52 FLORA OF TASMANIA. \El<BOcarpe<e . 
long, campanulate, divided to the base ; lobes lanceolate-subulate, acuminate ; margins with stellate pubescence, 
back with simple clavate hairs. Stamens five, with minute petaloid glands at their base, longer than the ovary ; 
filaments filiform, curved. Anthers short, oblong, extrorse ; loculi completely two-valved. Ovary villous, three- 
celled, with a stout, straight, glabrous style and minute stigma. Ovules two, collateral, ascending. Seeds solitary 
in each cell j testa glabrous ? 
Nat. Ord. XVII. EL^EOCAKPE^E. 
The majority of Elaocarpece are tropical Indian, and belong to the genus Maocarpus, of which one 
species inhabits New South Wales. Several species are natives of New Zealand, and others of the Pa- 
cific Islands. As an Order this is hardly sufficiently distinct from Tiliacea, of which there are about 
fifteen tropical Australian species. 
Gen. I. ARISTOTELIA, L'Herit. 
Sepala 4-5, valvata v. subimbricata. Petala 4-5, plerumque apice lobata. Stamina plurima, disco 
carnoso inserta ; filamentis brevibus ; antheris elongatis, apice rimis v. poris dehiscentibus. Ovarium 2-4- 
loculare ; loculis 2-ovulatis. Bacca carnosa, 2-4-locularis, septis membranaceis. Semina angulata ; testa 
Crustacea, extus carnosa v. membranacea, umbilico ventrali appendiculata ; endopleura membranacea ; 
albumine carnoso ; embryone axili, recto ; cotyledonibus dilatatis ; radicula tereti, supera. — Frieda, DC. 
In the New Zealand Flora I have explained my reasons for agreeing with Planchon in reducing Friesia to Aris- 
totelia, a genus confined to Chili, New Zealand, and Tasmania. The Chilian species bears an acid eatable fruit, said 
to be advantageously used, made into a wine, in malignant fevers. — Trees or shrubs, with opposite, exstipulate leaves, 
and flowers in panicles or on single-flowered peduncles. Sepals four or five, valvate or slightly imbricating. Petals 
four or five, generally lobed at the apex. Stamens numerous, with short filaments, inserted in a fleshy disc ; anthers 
linear, bursting with pores or short slits at the apex. Ovary two- to four-celled, with two superimposed ovules in 
each cell, and a straight, simple style. Berry fleshy, two- to four-celled ; septa membranous. Cells one- or two- 
seeded. Seeds pendulous, angular. Testa cmstaceous, usually with a fleshy outer coat. Embryo straight, in fleshy 
albumen, with terete radicle, and broad, flat cotyledons. (Named in honour of the Macedonian philosopher.) 
1. Aristoteiia peduncularis (Hook, fil.) ; glaberrima, foliis breve petiolatis oppositis ternisve 
elliptico- v. ovato- v. anguste lanceolatis acuminatis serratis, pedunculis gracilibus axillaribus unifloris, sepalis 
oblongo-lanceolatis, petalis trilobis, disco tomentoso, ovario tetragono 2-4-loculari, bacca obcordata 1-3- 
sperma. — Eriesia peduncularis, DC. Prodr. i. 520 ; Hook. Journ. Bot. i. 250, ii. 414. Elseocarpus pedun- 
cularis, Lab. Nov. Roll. ii. 15. t. 155. {Gunn, 312.) 
Hab. Southern and mountainous parts of the Island, in shaded places, common, ascending to 4000 feet. 
— (Fl. Nov. to Jan.) {v. v.) 
A small, weak, straggling shrub, 2-4 feet high, everywhere glabrous. Stems slender, terete. Leaves opposite 
or ternate, very variable in size, 1-4 inches long, varying from elliptical-ovate or oblong to linear or lanceolate- 
oblong, coarsely toothed, shortly petioled. Flowers very variable in size, i~| inch long, white, solitary or fascicled, 
on long, slender, curved, one-flowered pedicels, which are jointed beyond the middle. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 
acute, nerved. Petals rather longer than the sepals, cuneate-oblong, three-lobed. Disc fleshy, subpyramidal, lobed, 
pubescent. Stamens ten to twelve, on the top of the disc ; filaments curved, subulate. Ovary tetragonal, with 
four cells and two superimposed ovules attached close together in each cell. Berry obcordate, varying in size from 
a pea to a small cherry, and in colour from pink to black (stains purplish), four-celled, one- to three-seeded. Seeds 
elliptic-oblong, angled; testa coriaceous or crustaceous, with a fleshy surface; albumen fleshy; embryo straight, with 
a cylindrical radicle, and flat, oblong cotyledons. 
