Flora of New Zealand Series

Toru.

Type locality: near Whangaroa. Type: K, A. Cunningham.

Subfastigiately branched tree up to 10 m. or more tall; trunk up to 2 dm. or more diam.; branchlets minutely puberulous. Lvs alt. or subwhorled, on stout petioles ± 2 mm. long; lamina 16-20 cm. × 8-15 mm., narrow linear-lanceolate, rather abruptly acute or apiculate, very gradually narrowed to petiole, entire, thick, coriac., glab., ± glossy. Fls fragrant, in strict axillary 6-12-fld racemes up to ± 5 cm. long; axis and very short pedicels clad in ferruginous pubescence; bracts minute, basal. Per. brownish yellow, 5-9 mm. long; segs linear, ± undulate on margins, pubescent without. Ovary subsessile, glab.; style short, thick; stigma oblique. Drupe ellipsoid, reddish, 12-18 mm. long, 1-2-celled. Seeds ± 6 mm. long, shortly stipitate, apiculate.

DIST.: N. Lowland to montane shrubland and forest from lat. 35° to a little south of 38°.