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flowered, rays' J— §■ in. Flower small, greenish-white. Ovary compressed, 
2-celled. Styles small, free, recurved. Fruit i in. diam., broadly urceolate. — 
FI. Antarct. i. 18. t. 12. 
Northern Island : mountains of the interior; Tongariro, Colenso ; abundant through- 
out the diddle Island at 2-4000 ft. elevation, and in Lord Auckland’s group, J. D. H. 
A very variable plant in the size and serration of the leaflets, which are obtuse acute or acu- 
minate and sometimes opposite. In Lord Auckland’s group I collected young plants 
4 in. high, with unifoliolate, coriaceous leaves, but both Bidvvill and Hector sent as the 
foliage of young plants 5-foliolate leaves, the leaflets membranous and sinuate pinnatifld. 
2. P. Edgerleyi, Hook.f. FI. JV. Z. i. 94. A small tree, 20-40 ft. 
Leaves on long (2-3 in.) slender petioles, rather membranous, very glossy ; 
leaflet 2-9 in. long, obovate- or oblong- or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
quite entire, in young plants 3-foliolate, leaflets deeply pinnatifld; stipules 0. 
Umbels as in P. simplex, but ovary 3- or 4-celled, and the styles connate at 
the base. 
Northern Island : mountainous regions of the interior, Edgerley, Colenso. Middle 
Island: Nelson mountains, Bidwill; Otago, Hector. 
3. P. anomalum, Hook. Loud. Journ. Bot. ii. 422. t. 12; — Fl.N.Z.i. 
93. A small tree or shrub, with divaricating woody branches, rough with 
minute hispid hairs. Leaves very shortly petioled, 1-foliolate ; leaflet oblong 
orbicular or obovate, rounded at the tip, obscurely crenate, rather membra- 
nous, not glossy; petiole flattened, Jj in. long, pubescent, with minute subu- 
late stipules at its base, and stipes at its tip. Umbels minute, axillary, 
simple, very shortly peduncled, 1^4-flowered. Flowers very minute, green, 
shortly pedicelled. Fruit in. diam., 2-celled, with free recurved styles, white 
mottled with brown. 
Northern Island : pine swamps, Bay of Islands, and elsewhere not unfrequent. Middle 
Island : Nelson, Bidwill. A very anomalous species, in habit resembling Melicope simplex 
and Elaodendron micranthum. 
4. P. lineare, Hook.f. FI. N. Z. i. 93. A small tree (?) ; branches 
stout, woody. Leaves mixed with trifid coriaceous scales, patent, simple, 
not jointed on the extremely short petiole, 2-3 in. long, ■§— ^ wide, mi- 
nutely serrate, obtuse or acute, excessively coriaceous, with thickened margins, 
not glossy; petiole i in. long, stout ; stipule small, subulate. Umbels almost 
sessile amongst the upper leaves, of 4 or 5 short stout bracteolate rays. Fruit 
ovoid, 3- or 4-celled ; styles connate into a cone, their summits free, recurved. 
Middle Island : Chalky Bay, Lyall. I have only two small specimens of this curious 
species. 
5. P. crassifolium. Bene, and Planch. — Aralia crassifolia, Banks and 
Sol. ; FI. N. Z. i. 97. A slender, sparingly branched, glabrous tree, bark green. 
Leaves extremely variable, in young plants 3-foliolate ; leaflets very narrow- 
linear, -J— f in. broad, of the upper leaves broader, f-1 in., deeply remotely 
sinuate-serrate, serratures cuspidate ; in older plants, simple, narrow, lineai'- 
obovate or linear, quite entire or sinuate or coarsely acutely serrate at the 
broader part beyond the middle, extremely coriaceous, nan-owed into a 
short, stout, exstipulate petiole of variable length ; veins numerous, divergent. 
Umbels unisexual, terminal, compound, of several very spreading rays ; pe- 
duncles and rays 1-3 in. long; pedicels short, of the male flowers subrace- 
