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MYRSINACEAE, 711 
Family 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, 
4-6-lobed or -partite, segments often ciliate. Corolla camopetalous (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 inciuding 
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. /& Ss 4 
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, L-seeded : albumen horny ; embryo 
cylindrical, transverse. 
The genus Swttionia, 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 Sutionia 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 in M. salicina). 
Leaves 14-24 in. long, elliptic or obovate-oblong, usually acute .. 1. S. kermadecensis. 
Leaves 3 7 in. long, linear or linear-oblong 2. S. salicina. 
B. Petals quite free. 
Tree 10-20 ft. Leaves 1-2in., oblong or obovate, rather thin, 
margins undulate. Fruit 4in. diam. ry 3. S. australis. 
Tree 10-20ft. Leaves 1-24 in., EA coriaceous, margins 
flat. Fascicles many- flowered. Fruit 4-4 in. diam. 4. S. chathamica.  : 
Shrub 8-l15ft.; branches stout, pubescent. Leaves $-—? in., 
narrow-obovate, coriaceous. Flowers solitary or few together, 
almost sessile .. bay 4 ni f -> by SS) Com, 
Shrub 8—-15ft.; branches slender, glabrous. Leaves }-1} in., 
obovate, rather thin. Flowers in 2-5-flowered fascicles ; 
pedicels slender, distinct . 6. S. montana. 
Shrub 4-12 th 3 branches spreading, tortuous and ‘interlaced. 
Leaves 1-3 in., broadly obovate or obcordate, retuse or 2-lobed.. 7. 8. divaricata. 
Trailing or prostrate shrub 4-18 in. jong: Leaves small, 4-4 in., 
broadly oblong or orbicular ; i na .. 8. S. nummularia. 
