Tas. 4451. 
ZIERIA MacrRopPHyLLa. 
Large-leaved Zieria. 
Nat. Ord. DiosmME®.—TETRANDRIA MonoGynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-fidus. Petala 4 disco hypogyno inserta. Stamina 4, 
eal. lobis opposita; filamentis glabris basi intus uniglandulosis. Stylus 1. 
Stigma 4-lobum. Carpella 4, intus connexa in capitulum 4-lobum, 4-locul., lobis 
divaricatis.  Semina in loculis solitariis compresso-ovata.—Frutices aué arbores. 
Folia opposita, petiolata, trifoliata, summa simplicia. Peduneculi axillares sepius 
trichotomi. Flores parvi, alli. De Cand. 
ZIERIA macrophylla; frutescens, ramulis pubescentibus leevibus, foliolis lanceo- 
latis, paniculis trichotomis folia subzequantibus, petalis obovatis punctatis 
puberulis. 
ZIERIA macrophylla. “ Bonpl. Nav. p. 64.” De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p.7123. De 
Less. Ic. v. 3. p. 28. t. 48. 
ZIERIA arborescens. All. Cunn. MSS. in Herb. Hook. - Sims, in Bot. Mag. sub 
Tab.1395. De Cand. Prodr. v.1. p. 723. Hook. Journ. Bot. v. 1. p. 256. 
This is a much handsomer species than the old Z. lanceolata, 
Br. (Z. Smithii, Andr. and Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1395). Mr. 
Allan Cunningham says it attains in its native country a height 
of from fourteen to sixteen feet: and the leaves and the flowers 
are the largest of the genus. The panicles are very compound, 
and they are generally equal to, or longer than, the leaves, but 
sometimes almost as short as the petioles. A still more impor- 
tant specific character is to be found in the smooth stems and 
branches never warted, which they strikingly are in the Z. /anceo- 
lata. Bonpland seems to consider Eastern Australia as the native 
country ; but in my own very rich herbarium I find no speci- 
mens but from Van Diemen’s Land, to which country I believe 
“it to be wholly confined. Mr. Gunn says it is common in shady 
ravines and mountain creeks, and that it is known in the colony 
by the name of Stink-wood. It flowers in a cool greenhouse in 
the spring months. : 
Descr. An erect graceful growing shrub, with striated, 
smooth dranches, slightly pubescent. Leaves opposite, trifoliate ; 
JULY Ist, 1849. u 
