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Hlingamita johnsoni n.sp.West Is, Three Kings spy | 
Recoros Auck. inst. & Museum.Vol.4.n0.2. 
Fam, Myrsinaceae. Found :M,&.Johnson Jan,1950. 
also see'Botanical “urvey Baylis. Vol.5.1958. 
Hamily LXXXI. MYRSINACEAE. 
Trees or shrubs, usually glabrous. Leaves alternate, undivided, 
generally provided with pellucid glandular dots; stipules wanting. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or polygamous. Calyx usually inferior, 
46-lobed or -partite, segments often ciliate. Corolla gamopetalous (rarely 
polypetalous), segments (or petals) 4-6, contorted or imbricated. Stamens 
opposite to the corolla-lobes and equal to them in number, free or adnate 
to the tube. Anthers oblong, 2-celled, sometimes coherent. Ovary 
usually superior, l-celled ; style single, stigma generally capitate ; ovules 
few or many, inserted on a free central placenta. Fruit a one- to several- 
seeded drupe or berry. Seeds roundish or angular; albumen copious, 
sometimes pitted or ruminate ; embryo usually transverse. 
A family of considerable size (according to the most recent enumeration including 
over 30 genera and 900 species), widely-spread over the warm regions of the globe, rare 
or absent in temperate climates, except in New Zealand. Economic properties unim- 
portant. The single genus found in New Zealand has a wide range in the tropics of 
both hemispheres. 
SUTTONIA A. Richard. /& 3 @ 
Undershrubs or small trees; leaves entire. Flowers small, pedicelled, 
hermaphrodite or dioecious by the absence of one of the sexes, arranged 
in axillary fascicles or umbels or very rarely solitary. Calyx small, deeply 
4—5-fid. Corolla usually of 4-5 distinct petals, but in some of the species 
the petals slightly cohere at the base. Stamens 4-5; filaments short or 
almost wanting, attached near the base of the petals; anthers introrse. 
Ovary superior, l-celled; ovules 2-4; style wanting or very short; 
stigma capitate. Fruit small, globose, 1-seeded ; albumen horny ; embryo 
cylindrical, transverse. 
The genus Swuttonza, as limited by Carl Mez in the Pflanzenreich (Heft 9), includes 
5 of the 8 valid species of Myrsinaceae found in the New Zealand area. The remaining 
3 are placed by him in the allied genus Rapanea. But one of the 3 (S. australis) falls 
within the conception of Suttonia as defined by Mez himself, and the remaining 2 lie 
actually upon the border-line between the two genera. Under these circumstances, I 
have ventured to include the whole of the species in Suttonia. Thus amended, the genus 
will also include 8 species from the Hawaiian Islands. 
A. Petals united at the base (often very slightly im M. salicina). 
. kermadecensis. 
. salicina. 
Leaves 14-24 in. long, elliptic or obovate-oblong, usually acute .. 1. 
Leaves 3-7 in. long, linear or linear-oblong .. “3 ean) as 
RR 
B. Petals quite free. 
Tree 10-20 ft. Leaves 1-2in., oblong or obovate, rather thin, 
margins undulate. Fruit 4in. diam. i? he “uF 
Tree 10-20ft. Leaves 1-24 in., obovate, coriaceous, margins 
flat. Fascicles many-flowered. Fruit 1-4 in. diam. .. 4. 8. chathamica, + 
Shrub 8-l15ft.; branches stout, pubescent. Leaves 4-#in., 
narrow-obovate, coriaceous. Flowers solitary or few together, 
almost sessile .. Ae we a i .. & S, Comin. 
Shrub 8-15ft.; branches slender, glabrous. Leaves 3-1} in., 
obovate, rather thin. Flowers in 2-5-flowered fascicles ; 
pedicels slender, distinct .. eS ae a 4 
Shrub 4-12 ft.; branches spreading, tortuous and interlaced. 
Leaves 4-3 in., broadly obovate or obcordate, retuse or 2-lobed. . 
Trailing or prostrate shrub 4-18 in. long. Leaves small, 44 in., 
broadly oblong or orbicular fs a ye .. 8 8S. nummularia. 
3. S. australis, 
S. montana. 
= 
S. divaricata. t 
