Pseudopanax.] 



XXXV. ABALIAOEAE. 



221 



PI. N.Z. i. 95, t. 22; A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 715. A. polygama. 



Banks and Sol. MSS. 



From the North Cape to STEWART Island. Ascends to 2,800ft. Patete. Kotete. Patata. 

 Feb., Haroh. 



6. PSEUDOPANAX, C. Koch. 



Calyx-teeth obsolete or inconspicuous. Petals : male 5, valvate, inflexed 

 at the tips ; female 0. Stamens 5 ; anthers ovate or oblong. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 styles connate at the base, forming a short cone or column ; stigmas sessile. 

 Fruit subglobose, fleshy, ribbed when dry. Pyrenes laterally compressed, bony. 

 Glabrous shrubs or trees. Leaves usually polymorphic ; foliage simple or 

 digitate, coriaceous, often coarsely toothed. Flowers in paniculate or simple 

 dioecious umbels or racemes. Bracts caducous or 0. 



As now constituted the genus is restricted to New Zealand, and is spefcially remarkable for the 

 large amount of metamorphism exhibited by the foliage of certain species. The flowers are not 

 jointed to the pedicels. 



Leaves all 3-5-foliolate ; petioles and peduncles stout 



Leaves mostly 1-foliolate, ovate, rarely 3-foliolate ; petioles and peduncles 

 slender . . 



Leaves of unbranched state deflexed, with short distant teeth. Fruit small. 

 Styles conical 



Leaves of unbranched state deflexed, with lobulate hooked teeth. Fruit large. 

 Styles truncate 



Leaves of unbranched state erect. Female umbels simple. Fruit large, 

 globose . . 



1. P. Lessonii. 



2. P. ( 



3. P. crassifolium. 



i. P. ferox. 



5. P. Chathamicum. 



1. P. Lessonii, C. Koch in C. Koch and Pint Wochenschrift ii. (1859) 

 336. A much-branched shrub or small tree, 6ft.— 20ft. high. Branches stout. 

 Leaves 3— 5-foliolate ; leaflets sessile, lin. — lin. long, obovate or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, subacute or obtuse, thick and coriaceous, glossy, entire or sinuate- 

 serrate ; veins indistinct; petioles 2in.— 6in. long. Umbels terminal, sessile or 

 on short stout peduncles. Male flowers racemose ; primary rays 5—8, lin.— Sin. 

 long, each carrying 3—10 terminal racemes, often with lateral racemes below ; 

 pedicels exceeding the flowers, slender. Female : primary rays shorter ; 

 secondary rays ^in.- fin. long, 3— 5-flowered ; pedicels exceediug the ripe fruit; 

 styles 5, short, truncate. Fruit broadly oblong, 5-celled, 5-seeded. — Cussonia 

 Lessonii, A. Rich., Fl. N.Z. 285, t. 32 ; A. Cunn., Precurs. n. 511 ; Raoul, 

 Eiium. 46. Aralia Lessonii, Hook, f., PI. N.Z. i. 96. A. trifolia. Banks and 

 Sol. MSS. Panax Lessonii, DC, Prod. iv. 253 ; Hook, f., Handbk. 102. 

 Hedera Lessonii, A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. 719. 



NORTH Island : chiefly littoral : Three Kings Islands and North Gape southwards to Poverty 

 Bay. 



2. P. Gilliesii, «. s. A shrub or small tree, 10ft.-15ft. high. Branches 

 slender. Bark whitish. Leaves chiefly 1-foliolate, coriaceous, but not thick ; 

 blade liin.— 2iiu. long, liin. broad, ovate acute or acuminate, acutely serrate; 

 petioles very slender, shorter than the blade, rarely 3-foliolate ; leaflets 3in. 

 long, lanceolate, coarsely toothed, narrowed below. Flowers not seen. Fruiting- 



