Knightia.| PROTEACEAE. 387 
above.  Follicles 14in. long, pubescent, tapering into the persistent style, 
ultimately splitting into 2 boat-shaped valves.—A. Cunn. Precur. (1838) 
n. 350; Raoul Choix (1846) 42; Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 219; 7. Kirk 
Forest Fl. (1889) t. 35; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 606; lll. N.Z. Fl. 
i (1914) t. 171. 
Nortu Istanp : Common in woods throughout. SourH Istanp: Southern shores 
of Cook Strait, Croixelles Harbour, 7. Kirk; Pelorus Sound, Buchanan, J. Rutland !/ 
Sea-level to 2800 ft. Honeysuckle ; Rewarewa, November—December. 
A tall handsome tree, easily distinguished by its fastigiate mode of growth. The 
wood is beautifully variegated, reddish on a light-brown ground, and is much used for 
inlaying and cabinetwork, ornamental turnery, &c. For an account of the fertilization 
of the flowers, see a paper by myself in vol. ii of the Journal of the Australasian 
Association. Mr. A. Allison sends me a curious sport in which the leaves are dichoto- 
mously forked. 
Family XXX. SANTALACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs or herbs, often parasitic on the roots of other plants. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, simple and entire, sometimes reduced to 
minute scales or altogether wanting; stipules absent. Flowers regular, 
hermaphrodite or unisexual, usually small and greenish, solitary or in 
axillary or terminal cymes or spikes. Perianth superior or inferior, 
3—-6-lobed or -partite;. lobes valvate, often hairy behind the anthers. 
St&mens 3-6, inserted on the perianth-lobes and opposite to them; anthers 
2-celled. Ovary inferior, rarely superior, l-celled; style short; stigma 
capitate or 3—4-lobed ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from a central column. Fruit 
an indehiscent nut or drupe. Seed solitary, globose or ovoid; albumen 
copious, fleshy ; embryo usually small, terete, radicle superior. 
Spragve + Sumerhags 4 Kew Bullen 
4 (M27) p 197, 
MIDA (A.Cunn.) Benth, 
Tendency to unisexuality. Ovary semi- 
Lafer- 
Lor; shortly cupular perlanth-tube; staxisetpi 
FL Devers . Blowers sometimes unisexual, 
Fruits turbinate. 
M, Salicifolia, A. Cunn. 
NAS @ result of investigations in the Piel d,. 
Lockayne and Allan (Trans. N.Z. Inst. LLL, 
9/: 1927) accept M. salicifolia and x, 
uyriifolia as independent species, and 
suggest 
that M, eucalyptoides may be a hybrid between 
them, rom Cunningham's descriptions of Wy 
Salicifolia and myrtifolia we are unable to 
draw a line between these two species in the 
herbarium, and await further descriptions of 
them by Cockayne and Allan before coming to 
& definite conclusion, 4 
