?2 X. MALVACEAE. {Hoheria. 



Var. dentata. Leaves lanceolate nr elliptio-Ianoeolate, sharply and doubly serrate or dentate. 

 Fascicles 3-4-flowered.— T. Kirk, Forest Fl, N.Z. t. 54a, f. 1 and 2. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from Whangarei to Canterbury ; local in the north. Thousand- 

 jacket. Houhere. Feb. to April. 



Subsp. obtuslfolia. Leaves membranous, elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, subacute or obtuse, 

 sharply toothed or spinuiose-toothed ; petioles short. Fascicles 3-4 flowered. — T. Kirk, Forest Fl. 

 N.Z. t. 54, f. 1, t. 54a, f. 3. 



NORTH Island : chiefly in the Whangauui district. Dec, Jan. 



Subsp. angustifolia (sp.) Raoul in Ann. Sc. Nat. (ser. i.) iii. (1844) 122; Clioix de PI. t. 

 26. Leaves in young state solitary or fascicled on long slender flexuous shoots, suborbicular, ouneate 

 at base, 3-5-toothed ; mature leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, cuneate at the base, spinuiose-toothed ; 

 petioles very short. Fascicles 2-3-flowered. Petioles, peduncles, leaves, and branchlets often hoary 

 or pubescent.— T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 54b, f. 2. 



Var. acutifolla. Leaves on mature plants usually soft, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, lin.- 

 IJin. long, with strong spinulose teeth ; petioles very short. Pedicels very slender. — T. Kirk, Forest 

 Fl. N.Z. t. 55, f. 1 and 2. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : Bast Cape to Otago. Jan., Feb. — H. sexstylosa, Colenso in 

 Trans. N.Z.I, xvii. (1884) 238, appears to be a form of this, characterized by " 6 or 7 styles, the leaves 

 acuminate, sometimes truncate at the tips." Dec, Jan. 



AU the forms are confined to lowland districts, rarely exceeding l.OOOtt. above sea-level. They 

 pass into each other by insensible gradations, so that it is impossible to draw well-defined lines of 

 separation. 



3. GAYA, Humb., .Bonp., and Kunth. 



Bracteoles 0. Calyx 5-fid. Staminal tube divided at the apex into oo fila- 

 ments. Ovary oo-celled ; cells 1-seeded. Brariclies of the style as many as 

 the cells, filiform. Stigma capitate or truncate. Mature carpels membranous, 

 connivent at the apex, separable from the axis, dehiscing at the back into 2 

 valves, leaving the internal dorsal ligament ascending from the base round the 

 seed. Seeds pendulous or horizontal. Herbs or shrubs, rarely small trees, 

 often tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers pedunculate, axillary or 

 terminal. 



Species, about 7, ranging from Mexico to Brazil. One species endemic in New Zealand. 



1. G. Lyallii, J. E. Baker in Journ. Bot. xxx. (1892) 37. A shrub or 

 small tree, 10ft.— 30ft. high, clothed with stellate white pubescence. Stipules 

 large, deciduous. Leaves ovate, acute or acuminate, cordate or truncate at 

 base, 3in.-4.in. long, deeply or doubly crenate or toothed or lobed, glabrous 

 above when mature ; petioles slender, lin.-l^in. long. Flowers in ebracteolate 

 fascicles, rarely solitary, fin. in diameter. Peduncles lin.— 2in. long, 1-flowered. 

 Calyx campanulate, teeth deltoid. Petals oblique, notched on one side near the 

 apex, white. Staminal tube short. Ovary 10-12-celled. Style divided near 

 the top into short arms. Stigma obliquely capitate. Fruit discoid, depressed, 

 separating into as many carpels as stigmas. Carpels 3-valved, the valves 

 separating from the internal dorsal ligament, ] -seeded. ^eed pendulous, much 

 compressed. — Playianthus LijaUii, A. Gray e:v Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. ii. 326 and 

 Handbk. 30; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 134. Sida Li/al/li, F. Muell. in \cg. 

 Chath. Isds. Hoheria Lyallii, Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 31, t. 11. 



Var. rlblfolia. Leaves deeply lobed or partite, 



SOUTH Island : margins of subalpine forest from Nelson and Marlborough to 

 Ascends to 3,000ft. Usually deciduous at high levels. Lacebark. Dec, Jan. 



