1839 



* TRISTANIA macrophylla. 



Large-leaved Tristania. 



Nat. ord. Myktace.e. 



TRISTANIA, R. Br. Calyx 5-fidus, persistens, tubo turbinato. Pe- 

 tala 5. Staminum phalanges 5 petalis opposite iisdem vix longiores. Antherce 

 incumbentes. Capsula 3-locularis, polysperma, semierecta v. inclusa. Semina 



aptera. i^nt^zces australasici. Folia lanceolata. jFZores peduiiculati subco- 



rymbosi. D. C. Prodr. 3. 210. 



T. macrophylla ; arborea, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis subverticIUatis, ra- 

 mulis calycibusq. pubescentibus, phalangibus polyandris, capsula oranino 

 infra. 



T. macrophylla. All. Cun7i. MSS. 



Arhor procerus, rainulis levissime puhescentihiis cito calvis. Folia 5-6-p. 

 longa, coriacea, ovato-lanceolata, acuta, petiolata, puncds pellucidis cojifer- 

 tissimis. Floras ex axillis foliorum decessorum, ternati, breviter pedicelluti 

 in apice pedunculi puhescentis ancipitis ; nunc abortu lateralium solilarii. 

 Calyx pubesce7is ; laciniis 5, brevibus, ovatis, acutis. Petala 5, unguiculuta, 

 concava, patentid. Phalanges staminvim polyandrcB, lineares, petalorum lon- 

 gitudine. Capsula oninino infera, semitrilocularis, virtice truncato dehiscens 

 polyspermo. 



Drawn in August, 1835, from specimens communicated by 

 Richard Harrison, Esq. of Liverpool, who received it some 

 years since under the name of Tr. lawina. The plant had 

 been constantly kept in the Greenhouse, where it had gained 

 the height of four feet, losing the exterior of its bark like 

 Arbutus Andrachne. 



* From TpiiQ three, and larapat or karavai to stand ; in allusion, as we pre- 

 sume, to the ternate disposition of the flowers and their stalks ; the three-forked 

 inflorescence of this doubtless very distinct genus being strikingly different from 

 all to which it is nearly allied in the parts of fructification. — Smith. 



