short, axillary peduncles, and all inclined to the back of the 
branch. Calyx downy, four-cleft, the segments, acute, 
erect. Corolla more than twice as long as the calyx, some- 
what campanulate, 4-partite, the extremities above recurv- 
ed, of a yellowish-white colour, externally obscurely downy. 
—Male Plant: Stamens included. Filaments eight, in- 
serted in pairs at the base of the segments of the corolla, 
and opposite to them, each filament being double, one be- 
hind the other, and bearing an oblong much acuminated 
anther, opening by a short fissure to each cell, just below 
the acumen. Abortive pistil small, subglobose and acute, 
with eight furrows. 
«© An inhabitant of dense, shaded woods on the sea-coast 
of New South Wales, as well as on the banks of the princi- 
pal rivers of that colony, between the parallels of 27° and 
and 35°, where it forms a large shrub, and is usually to be 
met with in fruit in the winter season. The Genus is inter- — 
mediate between Diospyros of Linnzus and Maza of Fors- 
TER ; differing from the former according to Mr. Brown, in 
having a four-celled ovarium, and a calyx but partially 
divided towards its base, which afterwards forms a cupula 
or cup around the lower half of the fruit ; and from the 
latter in the quaternary divisions of its calyx and corolla, 
the epipetalous insertion of the stamens in the male, and 
the presence of the rudiments of those organs in the female 
flowers.’ Allan Cunningham. 
Our drawing and description are made from specimens 
sent by favour of Mr. Arron, from the Royal Gardens of 
Kew, to which living plants were introduced from Port 
_ Jackson, by Arran Cunnincuam, Esq. in 1825. 
— 
_ . Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Corolla. 3. Portion of a Corolla, with two double 
Stamens. 4, Anther, 5. Abortive Pistil : magnified. 
