Colensoane. N. O. Celastrines ? 
TAB. DLXIV. 
CaRPopETUS SERRATUS. Forst. 
Carpodetus serratus. Forst. Gen. t. 17. De Cand. Prodr. 2, p. 
29. A. Cunn. Fl. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. v. 3, p. 247. 
Has. N. Zealand. Middle Island. Forster. On the allu- 
vial banks of rivers, occasionally in salt-water marshes, 
Wangarei, &c.; Northern Island :—called “ Piri-piri-water” 
by the natives. .4. Cunningham. Mr. Colenso (n. 33). 
Arbor 10-20-pedalis, (A. Cunn.) Folia biuncialia, alterna, 
ovata, coriaceo-membranacea, opaca, subglanduloso-dentata, 
acuta, supra puberula, subtus pallidiora, basi in petiolum 
semilineam longum attenuata. Flores corymbosi, corymbis 
pedunculatis folio brevioribus; ramis pedicellisque minuté 
bracteolatis. Calyx parvus, semisuperus, pubescens: tubo 
brevissimo pateriformi, limbo 5-dentato, dentibus erectis, 
deciduis. Corolla 5-petala, ovato-lanceolata, extus pubes- 
cens, patens. Stamina cum petalis alternantia. Filamenta 
erecta, petalis breviora. Anthere ovato-rotundate, biloculares. 
arium turbinatum, a vertice depressum, plusquam semi- 
inferum, 5-loculare, pluri-ovulatum, ovulis podospermo 
elongato, e loculi summitate, angulo interiore pendentibus. 
Stylus filiformis, longitudine filamentorum. Stigma capitatum. 
Capsula (vix matura) subglobosa, supra medium ¢€ lapsu 
loborum calycinorum quasi zonata. Zoculi et semina 1mma- 
tura ut in ovario. 
same, cut through vertically. #7. The same, cut through 
_ transversely. ff. 8. Scarcely mature seed, with its podosperm : 
all but figure 4 more or less magnified. 
