46 ENTELEA ARBORESCENS. 
&c., and for fenders for boats. It might be employed for life-belts and similar 
purposes, and possibly for some of the uses to which granulated cork and cork- 
refuse are now applied, as, for instance, the formation of foot-pavements. 
Should a demand arise for it, cultivation must be resorted to, as the native 
supply would soon be exhausted. The minute structure of the wood has not 
been made out, but the cells are very large, and have very thin walls. 
DisTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS. 
Intelea is a monotypic genus, and is absolutely restricted to the North Island 
of New Zealand, with the exception of a single habitat in the South Island. 
It usually occurs on the margins of woods and thickets, and evinces a 
marked preference for the vicinity of the sea. It is most plentiful to the north 
of the Auckland Isthmus, and is found on nearly all the outlying islands, as well 
as those in the Hauraki Gulf. It extends to the northern portion of Hawke’s 
Bay, but I have never seen it on the coast between Cape Turnagain and Port 
Nicholson, nor on the West Coast between the Mokau and Wellington, with the 
exception of a single habitat near Paikakariki. 
In the South Island it is confined to a single station in the Collingwood 
district, in the north-western corner of the Island. Its distribution is therefore 
somewhat remarkable, although not more so than that of Dracophyllum latifolhum, 
Lomaria I’vasert, and other plants. It attains its largest dimensions at the sea- 
level. I have not seen specimens growing at a greater altitude than 7ooft. 
DESCRIPTION, 
Eintelea arborescens, Ik. Brown, ‘‘ Botanical Magazine,” t, 2,480. 
Apeiba australis, A. Rich. Fl. N.Z., p. 304, t. 34. 
A much-branched shrub or small tree, 6ft. to 25ft. high, with stout branches. 
Branchlets, petioles, and leaves beneath clothed with fine stellate hairs. Leaves 
alternate, 3in. to gin. long, 2in. to Gin, broad, with linear stipules at the base of 
the petiole ; blade drooping, oblique, broadly ovate-cordate, acuminate, margins 
twice or thrice crenate ; veins prominent, primary five to seven, springing from 
the apex of the petiole. Flowers in umbellate cymes, drooping; peduncles 
axillary, 2in. long or more; pedicels tin. long, elongating in fruit; peduncles, 
bracteoles, pedicels, and sepals clothed with white pubescence. Sepals, three to 
five, broad, acuminate ; petals, three to five, snowy-white, crumpled. Stamens 
very numerous, forming a dense ring surrounding the ovary; ovary globose, 
hispid, five- to seven-celled, ovules in two rows in each cell; stigma toothed. 
Fruit, globose, five- to seven-celled, $in. in diameter, clothed with straight 
spines tin. long; seeds numerous; embryo imbedded in oily endosperm. 
EXPLANATION OF PLatE XXXIII. 
Entelea arborescens, KX. Br. Flowering specimen, natural size. 1. Flower 
with calyx and corolla removed. 2. Stamen before, and 3 after, dehiscence. 
4. Ovary. 5, Transverse section of ovary, 6. Fruit. 7. Transverse section 
of fruit, to show the position of the seeds. 8. Seed. 9g. Longitudinal section of 
seed. 10. Embryo. All more or less magnified except 6 and 7. 
