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Laurelia.] Carpels numerous; styles long, silky. Fruiting-perianth much enlarged and elongated, often quite 1 in. long, narrow-urceolate, splitting irregularly into 3–5 valves. Achenes 6–12, narrowed into long plumose styles.—Raoul, Choix, 42; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 218; Kirk, Forest Fl.'' t. 71. Atherosperma novæ-zealandiæ, ''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl.'' 240.





Trees or shrubs, often aromatic. (Cassytha is a leafless parasitic climber.) Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, usually simple and entire, often gland-dotted; stipules wanting. Flowers regular, hermaphrodite or unisexual, generally small, usually in axillary cymes or panicles or clusters. Perianth inferior, herbaceous or coloured, deeply cut into 4–8 (usually 6) imbricate segments. Stamens usually twice the number of the perianth-segments, inserted in 2–3 series on the perianth-tube, all fertile or some reduced to stammodia; filaments flattened, naked or provided with 2 glands at the base; anther-cells 2–4, opening by upturned valves. Ovary free, 1-celled; style simple, terminal; stigma capitate, entire or lobed; ovuie solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Fruit a drupe or berry, rarely dry, free or enclosed in the perianth. Seed solitary, pendulous; albumen wanting; embryo with large plano-convex cotyledons, radicle minute, superior.

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, penninerved. Flowers small, hermaphrodite, panicled or fascicled. Perianth-tube short; limb with 6 subequal segments. Perfect stamens 9 in 3