560 TILIACEAE. | Hntelea. 
ENTELEA R. Br. §24, 
A shrub or small tree. Leaves large, alternate, cordate, 5—7-nerved, 
toothed or crenate. Flowers in terminal umbelliform cymes, large, white, 
bracteate. Sepals 4-5, free. Petals the same number, crumpled. Stamens 
numerous, all fertile, tree; anthers versatile. Ovary 4-6-celled; style 
simple; stigma terminal, denticulate or fringed ; ovules numerous in each 
cell. Capsule globose, covered with long rigid bristles, loculicidally 4—6- 
valved. Seeds numerous, obovoid ; testa coriaceous ; albumen oily. 
The genus consists of a single endemic species. 
1. EB. arboreseens &. Br. in Bot. Mag. (1824) t. 2480.— A handsome ~ 
shrub or small tree 8-20ft. high, with a trunk 5-9in. diam.; wood 
exceedingly light. Young branches, leaves, petioles, and inflorescence 
covered with short soft stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, large, on petioles 
4-8 in. long; blade 4-9 in. or more, obliquely rounded-ovate, cordate at the 
base, acuminate, irregularly doubly crenate-serrate, often obscurely 3-lobed, 
5-T-nerved from the base; stipules persistent. Flowers very abundant, 
in erect terminal or axillary cymes, white, lin. diam. Sepals acuminate. 
Ovary hispid. Capsule Lin. diam., globose, echinate with long rigid 
bristles.—A. Cunn. Precur, (1839) n. 601; Raoul Choix (1846) 48; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 31; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 32; TV. Kirk Forest Fl. 
(1889) t. 33; Students’ Fl. (1899) 74; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 82 ; 
Til. N.Z, Fl. i (1914) t. 22. Apeiba australis A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 
301, t. 34. -. ay Liqmnke. 
Nortu Istanp: Not uncommon alcng the shores from the Three Kings Islands 
and the North Cape to Tairua and Raglan, rare and local further south. East Cape 
district, Banks and Solander! Adams; Hawke’s Bay, Colenso !/ Cape Palliser and 
Paekakariki, 7. Kirk ; Urenui (Taranaki), 7. F.C. Soutu Isnanpn: Nelson—Islands 
near Cape farewell, Kingsley; near Collingwood, Hector; Fisherman’s Island, near 
Motueka, /”. G. Gibbs! Marlborough—Resolution Bay, Queen Charlotte Sound, J. H. 
Maemahon ! Vhau; Hawna. October—January. 
Greedily eaten by cattle and horses, and consequently fast becoming rare on the 
mainland, except in comparatively inaccessible situations. It is still plentiful on most 
of the small outlying islands on the north-east coast of the Aucklarid District, often 
exhibiting great lnxuriance. On Cuvier Island I measured leaves with petioles 2 ft. 
long, with a blade Lft. 6im. diam. The wood is extremely light, the specific gravity 
being much less than that of cork. 1% is frequently used by the Maoris for the floats 
of fishing-nets. 
Family LXVII. MALVACEAE. 
Herbs, shrubs, or soit-wooded trees, usually with tough fibrous inner 
bark, young parts frequently clothed with stellate hairs. Leaves stipulate, 
alternate, often palmately veined, entire or lobed or rarely compound. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or rarely unisexual, often furnished at the 
base with a kind ef involucel composed of few or many free or connate 
bractlets. Sepals 5, valvate, more or less united into a lobed or entire 
calyx, persistent. Petals 5, hypogynous, contorted in the bud. Stamens 
many, hypogynous; filaments united into a tube surrounding the pistil 
usually called the staminal column; anthers reniform, l-celled, Ovary 
2—nany-celled, of 2 to many carpels whorled round a common axis; 
carpels either distinct or united; ovules 1 or more to each carpel, attached 
