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2. AMSTOTELIA, L’Hentier. 
Shrubs or trees, with opposite or subopposite, exstipulate leaves. Flowers 
usually unisexual. — Sepals 4 or 5, valvate or subimbricate. Petals 4 or 5, 
lobed or crenate, rarely entire, sometimes minute. Stamens 4 or 5 or nume- 
rous, inserted on the glandular torus ; filaments short ; anthers with short 
terminal slits. Ovary 2-4-celled ; style subulate, eutire ; cells 2-ovuled. 
Berry 2-4-celled, few- or many-seeded. Seeds often fleshy on the outside 
of the hard testa. 
A small genus, with two Australian and Tasmanian, one Chilian, and the three following 
New Zealand species. 
Leaves large, membranous, pubescent. Racemes many- flowered ... 1. A. racemosa. 
Leaves large, membranous, glabrous. Racemes many-flowered . . . 2. A. Colensoi. 
Leaves small, coriaceous. Flowers few 3. A.frulicosa. 
1. A. racemosa, Hook. f. Ft. N. Z. i. 33. A small handsome tree, 
6-20 ft. high, with blackish bark and pubescent twigs. Leaves on long 
petioles, membranous, pubescent, variable in form, 3-5 in. long, ovate cor- 
date or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, deeply irregularly and acutely serrate, 
often red or purple beneath. Bacemes panicled, axillary, manv-flowered, 
peduncles and pedicels slender. Flowers dioecious, small, the males largest, 
•i—- 3- in. diam., nodding. Petals 4, 3-lobed, rosy, of the female flower very 
small. Stamens numerous, yellow, minutely hairy ; anthers longer than the 
filaments. Ovary usually 4-celled. Berry size of a pea, eaten by the natives. 
— Friesia racemosa, A. Cunn. Prodr. ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 601. 
Abundant throughout the islands, Banks and Solander, etc. “ Wood white, very light, 
makes veneers,” Buchanan. 
2. A. Colensoi, Hoo/c.f., n. sp. Very similar in most respects to A. ra- 
cemosa, but differing in the much narrower, perfectly glabrous leaves, which are 
ovate-lanceolate, narrowed into a long acuminate point, deeply irregularly 
serrate ; and the small fruit, which is no bigger than a peppercorn. The 
seeds are as in A. racemosa. I have seen no flowers. 
Northern Island : woods in the Wairarapa valley, Colenso. 
3. A. fruticosa, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 34. A small, rigid, erect or 
decumbent shrub, with woody tortuous branches, and erect or spreading 
downy shoots, with red-brown bark. Leaves very variable, on short, downy 
or glabrous petioles, coriaceous, 5— 1 in. long, ovate obovate or linear-ob- 
long, obtuse, entire crenate toothed serrate or lobed. Flowers minute, 
usually solitary and axillary, rarely racemose ; peduncles usually short. Petals 
4, very short or as long as the calyx, entire or lobed, pink, shorter in the 
female. Stamens 4-6 ; filaments short ; anthers downy. Ovary 2-4-celled. 
Berry globose, small, 4-6-seeded. Seed with a bony, rugged testa, covered 
with a thin pulp. 
Common in mountain districts, alt. 2-4000 ft., throughout the islands, and varying greatly, - 
Colenso, etc. 1 have made four varieties iu the New Zealand flora, but they seem to be 
states determined by age and exposure, rather thau hereditary races ; of these the var. /3 is 
possibly a very small form of A. racemosa. 
3. ELJEOCAR.PTJS, Linn. 
Trees, generally hard-wooded, with the branches leafy at the extremity. 
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