74 PANAX EDGERLEVYI. 
DIsTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
‘The raukawa is most plentiful in hilly forests, and is to be found in most 
forest districts, from the Bay of Islands and Hokianga southward to Stewart 
Island, peCcnaine from the sea-level to upwards of 2,o00ft. 
The variety serrata appears to be restricted to Stewart Island. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Panax Edgerleyi, Hook. f. 
A small dicecious tree, 20ft. to 4oft. high, with smooth bark, Leaves 
alternate, 3in. to gin. in length, on long petioles, glossy, dimorphic: on young 
plants, three- to five-foliolate, leaflets broadly lanceolate, acute, lobulate or pinna- 
tifid; on mature plants, simple, entire, broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 
on rather long, jointed petioles. Flowers in numerous small lateral umbels, 
arranged in racemose panicles. Male, calyx-teeth five, minute; petals, five, 
acute; stamens, five; pistil, none. IF era calyx-teeth none; petals, none; 
stamens, none;. styles, three or four, recurved; ovary, three- or fonteelied. one 
seed in each cell. Fruit, spherical, small, mottled, three- or four-celled. 
Var. serrata. Leaves of the mature state with serrated or lobulate margins. 
EXPLANATION oF Puares XLIV., XLV., anp XLVa. 
NLIV. Panax Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Young state, natural size 1. Upper 
portion of a fruited panicle, natural size. 2. Male flower, in bud. 3. Male 
flower, expanded. 4. Female flower. 5. Longitudinal section of fruit. 6 and 
Transverse sections of fruit. 8. Seed. All magnified. 
XLV. Panax Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Mature state, natural size. 
XLVa. Panax Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Var. serrata, natural size. 
