the inner angle of the 
cells. Capsule coriaceous, ribbed, terete, oblong, encircled above the middle by the persistent calyx-teeth, incom- 
pletely three-celled ; upper part free, three-valved. Seeds numerous, imbricating, oblong-fusiform, with a broad 
membranous hyaline border, formed of long delicate cells, albuminous; embryo very minute, not seen. —The 
dehiscent woody capsule of this genus is very different from that of Carpodetus, as are the membranous hyaline 
seeds, which closely resemble those of Hydrangea, Cornidia, Philadelphus, and others, to which this is more nearly 
allied than to Carpodetus, although the leaves are alternate. The Australian Q. Sieber? has longer and more com- 
pletely consolidated styles. I have not discovered the true nature of the seed in either: itis very small, and loosely 
enveloped in a beautiful broad, membranous, compressed coat. (Named in honour of La Quintinie, a French 
botanist and writer on horticulture.) 
1. Quintinia serrata, A. Cunn.; foliis elongato-linearibus lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve sinuato- 
serratis integerrimisve lepidotis discoloribus, racemis multifloris folium subeequantibus. 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 558. 
Has. Northern Island; not uncommon in dry woods, Cunningham, ete. 
A small, erect tree. Young branches, leaves, and racemes, covered with lepidote scales. Leaves petiolate 
(3-6 inches), very narrow, linear or linear-oblong, blunt, sinuate, serrate or entire, reddish below. Racemes about 
as long as the leaves, strict, erect, many-flowered ; pedicels 2 Iines long. Flowers + inch across. Capsules 2-3 lines 
long. —- Very variable in length and breadth of leaf. A 
2. Quintinia elliptica, n. sp.; foliis ellipticis elliptico-lanceolatisve integerrimis obtusis. Aw sp. 
distincta ? 
