Nothopanaz. | ARALIACEAE. ‘ 635 
(jAoeea.5S * 
3. N. Edgerleyi /Harms in Engl. and Prantl. Pflanzenfam. 1, 8 
(1894) 48.—A small graceful tree 20-40 ft. high; trunk 12-18in. diam. 
Leaves very aromatic, bright glossy green, smooth. and shining, membranous, 
dimorphic: of mature plants 1-foliolate ; petiole jointed to the blade, 
slender, 1-3in. Tong; blade 2-8in., oblong- or obovate-lanceolate to 
lanceolate, acute or acuminate, quite entire: of young plants 3—5-foliolate 
with the leaflets deeply and irregularly lobed or pinnatifid. Umbels small, 
1_3in. diam., 10-12-flowered, in slender axillary or lateral panicles 1-2 1m. 
long. Flowers small, greenish-white. Ovary 3-4-celled ; styles as many 
as the cells, connate at the base. Fruit 4in. diam., elobose ; seeds 3-4.— 
Panax Edgerleyi Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. 1 (1853) 94; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 
101; 7. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) t. 44: Students’ Fl. (1899) 217 ; Cheesem. 
Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 229. Raukana Edgerleyi Seem. in Journ. Bot. 1v 
(1866) 352. 
Norru anp Sours Isnanps, Stewart IstanpD: Not uncommon in hilly forests 
from Kaitaia and Hokianga southwards. Sea-level to 2500 ft. Raukawa ; Hou- 
mangaroa ; Koareare (the juvenile plant). January—Yebruary. 
A remarkably graceful and handsome species. The Maoris formerly mixed the 
fragrant leaves with fat_or oil, and then used the mixture for anointing the person. 
4. N. anomalum sso ee Journ. Bot. iv (1866) 296.—A much- 
branched shrub 5-12 ft. high; branches spreading at nght angles, younger 
ones usually clothed with small bristly scales. Leaves of young plants 
3-foliolate ; petioles long, slender, winged ; leaflets jointed on to the petiole, 
stipellate at the base, elliptic-ovate or orbicular-ovate, sometimes lobed, 
toothed or crenate, usually membranous. Leaves of mature plants 1-folio- 
late ; petiole very short, seldom more than § in. long ; leaflet 4-2 in. long, 
orbicular or oblong-orbicular, rarely narrower and oblong-obovate, rounded 
at the tip, obscurely crenate, rather coriaceous, usually with minute linear 
stipellae at the base. Umbels small, simple, axillary, 9-8-flowered ; ped- 
uncles very short. Flowers minute, greenish. Ovary 9-celled ; styles 2, 
free. Fruit 4-in. diam., orbicular, much compressed, 2-celled, mottled.— 
Panax anomalum Hook. in Lond. Journ. Bot. ii (1848) 422, t. 12; Hook. f. 
Fl. Nov. Zel. i (1853) 93; Handb. N.Z. Fl. (1864) 101; 7. Kork Students’ 
Fl. (1899) 218; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 230; Lil. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) 
t. 72. | 
Var. microphyllum 7. Kirk l.c.—Smaller and more slender. Leaves smaller, 
1-Lin. long, obovate-lanceolate to broadly obovate, sinuate-crenate.—P. microphyllum 
Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xvi (1884) 328. 
Norra anp Sours Isnanps: Not uncommon in woods from Mangonui and 
Kaitaia southwards, ascending to 2500 ft. Wauwaupaku. December—February. 
A very curious plant, with the habit of Melicytus micranthus or Melicope simplex, 
quite unlike a Panax. Mr. Colenso’s P. microphyllum is the common form south of the 
Waikato, but it differs little from the type. 
x) 7. «i426 24. 
5. N. parvum / Cockayne in Report Bot. Stewart Id. (1909) 438.— 
A slender branching shrub 6-12 ft. high ; branches numerous, twiggy, when 
young more or less clothed with short bristly hairs; bark greyish-brown 
or dark-brown. Leaves very variable in size, }-2in. long including the 
petiole ; blade oblong to oblong-ovate or broadly ovate, acute or subacute, 
crenate or serrate or slightly lobed, texture rather firm but not coriaceous, 
not smooth or shining; petiole rather long, slender, jointed on to the blade, 
and there usually furnished with minute stipellae. Leaves of young plants 
3-foliolate with serrate leaflets, which are occasionally lobed. Umbels 
