yA0) ELMOCARPUS HOOKERIANUS. 
it is more plentiful, also in the Taupo district. It is most plentiful and 
its largest dimensions in the Southland district. It occurs at the s 
and ascends to fully 3,500ft. on the mountains of Canterbury. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Eleeocarpus Hookerianus, Raoul. | . 
An evergreen tree, 30ft. to 50ft. high, with white bark. In the young 
with tortuous interlaced branches and narrow linear or lobed leaves 
mature with leaves shortly stalked, r4in. to 2in. long, entire, obtuse, 
oblong or elliptic, coriaceous, with crenate margins. Racemes spreadi 
ten- to fourteen-flowered ; flowers drooping; sepals five, narrow-linear: 
erect, wedge-shaped, the upper margin divided into from three to six - 
linear obtuse lobes; stamens ten to twelve, filaments very short, anthers tipp 
with a short gland. Ovary glabrous, two-celled, each cell containing 
ovules. Fruit a drupe half an inch long, purple ; nut rugose and furrowed. 
ExpLanation oF Pratres XII. anp XIII. 
XII. Elaocarpus Hookerianus, Raoul. Young state, natural size. 
XII. Eleocarpus Hookerianus, Raoul. Y lowering specimen, natural 
1. Sepal. 2. Petal. 3. Stamen. 4. Ovary and torus. 5. Longitudina sec- 
tion of ovary. 6. Transverse section of ovary. 7. I'ruit. 8. Transverse sec 
tion of fruit. All except 7 more or less magnified. 
