Going artoorts Cham. —T- Se 44 2b) a. 
Se = H - Rasgerd ice x Cena tS 
Hoherva. | MALVACEAE. 565 
Norra aANp Souta Isuanps: Hawke’s Bay (Wairoa) and Wanganui southwards 
to Southland, not uncommon. Sea-level to 3500 ft. January. 
If Raoul’s plant alone be taken into consideration, this is by far the most distinct 
of the various forms included in the genus Hoheria, It can be recognized at a glance 
by the linear-oblong spinulose-dentate leaves of the mature plant, and by the leaves 
of the juvenile plant, so very dissimilar in both size and shape. But Myr. Kirk’s var. 
obtusifolia appears to connect it with H. sexstylosa, 
3. GAYA H. B. K. 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely small trees, usually tomentose with stellate 
hairs. Flowers pedunculate, axillary or terminal. Bracteoles wanting. 
Calyx 5-fid. Staminal column split at the apex into numerous filaments. 
Ovary many-celled ; style-branches as many as the cells, filiform; stigmas 
capitate or truncate; ovules solitary in each cell. Mature carpels mem- 
branous, connivent at the apex, separable from the axis, 2-valved at the 
back and leaving a free appendage within, which arises from the base of 
the carpel and partly ae es the seed. Seed pendulous or horizontal. — 
Ase Kes 
.S (424s) 1 H+ F.. 
Species 8-12, all South American except the present one, which is endemic in New 
Zealand. a J¢ 
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1. G. Lyallii J. EZ. Baker in Journ. Bot. xxx (1892) 137.—A small 
eraceful spreading tree 15-30 ft. in height ; young branches, leaves, petioles, 
and inflorescence more or less covered with stellate pubescence. Leaves 
deciduous, on slender petioles 1-2 in. long; blade 2-4 in., ovate, acuminate, 
usually deeply doubly crenate, sometimes shortly lobed and crenate, cordate 
and truncate at the base, membranous. Flowers abundantly produced, 
large, 3-lin. diam., white, in axillary fascicles of 3-5, rarely solitary ; 
peduncles slender, 1-2in., ebracteolate. Calyx broadly campanulate, 
5-lobed; lobes triangular. Petals obliquely obovate, retuse towards the 
apex. - Staminal column short, swollen at the base ; filaments numerous, 
long, filiform. Ovary 10-15-celled; styles long, slender, filiform, free to 
below the middle; stigmas obliquely capitate. Fruit } in. diam., globose, 
slightly depressed, of about 12 much-flattened membranous reniform 
carpels. Carpels not winged, 2-valved, 1-seeded. Seed much compressed. 
—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 72; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 80. 
Hoheria Lyallii Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 31, t. 11. Plagianthus Lyalln 
Asa Gray ex Hook. f. l.c. ti (1855) 326; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fi. (1864) 30; 
Bot. Mag. (1871) t. 5935; 7. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 134. Sida Lyallu 
F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. (1864) 11. ‘ 
Var. ribifolia F. Muell. Veg. Chath. Is. (1864) 11—Leaves deeply lobed or incised, 
usually smaller and not so acuminate ; stellate pubescence more conspicuous, especially 
on the under-surface.—G. ribifolia Cockayne in Trans, N.Z, Inst. xxxviii (1906) 373. 
Sout Isnanp: Subalpine forests from Nelson to Otago, most plentiful on the 
western side, often forming a broad fringe to the subalpine beech forests. Ascends 
to 3500 ft. Lacebark, December—January. 
One of the beautiful trees of the New Zealand Flora. There are apparently two 
forms of flowers, one with. long styles almost equalling the stamens, the other with 
styles less than $ their length. 
4. HIBISCUS Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or trees ; glabrous, tomentose, or hispid, the hairs usually 
stellate. Leaves very various, often more or less palmately lobed. Flowers 
