the cells, connate at the base, free and recurved at the tips. Fruit broadly ovoid, 3–5-celled and -seeded.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 101; Kirk, Students' Fl. 217.
South Island: Subalpine forests from Nelson to Preservation Inlet, chiefly on the western side of the island. 2500–4000 ft. January–February.
2. P. simplex, Forst. Prodr. n. 399.—A shrub or small tree 8–25 ft. high, everywhere smooth and glabrous. Leaves excessively variable, polymorphous; of very young plants either ovate or broadly ovate, serrate, or 3–5-foliolate with the leaflets deeply lobed or pinnatifid: both these states are succeeded by 3-foliolate leaves with lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate sharply serrate leaflets. Leaves of mature trees 1-foliolate, variable in size, 2–5 in. long, lanceolate to oblong- or obovate-lanceolate, coriaceous and glossy, acute or acuminate, rarely obtuse, sharply serrate or nearly entire; petiole 1–3 in. long, jointed at the top. Umbels small, shorter than the leaves, axillary or terminal, irregularly compound; secondary umbels 8-16-flowered, the terminal one usually female, the lateral male. Flowers small, greenish-white. Ovary 2-celled; styles 2, free to the base, recurved. Fruit 18 in. diam., orbicular, compressed; seeds 2.—A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 280, t. 31; A. Cunn. Precur. n. 509; Raoul, Choix, 46; Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. i. 18, t. 12; Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 93; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 100; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 106, 107; Students' Fl. 217.
Var. quercifolium, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves of mature plants 1-foliolate, 3–5 long, lanceolate, deeply lobulate or pinnatifid.—Forest Fl. t. 106, f. 2.
Var. parvum, Kirk, l.c.—Leaves of mature plants 1-foliolate, ¾–1 in. long acute or subacute, crenate or serrate. Umbels few-flowered.
North and South Islands, Stewart Island, Auckland Islands: From the Thames Goldfields southwards, but local north of the East Cape. Var. quercifolium: Canterbury—Upper Waimakariri, Enys! Var. parvum: Various localities from Nelson to Stewart Island, Kirk! Petrie! H. J. Matthews! T. F. C. Sea-level to over 4000 ft. Haumakaroa. November–January.
3. P. Edgerleyi, Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 94.—A small graceful tree 20–40 ft. high; trunk 12–18 in. diam. Leaves very aromatic, bright glossy green, smooth and shining, membranous, dimorphic: of mature plants 1-foliolate; petiole jointed to the blade, slender, 1–3 in. long; blade 2–8 in., 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, ½–¾ in. diam., 10–12-flowered, in slender axillary or lateral panicles 1–2 in. long. Flowers small, greenish-white. Ovary 3–4-celled; styles as many as the cells, connate at the base. Fruit 18 in. diam., globose; seeds 3–4.—Handb. N.Z. Fl. 101; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 44; Students' Fl. 217. Raukana Edgerleyi, Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. (1866) 352.
