1839 
* TRISTANIA macrophylla. 
Large-leaved Tristania. 
Nat. ord. MyRTAcER. 
TRISTANIA, R.Br. Calyx 5-fidus, persistens, tubo turbinato, Pe- 
tala 5. Staminum phalanges 5 petalis opposite iisdem vix longiores. Anthere 
incumbentes, Capsula 3-locularis, polysperma, semierecta v. inclusa. Semina 
aptera,——— Frutices australasici. Folia lanceolata, Flores pedunculati subco- 
rymbosi. D. C. Prodr. 3. 210. 
T. macrophylla ; arborea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subverticillatis, ra- 
=, calycibusq. pubescentibus, phalangibus polyandris, capsulà omnino 
in 
T. macrophylla. All. Cunn. MSS. 
Arbor procerus, ramulis levissime pubescentibus citò calvis. Folia 5-6-p. 
longa, coriacea, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, petiolata, punctis pellucidis confer- 
tissimis, Flores ex axillis foliorum decessorum, ternati, breviter pedicellati 
in apice pedunculi pubescentis ancipitis ; nunc abortu lateralium solitarii. 
Calyx pubescens ; laciniis 5, brevibus, ovatis, acutis. Petala 5, unguiculata, 
concava, patenti. Phalanges staminum polyandre, lineares, petalorum lon- 
gitudine. Capsula omnino infera, semitrilocularis, virtice truncato dehiscens 
polyspermo. - 
Mo 
Drawn in August,1835, from specimens communicated by 
Richard Harrison, Esq. of Liverpool, who received it some 
years since under the name of Tr. laurina. The plant had 
been constantly kept in the Greenhouse, where it had gained 
the height of four feet, losing the exterior of its bark like 
Arbutus Andrachne. 
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*From rpeıc three, ‘and iorapa: or ¿orava to stand ; in allusion, as we pre- 
“sume, to the. te disposition of the flowers and their stalks; the three-forked 
inflorescence of ths doubtless very distinct genus being strikingly different from 
all to which itis nearly allied in the parts of fructification.—Smith. . 
