Tree up to 9 m. tall; trunk up to 5 dm. diam. Lvs 6-12.5 × 1-2.5 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long, rather distantly, coarsely, irregularly serrate; lamina often blotched, of three main forms, often almost uniform on particular trees and in particular localities: (a) narrow-lanceolate, much waved; (b) narrow-oblong, us. much waved; (c) oblanceolate, less waved. Racemes 6-8 cm. long; pedicels c. 4 mm. long; petals obovate-oblong, 2.5-3 cm. long; capsules c. 4-5 mm. long, including style, obovoid.

DIST.: N. Lowland to montane forests from lat. 35° to 39° 30´.

Type locality: "forests at source of Kana Kana [Kawakawa] river and elsewhere, on the shores of the Bay of Islands." Type: BM, A. Cunningham, 1826.

The type specimen has lvs of form (b), c. 9·5 × 2.5 cm., narrow elliptic-oblong, subacute. This appears to be the most common form. Form (a) is prevalent on the Waitakere Hills, form (c) in the neighbourhood of Tomarata. Intermediate forms occur.