Tree up to 12 m. tall; trunk up to 5 dm. or more diam. Lvs 6-16 × 3-5 cm., on petioles up to 2 cm. long; lamina broadly elliptic-obovate to obovate-cuneate, slightly waved or flat, distantly rather obscurely serrate, not blotched, obtuse to acute. Racemes 4-7 cm. long, pedicels c. 3 mm. long; petals 3-3·5 mm. long, narrow ovate- to obovate-oblong; capsules 4-6 mm. long, including style, obovoid or oblong in outline.

DIST.: N. Lowland to montane forests; Great Barrier Id, Little Barrier Id, Coromandel Peninsula, Waimarino to Taranaki. S. Lowland to higher montane forest west of divide, from Collingwood to Hokitika.

Type locality: "Aorere Valley, 1400 ft." Type: K, W. L. Travers.

The type has lvs c. 7·5 × 2.5 cm. The North Id plants need critical comparison with those of the South Id in the field.

Var. lanceolata Kirk Stud. Fl. 1899, 138. This is of uncertain status, based on two gatherings. Kirk's description is "Leaves broadly lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, acute. East Cape, Bishop Williams. Nelson, Cheeseman." The specimens in W are: (a) East Cape, Williams-lvs 8-10 × 3-5 cm., broadly elliptic, narrowed at base and apex; (b) Graham River, Nelson, Jan. 1881, T. F. Cheeseman-lvs 7-11 × 2-3·5 cm., ovate- to broad-lanceolate, narrowed to apex and base. Forms similar to those of Cheeseman have been collected in various localities in north-west Nelson.