180 PHANEROGAMIA. 



16. HOHERIA, A Cunn. 



1. HOHERIA POPULNEA, A. Cunn. 



Hoheria populnea, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal, in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 319; Hook. Ic. 



PI. t. 565, 566; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 30. 

 IT. angustifolia, Raoul, PI. N. Zel. p. 48, t. 26, var. fide Hook. f. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



Dr. Hooker enumerates four varieties of this species (including the 

 H. angustifolia of Raoul), which, thus viewed, is very variable as to 

 foliage. Our collection contains only the original or typical form; 

 the fruit of which, I may remark, bears fully as large and long a wing 

 as that delineated by Eaoul, in the work cited above. Mr. Cunning- 

 ham referred this genus to the Bomhacece ; but Sir William Hooker 

 justly insisted on its close relationship to Sida ; and recently Dr. 

 Hooker has referred both it and Plagianthus to the proper Malvacece. 

 Here they would fall into the tribe Malvece, in the arrangement which 

 I formerly sketched ;• where a new subtribe (Plagianthe^e) should, 

 I think, be constituted for their reception, between the Eumalvece and 

 the Sidece, characterized by the simple pentadelplwus column, the capi- 

 tate or introrse stigmata, and the solitary resupinate-suspended ovules. 

 This would place them next to Sidalcea, in which the stamens are 

 similarly united in 5 phalanges, opposite the petals ; but that has the 

 inner series of stamens likewise developed, which does not occur in 

 any other genuine Malvaceous genus. If the details of Raoul's plate 

 above-cited (Fig. 4) were strictly correct, Hoheria would exhibit a 

 character not previously recognised in Malvacece; namely, a truly 



* Genera Florae Am. Bor.-Or. Illustrata, 2, p. 46. — Lawrencia, Hook, is wrongly 

 placed in the conspectus referred to. At least Lawrencia spicata has introrsely stigma- 

 tose styles; and therefore, notwithstanding its resupinate-pendulous ovules, the genus 

 must be referred to the Eumalvece, next to Napma; unless, indeed, the stamens should 

 prove to be pentadelphous, which does not appear to be the case in the badly-preserved 

 flowers I have examined. — Moreover, the name Lawrencia is preoccupied by Laurencia 

 in the Alga, a genus received by all modern Algologists. This Malvaceous genus may 

 be transformed by an anagram into Wrenciala. 



