Alectryon. 989 



In Noyae-Zelandiae insula septentrionali et australi, a capite boreali usque 

 ad peninsulam Banksianam et in ora occidentali ad Hokitika et Ross, ab aequore 

 raaris adscendens usque ad 2000 pedes (m. Nov. et Dec. florens, fructus anno post 

 maturans, inde flores et fructus eodem tempore exhibens, t. Kirk, 1. c. 1889): Banks 

 (ins. sept., Sept. 1769, ex A. Cunn. 1. c.); A. Gunni ngham! (ins. sept., in silvis umbrosis 

 ad Wangaroa, a. 1826, fruct.; Hb. Mart., DC, Monac, Vindob.); Rieh. Gunningham 

 (ins. sept., ad fluvios et maris litora, a. 1833, ex A. Cunn. 1. c); Hügel! (circ. 1834, 

 fl. et fr., Hb. Vindob.); Hombron! (ins. austr., Akaroa, Voy. de l'Astrolabe 1837 — 

 1840, Hb. Deless.); J. Hooker! (circ. 1841, fr. juv.); Raoul! (Presqu'ile de Banks, 

 circ. 1842; Hb. Paris., Berol., DG.); Rieh et Brackenridge (Waiaruru Bay 1842, 

 ex Gray 1. c); Dieffenbach (ex W. Hook. 1. c.); Golenso! (circ. 1842, fruct.; c. Hb. 

 Florent. comm. Hooker); W. Travers! (in silvis, m. Nov. 1864, flor. et fr. immat.; 

 Hb. Kew., Berol., Boiss.); Jul. Haast! (ins. austr., prov. Canterbury, a. 1868, fruct.; 

 Hb. Mart., Berol.); Berggren! (ins. sept., Ohoeawai, m. Oct. 1874, fruct.; Hb. Berol., 

 Boiss.); Collector ignotus! (ins. sept., Auckland, flor. $; Hb. Deless.); B. Leland, 

 E. W. B. Chase et J. E. Tilden n. 234! (ibid., m. Jan. 1910, fr.; Hb. Berol.); C. Beu- 

 melburge! (ins. austr., Christchurch, a. 1881, fruct. soli; Hb. Monac). — Cultam 

 vidi in Horto Paris, a. 1868. — Gf. etiam Gockayne, Veget. New Zeal. 2. ed. (1928) 

 120 (in Engl. u. Drude, Veget. Erde XIV). 



3. A. grandis Cheeseman in Transact. N.-Zeal. Inst. XLIV. (1911) 1912, 159, 

 reimpr. in Fedde, Repert. XIII. (Febr. 1914) 190, c. syn. A. excelsus var. grandis 

 Cheeseman, Manual N.-Zeal. Fl. (1906) 103; Man. ed. 2. (1925) 552. — A. excelsus, non 

 alior., Cheeseman in Trans, and Proc. N.-Zeal. Inst. XXIII. (1891) 408. — A. excelsus 

 var. grandis Th. Kirk, Student's Fl. N.-Zeal. (1899) 95, coli. Cheeseman, Three Kings 

 Islands. — »Arbor 15-pedalis et ultra, ramulis sericeo- et ferrugineo-pubescentibus. 

 Foliapinnata, alterna, breviter petiolata, 22 — 30 cm longa; foliola 2 — 3-juga, brevissime 

 petiolulata, late oblonga vel ovato-oblonga, obtusa vel subacuta, 10 — 18 cm longa, 

 5 — 9 cm lata, praeter costam venasque primarias plus minusve serieeo-pubescentia; 

 venis ultimis conspicue reticulatis, subtus elevatis. Flores ignoti.« 



New-Zealand: »Cliffs on the north side of the Three Kings Islands; a single 

 srnall clump alone seen«. T. F. C. 



Obs. Species mihi non visa, olim a Cheeseman mera var. Aleclryonis excelsi habita, a quo ex 

 Cheeseman differt foliis 2 — 3 (nee sub-5)-jugis, foliolis late oblongis vel ovato-oblongis (nee ovato- 

 lanceolatis) subduplo majoribus, nee non firmioribus obtusioribusque. 



4. A. celebicus Radlk. in Fedde, Repert. XVIII. (1922) 341, et in Engl. u. Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzenfam., Nachtr. III. (1907) 205 (nomen, c. syn. seq.). — A. ferrugineus, 

 non Radlk., Koorders, Fl. Minahassae in Meded. Plantent. XIX. (1898) 401!; Koord.- 

 Schumacher, Syst. Verz. III. Celebes (1914) 75, coli. n. 18817)8!.! - Vulgo: Woesel- 

 aloes in lingua Tontemboan, t. Koord. I.e. — Arbor; rami teretes, apice petiolique 

 hirsuto-tomentosi, mox glabrescentes, cortice nigro-fusco ; folia 3-juga; foliola opposita, 

 ovalia vel suboblonga, apice acutiuscula vel brevissime acuminata, basi obtusa in- 

 aequilatera (latere exteriore breviore angustiore) petiolulis brevibus crassiusculis in- 

 sidentia, apice obscure denticulata, chartacea, nervis lateralibus sat approximatis 

 obliquis subtus prominentibus, supra ad nervös tantum puberula, subtus — densissime 

 ad nervös — hirsuto-tomentosa, opaca, epidermide mucigera; paniculae axillares, 

 ramis thyrsoideis cymulas breviter stipitatas vel apice flores singulos gerentibus, 

 sordide tomentellae; flores — (non suppetebant); fructus subsessilis, obcordato-2-coccus, 

 coeco altero interdum abortivo a lateribus compresso, coccis evolutis globosis margine 

 superiore in cristam medianam summo dorso in apiculum oblique patentem terminatam 

 produetis, cano-tomentellis, subtransversim dehiscentibus, intus glabris; semina globosa; 

 cotyledon interior circinata, ab exteriore amplexa. 



Rami 3 mm crasei. Folia petiolo 2 — 3,5 cm longo adjeeto 12 — 16 cm longa; foliola 

 cum petiolulis 2 — 4 mm longis 5 — 12 cm longa, 2 — 5 cm lata. Fructus cocci diametro 



