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different habit belong to each, technical characters whereby their species may be more naturally arranged are wanting. 
The male flowers are usually the largest, and have long filaments. Tn the females the stamens are usually present, 
but small and sterile. (Name from sav, everything, and akos, a remedy ; on account of the supposed virtues of the 
famous P. Ginseng of China.) 
§ a. Leaves simple (1-foliolate). Umbels small, imperfect. 
1. Panax anomala, Hook.; fruticosa, ramis divaricatis setosis sguamulosisgue, foliis parvis 1-fo- 
liolatis in petiolum. brevissimum articulatis obovatis oblongisve obtusis remote crenato-dentatis glaberrimis, 
umbellis parvis axillaribus paucifloris breve pedunculatis, ovario 2-loculari. Hook. in Lond. Journ. Bot. 
v. 9. p. 492. t. 12. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands. Bay of Islands, east coast and interior, Colenso. Nelson, Bidwill. 
Nat. name, “ Wawa paku,” Col. (Cultivated in England.) 
A very anomalous species, on account of its small leaves, setose scaly branches, and small axillary umbels. 
It forms a shrub very like Melicope simplex and Eleodendron micranthum in general appearance. Branches thickly 
covered with small scales and bristles. Leaves rather remote, small (3 inch), jointed on to a very short petiole, 
obovate or oblong, blunt, crenate or serrate, rather coriaceous, quite smooth. Petiole flat, with stipelle at its 
apex. Umbels axillary, one- to four-flowered ; peduncle shorter than the petiole. Flowers very minute, green, with 
very short pedicels. Fruit large for the plant, 2-3 lines broad. Styles two. 
2. Panax linearis, Hook. fil. ; arborea? glaberrima, ramis infra folia bracteolatis, foliis breve et crasse 
petiolatis lineari-oblongis obtusis v. apiculatis crassis et coraceis l-nerviis remote subserratis, umbellis 
parvis paucifloris axillaribus foliis multo brevioribus subsessilibus, stylis 2-4 recurvis. 
Has. Middle Island. Chalky Bay, Zya/7. 
Everywhere quite smooth. Branches terete, woody, scarred, leafy at the apices, and bearing rigid, coriaceous, 
ovate, acuminate, simple or trifid bracteole, about 13 line long, among the bases of the leaves. Leaves simple, 
very rigid, thick and coriaceous, on short thick petioles, with adnate subulate stipules at the base, narrow oblong, 
exactly linear, 2 inches long, 4 broad, blunt, with one stout central nerve, and a thickened obscurely serrate margin. 
Umbels axillary. Male flowers unknown, as are the petals. Female umbels of eight to ten flowers, nearly sessile 
on a bracteolated common peduncle, in the axils of the leaves. Fruit (unripe) broadly urceolate, two- to four- 
celled, with as many recurved styles, united at the base.— In some respects this curious plant resembles Aralia cras- 
sifolia more nearly than Panax; in others, P. simplex, which is perhaps its nearest affinity. 
$ b. Leaves simple, the young ones only 3—5-foliolate. Petioles without stipules. Umbels many-flowered. 
3. Panax simplex, Forst.; arborea, foliis longe petiolatis 1-foliolatis (junioribus 3—5-foliolatis), 
foliolis obovato-lanceolatis subacutis grosse serratis coriaceis lucidis, umbellis terminalibus axillaribusque 
compositis, umbellulis 6—10-floris, ovario 2-loculari. Forst. Prodr. DC. Prodr. A. Rich. Flor. t. 31. 
A. Cunn. Prodr. Fl. Antarct. v. 1. p. 18. t. 12. 
Has. Northern Island; in the mountains, Colenso. Middle and Southern Islands, abundant, Forster 
and Bidwill, etc. 
A small, smooth, evergreen tree, 12—20 feet high, with glossy dark foliage. Leaves on petioles 1-3 inches 
long; young ones three-foliolate, older one-foliolate; leaflet 2—4 inches long, obovate or lanceolate, blunt or acumi- 
nate, coarsely serrated. Umbels racemose, axillary or terminal, shorter than the leaves; ultimate umbels ten- to 
twelve-flowered. Flowers on pedicels 3-5 lines long, dicecious. Styles two.— This plant is abundant in Lord 
Auckland’s Group. Mr. Bidwill sends as seedling plants of this, from Nelson, specimens with five-foliolate leaves, 
the leaflets deeply sinuato-pinnatifid, which I suspect may belong to an 4ralia, since I have gathered seedling 
plants of P. simplex, and always found three-foliolate leaves, the leaflets in all respects like those of the old plant. 
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