Pseudopanaz. | ARALIACEAE. 641 
variable in shape, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute or acumi- 
nate, coarsely sinuate-toothed, rather coriaceous. Flowers long past 1m 
all the specimens seen, but apparently arranged in a racemose INES on 
numerous terminal peduncles 2-4in. long; pedicels 3-lin. Fruit gin. 
long, broadly oblong, 5-celled; styles 5, very short, connate, free at the 
very tip.—Cheesem. Man. N.Z. Fl. (1906) 234,  Panax Lessonii var. hetero- 
phylla 1. Kirk in Trans. N.Z. Inst. x (1878) App. Xxxv. 
Nortu Istanp: Auckland—Whangaroa North, in forest and along the coast, 
rare, Buchanan ! Gillies and T. Kirk! Wittle Barrier Island, 7. /. C. 
A very curious plant, no doubt closely allied to P. Lessonti, but differing in the 
heterophyllous foliage of the mature tree, and the shape of the simple leaves. The 
foliage of the juvenile plant is unknown. : 
CET Perea 
4. P. erassifolium/C. Koch in Wochenschrift, ii (1859) 336.—A small 
round-headed tree 20-50 ft. high; trunk naked below, 9-18 in. diam. 
Leaves excessively variable, differing greatly at various stages of growth, 
the following being the chief forms: (1) of seedlings, rhomboid to ovate- 
lanceolate, cuneate at the base, coarsely toothed or lobed, membranous ; 
(2) of young unbranched plants, deflexed, very narrow-linear, 6-36 in. long, 
1_Lin, wide, remotely and acutely toothed, excessively rigid and coriaceous, 
dull-green above, often purplish below; (3) in a more advanced stage, 
during which the stem commences to branch and flowers may appear, the 
leaves are erect or spreading, and may be either (a) |-foliolate, 6-12 1n- 
long, 4-14 in. wide, linear or linear-obovate, coarsely and acutely toothed, 
very coriaceous ; or (b) 3—5-foliolate with sessile leaflets 6-12 in. long by 
18in, wide, coarsely and remotely toothed ; (4) in the mature stage the 
leaves are 1-foliolate, 3-8in. long, 1-14 in. wide, linear to linear-oblong or 
linear-obovate, obtuse or subacute, narrowed into stout petioles $—l in. 
long, entire, sinuate-serrate or coarsely toothed at the tip. Umbels terminal, 
compound; primary rays 4-10, 2-3in. long; secondary 4-10, $-lin. 
long; flowers racemose or umbelled; pedicels short. Ovary 5-celled or 
rarely 4-celled by abortion; styles the same number as the cells, connate 
into a cone. Fruit globose, $in. diam.—T. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) tt. 38, 
384A, 38B, 380, 38D; Students’ Fl. (1899) 222; Cheesem. Man. N.Z. FI. 
(1906) 235. Aralia crassifolia Soland. ex A. Cunn. Precur. (1839) n. 514 ; 
Hook. Ic: Plant. (1848) tt. 583, 584; Raoul Choix (1846) 46; Hook. f. FI. 
Nov, Zel. 1 (1853) 96. Panax crassifolium Dene. and Planch. in Rev. Hort. 
(1854) 105; Hook. f. Handb. N.Z, Fl. (1864) 101; 7. Kirk in Trans. 
N.Z. Inst. x (1878) App. xxxii. P. longissimum Hook. f. lc. 102.. 
P. corlaceum Regel in Gartenfl. (1859) 45. Hedera crassifolia A. Gray Bot. 
US. Hepl. Baped. (1854) 719. 
Var. unifoliolatum 7. Kirk Forest Fl. (1889) 61.—Leaves of the third stage 
1-foliolate. 
Var. trifoliolatum 7’. Kirk 1.c.—Leaves of the third stage (when present) 3-5- 
foliolate. 
NortH AND Sours Istanps, Stewart Isuanp: Var. unifoliolatum abundant in 
woods from the south of the Auckland Provincial District to Stewart Island; var. 
-trifoliolatum..from the North Cape to Hawke’s Bay and Taranaki. Sea-level to 
2500 ft. Horoeka: Hohoeka ; Lancewood. February—April. 
~Remarkable for its singularly protean foliage. For a detailed account, reference 
should be made to Kirk’s “ Forest Flora,” pp. 59 to 62, which is still the best account 
published, although deficient in several,respects. For instance, he evidently supposes 
21—FI. 
