172 FLORA OF NEW ZEALAND. [Myrsinee. 
NAT. Og». LI. MYRSINEE, Zr. 
Gen. I. SUTTONIA, 4. Rich. 
Flores polygamo-dioici. Calyx 2-5-partitus, rarius obsoletus, Petala 4-5, rarius basi connata. 
Stamina 5; filamentis brevibus, basi corollee insertis ; antheris basi cordatis. Ovariwm ovatum, in stylum 
breve attenuatum, 1-loculare, 1- rarius 2-ovulatum ; ovulis placenta globosa immersis; stigmate cyathiformi, 
lobato v. lacero. Fructus subbaccatus; putamine crustaceo, l- rarius 2-spermo. Semina reliquiis mem- 
branaceis placentee induta. 
Shrubs or small trees, quite glabrous, with scattered, alternate, exstipulate, entire or sinuated leaves, and very 
inconspieuous axillary, solitary, or fascicled flowers. All parts covered with glandular oil-cavities, seen as trans- 
parent dots when the leaves are dried and held between the eye and the light. The species are confined to New 
Zealand, Lord Auckland’s Group, Campbell’s Island, and Norfolk Island. Flowers moncecious, rarely hermaphrodite. 
Calyx of two to five lobes, sometimes wanting. Corolla of five concave ciliated petals, sometimes united at the 
base, often becoming reflexed before falling away. Stamens short, inserted on the petals, with short broad fila- 
ments and subsagittate anthers broad at the base. Ovary somewhat flaggon-shaped, turgid below, tapering into a 
short thick style, which is terminated by a broad-lobed concave or fimbriated stigma, one-celled. Ovules one, 
rarely two, immersed in a globose fleshy placenta, which so much resembles a seed that it requires careful examina- 
tion to find the ovules in it. In the ripe fruit this fleshy placenta appears as a thin, brown, membranous covering 
to the rounded seed, which has a very delicate testa, horny albumen, and terete rather curved radicle lying across 
the seed. (Named in honour of the Rev. Dr. Sutton, F.L.S., author of a paper on British species of Orobanche.) 
$ a. Petals cohering at the base. Ovules and seeds one or two. 
1. Suttonia salicina, Hook. fil.; arbuscula glaberrima, foliis lineari-elongatis obtusis integerrimis 
glandulis oblongis perplurimis notatis, floribus hermaphroditis ramis fasciculatis sublonge pedicellatis, 
petalis basi coheerentibus calycisque lobis subciliatis, baccis ovatis oblongisve 1-2-spermis. FL. Antarct. 
p. 52 in nota. Myrsine salicina, Heward, MSS. Drymis axillaris, A. Cunn. Herb. Tas. XLIV. 
Haz. Northern Island, from the Bay of Islands to Hawke’s Bay; in woods, Cunningham, ete. 
A small erect tree, leafy at the ends of the branches, everywhere perfectly glabrous. Leaves spreading, 4-7 
inches long, about 1 broad, linear, blunt, guite entire, narrowed into a short petiole, marked with copious small 
oblong transparent glands, seen in the dried leaf between the eye and the light. Flowers very numerous, in many- 
flowered bunches, growing from buds on the branchlets, below the leafy portion. Peduncles 1-1 inch long, without 
bracts, stout, straight. Calyx of five blunt ciliate lobes. Petals five, linear-oblong, blunt, revolute, ciliated. Ovary 
with a short style, large cup-shaped irregularly lobed stigma, and one or two ovules. Berry 4 inch long, oblong 
or obovate. —PLare XLIV. Fig. 1, bud; 2, flower; 3, petals; 4, ovarium; 5, ripe fruit; 6, vertical, and 7, 
transverse section of the same; 8, seed in its withered placenta; 9, seed removed from placenta; 10, embryo :— 
all but fig. 5 magnified. 
$ b. Petals free. Ovules and seeds solitary. 
2. Suttonia australis, A. Rich.; fruticosa v. arbuscula glaberrima, stricta, erecta, virgatim ramosa, fo- 
liosa, foliis obovatis obovato-oblongisve breve petiolatis obtusis undulatis reticulatisve venosis, floribus in 
glomerulos sessiles aggregatis brevissime pedicellatis, calyce 0 v. 2-4-lobo, antheris petalis majoribus, 
baccis parvis pedicellatis late oblongis. 4. Rich. Flora. Fl. Antarct. Myrsine Urvillei, 4/p2. DC. Prodr. 
Myrsine undulata, 4. Cunn. Prodr. Merista levigata, Banks et Sol. MSS. et Ic. 
