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toothed. Flowers terminal, in 2-3-flowered umbels, or solitary ; pedicels 

 short, decnrved ; flowers small ) sepals linear, silky ; petals recurved at the 

 tips ; ovary conical, hirsute ; stigma 2-lobed ; capsules erect, globose, woody, 

 2-valved ; valves 2-lobed, granulated on both surfaces. 



Var. cratcegifolia — leaves liuear-lanceolate, irregularly lobed and 

 toothed. 



Var. serratum, — leaves ovate, acute, crenate-serrate or dentate. In the 

 young state of all the varieties the leaves are deeply incised and lobed. 



North Island, Whangaroa North, Great Barrier Island. 



Flowers in October. 

 11. P. patulum, Hook. f. Branches stout, glabrous; young leaves narrow 

 linear, lobed or pinnatifid, 2 inches long ; mature leaves spreading 1-1|- 

 inches long, ^ bi'oad, linear- oblong, narrowed at the base into a short 

 broad petiole, obtuse, entire or crenate-sei-rate, very coriaceous and shining. 

 Flowers in terminal 4— 6-flowered iimbels ; pedicels patent, 1" long, with 

 scattered pubescence ; sepals and petals not seen ; ovary glabrous ; style 

 elongated ; capsule nearly globose, compressed, broader than long ; valves 

 somewhat woody, brown, 2-lobed. 



South Island, Wairau Mountains, altitude 5,000 feet, " Handbook 

 New Zealand Flora." 



The description in the "Handbook" is avowedly drawn from "a, 

 single fruiting specimen," and the fruit is said to be axillary. The 

 valuable specimens for which I am indebted to Mr. W. T. L. Travers 

 show both flower and fruit strictly terminal ; by the time the fruit has 

 arrived at maturity the peduncle has contracted to half its original 

 length, and has become rigid and erect. The latter characteristic is 

 manifested in P. Kirkii and P. virgatum, etc. 

 12 P. Ralphii, Kirk, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Yol. III., p. 161. A laxly branched 

 shrub, 8 to 12 feet high in cultivation, with dark brown bark; branches 

 spreading, young branches tomentose ; leaves oblong or obovate, on long 

 slender petioles, acute or obtuse, ?>"-5" long, 1"— 2" wide, coriaceous, 

 clothed beneath with bufi" tomentiim. Flowers in terminal 3-8-flowered 

 umbels ; peduncles Y~¥ -^^^S' tomentose, deciirved in fruit ; sepals linear, 

 obtuse, tomentose ; petals narrow, recurved ; capsules rounded, 3-lobed 

 and valved. 



North Island, Patea, Dr. Ralph ; cultivated at Wellington, J. 

 Buchanan ; Great Barrier Island, W. J. Palmer. 



Easily distinguished from P. crassifolium and P. umhellatum by its 

 slender spreading branches and oblong leaves ; fi'om P. crassifolium it 

 difiers in addition in the larger leaves, which are never narrowed into the 

 petiole or have the margins recurved, and are less coriaceous and tomentose, 



