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often produced in great abundance, render it most attractive. It is one of the few 
trees for which the Maoris had a special name for " enli alone, which they called 
whakou. In olden times they were strung into necklaces and garlands, and worn as 
personal adornments on gala-days and festivals. The wood is hard and dense, and 
probably durable. 
3. CARPODETUS Forst. 1776 . 
A shrub or small tree. Leaves alternate, petiolate, exstipulate. lowers 
small, white, in axillary and terminal cymose panicles. Calyx-tube tur- 
binate, adnate to the ovary; lobes 5-6, small, deciduous. Petals 5-6, 
inserted under the margin of an epigynous disc, spreading, valvate. 
Stamens 5-6, inserted with the petals; filaments short, subulate; anthers 
oblong. Ovary inferior with a free rounded summit, 3-5-celled; style 
slender; stigma capitate; ovules numerous. Fruit globose, almost flesm 
indehiscent, girt round the middle by the cicatrix of the calyx-limb, 
3—5-celled. Seeds numerous, small, pendulous; testa coriaceous, pitted ; 
embryo very small; albumen fleshy. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in New Zealand. 
1, C. serratus Forst. Char. Gen. 34 (1776) t. 17#—A shrub or small 
tree 15-30 ft. high, with a trunk 6-9 in. diam.; branches often flattened, 
spreading ; young twigs, leaves, petioles, and ‘inflorescence more or less 
pubescent. Leaves 1-2 in. long, ovate-oblong or elliptical, acute or obtuse, 
sharply and coarsely serrate, narrowed into a petiole }-}in. long; in 
young plants often panduriform or irregularly lobed. "Panidles broad, 
many-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Flowers } in. diam., white, very 
abundantly produced. Capsule about the size of a small pea, black and 
shining when fully ripe.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 366; A. Cunn. 
y Precur. (1839) n. 575; Hook. Ic. Plant. (1843) t. 564; Raoul Choie (1846) 
/ 50; Hook. f. £1. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 78; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 59; 
ie Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 47; Students’ Fl. (1899) 188; Cheesem. Man. 
NZ. Fl. (1906) 137; JU. NZ. Fl. i (1914) t. 41. D.C. Creel, D 
wan. Made. Weis, . DL: 
‘x ORTH AND SOUTH ie os STEWART IsLAND: Not uncommon from the North 
Cape southwards; most plentiful in alluvial ground, by the banks cf rivers, &e. 
Ascends to 3500 ft. Piripirwwhata ; Putaputaweta. November—January. 
Wood: strong and tough, but not durable ; sometimes used for axe-handles, &c. 
Family XLVI. PITTOSPORACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs, rarely climbers. Leaves alternate or whorled, simple, 
seldom toothed or lobed, exstipulate. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or 
more rarely unisexual, te: minal or axillary. Sepals 5, free or connate at 
the base, imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, imbricate, often cohering at the 
base, limb spreading or recurved, Stamens 5, hypogynous, free ; anthers 
versatile. Ovary normally 1-celled, with 2-5 parietal placentas, but often 
more or less completely Oba celled from the intrusion of the placentas ; 
style simple ; ovules usually numerous on each placenta. Fruit capsular or 
succulent and indehiscent. Seeds generally numerous ; albumen copious ; 
embryo minute, with the radicle next the hilum. 
Genera 9; species about 120. The family is confined to Australia, with the 
exception of Pittosporum itself, which has a wide distribution in the warm regions of the 
Oid World. Many of the species are more or less resinous and aromatic. 
