New Zealand plants and their story . s into the montane belt. The violet family {Violaceae) contains in New Zealand not onlyordinary violets (Viola) (fig. 95), but actual trees and shrubs. Theselatter, unlike violets proper, have flowers regular in form, andberries, not capsules, containing the seeds. It is hard to conceiveanything more unlike the ordinary conception of a violet thanis the divaricating shrub Hymenanthera crassifolia, or the mahoo(Melicytus ramiflorus), a more or less bushy tree. The mallow family [Malvaceae) is very showy, and contains somesmall trees most valuable for garden
New Zealand plants and their story . s into the montane belt. The violet family {Violaceae) contains in New Zealand not onlyordinary violets (Viola) (fig. 95), but actual trees and shrubs. Theselatter, unlike violets proper, have flowers regular in form, andberries, not capsules, containing the seeds. It is hard to conceiveanything more unlike the ordinary conception of a violet thanis the divaricating shrub Hymenanthera crassifolia, or the mahoo(Melicytus ramiflorus), a more or less bushy tree. The mallow family [Malvaceae) is very showy, and contains somesmall trees most valuable for garden purposes, as the lacebarks andribbonwoods {Hoheria, Plagianthus, and Gay a). To the Elaeocarpaceae belongs the wineberry {Aristotelia race-mosa), one of the fire weeds of New Zealand—, a plant whichcomes up abundantly after a forest is burned. Here also comes thatfine tree the hinau {Elaeocarpus dentatus) and the pokaka {E. Hookeri-anus), both with distinct juvenile and adult forms, but of a verydifferent type in each ^>> 11—Plants
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