632 ARALIACEAE. [ Stilbocarpa. 
(rerwas = a) 
1. S. polaris /4. Ga Bor U.S. Expl. Exped. (1854) 714.—Forming 
large rounded masses 3-5 ft. in diam., more or less bristly in all its parts. 
Rhizome prostrate, 2-3 ft. long, thick and fleshy, annulate. Stems much 
branched below, stout, 1-14 in. diam., grooved, succulent, with a heavy rank 
smell when bruised. Leaves bright-green, 9-18 in. diam., orbicular-reniform, 
thick and fleshy, bristly on both surfaces, plaited or rugose, margins 
many-lobed and sharply toothed, veins flabellate ; petiole 12-24 in. long, 
erect, semi-terete ; sheath amplexicaul, produced above into a leaty lobed 
or laciniate membranous ligule. Umbels large, terminal and axillary, 
compound. Flowers very numerous, fin. diam., waxy-yellow with a 
purplish centre, shining. Fruit the size of a small peppercorn, globose 
with a flattened and hollowed apex, brilliantly shining—Hook. f. Handb. 
N.Z. Fl. (1864) 100; Z. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 215; Cheesem. Man. 
N.Z. Fl. (1906) 227; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 70 (infiorescence). Aralia 
polaris Homb. et Jacqg. Voy. au Pole Sud Bot. t. 2, Phanerog. ; Hook. as 
Fl. Antarct. i (1844) 19; Ic. Plant. (1844) t. 747. 
AUCKLAND, CAMPBELL, ANTIPODES, AND Macquarie Istanps: Abundant from 
sea-level to a considerable height on the hills; Hooker and all subsequent collectors. 
December—February. 
A truly noble plant. Hooker well remarks that it is “one of the most hand- 
some and singular of the vegetable productions in the group of islands it inhabits, 
which certainly contains a greater proportion of large and_ beautiful plants, relatively 
to the whole vegetation, than any country with which I am acquainted. Growing 
in large orbicular masses, on rocks and banks near the sea, or amongst the dense and 
sloomy vegetation of the woods, its copious bright-green foliage and large umbels of 
waxy flowers, often nearly a foot in diameter, have a most striking appearance.” 
9. §. Lyallii J. B. Armstrong in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xin (1881) 336.— 
A stout herb 1-4 ft. high, often forming extensive patches. Rhizome 
prostrate or arcuate, creeping. Stems stout, as thick as the little finger, 
pilose. Leaves radical, crowded, 6-18 in. diam. or more, orbicular-reniform, 
lobed and deeply toothed, usually glabrous and shining above, more or 
less clothed with soft bristles beneath; petiole terete, fistulose, with a 
broad membranous sheathing ligule at the base. Umbels large, compound, 
forming globose masses 6-12 in. diam. Flowers monoecious or polygamous, 
din. diam., reddish-purple. Calyx-margin truncate. _ Petals 5, linear or 
linear-oblong. Ovary 2-celled, crowned by two broad and fleshy stylo- 
podia; styles 2, free. Fruit globose, 4in. diam., 2-celled, black and 
shining ; seeds 1 in each cell—Oheesem. in Subantarct. Is. of N.Z. 11 (1909) 
409; Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 70 (leaf). Aralia Lyalli 7. Kirk in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. xvii (1885) 293, t. 17; Students’ Fl. (1899) 216. 
Sourn Istanp: Coal Island, Preservation Inlet, 7. ‘Kirk. Svewart ISLAND 
AND Apgacrent Istanps: Lyall, Petrie! Thomson ! T. Kirk ! Cockayne, and others. 
Has precisely the habit of Stilbocarpa polaris, and in a flowerless state may easily 
‘be taken for it. The leaves are less fieshy and coriaceous, and want the bristles on 
the upper surface; the petioles are terete; the fiowers reddish-purple, with narrower 
petals; the ovary 2-celled, crowned with the very evident stylopodia; and the fruit 
is not hollowed at the apex. 
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3. S. robusta Mockayne in Subantarct Is. of N.Z. (1909) 209.—Closely 
allied to S. Lyallic, but larger and stouter, and much less hispid. Stolons 
absent. Leaves often 2ft. in diam.; petioles much stouter, flat on the 
upper surface, and convex beneath, thus plano-convex in section, and almost 
solid, not terete and fistulose, as in S. Lyalla. Umbels as large as those 
