Fi BEILSCHMIEDIA TARAIRI. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
The taraire is endemic in the North Island, and occurs in forests from the 
North Cape to Mercer or the western side, and to Poverty Bay on the eastern 
side. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Beilschmiedia Tarairi, Benth. and Hook. f. 
Laurus Tarairit, A. Cunn. 
Nesodaphne Tarairvi, Hook. {. 
A lofty evergreen tree, 5oft. to 80ft. high. Trunk, 13ft. to gft. in diameter. 
Bark, greyish or brown. Leaves alternate, 3in. to 6in. long, coriaceous, 
obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, smooth on the upper surface, glaucous 
beneath, and more or less clothed with rusty pubescence; veins prominent on 
the lower surface. Flowers in axillary panicles, 14in. to 231n. across ; branches 
rusty-pubescent. Flowers on short pubescent pedicels, small; perianth, six- 
lobed; stamens, twelve, in two series, the outer series with perfect anthers 
opening towards the pistil; of the inner series, only three are perfect, the 
anthers opening towards the perianth: a gland is situate opposite the base of 
each filament. Pistil with a very short style. [ruit, rin. to tJin. long, ovoid, 
narrowed at both ends; one-seeded; seed without endosperm. 
EXPLANATION oF Piatt NLIII. anp Porrion or PLATE CXXVI. 
XLII. Beilschmiedia Tarairi, Benth. and Hook. f. Flowering specimen. 
1. Fruit. 2. Longitudinal section of fruit. 3. Transverse section. All natural 
1Ze. 
CXXVI. Beilschmiedia Tarairi, Benth. and Hook. f. Figs. 5 to 5. 
5. Flower with bract. 6. Leaf of perianth and stamen. 7. Stamen after the 
liberation of the pollen. 8. Ovary. All magnified. 
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