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with star-hair outside, but finally glabrescent, pale and almost glabrous 

 inside; seeds generally four, nearly ellipsoid, smooth; testa black. 



Leaves numerously crowded at and near the summit of the branchlets, 

 attaining almost a foot in length and nine inches in breadth, the 

 basal lobes separated by a wide or sometimes narrow sinus; the nerves 

 distant and beneath very prominent, the five lowest radiating from 

 the summit of the sinus ; the primary Teins likewise prominent. Panicles 

 numerously interspersed between the leaves at and near the summit 

 of the branchlets, sometimes attaining a length over one foot. Calyces 

 only about Ve iocli long- Fruitlets seen in a not yet quite matured 

 State, then about l'/j inches long. Seeds before maturity already nearly 

 7j inch long. Foliage likely deciduous annually. The form of leaves 

 and the smallness of flowers bring this species near S. macrophylla, 

 but the branchlets are as stout as those of S. foetida, the petioles are 

 shorter, the leaves are of lesser paleness and lesser vestiture under- 

 neath, the calyces are less deeply divided, while the fruitlets are 

 glabrescent outside. From S. urens ours differs already in the leaves 

 not being lobed upwards, in shorter lobes of the calyces and in more 

 turgid and biunter fruitlets not stiff-hairy outside. 



Sterculia Shill'ing,lawii. Leaves conspicuously stalked, charta- 

 cequs, elliptical-or roundish-ovate, at the summit blunt or slightly 

 pointed, at the base rounded, above nearly glabrous, beneath subtly 

 and densely star-hairy; panicles spreading, but not widely expanding, 

 densely beset with starry hair ; üowers small, on stalkleta of less length; 

 lobes of the calyx five, narrow, at the summit coherent, as long as the 

 tube, hispid inside ; staminal column very short, quite glabrous ; anthers 

 not numerous, crowded into a very small globular mass ; styles not 

 much longer than the conglobated stigmas ; ovaries almost sessile, 

 densely coherent, velvet-downy ; fruitlets rather large, short-pointed, 

 not much narrowed at the base, few-seeded; pericarp coriaceous, at 

 last flatly expanding, and then nearly elliptical, outside slightly vel- 

 vety, imperfectly septate but otherwise smooth inside; seeds ovate- 

 roundish, distinctly compressed, smooth; testa black, shining; Stratum 

 of the albumen very thin; cotyledons much thicker than the albumen; 

 radicle remote from the hilum. 



Branchlets rather robust, cylindrical. Leaves crowded at and to- 

 wards the summit of the branchlets, 4 — 10 inches long, 2 — 6 inches 

 broad, rather closely costate-nerved ; the primary veins transverse be- 

 tween the nerves, the secondary veins reticulated, the ultimate veinlets 

 forniing minute meshes; leafstalks 1 — l'/j inches long, thinly star-hairy. 

 Panicles about as long as the leaves, arising between them or some 

 quite terminal, neither ample nor long-stalked. Calyces hardly V3 inch 

 long, their lower portion glabrous inside. Globule of anthers scarcely 

 exceeding '/,, inch, not terminated by pistillar organs. Ovaries irre- 

 gularly surrounded by anthers. Fruitlets 2—3 inches long, when closed 

 almost dimidiate-ellipsoid, somewhat compressed. Seeds '/s — Va ^^^^^ 

 long, placed with their flat sides towards the narrow septal lines. 

 Cotyledons detractible from the albumen, separating the latter into 

 halves. This species differs from S. Balanghas in always biunter leaves, 

 in much shorter pedicles, in less elongated calyx-lobes, not woody 

 fruitlets and almost roundish seeds; from the imperfectly known S. 

 Forsteri already in the indument of the leaves and in less deeply 

 divided calyces. 



I have dedicated this evidently rare tree to Harry Shillinglaw, 

 Esq., the zealous Editor of this periodical, and the accomplished Secre- 

 tary of the Victorian Board ofPharmacy, in recognition of his strenuous 

 efforts to promote the interests and elevate the status of the pharma- 

 ceutic profession in all Australia. 



Both these new species are almost sure also to yield a fair supply 

 of the peculiar gum, exuding from 'many of their congeners in con- 

 siderable quantity; the fresh seeds of all the species are edible. 



Mr. Parkinson 's collections from New Britain contain also the 



