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Fagus.] verse rows of recurved linear processes tipped with an obtuse gland. Nuts puberulous, 3- or more rarely 2-winged, wings produced upwards into sharp flat points.—Raoul, Choix, 42; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 229; Handb. N.Z. Fl. 249; Kirk, Forest Fl.'' t. 89. Nothofagus Menziesii, ''Oerst. in Vidensk. Selsk. Skr.'' v. ix. (1873) 355.

2. F. fusca, ''Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Plant.'' t. 631.—A noble forest-tree 60–100 ft. high; trunk 4–8 ft. diam.; bark dark-brown or black in old plants, deeply furrowed, smooth and greyish-white on young trees; branchlets and petioles pubescent. Leaves evergreen, petiolate, ¾–1½ in. long, broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, obtuse or rarely acute, cuneate at the base, rather thin but firm, pubescent above and glandular beneath when young, glabrous when old, deeply and sharply serrate, veins conspicuous; stipules linear-oblong, caducous. Male flowers 2–3 at the end of a short curved axillary peduncle or more rarely solitary, drooping. Perianth 5-toothed, membranous, pubescent. Stamens 8–16. Female involucres solitary in the upper axils, 2–3-flowered. Fruiting involucres ⅓–½ in. long, ovoid-globose, viscid-pubescent, 4-lobed; lobes furnished at the back with 3–5 transverse lamellæ with entire or fringed margins. Nuts pubescent, 2–3-winged, wings produced upwards into entire or toothed points.—Raoul, Choix, 42; Hook, f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 229; ''Handb. N.Z. Fl. 249; Kirk, Forest Fl.'' t. 90. Nothofagus fusca, ''Oerst. in Vidensk. Selsk. Skr.'' v. ix. (1873) 355.

Var. Colensoi, ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel. i. 229.—Leaves more coriaceous, teeth smaller, obtuse.—Ic. Plant. t. 630; Kirk, Forest Fl. t. 90, f. 2. F. truncata, Col. in Trans. N.Z. Inst.'' xxxi. (1899) 280.

In forests from Mongonui and Kaitaia southwards, but local to the north of the East Cape. From Nelson to Foveaux Strait, but rare in Canterbury and eastern Otago. Sea-level to 3500 ft. Tawhai; Tawhai-rau-nui; Black-birch; Red-birch. October–December.