256 QUINTINIA SERRATA. 
but, so far as I am aware, it has not been tried. It is occasionally ' used by the 
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cabinetmaker for various purposes, and affords excellent firewood. In the Nx 
Jag 
it is usually of smaller dimensions than in the South, and the wood is m 
prettily figured. 
Quintinia serrata is of easy cultivation, and deserves a place in all sh 
berics. 
DisTRIBUTION OF THE GENUS. 
Ouintinia is a small genus, containing only four species, two of which are 
endemic in New South Wales, and two in New Zealand. One of ae ew 
Zealand species is probably only a variety of Q. serrata. 
DISTRIBUTION OF THE SPECIES. 
Quintinia serrata attains its northern limit near Mongonui, and appe 5 1 
be confined to the Districts of Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, and ‘Taranaliest n the 
North Island. The var. Bis found on the western coast of the South I sland nd. 
from Golden Bay to Jackson’s Bay. 
It ascends from the sea-level to 3,000ft. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Quintinia serrata, A. Cunn, 
A large exstipulate shrub or erect evergreen tree, 4oft. high or more. Yi 
shoots and leaves viscid. Branchlets, leaves, and racemes clothed with lepidote 
scales, Leaves alternate, 2in. to 6in. long, 3in. to 2in. broad, petiole d, sub: 
membranous or very coriaceous, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate or oblong o1 
obovate, obtuse or acuminate, margins waved, distantly irregularly o obtus 
serrate ; yellow-brown when dty. Ravees eee many-flowered, rit, com 
long. Calves superior, five-toothed ; petals, five; stamens, five; ovary 
celled, sunk in the asian styles three, conical, furrowed ; pect th 
lobed. Capsule, fin. to }in. long, three- celled, three- to fvenibhe ; seeds 
numerous, minute. ‘ 
Var. 8. Leaves broader, more membranous; racemes shorter; stamens 
shorter. 
EXPLANATION OF Prate CXXV. | 
Quintinia serrata, A. Cunn. Flowering specimen from Great Omaha 
natural size. 1, Blower of the same. 2. Flower, with petals and stan 
removed, 3. Capsule. 4. Transverse section of capsule. 5. coed 
magnified. 6, Leaf of var. B, from Greymouth, natural size, 7. Flo 
magnified. 
