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red, oblong, obtuse, pedunculate drupes + inch long. Hudocarp coriaceous. Seed pendulous, albuminous. Zmbryo 
half the length of the albumen; cotyledons diverging ; radicle pointing to the hilum. (Name from nous, sweet, and 
kapva, a nut.) 
1. Hedycarya dentata, Forst.; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis lineari-oblongis obovatisve remote dentatis 
v. integerrimis, paniculis axillaribus paucifloris pubescentibus. Forst. Prodr. A. Rich. Flora. A. Cunn. 
Prodr. Raoul, Choia de Plantes, p. 30. t. 30 (excl. syn. Forst.). H. scabra, A. Cunn. Prodr. Xantho- 
xylon Nove-Zelandie, A. Rich. Flora. 
Has. Northern and Middle Islands; found as far south as Akaroa, Banks and Solander, Forster, etc. 
(Cultivated in England.) 
NAT. Ord. LXXIV. PROTEACE EE, Juss. 
Gen. I. KNIGHTIA, Br. 
Perianthium 4-phyllum. Stamina ultra medium corolle inserta. Glandule hypogyne 4. Ovarium 
sessile, 4-spermum. Stigma verticale.  Folliculus coriaceus, l-locularis. Semina apice alata. 
A very large tree, nearly 100 feet high, erect, and very narrow for its height, hence conspicuous: the wood 
(Rewa-Rewa) is much prized for its colour (mottled red and brown), and for splitting into shingles. Branches very 
stout, woody, pubescent. Leaves 4-8 inches long, very hard, linear-oblong, blunt, coarsely and bluntly toothed. 
Racemes nearly as long as the leaves, densely covered with red-brown velvety down, as are the pedicels, flowers, and 
ovaria. Flowers in pairs, 1 inch long, slender. Perianth jointed on to the peduncles, of five linear valvate pieces. 
Stamens with very long anthers, and short filaments, attached to the pieces of the perianth. Style long, slender, 
thickened towards the end. Fruit a woody, downy capsule, 1 inch long, with a long style, and four seeds winged 
at the apex. (Named in honour of 7. 4. Knight, an eminent author on vegetable physiology.) 
1. Knightia excelsa, Br.; foliis crassis coriaceisque lineari-oblongis obtusis obtuse dentatis, racemis 
axillaribus dense ferrugineo-tomentosis, bracteis parvis deciduis. Br. in Linn. Soc. Trans. v. 10. p. 194. t. 2. 
A. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island; common in woods. Nat. name “ Rewa Rewa.” (Cultivated in England.) 
Gen. II. PERSOONIA, Sm. 
Perianthium 4-phyllum, foliolis medio staminiferis, regulare, deciduum. Glandule hypogyne 4. 
Ovarium pedicellatum, 1-loculare, l-2-spermum. Stigma obtusum. Drupa baccata; putamine 1-2- 
loculari. 
A very large Australian and Tasmanian genus, of which only one species is found in New Zealand, P. Zoro, 
a small evergreen tree, perfectly glabrous. Leaves narrow linear or linear-lanceolate, 4-8 inches long, coriaceous, 
acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, shining. Flowers one-bracteate, on short, erect, axillary, pubescent, six- to ten- 
flowered racemes an inch long. Perianth of four pubescent lacinize, bearing the stamens about the middle. Ovary 
glabrous, sessile, with a short style and blunt stigma. Fruit an oblong two-celled drupe. (Named in honour of 
Dr. D. C. H. Persoon, a native of the Cape Colony, and an eminent Botanist.) 
1. Persoonia Zoro, A. Cunn.; glaberrima, fruticosa v. arbuscula, foliis anguste lineari-lanceolatis 
acuminatis nitidis coriaceis paucinerviis, racemis axillaribus strictis pubescentibus 6-10-floris, floribus 
pubescentibus. 4. Cunn. Prodr. 
Has. Northern Island. Woods, from Auckland northward, Banks and Solander, etc. Nat. name, 
Toro, Gol, 
