cated to us by Mr. Arron. It is treated as a hardy green- 
house plant, and flowers in the summer and autumn. 
This plant does not appear to have been hitherto noticed 
by any author, nor has any species of the Genus been men- 
tioned as a native of Australia. It is closely allied in many 
respects to Cyminosma pedunculata, DC. (JAMBoLIFERA 
pedunculata, Linn.) which is the same as the Gexa lanceolata 
of Louretro, according to Mr. Brown, and consequently 
as Ximenia? lanceolata, D C.; especially to that variety 
figured by Loppiees (Bot. Cab. t. 938,) with short pedun- 
cles. Our specimens of that species from China have 
broader leaves, and those from Ceylon and the southern 
Peninsula of India, broader still, less coriaceous than in 
the present individual, and with a much more hairy ovary. 
Descr. A glabrous shrub, with red-brown branches. 
Leaves alternate or opposite, oblong, obtuse, simple or 
rarely trifoliolate, marked with pellucid dots.  Petiole 
jointed near the summit, and there and at the base swollen. 
Peduncles axillary or terminal, short, about twice as long 
as the petiole, bearing a corymb of flowers. Calyx four- 
partite, persistent, small. Petals four, patent, in estivation 
valvate. Stamens alternately longer and more patent. Ger- 
men ovate, on a large fleshy disk, about as long as the style, 
Stigma obscurely four-lobed. Fruit a dry, four-sided drupe, 
with four crustaceous cells, each with one seed. Seeds erect, 
callous at the hilum. 3 
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* 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Pistil and glandular Disks, 3. Section of the Fruit: 
—magnified. 
