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culo brevi lato munita, ovata, compressa ; infegumentum externum tenuiter membranaceum (В. Br.), 
evanidum ; albumen? (aut integumentum internum) album, crasse carnosum, subfirmum ; embryo 
inclusus ; radicula longiuscula, valida, teres, supra medium subito inflexa, et hine inzqualiter bi- 
crura, crure longiore raphz proximo ad hilum spectante, crure altero parallelo breviore cotyledones 2 
gestante ; cotyledones brevissime, ovate, егесіге, applicitze, incumbentes, tenuiter foliaceze, marginibus 
integris (vel paucidenticulatis, R. Br., aut plicate ,Blume). 
Arbores in insulis Moluccensibus vel in Australia boreali vigentes, frondose ; folia alterna, oblonga vel 
orbiculata, crenato-serrata, glabra, petiolata; infloresceutia terminalis aut т ramulis novellis supe- 
rioribus, brevissime ramosa, hinc pseudo-paniculata ; flores speciosi. 
1. PLANCHONIA CRENATA, nob.: Hugenia crenata, Soland. М8. : Careya crenata, R. Br. 
in MS. ined. no. 75, in Mus. Brit. (olim Butonicoides crenata, В. Br. l.c.) : Careya 
arborea, var. australis, Benth. (non Roxb.) in Flor. Austr. Ш. р. 288: arbor ramis 
expansis, iterum ramulosis, ramulis 3 ultimis floriferis, brevibus, crassiusculis, pal- 
lide brunneis: foliis late ovalibus, apice in acumen sspe lineare mucroniforme 
subito constrictis, imo in petiolum longiusculum breviter acutatis, margine crenu- 
lato-serrulatis, supra pallide viridibus, nervis tenuibus vix immersis, subtus paullo 
pallidioribus, costa carinata albicante, nervis prominulis ; petiolo tenui, acute margi- 
nato, limbo 4plo breviore: racemis subaxillaribus, solitariis, aut in ramulis novellis 
terminalibus, paucifloris; rachi valida, longiuscule nodosa; pedicellis brevissimis, 
ad nodos articulatis, 1-floris, flore hine sspe caduco; calycis limbo imo brevissime 
cupulato, cum sepalis 4 rotundate ovatis vel oblongis, coriaceis, fuscis, marginibus 
membranaceis subciliatis; petalis 4, oblongis, unguibus tubo staminigero aggluti- 
natis; staminibus numerosissimis imo in tubum brevem monadelphis; disco mar- 
gine externo staminifero, interno in tubulum brevissimum membranaceum undu- 
latum expanso ; stylo filiformi, valde incurvo ; stigmate parvo, obtuse lobato; ovario 
infero, turbinato, vertice intra discum valde concavo, 4-loculari, ovulis plurimis 
biserialiter axi affixis: drupa elliptica, oblonga, Ігеуі, viridi, sicca pallide brunnea, 
calyce styloque coronata; pericarpio crassiusculo, fibroso-coriaceo, 4-loculari, aut 
abortu loculo unico maturescente, polyspermo; seminibus compresse ovalibus, in 
pulpam pannosam immersis, integumento fusco membranaceo tectis ; albumine ? aut 
integumento interno? carnoso-coriaceo, primum viridi, demum albo; embryone ut 
in char. gen. In Australia: v. s. in Ab. Mus. Brit. Cape Grafton (Banks et So- 
lander), Carpentaria Bay (В. Brown) ; in herb. Hook. Port Darwin (Schomb. 847), 
Victoria River (Mueller): v. fruct. cum sp. R. Br. et Schomb. 
These ample details, derived principally from Brown's notes and specimens, are fully 
confirmed by all the others which I have seen. Brown describes it as a large or middle- 
sized tree, with a thick trunk and a spreading comose head; the branchlets are marked 
by numerous cicatrices of the fallen leaves, which are 1 in. apart; the leaves, thus some- 
what crowded, аге 4-44 in. long, 21-3 in. broad, on а slender petiole 9—10 lines long, and 
have about 16 pairs of parallel nerves, 3 lines apart. In Schomburgk’s specimen from 
Port Darwin, the inflorescence is axillary, short, with few flowers upon a rather slender 
rachis; the pedicels alternate, 2 lines long, articulated on a prominent node; the ovary, 
