Quintinia. | -« SAXIFRAGACEAE. 483 
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[Family XLVII. SAXIFRAGACEAE\ 
Trees, shrubs, and herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple or 
compound, rarely stipulate. Flowers usually regular and hermaphrodite. 
Calyx free or adnate to the ovary; lobes 4-5, imbricate or’ valvate. 
Petals 4-5, rarely wanting, imbricate or valvate. Stamens as many or 
twice as many as the petals, rarely more, perigynous or epigynous, very 
rarely hypogynous. Disc usually present, very various in shape and size. 
Ovary free or more or less adnate to the calyx-tube, usually 2-5-celled 
with 2-5 axile or parietal placentas; styles as many as the cells, free or 
more or less united; ovules numerous, anatropous, erect or pendulous. 
Fruit usually capsular, rarely succulent and indehiscent. Seeds usually 
small, numerous; albumen generally copious, rarely absent; embryo 
terete, usually small. 
A large and polymorphous family, very difficult to define. The herbaceous genera 
are mainly found in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, or the mountains 
of the tropics; the arborescent ones have their headquarters in South America or 
Australia, with a few outlying species in Africa or Asia. Genera about 70; species 
650. The properties of the family are unimportant. Of the 3 genera found in New 
Zealand, Carpodetus and Ixerba are endemic and monotypic, while Quintinia extends 
to Australia. (Donatia, included in the family in the first edition of this work, I now 
place in Stylidiaceae, following the example of Milbraed in the Pflanzenreich.) 
Flowers racemose, small. Petals imbricate. Ovary inferior .. 1. QUINTINIA. 
Flowers panicled, large. Petals imbricate. Ovary superior .. 2, IXERBA, — 
Flowers panicled, small. Petals valvate. Ovary inferior .. .. 3. CARPODETUS. 
1. QUINTINIA A. DC. (SB. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, exstipulate. Flowers 
small, in axillary or terminal many-flowered racemes. Calyx-tube obconic, 
adnate to the ovary; teeth 5, persistent. Petals 5, imbricate, deciduous. 
Stamens 5, filaments subulate. Ovary inferior, 3-5-celled, the free summit 
broadly conical, narrowed into a persistent 3—5-grooved style; stigma 
capitate, 3-5-lobed; ovules numerous. Capsule small, inferior or half- 
superior, corlaceous, obovoid, l-celled, 3-5-valved, the valves separating up 
the furrows of the style. Seeds numerous, ascending; testa loose, winged. 
In addition to the two following species, which are endemic in New Zealand, 
there are three others in Australia. 
Leaves 3-6in., linear-lanceolate to oblong ; 7 .. IL. Q. serrata. 
Leaves 3-8in., obovate or elliptic-oblong uF ss .. 2. Q. acutifolia. 
1. @. serrata A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 515.—A small tree 15-380 ft. 
high; branchlets, leaves, and racemes covered with minute lepidote 
scales, viscid when young. Leaves coriaceous, yellow-brown or reddish- 
brown when dry, 2-6 in. long, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblong or oblong, 
shortly petiolate, remotely and irregularly sinuate-serrate, acute or sub- 
acute, margins undulate. Racemes 2-4in. long, erect, strict, axillary, 
many-flowered ; pedicels short,+in. Flowers pale-lilac, 4in. diam. Capsule 
woody, #in. long.—Hook. Ic. Plant. (1843) t. 558; Raoul Choix (1846) 47 ; 
Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 78; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 187; T. Kirk 
Forest Fl. (1889) t. 125; Students’ Fl. (1899) 137; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
Fl, (1906) 135, 
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