branched, bark greenish or dirty brown. Leaves in young plants under 20 years of age 1–5 foliolate, very coriaceous and stiff, reflected downwards, 12–18 inches long, 1 inch broad, linear and enlarged at top, narrowed at bottom into short, stout, exstipulate petiole, deeply, distantly sinuate-serrate, serratures cuspidate, variegated in colour, purplish below, dark green above, with pale green spots on the base or point of each tooth, mid-rib stout, reddish. Leaves of old plants erect, 4–6 inches long, ½ inch broad, linear, quite entire, with a few sinuate serratures on the obtuse top, or serrated, narrowed at bottom into a short, stout, exstipulate petiole. Umbels unisexual, terminal, twice compound, peduncles of fruiting umbels ¾–1 inch long, male racemose umbels 1–2 inches long, pedicles very short, bracteate. Flowers small, largest in the fruiting umbels. Fruit large, globose when fresh, ¼ inch diameter, 5-celled. Styles 5, connate into a cone, with their summits free and re-curved.

Common near Dunedin and Nelson. This species is of very slow growth. A young plant, 12 inches high, was removed from the bush, Anderson Bay, near Dunedin, in 1856, and planted in the North East Valley by myself. The stem is now, in 1876, only 10 feet high and 2 inches diameter at base, and it has not yet flowered or acquired the upright foliage.

This species will be distinguished from Panax longissimum, Hook., fil., by the deep sinuations in the leaves of young plants, the small compact twice compound umbels, 5-celled large fruit, and racemose male umbels.