XXXIV. ARALlACEiE. 
\_Schefflera. 
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more, brandies diverging, a span long, pedundes of umbels § in., pedicels £ 
in. Flowers rather small. Fruit nearly globose, in. diam., black, pulpy, 
deeply furrowed when dry. 
Common throughout the island in forest regions. Banks and Solander, etc. 
4. MEBYTA, Forst. 
Small trees ; trank slender, erect, sparingly branched ; branches terminated 
by a crown of very large leaves. — Flowers in terminal, involucrate, panicled 
heads, polygamous. Male: Calyx 3-5-lobed, lobes valvate?. Petals 0. 
Stamens 3-5, inserted beneath a glandular disk. Ovary 0. Female: Calyx- 
limb 5-9-partite, lobes valvate. Petals 0. Ovary 5-9-celled, with as many 
short stigmas united below, free and recurved above. Berry ovoid or oblong, 
5-9-celled. Embryo terete, curved, with small, flattened cotyledons. 
A small genus of singular-looking trees, natives of the Pacific Islands, one of which Dr. 
Seemanu (in Herb. Hook.) has rightly referred to the imperfectly -known genus Meryia of 
Forster. 
1. M. Sinclairii, Hook.f. — Botryodendrum, FI. N. Z. i. 97. Leaf on a 
long petiole, very coriaceous, shining, 5-20 in. long, oblong or obovate-ob- 
long, sometimes contracted below the middle, cordate at the base, margin 
quite entire or waved, strongly veined; petiole 3-10 in. long, stout, very ob- 
scurely if at all jointed with the blade. Panicles terminal, branched, erect, very 
stout, 6—8 in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruit oblong, \ in. long, 5-celled. 
Northern Island : east coast, between Capes Rodney and Brett, Sinclair and Colenso. 
The fruits are quite separate, aud do not appear as if they had belonged to a capitate inflo- 
rescence, but my specimens are very imperfect. I described the petiole as jeiuted with the 
blade, in FI. N. Z., I believe erroneously. 
Order XXXV. CORNER. 
Shrubs or trees, rarely herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, exstipulate. Flowers 
regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually small and green. — Calyx-tube 
adnate to the ovary ; limb 4- or 5-toothed. Petals 4 or 5, rarely 0, small, 
often triangular, valvate. Stamens inserted at the base of an epigynous disk ; 
filaments subulate • anthers didymous or linear. Ovary inferior, 1-3-celled ; 
style 0 or very short, stigma capitate, or 2 or 3 short recurved stigmas ; 
ovules solitary, pendulous in each cell (if more than one) or 3 pendulous from 
the top of a column in 1-celled ovaries. Fruit usually a drupe, with a bony 
inner wall. Testa very thin, adherent ; albumen copious, fleshy ; embryo 
very small. 
A small European Order, scattered over various parts of the world ; to which the Cornel 
and Dog-wood belong. 
Leaves glabrous, broad, and shining 1. Griselinia. 
Leaves with silky pubescence beneath 2. Corokia. 
1. GEJSELmiA, Forst. 
Shrubs, with green branches, transversely scarred at the insertion of the 
leaf, said to be parasitical on roots of trees. Leaves very coriaceous, gla- 
