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Olea.~\ 
with raised veins on both surfaces. Racemes very slender, 6-10-flowered, 
sparsely pilose. Flowers minute, much as in 0. Cunnhujliamii , but smaller, 
pedicels slender. Berry ovoid, crimson, \ in. long. 
Northern Island : woods of the east coast and interior, Colenso. 
3. O. montana, Hook. f. FI. N. Z. i. 176. t. 46 A and B ( not C). 
A large bushy-headed tree, 40-50 ft. high ; branches slender ; bark reddish. 
Leaves opposite, 1-2 in. (in young plants' 3-4 in.) long, very coriaceous, 
narrow linear, A— j- in. broad, obtuse, nerveless. Racemes slender, 1 in. 
long, puberulous, 6-8-flowered. Flowers very minute, as in 0. Cunnhujliamii. 
Drupe narrow ovoid, £ in. long. 
Northern Island : Bay of Islands, Cunningham ; east coast, interior, and Wairarapa 
Valley, Colenso. 
Order XLYIT. AP0CYNE.E. 
Trees or shrubs, often climbing, with milky juice. Leaves opposite ex- 
stipulate. Flowers in axillary or terminal cymes or panicles. — Calyx 5 -par- 
tite or -lobed ; lobes imbricate. Corolla with a short or long tube ; lobes 5, 
contorted in bud. Stamens 5, inserted on the corolla; anthers often sagit- 
tate and adhering by their anterior face to the stigma. Ovary 2-celled 
(rarely 1-celled), or of 2 carpels combined by the styles or stigmas ; style long 
or short, stigma usually angular; ovules maiiy. Fruit of 2, slender, 1-cellecl 
capsules (rarely a berry or drupe), opening inwardly. Seeds pendulous, ex- 
albuminous, often with a tuft of silky hairs. 
A large tropical Natural Order. 
1. P ARSONS! A, Br. 
Slender climbing plants ; branches terete. Leaves excessively variable in 
form and size. Flowers small, panicled. — Calyx 5-partite; lobes within fur- 
nished with a small scale at the base. Corolla urceolate campanulate or 
shortly funnel-shaped ; lobes 5, reflexed, eglandular. Stamens 5 ; anthers 
sagittate, included or exserted, adhering to the stigma, one cell without pollen. 
Hypogynous scales 5. Ovary 2-celled ; style slender. Fruit of 2 long 
narrow, terete, acute, 1-celled capsules. Seeds with a fine silky tuft of hairs. 
A small tropical Asiatic and Australian genus. I am convinced that there are but two 
New Zealand species of this genus, to which Raoul’s names of P. albiflora and P. rosea had 
on the whole better be retained, to avoid the confused synonymy of Forster’s name of 
capsularis, which has been variously applied. 
Flowers i in. long. Anthers included 1. P. albiflora. 
Flowers t in. long. Anthers exserted 2. P. rosea. 
1. P. albiRora, Raoul. — P. helerophylla, A. Cunn. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 181. 
Stems stout, glabrous or pubescent, as thick as a crow-quill. Leaves most 
often 1-2 in. long, coriaceous, oblong ovate or lanceolate, with transverse 
veins, more rarely linear or obovate, or narrow linear-lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, 
with lobed margins, in young plants spathulate. Panicles many-flowered. 
Flowers white, odorous, | in. long. Corolla-lobes shorter than the tube. 
Anthers included. Capsule 3-4 in. long. — P. capsularis, Endl. ; Deless. 1c. 
Sel. v. t. 49 (bad) ; ? P. vuriabilis , Lindl. ;— FI. N. Z. i. 181. 
