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tary or fascicled, white or purplish. — Calyx equal, 5-partite. Corolla cam- 
panulate; tube short; limb 5-lobed, lobes nearly equal 2 upper approximate. 
Stamens 4, nearly equal ; anthers 2-celled, cells becoming confluent. Ovary 
ovoid, 2-5-celled; style slender, stigma obtuse; ovules usually solitary when 
the cells are more than 2, geminate in each cell when these are only 2. 
Drupe ovoid, 2-5-celled; cells 1- rarely 2-seeded. Seeds pendulous ; albu- 
men scanty, fleshy ; embryo terete ; radicle superior. 
A large Australian and Pacific Island genus. 
1. M. 1 set urn, Forst.; — FI. N. Z. i. 204. A shrub or small glabrous 
tree, 8-10 ft. high. Leaves 2-4 in. long, lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, serrulate above the middle, narrowed into petioles, bright 
green and lucid. Flowers 2-6 in a tuft; peduncle -j—f in. long. Sepals 
subulate or narrow-lanceolate, variable in size. Corolla •§-*§• in. broad; lobes 
rounded, villous inside. Drupe j in. long . — Cytharexylon perforatum, Forst. 
Northern and Middle Islands: common on the shores, as far south as Otago. 
Kermadec Islands, M'GilUvray. Very closely allied to the Norfolk Island M. obscurum 
but the calyx is smaller. Kermadec Islaud specimens, however, are intermediate in this 
respect. It is also very near M. serratum of Tasmania, and some Pacific Island species. 
Of Forster’s M. pubescens nothing is known ; it may be a Scavola. 
Order LVII. LABIATiE. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually aromatic. Leaves opposite, rarely whorled. 
Flowers in small, sessile or stalked, opposite axillary cymes, or solitary or 
whorled, rarely panicled racemose or spiked, regular or irregular. — Corolla- 
tube usually long and cylindric or funnel-shaped ; limb often 2-lipped. 
Stamens 2 or 4, inserted on the tube of the corolla, alternating with its lower 
lobes. Ovary 4-lobed, 2-4-celled; style filiform, stigma 2-fid ; ovules 1 
in each lobe, erect. Fruit of 4 small nuts enclosed in the calyx. Albumen 
little or 0 ; cotyledons flat. 
A very large Order in most parts of the world, except the coldest, to which the Mint, Sage, 
Horehound, etc. belong. It is singularly rare in New Zealand. 
Calyx nearly equal. Stamens equal 1. Mentha. 
Calyx 2-lipped. Stamens didynamous 2. Scutellaria. 
1. MENTHA, Linn. 
Herbs, erect or procumbent, aromatic when braised. Flowers solitary or in 
few- or many-flowered axillary whorled cymes. Bracts subulate. — Calyx tubular 
or campanulate, 5-toothed; throat naked or villous. Corolla-tube short, in- 
cluded in the calyx; limb equally 5-lobed or 2-lipped, the upper lip larger 
often 2-lobed. Stamens 4, equal, straight, erect ; anther-cells 2, parallel. 
Style 2-fid at the tip. Nuts dry, smooth. 
A very large European and Oriental genus, comparatively rare in other parts of the 
world. Several English species, as the Water-Mint, M. aquatica, L. ; Peppermint, M. pipe- 
rita, Sm. ; Spearmint, M. viridis, L., etc., have been introduced into New Zealand. 
1. M. Cunninghami, Renth. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 205. A fragrant, prostrate, 
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