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.17G@a.  Kewbott. iva 
eA. 
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 5. ic “a, .. 2. A. Colensoi. 
Leaves small, coriaceous. Flowers few together or solitary .. o& 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 
Pe | ee a 
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mawnasta ax 
Avistotelia serrata (Forst.) Oliv. = 
(A. racemosa. A. Cunn. ) 
T.N.Zele Vole 55, De S65. 
MONS IV LE LU LIVO) OSS TN IN. ZL. YT (T9T4) t. 23. Friesla racemosa 
A. Cunn. Precur, (1839) n. 603; Raoul. Chovx (1846) 48; Hook Ic. Plant. 
(1844) t. 601. © 3 | _- 176. Ho 
TRO Cotewpur ciara Wubert_ Sv. gui. 
North AND SoutH Istanps, STeEwARrT Is~taAnpd: Common in lowland forests 
throughout, ascending to nearly 3500 ft. Makomako ; Wineberry. Septem ber— 
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. 
4 Li vee | 7 S4(iaqna) ars. 
’*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. 
North IsLtanp: Western base of Ruapehu, 7. #. C.; Ruahine and Kaimanawa 
Mountains, B. C. Aston; Mount Holdsworth, Cockayne; Tararua Mountains, Petrie, 
B,C. Aston! Wairarapa Valley, Colenso/ Sourn Istanp: Subalpine forests from 
Brera | aertate Aero, A. AAD 
