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Title: Plants of New Zealand
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Laing, R. M. (Robert Malcolm), b. 1865 Blackwell, E. W. (Ellen W.)
Subjects: Plants
Publisher: Christchurch : Whitcombe and Tombs, Ltd.
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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bs, cultivated for their beauty and for the sweet scent of their flowers. Genus Driuiys. Sepals 2-4 ; petals 5 or 6, in two rows. Stamens many ; fruit a berry.•(Name from the Greek, signifying pungent). 3 sp. Drimys axillaris (The Axil-floivered Drimijs). A small, evergreen tree, with glossy, alternate leaves, and black bark. Theflowers occur in the leaf axils, or in the scars of fallen leaves, hence the nameaxillaris. Leaves simple, alternate, pellucid-dotted. Stamens 10-20. There isin the South Island a pungent species, D. colorata, which has leavesblotched with red, with a purple bloom on the under-surface and 2-seeded berries.The wood of this tree is reddish in colour, and is used for inlaid work. The barkis very aromatic, and is a tonic and astringent. A decoction of the leaves is oftenused by bushmen as a medicine, and has earned the name of Maori Painkiller.Flowers yellowish-green. Fl. Oct.-Dec. Called by settlers the Pepper Tree.INIaori name Horopito. THE MAGNOLIA FAMILY 173
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Fig. 50. Hedycarya arborea (i nat. size) 174 PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND Monimiaceae. Distribution.—A small family, chiefly tropical, found in South America,Southern India and Tasmania. Leaves sometimes aromatic. Geini.s Laurelia. A genus of 4 species, including one found in Chili and two in Australia.Trees. Leaves opposite, aroraatic. Flowers dioecious, in panicles. Perianth5-8 parted. Stamens 6-20 in the male, flowers reduced to scales in the female.Ovaries 5-20, hairy. Acheues with long feathery styles. (Name in allusion to thelaurel-like leaves). 1 sp. Laurelia novae-Zelandiae (The Puhatea). One of the loftiest of New Zealand forest trees, sometimes reaching theheight of 150 ft. Trunk from 3 ft.-7 ft. in diameter, flanked with thin spreadinghuttresses at its base. Bark pale. Leaves thick, 1^ in.-3Jin. long, ; in.-l^ in.wide, toothed, shining. Flowers racemed, axillary, J in. across. Stamens G-10.Achenes 6-10. North Island ; northern parts of the South Island. Fl. Oct.-Nov.Maori name P

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