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of S. Lyalliz, but the individual flowers are smaller, and almost pale-yellow 
in colour, never reddish-purple. Aralia Lyallii var. robusta 7’. Kirk wm 
Journ. Bot. xxix (1891) 237 ; Students’ FI. (1899) 216; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. 
FI. (1906) 227. 
Tus Snares (about 65 miles south-west from Stewart Island): Apparently 
not uncommon, 7. Kirk! Cockayne, and others. 
Of this fine plant I have only seen a single very imperfect specimen. Tt was placed 
by Mr. Kirk as a variety of S. Lyallii, but the notes respecting it given by him in his 
paper on the botany of The Snares and the opinions expressed by subsequent visitors 
have convinced me that the plant fully deserves the rank of a species. 
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Evergreen trees or shrubs, usually glabrous or nearly so. Leaves often 
polymorphous in the same species. Usually the leaves of juvenile plants 
are 3-5-foliolate, with the leaflets more or less cut or divided ; while the 
leaves of the mature plants are 3-5-foliolate with the leaflets less or 
not all divided; or they may be altogether simple. Leaves and leaflets 
coriaceous, usually dentate, serrate, or pinnately divided. Flowers usually 
in umbels, which may be simple or compound. Calyx-limb entire or 
5-toothed. Petals 5, valvate. Stamens 5. Ovary 2- or rarely 3—4-celled ; 
styles ass many as the cells, free or connate at the base, their tips free, 
ultimately recurved. Fruit laterally compressed or rarely almost globose, 
9-A-celled ; exocarp succulent or coriaceous. Seeds 1 in each cell. 
A small and somewhat ill-defined genus of 12 to 15 species, 10 of which are found 
in New Zealand, the remainder being scattered through Polynesia, Australia, and Malaya. 
* Leaves of both old and young plants simple. 
- Leaves of young plants narrow-linear, 5-10 in. long; of old plants a. ~ 
linear or lanceolate, 2—3 in. an oe 5 +5 1.[7. lineare. &) 
** Leaves of old plants simple ; of young ones 3—5-foliolate. 
Leaflets 2-5 in., lanceolate, serrate. Styles 2 2, N. simplex. 
Leaflets 2-8 in., oblong-lanceolate, entire. Style 3-4. Ps 3. N. Hdgerleys. 
Leaflets small, 4-2 in., orbicular or obovate. Styles2 .. .. «A, N. anomalum. 
Leaflets larger, $-2 in., oblong-ovate oF i. 5. N. parvum. 
#«* Leaves of old plants 3-5- or 7-foliolate. 
Leaves always 3-foliolate, much more coriaceous than in NV. Sinclairit. 
Umbels larger 
- os ¥ if AP 6. N. Macintyret. 
Leaves 3—5-foliolate ; petioles not sheathing. Umbelssmal!. Fruit 
compressed Po ap a re at .. 1 N. Sinelairic. 
Leaves 3-5-foliolate; petioles sheathing; leaflets sessile, veins 
indistinct. Umbels large, compound .. » 8. WN. Oolensot. 
Leaves 3—7-foliolate; leaflets stalked, 3-8 in. long, thinly coriaceous, | 
midribs and petioles not reddish-purple. Umbels large, compound ¥9. N. arboreum. 
Leaves 3—7-foliolate ; leaflets stalked, much larger, 6-12 in. long, 
more coriaceous, midribs and petioles dark reddish-purple. Umbels 
large, compound .. 2 es at ei .. 10. N. laetum. 
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1. N. lineare /Harms in Engl. and Prantl.. Pflanzenfam. iti, 8 (1894) 
48,—A small sparingly branched shrub 5-10 ft. high ; branches spreading, 
stout and woody, bearing numerous simple or trifid coriaceous scales mixed 
with the leaves. Leaves of young trees crowded, ascending, simple, 5—10 in. 
long, 4-4in. wide, narrow-linear, acute, gradually narrowed into a short 
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