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somewhat longer than the petals; stamens glabrous, with two lanceolar 

 appeudages at the base, their Upper portion exserted ; style rather 

 conspicuous, as well as the. ovulary glabrous; fruit large, globular. 



At the Daintree-River; The od. Pentske. 



Leaves on rather short petioles, to 5 inches long, to l 3 /4 inches broad. 

 Flowers in the paniele often rnultitudinous. Calyx and petals brownish, 

 paler towards the margin. Stigma ininute. Fruit not yet obtaiued. The 

 aspect of this species is different to that of any other congener, the 

 extension of the stamens beyond the calyx being also unusual. The 

 plant will have its place in the phytographic system near E. virens, frora 

 which it recedes in its far more copious vestiture of the branchlets, in 

 broader leaves with a somewhat different venulation, in thinner pedicels, 

 in calyces of less turgidity and in einerging stamens; most probably the 

 fruit will turn out to be also not identical. 



Polyosma reducta. 



Branchlets and petioles bearing minute appressed hairlets; leaves 

 rather small, chartaceous, mostly lanceolar, gradually acuminated, devoid 

 of denticulation and lustre, above almost glabrous, beneath paler and 

 subtle appressed-puberulous, their venulation much concealed ; racemes 

 terminal and oftener axillary ; pedicels very thin; bract and bracteoles 

 minute, at the upper end of the pedicel; denticles of the calyx very 

 short; fruit comparatively small, ovate-globular, slightly oblique, destitute 

 of longitudinal lineations, its summit emerging from the calyx and 

 somewhat pyramidal ; seeds one or two. 



Sources of the Russell-River; W. Sayer. 



A tree, attaiuing a height of 25 feet. Leaves l'/s — 2 1 J2 inches long, 

 rather brittle, almost suddenly passing into the slender but very 

 conspicuous petiole. Flowers unknown. Fruits about '/ 6 inen lon &> 0Q 

 pedicels of nearly the same length ; endocarp thinly cartilagineous, the 

 spurious dissepiment longitudinally divisable into halves. Seeds, if two, 

 only on one side turgid. Albument oily, somewhat granulär. Embryo 

 minute, roundish. 



So far as our material reaches, the generic position is indisputable. 

 The smallness of the leaves and particularly of the fruits as well as the 

 externally obliterated venulation of the leaves separate already this 

 species from its several congeners. 



Randia spinuligera. 



Nearly glabrous; leaves chartaceous, almost sessile, from a roundish 

 base lanceolar, at the upper end narrowly protracted, but the apex bluntish, 

 paler beneath, thinly venulated; stipules broad-linear, acute, dilated at 

 the base, soon wearing avvay ; cymes much shorter than the leaves, usually 

 developing one flower only; peduncles occasionally converted into short 

 acicular spinules; flowers rather small; calyx minutely but acutely five- 

 denticulated, somewhat beset with appressed hairlets ; corolla glabrous, its 

 lobes five, nearly as long as the cylindric tube, narrow-lanceolar, 

 conspicuously reticular -venulated; tilaments very short; anthers fixed 

 about their middle, linear, sligthly exserted, by about one-third shorter 

 than the corolla-tube ; style glabrous, almost capillary ; stigmas disconnected, 

 oval; fruit comparatively small, ovate-ellipsoid, wrinkled ; seeds two or 

 even one only ripening in each half of the fruit, ovate, convex on 

 one side. 



On Mount Bartle Freie : Stephen Johnson. 



Leaves to 4 inches long to l 1 /* broad, without any lustre in their 

 dried State ; peduncles seldom above half an inch in length, spinules often 

 less long; pedicels always short; calyx l le to l U inch long, its limb 

 persistent; corolla-tube narrower down-ward, about l /* incn in length, and 

 so the style ; stigmas hardly */« inch long ; fruit */» to */ 3 incb - lon £' but 

 not seen in its perfect matnrity ; seeds J / 6 to 1 I* i QCD lou £* 



Distinguished from R. tctrasperma in larger leaves, not gradually 

 uarrowed into the base, in extension of the calyx beyond the ovulary, in 

 lotiger corolla, in enclosed anthers and larger not globular fruit. Differs 

 from R. Moorei already in longer upwards more uarrowed leaves, more 



