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Elaeocar pus. | ELAEOCARPACEAE. 557 
A large genus, containing about 70 species. Most plentiful in the hotter parts 
of India and the Malay Archipelago, a few species only extending to Australia, the 
Pacific islands, and New Zealand. Both our species are endemic. 
Branchlets silky. Leaves linear-obovate, margins recurved .. 1. #. dentatus. 
Branchlets glabrous. Leaves linear-oblong or lanceolate, margins 
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wp flat os 2 : ie ie ay .. 2. EF. Hookerianus. 
re 1. E. dentine an) Symb. Bot. in (1790-94) 562K round-headed 
p tree 40-60 ft. in height ; trunk slender, straight, 1-3 ft. diam. ; pranchlets 
~often bare of leaves except at the tips, silky when young. Leaves 
*w erect, on short ‘stout petioles $—1 in. long; blade 2-4 in., linear-oblong 
orf Q obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, narrowed below, obtuse or shortly 
a l4 . acuminate, coriaceous, obscurely sinuate-serrate, often white with fine 
- & appressed silky hairs beneath; margins recurved. Racemes numerous, 
é ay 8-12-flowered, silky, usually shorter than the leaves. Flowers drooping, 
—*' iLdtin. diam., white. Petals obovate-cuneate, lacerate. Stamens 10-20 ; 
_ silky, 2-celled. Drupe about 4in. long, oblong or ovoid, purplish-grey ; 
J stone rugose, 1-celled, 1-seeded.—Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 34; 
z ¥ filaments very short; anthers linear, with a flat recurved tip. Ovary 
2u T. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 11; Students’ Fl. (1899) 76 ; Cheesem. Man. 
(1839) n. 602; Hook. Ic. Plant. (1844) t. 602 ; Hook.f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 
© + 32. HK. Cunninghamii Raoul Choix (1846) 25. Dicera dentata Forst. Char. 
AY T Gen, (177 6) 80. as dentatus Colla. Hort. Ripul. (1824) 52, t. 30. 
} re N.Z. Fl. (1906) 85; ZU. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 24. E. Hinau A. Cunn. Precur. 
roA TG Roremnuk Clio, ft’ LG 
iG ~°* Var obovatus Cheesem. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxix (1907) 442.—Leaves broadly 
ia le obovate; blade 2-24in. long by 1}-2in. broad, rounded at the apex, at the base 
sy rather suddenly narrowed into a long slender petiole. flowers not seen. Riwaka 
* (Nelson), H. J. Matthews ! 
2 y ra NORTH AND Sourn Isnanps: Not uncommon in lowland forests from the North 
ls <y Cape to Catlin’s River, Otago. Altitudinal range from sea-level to 2000 ft. Hinau. 
Pm ' October-November. 
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The fruit was formely eaten by the Maoris, the pulpy part being rubbed off the 
‘i stone, steeped in water, and then made into large cakes, which were baked for a day 
4 or two. They also obtained a black dye from the bark, which was used for dyeing 
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% their flax cloaks, and is still employed for that purpose by a few of the inland tribes. 
> The wood is durable, but is little employed, although a figured variety is now coming 
¢ into use for panelling and furniture. 
2. E. Hookerianus Raoul Choix (1846) 26, t. 25.—A small glabrous tree 
| 20-40 ft. high, with a trunk 1-3ft. diam.; bark pale. Young plants 
with numerous tortuous and interlaced branches, which bear narrow-linear 
leaves 4-2in. long, sinuate or irregularly toothed or lobed or almost 
pinnatifid, occasionally broadly obovate or almost orbicular. Leaves of 
mature plants 14-3in. long, elliptical or linear-oblong or lanceolate, 
coriaceous, obtuse, sinuate-crenate or serrate; margins flat; petioles 
short, }-4in. long. Racemes slender, spreading, shorter than the leaves. 
Flowers greenish- white, small, drooping. Sepals lanceolate. Petals 
slightly longer than the sepals, 4-5-lobed at the tip. Drupe similar to 
that of E. dentatus, but smaller, 4in. long—Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 
(1853) 32; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 34; 7. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) tt. 12, 
13; Students’ Fl. (1899) 76; Cheesem. Man. N.Z, Fl. (1906) 85. 
Nortn AND SouruH IsLanps, STEwaRT IstanpD: Forests from Mangonui and 
Kaitaia southwards, but exceedingly local north of the Auckland Isthmus. Altitudinal 
range from sea-level to 3000 it. Pokaka, November—January. 
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