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XX. ANACARDIACEJE. 
1. CORYNOCARPUS, Forst. 
A small, perfectly glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, broad, bright-green, 
entire, coriaceous. Flowers in branched terminal panicles, small, green. — Calyx 
5-lobed ; lobes rounded, imbricate. Petals 5, perigynous, rounded, concave, 
erect, imbricate, jagged. Disk fleshy, 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted between 
the lobes of the disk, alternating with 5 petaloid jagged scales. Ovary sessile, 
ovoid, 1-celled, narrowed into an erect style, stigma capitate ; ovule pendu- 
lous below the top of the cell. Drupe obovoid, fleshy ; endocarp coriaceous 
and fibrous. Seed pendulous ; testa membranous, adherent to the cell ; coty- 
ledons plano-convex, radicle minute. 
1. C. laevigata, Forst. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 48. A leafy tree, 40 ft. high. 
Leaves 4-7 in. long, oblong or lanceolate, subacute, shining, on short, stout 
petioles. Panicles erect, thyrsoid, spreading, 4 in. long. Flowers small, 
globose, -J- in. diam., greenish-white, inodorous, on short, stout pedicels. 
Petals as long as the calyx-lobes, concave. Filaments stout, subulate. Ovary 
small, glabrous. Drupe 1 in. long, oblong. — Bot. Mag. t. 4379. 
Northern and northern part of the Middle Islands : abundant near the sea, Banks 
and Solander, etc. ; Chatham Island, Bieffenbach. Pulp of the drupe eatable ; embryo 
considered poisonous till steeped in salt water. 
Order XXI. CORIAEIE.®. 
Sarmentose, glabrous, leafy undershrubs, with angular branches. Leaves 
opposite or rarely 3-nate, exstipulate, entire. Flowers hermaphrodite, soli- 
tary or racemed, axillary, regular. — Sepals 5, triangular-ovate, imbricate, per- 
sistent. Petals 5, hypogynous, triangular, shorter than the sepals, after 
flowering becoming fleshy and closely appressed to the carpels. Stamens 10, 
hypogynous, all free, or 5 of them adnate to the petals ; filaments short ; 
anthers large, rough. Carpels 5 or 10, whorled round and adnate to a fleshy 
torus, 1-celled; styles 5 or 10, free, flexuose, stigmatiferous all over; ovules 
solitary, pendulous. Fruit of 5-8, small, indehiscent, compressed, oblong, 
cmstaceous achenes, keeled on the back and sides, enclosed in the fleshy petals . 
Testa membranous ; albumen thin ; cotyledons plano-convex ; radicle very 
short, superior. 
The only genus (of dubious affinity) is a native of southern Europe, the Himalaya, and the 
South American Andes ; the New Zealand species and their forms are all similar to what 
are found in the latter couutry. The root of the European species is extensively used for 
tanning leather in Russia. 
1. CORIARIA, Linn. 
Stems perennial, shrubby. Leaves 1-3 in. long 1. C. ruscifolia. 
Stems annual? Leaves ovate or lanceolate, A-l in. long .... 2. C. tliymifolia. 
Stems annual. Leaves narrow-linear, lanceolate, j in 3. C. anyustissima. 
1. C. ruscifolia, Linn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 45. A perennial shrub 1 0-18 ft. 
high ; trank 6-8 in. diam. ; branches often long and flexuose. Leaves oblong 
or obovate, acuminate or acute, 3-5 -nerved, sessile or shortly petioled. 
Racemes 8-12 in. long, drooping, many-flowered, pubescent; pedicels -5 in., 
