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coriaceous, yellow-brown above, red-brown below. Eacemes shorter than the 
leaves. Mowers f in. diam. Capsules a in. long. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 558. 
Var. /3. Leaves broader, very viscid, oblong-lanceolate, 3 in. long, 1 broad. 
Northern Island : not uncommon in forests. Var. (3. Middle Island : A orere valley, 
alt. 1400 ft., Travers. 
2. Q. eiliptica, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 78. Very similar to Q. serrata, 
but smaller. Leaves 2 in. long, on rather longer petioles, very obtuse, 
broader, and very obscurely sinuate-serrate. 
Wort hern Island : east coast, Colenso. Probably a variety of Q. serrata. 
8. IXERBA, A. Cunn. 
A small, evergreen, glabrous shrub or tree. Leaves exstipulate, opposite 
alternate or whorled, glandular-serrated. Plowers large, white, panicled. — 
Calyx-tube adnate with the base of the ovary; lobes 5, deciduous, imbricate. 
Petals 5, inserted beneath a 5-lobed disk, obovate, acute, clawed, coriaceous, im- 
bricate. Stamens 5; filaments filiform; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary superior, 
conical, 5-lobed, 5-celled, narrowed into a subulate, acute, 5-furrowed, twisted 
style, stigmas acute ; ovules 2 in each cell, collaterally suspended. Capsule very 
coriaceous, shortly ovoid, 5-celled, dehiscing through the style loculicidally ; 
valves cohering below, 2-partite above. Seeds oblong, compressed, with a 
thick funicle and shining clouded or black testa, large embryo, and little 
albumen. 
1. I. bresdoides, A. Cunn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 82. A small tree, 20 ft. 
high. Leaves coriaceous, linear or linear-lanceolate, 4 in. long by broad, 
but very variable. Mowers lf-lf in. diam. Capsule f in. broad. Seed 
J-J- in. long. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 577-588. 
Northern Island : in woods, from the Bay of Islands to Wellington, but not very 
common. 
4. CAHPODETUS, Forst. 
A shrub or tree. Leaves alternate, exstipulate, evergreen. Flowers pani- 
cled. — Calyx-tube turbinate, connate with the ovary ; lobes 5 or 6, short, de- 
ciduous. Petals 5 or 6, inserted under an epigynous disk, spreading, valvate. 
Stamens 5 or 6 ; filaments short, subulate ; anthers oblong. Ovary inferior, 
with a swollen top, 3-5-celled ; style slender, stigma capitate ; ovules very 
numerous. Fruit almost fleshy, globose, indeliiscent, girt at the middle by 
the calyx-limb, 3-5-celled, many-seeded. Seeds small, pendulous, ovoid ; 
testa coriaceous, pitted ; embryo minute, in the base of fleshy albumen. 
1. C. serratus, Forst.; — FI. N. Z. i. 78. A shrub or small tree, 
10-30 ft. high; trunk usually slender; branches spreading in a fan-shaped 
manner ; all parts more or less pilose. Leaves petioled, ovate-oblong, obtuse, 
1-lf in., much smaller on young plants, rather membranous, acutely serrate. 
Panicle cymose, shorter than the leaves. Flowers I- in. diam., white. Fruit 
size of a peppercorn. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 564. 
Northern and Middle Islands : frequent by the banks of rivers, Banks and Solander , 
etc. Wood soft, tough, used for axe-handles. Hector. 
