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solitary in the upper axils, 2-3-flowered. Fruiting-involucres 3-3 in. long, 
ovoid-globose, viscid-pubescent, 4-lobed; lobes furnished at the back with 
3-5 transverse lamellae with entire or fringed margins. Nuts pubescent, 
2-3-winged, wings produced upwards into entire or toothed points.—Fagus 
fusca Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Plant. (1844) t. 631; Raoul Choir (1846) 42 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 229; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 249; 7. Kirk 
Forest Fl. (1889) t. 90; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 641. 
Kal _ Var. Colensoi Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel, i (1853) 229.—Leaves more coriaceous ;_ teeth 
smaller, obtuse.—Ic. Plant. (1844) t. 630; J. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 90, f. 2. Fagus 
truncata Col. in Trans. N.Z, Inst. xxxi (1899) 280. re on — 
Norra Istanp: In forests from Mangonui and Kaitaia southwards, but local to 
the north of the East Cape. Sourn Istanp: From Nelson to Foveaux Strait, but 
rare in Canterbury and eastern Otago. Sea-level to 3500 ft. Tawha ; Tawhai- 
rau-nut ; Red-beech. Octo ber—Decem ber. 
A magnificent tree, undoubtedly the finest representative of, the genus in New 
Zealand, and well marked off by the comparatively thin veined leaves with sharply 
toothed margins. Wood dark-red, strong and compact, more durable than that of 
the other species, and frequently used for wharves, bridges, fencing-posts, &c. 
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3. N. apiculata Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlii (1911) 172.—A ta 
handsome tree 40ft. high or more; trunk 2ft. diam.; bark pale, 
smooth; branchlets pubescent. Leaves petiolate, #-lin. long, oblong or 
ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, apiculate, cuneate at the base, rather thin, 
olabrous, quite entire or minutely or irregularly crenulate,. veins not very 
conspicuous; stipules membranous, linear-oblong. Male flowers 1 or 
rarely 2 at the end of a short axillary peduncle, drooping. fPerianth 
campanulate, membranous, 5-toothed. Stamens 8-14. Female involucres 
solitary in the axils of the leaves above the male inflorescence, 2—3-flowered. 
Fruiting-involucres }-4in. long, narrow-ovoid, pubescent, 4-lobed ; lobes 
with 2-4 transverse lameliae. Nuts pubescent, 2—3-winged, wings pro- 
duced upwards into entire points——Fagus apiculata Col. in Trans. N.Z. 
Inst. xvi (1884) 335; TT. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 135; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 642; Ill, N.Z. Fl. it (1914) t. 182. 
Var. dubia Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 642.—Leaves more coriaceous, oblong 
or oblong-obovate, obtuse or rarely apiculate, slightly pubescent beneath, upper half 
obscurely toothed or sinuate.—Fagus fusca var. dubia and var. obsoleta 7’. Kirk Forest 
Fl, (1889) t. 91. 
Nort Isutanp: Hawke’s Bay—Forests near Dannevirke and Norsewood, Colenso / 
Var. dubia: Mungaroa and other localities near Wellington, 7. Kirk/ Tararua 
Mountains, Petrie/ Soutu Istanp: Marlborough, Mount Fyffe, Cockayne. 
Very closely related to N. fusca, but, I think, sufficiently distinct in the smaller and 
narrower leaves which in the typical form are distinctly apiculate and either quite 
entire or very minutely crenulate, and in the smaller and narrower involucres. Var. 
dubia was placed under N. fusca by Kirk, and it certainly approaches var. Colensoi of 
that species; but, on the whole, appears to be nearer to V. apiculata. 
4. N. Blairii Cockayne in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xlin (1911) 172.—A tall 
tree 40-60 ft. high; trunk 2-3ft. diam.; branchlets and petioles pubescent. 
Leaves petiolate, spreading, $-?in. long, 4-41in. bread, ovate, acute or 
apiculate, rounded at the base, quite entire, coriaceous, glabrous above. 
beneath clothed with fulvous appressed tomentum. Male flowers 2-3 at 
end of a short common peduncle. Perianth cup-shaped, 4-5-toothed, 
Stamens 8-15. Fruiting-involucre {-$in. long, ovoid, glabrous, 4-lobed ; 
