Griselinia.] XXXVI. COENACEAE. 225 



petiole. Flowers axillaiy or terminal, solitary or fascicled. Petals broader. 

 Drupe globose, Jin. in diameter, red. — Hook, f ., Fl. N.Z. i. 98 ; Handbk. 106. 



Prom the Three Kings Islands and North Cape to the mouth of the Waiau and the Blufi, but 

 often local. Ascends to 2,600ft. Dec, Jan. 



Vigorous young shoots rarely produce acutely toothed or lobed leaves exceeding IJin. in length. 



2. GRISELINIA, Porst. 



Flowers dioecious. Male : calyx-teeth 5, minute or ; petals 5, valvate ; 

 stamens 5 ; disk fleshy, pentagonous. Female : calyx-teeth adnate with the 

 ovary, ovoid or turbinate, 5-toothed ; petals 5 or ; stamens ; ovary 1—2- 

 celled ; styles 3, very short, connate at the base, stigmatic tips, subulate, re- 

 curved ; ovules solitary. Fruit a 1-celled 1-seeded drupe, crowned with the 

 minute calyx-teeth. Cotyledons divaricating. Evergreen shrubs or large trees. 

 Branches scarred at the nodes. Leaves very oblique at the base or nearly sym- 

 metrical, glossy, the petiole shortly sheathing and jointed to the branch. 

 Panicles axillary or subterminal. 



Besides the New Zealand species, which are endemic, 3, or perhaps 4, others are found in 

 Chili. 



Leaves large, very unequal. Female flowers apetalous . . . . . . . . 1. G. lucida. 



Leaves smaller, often nearly symmetrical. Female flowers polypetalous.. .. 2. G. littoralis. 



1. G. lucida, G. Forst., Prod. n. 401. A shrub or small tree, 3ft.-30ft. 

 high, often epiphytic. Bark furrowed. Leaves all obliquely ovate or oblong, 

 rounded at the apex, very unequal at che base, or almost cordate, glossy, -lin.- 

 6in. long ; petiole short, stout. Flowers in subterminal or axillary much- 

 branched panicles, 3in.— 6in. long. Rhachis and pedicels pubescent; pedicels 

 jointed to the rhachis. Female flowers minute, apetalous. Drupe fleshy, 

 blackish-purple, 1-celled, 1-seeded. — -Willd., Sp. PL iv. 1128 ; A. Cunn., 

 Precurs. n. 261; Raoul, Choix. 46; Hook, f., Fl. N.Z. i. 98; Handbk. 105; 

 T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. t. 41. Scopolia lucida, Forst., Char. Gen. t. 70. 

 Lissophyllum lucidum, Banks and Sol. MSS. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from Spirits Bay to Dusky Sound and Foveaux Strait. Puka. 

 Poukater. Oct., Nov. 



2. G. littoralis, Raoul, Choix. 12, t. 19. A round-headed tree, 40ft.-60ft. 

 high, with a short trunk 2ft.— 5ft. in diameter. Bark roughly furrowed. Leaves 

 almost symmetrical at the base, ovate or oblong-ovate, narrow, rounded at the 

 apex, liin.— 4in. long, yellowish-green; veins obscure; petiole slender. Panicles 

 axillary, iin.— 2in. long, finely pubescent ; branches very short or wanting. 

 Female flowers : calyx-teeth obsolete ; petals 5, narrower and longer than in 

 the male. Fruit smaller than in G. lucida. Panicle sometimes reduced to a 

 raceme. — Hook, f., Handbk. 105 ; T. Kirk, Forest Fl. N.Z. 69, t. 42. Puka- 

 teria littoralis, Raoul in Ann. Sc. Nat. ii. (1844) 121. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands : from the Cape Colville Peninsula southward to Stewart Island. 

 Ascends to 3,000ft. Kapuka. Papauma. , Tapatapauma. Oct., Nov. 



Timber extremely durable, although not of large dimensions. 



