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almost 2-celled by a false septum formed by tbe coats of the ovules, which 
when 2 are placed back to back. Seed various ; albumen 0 ; embryo straight. 
A large Australian and South. African Order, rare elsewhere, but found in South India, 
Japan, the Malayan, some of the Pacific islands, and in South America. 
lofty, slender tree. Leaves serrate. Pruit a dry follicle 1 . Knightia. 
Small tree. Leaves narrow, entire. Fruit a drupe 2. Persoonia. 
1. KNIGHTIA, Br. 
Flowers densely racemed in subsessile cylindrical cones. — Perianth-segments 
cohering by their margins into a long club-shaped tube, ultimately separating. 
Stamens inserted towards the ends of the segments ; anthers long, linear. Hy- 
pogynous glands 4. Ovary sessile, narrowed into a long, very stout style, 
stigma vertical j ovules. 4. Follicle coriaceous, 1-celled.- Seeds winged at 
the tip. . 
A small genus, containing a New Zealand and New Caledonian species. 
1. K. excelsa, Br. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 219. A lofty, slender tree, 100 ft. 
high, with the habit of a Lombardy Poplar ; branches very stout, woody, and 
as well as the inflorescence densely covered with rusty, velvety down. Leaves 
4-8 in. long, hard, pet.ioled, obovate- or linear-oblong, obtuse, coarsely toothed. 
Bacemes sessile, 2-3 in. long, 2 in. diam. Flowers in densely crowded pairs, 
shortly pedicelled, 1-1 £ in. long before expansion, ^ in. diam. in the middle. 
Ovary tomentose ; stigma clavate. Follicle woody, narrow linear-oblong, 
terete, downy, pedicelled, contracted into the stout, straight, persistent style. 
— Br. in Linn. Trans, x. 194. t. 2. 
Northern Island : common in the forests, Battles and Solander, etc. Wood mottled 
red and brown, used for furniture and for shingles. 
2. PERSOONIA, Smith. 
Evergreen shrubs and trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, various in shape, 
etc. Flowers usually in short axillary spikes or racemes. — Perianth-segments 
cohering by their margins into a club-shaped tube, ultimately separating. 
Stamens on the middle of the segments. Hypogynous glands 4. Style slender, 
stigma obtuse; ovules 1 or 2. Drupe with a 1-or 2-celled nut. 
A large Australian genus. ■ 
1. P. Toro, A. Cunn,. ; — FI. N. Z. i. 219. Small evergreen tree; 
branches woody, glabrous. Leaves 3-8 in. long, coriaceous, very narrow, 
linear-lanceolate, gradually narrowed into the petiole, acuminate or obtuse and 
apiculate, quite entire, smooth and polished on both surfaces, lateral veins 
nearly parallel. Flowers ^ in. long, very shortly pedicelled, in short, axillary, 
pubescent, 6-10-flowered racemes 1 in. long. Ovary glabrous, sessile. — 
Bot. Mag. t. 3513, 
Northern Island : from Auckland northwards, Banks and Solander, etc. 
Order LXYII. THYMELE$3. 
Shrubs with very tough bark, often acrid. Leaves opposite or alternate, 
simple, quite entire. Flowers usually in terminal corymbs, hermaphrodite. 
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