558 ELAEOCARPACEAE. | Hlaeocarpus. 
The variability of the leaves in young plants is most remarkable. As the young 
tree grows up it is not uncommon to find on the lower branches a curious mixture of 
linear, obovate, or almost orbicular leaves, which may be nearly entire or deeply 
lobulate ; while on the upper branches the leaves have already assumed the shape of 
the mature stage. 
2. ARISTOTELIA L’Herit.17¢u.  Kewbiti. i4u0 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite or nearly so, entire or toothed, 
exstipulate. Flowers small, unisexual, axillary or lateral, racemose or 
rarely solitary. Sepals 4-5, valvate. Petals the same number, 3-lobed, 
toothed or entire, inserted round the base of the thickened torus. Stamens 
numerous or 4-5, inserted on the torus. Ovary 2—4-celled; ovules 2 in 
each cell; styles subulate. Fruit a berry. Seeds ascending or pendulous, 
often pulpy on the outside of the hard testa. 
A small genus of 9 or 10 species, 4 of which are found in Australia, 1 in the New 
Hebrides, 2 in South America, and the 3 following in New Zealand. 
Leaves large, membranous. Racemes panicled, many-flowered .. 1. A. racemosa. 
Leaves large, not so membranous as the preceding. Racemes simple 
or only slightly compound A o% 2. A. Colensor. 
Leaves small, coriaceous. Flowers few together or solitary .. 3d A, fruticosa, 
1. A. racemosa Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 33.—A small graceful 
tree 8-25 ft. high; bark of young branches red, becoming darker with age ; 
branchlets, young leaves, petioles, and inflorescence pubescent. Leaves 
opposite or nearly so, 2-5 in. long, ovate or ovate-cordate, acuminate, thin 
and membranous, deeply and irregularly acutely serrate, often reddish 
beneath ; petioles long and slender. Flowers small, din. diam., rose- 
coloured, in many-flowered axillary panicles, dioecious; the males rather 
larger than the females; pedicels slender. Petals 4, 3-lobed at the tip, 
smaller in the female flowers. Stamens numerous, minutely hairy ; anthers 
longer than the filaments. Hemale flowers: Ovary 3-4-celled ; styles the 
same number. Fruit a 3-4-celled berry about the size of a pea, dark-red 
or almost black. Seeds usually about 8, angular.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
33; TL. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 113; Students’ Fl. (1899) 75; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 83; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 23. Friesia racemosa 
A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 603; Raoul. Choi (1846) 48; Hook Ic. Plant. 
(1846) t. 601. Peete” os ia ITT HO 
TRO Ce-tew{jwr CLA Cane Varta GON, WG. 
NortH AND SoutH IJsLANDS, STEWART IstAND: Common in lowland forests 
throughout, ascending to nearly 3500 ft. Makomako ; Wineberry. September— 
November. 
An abundant and well-known plant, usually the first to appear after the forest 
has been cut down. The wood is largely employed for making charcoal for the manu- 
facture of gunpowder. 
’*S 2. A. Colensoi Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 33.—A shrub or small 
tree 6-15 ft. high, very similar in general appearance to A. racemosa, but 
the leaves are firmer in texture, sometimes narrower and ovate-lanceolate, 
usually quite glabrous, green below. Racemes simple, rarely compound, 
few-flowered. Berry smaller, the size of a peppercorn.—T. Kirk Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 84; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 84. 
Nortu Istanp: Western base of Ruapehu, 7. #. C.; Ruahine and Kaimanawa 
Mountains, £. C. Aston ; Mount Holdsworth, Cockayne; Tararua Mountains, Petrie, 
B.C. Aston! Wairarapa Valley, Colenso/ Soura Istanp: Subalpine forests from 
Brae + aertata Dorok. Prody. w. 22.7, 
€: 7A. 
—T.Sq( ana) TS. 
