76 XI. TILIAOBAE. [Elaeocarpus . 



coriaceous or rarely membranous, iin— lin. long, ovate-obovate, linear-oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, rounded at the tip, quite entire or crenate or serrate. Flowers 

 solitary or in axillary 3-6-flowered cymes or racemes. Pedicels pubescent. 

 Sepals 4, oblong, obtuse, pubescent or ciliate. Petals 4, equalling or slightly 

 exceeding the sepals, with 1—4 crenatures at the apex. Stamens 6—8 ; anthers 

 much longer than the filaments. Seeds 4, angled. — Handbk. 33. Myrsine 

 br achy dados, Col. in Trans. N.Z.I, xxii. (1889) 478. 



Var. erecta (sp.), Buoh. in Trans. N.Z.I, iii. (1870) 209. Branches rigid, usually opposite, 

 pubescent in ilie young state. Leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acutely 

 serrate. Cymes or racemes §in. long, axillary. Flowers as in the typical form. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands; STEWAET Island: from the Thames southwards. Ascends 

 to upwards of 3,000ft., but varies to a remarkable degree in habit and foliage. 



3. ELAEOCARPUS, Linn. 

 Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Petals 4 or 5, valvate, lobed or laciniate, inserted 

 at the base of the torus. Stamens oo, inserted on the glandular torus. An- 

 thers long, awned, opening by a short terminal slit. Ovary 2— 5-celled, with 2 

 or more pendulous ovules in each cell; style subulate. Fruit a drupe, with a 

 hard or bony putamen, 2—5- rarely 1-celled, furrowed or rugose. Seed 

 solitary in each cell, pendulous ; testa hard. Trees, with usually alternate 

 entire or serrate exstipulate leaves. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, rarely 

 polygamous, racemose. 



Species, about 55. Moat plentiful in tropical Asia, extending to the Paoifio Islands, New 

 Caledonia, and Australia; but the New Zealand species are endemic. 



Etym. Prom the Greek, signifying olive, and fruit, the drupe often closely resembling an 

 olive. 



Leaves oblong-obovate, whitish beneath, margin recurved . . . . . . 1. .E. dentatus. 



Leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, margins flat . . . . . . . . 2. E. Hookerianus. 



1. E. dentatus, Vahl, Symb. Bot. iii. 66. A round-headed tree. Trunk 

 lft.-3ft. in diameter. Branchlets often naked except at the tips, silky when 

 young. Leaves alternate, in the young state 3in.— 6iu. long or more, subcoria- 

 ceous, elliptic, acute, sinuate; mature state 2in.— 3in. long, very coriaceous, 

 linear-oblong or obovate, acute, white with silky appressed down beneath, 

 serrate or sinuate-serrate, margins recurved ; petioles short. Racemes nume- 

 rous, silky, 8-10-flowered. Flowers Jin. in diameter, drooping. Petals broadly 

 obovate, 4— 5-lobed above, lobes rounded. Filaments 10—12, very short ; 

 anthers tetragonous, with a fiat recurved tip. Ovary silky, 2-celled ; ovules 4 

 in each cell. Drupe iin.— fin. long; stone rugose, 1-celled, 1-seeded. — Hook, 

 f. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 602; Fl. N.Z. i. 32; Handbk. 34; T. Kirk, Forest 

 Fl. N.Z. t. 11. E. hinau, A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 602. E. Cunninghamii, 

 Raoul, Choix de PI. 25. Dicera dentata and D. serrata, Forst., Char. Gen. 80. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: from the North Cape to Catlin's River. Ascends to i.OOOft. 

 Hinau. Oct., Nov. 



2. E. Hookerianus, Raoul, Choix de PL 26, /. 25. A glabrous tree. 

 Trunk lft.-3ft. in diameter. Bark white. Branchlets tortuous and interlaced 

 in young state, with narrow-linear leaves fin,— l^in, long, irregularly toothed or 



