Tas. 4848. 
EUPOMATIA taurina. 
Laurel-like Eupomatia. 
Nat. Ord. ANONACE#.—POLYANDRIA POLYGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Perigonium tubo turbinato, cum ovario connato, limbo supero, 
juxta basin operculo semielliptico caduco transversim dehiscens, Stamina plu- | 
rima, margini persistenti limbi perigonialis multiseriatim inserta, basibus con- 
nata, exteriora fertilia, patula vel reflexa, filamentis e basi lata subulatis, antheris 
bilocularibus, loculis linearibus adnatis connectivo in mucronem producto supe- 
ratis, longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, interiora sterilia, petaloidea, sensim minora, 
arcte imbricatim conniventia. Ovarium inferum, multiloculare, loculis sparsis, 
ad angulum centralem multiovulatis. Stigma sessile, planiusculum, areolis sub- 
rotundis loculorum numero notatum. Bacca turbinato-obovata, limbi perigo- 
nialis margine angusto coronata, apice truncato areolata, multilocularis. Semina 
in loculis solitaria vel gemina, angulata, impresso-punctata ; wmbilico basilari, 
rhaphe chordeeformi, ¢esta membranacea, endopleura tenuissima. Albumen car- 
nosum, teste processubus lobatum, ejusdem pro tione secundum rhaphem 
semibipartitum. 2mébryo in basi albuminis prope umbilicum minutus ; cofy/edo- 
nibus linearibus, foliaceis; radicula teretii—Frutex Nove-Hollandie Orientalis 
extra-tropice, erectus, ramosus ; trunco gracili, ramis teretibus, subporrectis ; foliis 
alternis, bifariis, petiolatis, exstipulatis, impunctatis, coriaceis, utringue nitidis, 
integerrimis ; pedunculis azillaribus, unifloris, folio brevioribus, ramuliformibus, 
foliis alternis, nanis bracteatis. Endl. (ex Br.). 
Evromatta Jaurina. 
Evpomatta laurina. Br. Bot. of Terra Austr. p. 65, Atlas, t. 2. 
This remarkable Australian plant, which the learned author 
of the genus says, “forms an unexpected addition to Azonacea, 
of which it will constitute a distinct section, remarkable in the 
manifestly perigynous insertion of its stamina’ and the cohesion 
of the tube of its calyx with the ovarium,” has been hitherto 
described by no botanist but Mr. Brown, who gives for its loca- 
lities woods and thickets in the colony of Port Jackson, especially 
in the mountainous districts, and on the banks of the principal 
rivers ; flowering in December and January. Yet, rich as our 
Herbarium is in Australian plants, we never had the good fortune 
to procure a specimen; and great as our botanical intercourse 
has been with Australia, our garden has never possessed the 
MAY ist, 1855. 
