640 ARALIACEAE. Ex seudopanax. 
** Leaves of young plants altogether different from those of old ones. 
Leaves of young trees deflexed, with short distant teeth. Fruit 
small, +.in. diam. Ss a aS f a 
Leaves of young trees deflexed, with broad lobulate hooked teeth. 
Fruit large, oblong, 4 in. long 
Leaves of young trees never deflexed. Fruit large, globose, } in. 
diam. .. rat ... 6. P. chathamicum. 
AR Th eet TS - 
POS Se ee a in Engl. and Prantl. Pflanzenf. 1, 8 (1894) 48.— 
A much-branched shrub 6-15 ft. high. Leaves bronzy or yellow-green, 
3-5-foliolate, often with 1-foliolate leaves intermixed; petioles slender, 
1-3in. long; leaflets 14-3in., obovate to obovate-lanceolate or elliptic- 
lanceolate, narrowed at the base, acute or acuminate, glossy and coriaceous, 
sharply serrate. Umbels terminal; male of 4-10 slender rays 2-3 in. 
long, bearing numerous racemose flowers on pedicels $-1in. long; female 
(or hermaphrodite ?) umbels of much shorter rays ?-2in. long terminating 
in 2-6-flowered umbellules. Flowers 4 in. diam. Ovary 5-celled ; styles 5, 
connate at the base, very short, tips erect or slightly recurved. Fruit 
zin. long, broadly oblong, 5-celled.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 233 ; 
Ill. N.Z. Fl. i (1914) t. 74. 
NortH Istanp: Auckland—Whangaroa North, Great Barrier Island, and Omaha, 
T. Kirk! Little Barrier Island, 7. Kirk, Shakespear / T. F. C.; Cape Colville Penin- 
sula, in many localities from Moehau, Mount Wynyard, Upper Kauaeranga, to Tairua, 
T. Kirk! T. F. C., Adams! W. Townson ! Sea-level to 2800 ft. December-— 
January. 
4. P. crassifolium. 
5. P. ferox. 
The ovary-celis and styles are very exceptionally less than 5, and the species 
certainly falls into Pseudopanax as that genus is characterized in the ‘‘ Genera 
Plantarum.’’ Its nearest ally is P. Lessonii. So far as I have been able to ascertain, 
there is little difference between the foliage of the juvenile and mature plants. 
2. P. Lessonii C. Koch in Wochenschrift, 11 (1859) 336.—A glabrous 
much-branched shrub or small tree 8-20 ft. high ; branches robust. Leaves 
crowded towards the tips of the branches, 3-5-foliolate ; petioles stout, 
2-6in. long, scarcely sheathing at the base; leaflets 1—4in., sessile, 
narrowed towards the base, obovate- or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 
entire or sinuate-serrate, smooth and shining, very thick and coriaceous, 
quite glabrous, veins indistinct. Leaves of juvenile plants very similar 
to those of the mature, but usually 5-foliolate with much larger leaflets 
(sometimes 4-6 in. long) and with coarser serratures. Umbels terminal, 
compound ; males with 4-8 primary rays 1-6 in. long, each ending in 4-10 
secondary rays bearing numerous racemose flowers; females with shorter 
and fewer rays and less numerous flowers, not so conspicuously racemose. 
Flowers }in. diam. Ovary 5-celled; styles 5, very short, connate at the 
base, their tips at length recurved. Fruit broadly oblong, tin. long, 5- 
celled.—T. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 221; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 
234.  Panax Lessonii DC. Prodr. iv (1830) 253; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. 
Fl. (1864) 102. Cussonia Lessonii A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. (1832) 285, 
t. 32; A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n..511; Raoul Choix (1846) 46. Hedera 
Lessonii A. Gray Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped. (1854) 719. 7. Se >, 
Nortn Isuanp: From the Three Kings Islands and the North Cape to Poverty 
Bay, usually near the coast. Houmapara ; Houpara. J. anuary—February. _ , 
3. P. Gilliesii 7. Kirk Students’ Fl. (1899) 221—A shrub or small 
tree 10-15 ft. high; branches slender. Leaves mostly 1-foliolate, mixed 
with a few 3-foliolate ones ; petiole slender, }-1din. long; blade 14-24 in., 
