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516 VIOLACEAE. | Hymenanthera. 
North Island: Three Kings Islands, 7. i”. C. ; North Cape Peninsula, 7. Kirk! 
T. F.C.; Mount Camel, Buchanan! Poor Knights Islands, Cockayne 3 Taranga 
\. Islands, 7. Kirk / 7. F. C.; Great Barrier and adjacent islets, 7. Kirk / Little Barrier 
> Island, most abundant, 7. Kirk! 7. F. C., Miss Shakespear ! Waiheke Island, very 
av | rare, 7’. Kirk ,» Cuvier Island, 7. F.C. ; Whangapoua, 7. Kirk ; Shoe Island, Adams / 
pr Mayor Island and Karewa Island, Dr. Thilenius / August-September. 
Mr. W. B. Hemsley (“Kew Bulletin,” 1908, p. 95) has pointed out that the plant 
previously referred by New Zealand botanists to the Norfolk Island H. latifolia is 
in reality a distinct species. He states that the Norfolk Island plant has more slender 
branches, thin entire leaves, smaller flowers, and the staminal appendages are only 
fringed at the tips instead of being minutely toothed all round the margin. Mr, Hemsley 
has also satisfied himself that Cunningham’s Scaevola novae-zelandiae, collected at 
Matauri Bay, opposite the Cavallos Islands, and which Hooker referred to his 
H. crassifolia, is really the same plant, thus rendering it necessary to restore Cunningham's 
specific name. 
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ao: Tt. chathamica/7. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxvii (1896) 514.— 
An erect glabrous shrub; bark furrowed, dotted with minute lenticels. 
Leaves alternate, 2-5 in. long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 
acute, narrowed into a short petiole, sharply toothed ; margins thickened ; 
veins reticulate on both surfaces. Flowers in crowded fascicles along the 
branches, dioecious; pedicels slender, longer than the flowers, decurved. 
Male flowers: Sepals ovate, free almost to the base. Petals more than twice 
as long as the sepals, revolute at the tips. Anthers with a lanceolate 
jagged connective more than 4 as long as the cells; dorsal scale cuneate- 
spathulate. Female flowers not seen. Berry ovoid or subglobose, white, 
usually 4-seeded. Seeds angled, outer surface convex; strophiole small— 
Students’ Fl. (1899) 45; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 51. H. latifolia 
var. chathamica F. Muell. Veg. Chatham Is. (1864) 9. 
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Nortx Istanp: Wellington—Patea, Hector’ CuatnamM IsLaAnps: G. Mair! H. A. 
Travers! FP. A, D. Cox! Mahoe. September—October. 
There is little to separate this from the preceding except the longer and narrower 
sharply toothed leaves and the 4-seeded berry, and I doubt the constancy of this latter 
character. Sir James Hector’s Patea specimens have neither flowers nor fruit, but 
appear to belong to the same species. 
Family LX XI. PASSIFLORACEAE. 
Climbing herbs or shrubs, rarely erect. Leaves usually alternate, 
entire or lobed or palmately divided, stipulate ; petiole generally provided 
with glands. Tendrils often present, axillary. Flowers regular, herma- 
phrodite or unisexual, axillary, solitary or in cymes or racemes. Calyx- 
tube short or long ; lobes 4-5, valvate or imbricate. Petals as many as the 
calyx-lobes or wanting, inserted on the calyx-tube, free or connate. Corona 
of one or more rows of filamentous appendages arising from the calyx-tube, 
rarely wanting. Stamens 3-5, rarely more, usually springing from the 
base of the calyx, but filaments often monadelphous and adnate to the 
stalk of the ovary to near the top. Ovary superior, free, elevated on a 
stalk (gynophore) or sessile, 1-celled, with 3-5 parietal placentas; styles 
3-5 or single; ovules numerous, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit succulent 
or capsular. Seeds numerous, ovoid or compressed, often arillate ; albumen 
fleshy ; embryo straight, cotyledons flat. 
A small family, chiefly tropical in its distribution, and most abundant in South 
America. Genera 18; species about 280. The fruit of several species of Passiflora 
(passion-fruit) is valued on account of the cooling and refreshing pulp surrounding the 
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