22 II. MAGNOLIACEAE. [Drimys, 



1. DRIMYS, Forst. 

 Sepals 2-4, membranous, united at the base and forming a calyx with 

 4 or 5 unequal lobes. Petals 5 or 6 or more, in two series, spreading. Fila- 

 ments clavate ; anther-cells diverging. Carpels few. Fruit a berry. 



1. D. axillaris, Forst., Gen. t. 42. An evergreen shrub or small tree 

 with black bark, 10ft.-30ft. high. Leaves entire, shortly petioled, elliptic, ovate, 

 or oblong-lanceolate, green on both surfaces or glaucous below^ lin.— 4in. long. 

 Flowers perfect or rarely unisexual, in 3— 6-flowered fascicles, springing from the 

 axils of the leaves or leaf-scars, pedicellate. Calyx 2-4-lobed. Petals 5-6, 

 linear, spreading. Stamens about 10 in 3 serie.^ ; filaments short, clavate. 

 Carpels 4 or 5. Fruit a berry, 4-6-seeded ; seeds angular. — DC, Syst. Veg. i. 

 443 ; A. Rich., Fl. N.Z. 290 ; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 629 ; Hook., Ic. PI. t. 576 ; 

 Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 12 ; Handbk. 10; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 1. Wintera 

 axillaris, Forst., Prod. n. 229. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Bay of Islands to Banks Peninsula. Sea-level to 2,500ft. 

 Horopito. Oct. to Deo. 



Var. colorata. Smaller, pungent. Leaves yellowish, blotched with red, glaucous beneath. 

 Flowers in 2-3-flowered fascicles. Calyx saucer-shaped, not lobed. Berries 2-seeded.— T. Kirk, 

 Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 2. D. colorata, Baonl in Ann. Sc. Nat. ii. 121 ; Ghoix, t. 23. NORTH and 

 SOUTH Islands : Ohinemutu to Southland. STEWART Island. Pepper-tree. 



The leaves vary greatly in size. The typical form is rarely or never pungent. 



Oedee— * PAPAVERACEAE. 



Sepals 2, rarely 3. Petals 4, crumpled. Stamens co, hypogynous. Ovary 

 1-celled, with parietal placentation, many-ovuled. Fruit a capsule or pod, dehiscing 

 by pores. Seeds minute, with oily or fleshy endosperm ; embryo minute, basilar. 

 Herbs with alternate exstipulate leaves and milky juice. 



* Papaveb. Stigmas forming a, radiating disk. 



* Glaucium. Stigmas deflexed. 



* EscHSCHOLTZiA. Stigmas linear, erect. 



* PAPAVER, Linn. 

 Erect. Sepals 2, fugacious. Petals 4. Stamens oo. Ovary shortly stipitatei 

 usually 1-celled, septate by the intruded placentas, which bear ovules over their 

 entire surface. Style short and thick, or 0. Stigma with radiating lobes. Capsule 

 globular or clavate. Seeds minute, pitted ; endosperm copious, oily. Erect annual 

 herbs with alternated lobed or dissected leaves. Buds drooping. 

 Leaf-segments narrow. Capsule roundly obovate . . . . . . . . * P. Bhoeas. 



Leaf-segments narrow. Capsule clavate . . . . . . . . . . * P. dtibium. 



Leaves amplexicaul. Capsule globular .. .. .. .. .. * P. somniferuin. 



* P. Rhoeas, L., Sp. PL 507. Erect, hispid. Leaves 2-pinnatifid, deeply cut 

 into linear segments, each with a bristle at the apex. Peduncles with spreading or 

 rarely appressed hairs. Flowers large. Petals unequal, crimson. Capsule glabrous, 

 rounded-obovate, stjpitate. Stigma convex. Bays 8-12. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Naturalised in cornfields and cultivated land. Not common. 

 Corn-poppy. Deo. to Feb. Europe. 



'P. dubium, L., Sp. PI. 1196. Erect, branched. Leaves pinnatifid or twice 

 pinnatifid ; segments obtuse. Peduncles with appressed hairs. Capsule sessile, 

 glabrous, obovoid. Lobes of stigmatic disc projecting. — P. Lamott&i, Boreau. 



SOUTH Island : Cornfields and cultivated land, Otago ; local. Petrie ! Europe. 



