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Panax 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.

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 $1⁄8$ 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.

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 $1⁄8$ 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.