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ON A NEW CRYPTOCARYA FROM LORD HOWE 



ISLAND, TOGETHER WITH NOTES ON OTHER 



PLANTS FROM THAT ISLAND. 



By J. H. Maiden. 



(Plate XV.) 



LAURINE.S:. 



Cryptocarya Gregsoni, n.sp. 



In these Proceedings for 1898 (p. 138, pi. iii.) I described and 

 figured the " Black Plum " of Lord Howe Island so far as I was 

 able to do so from leaves and fruits only. Since then I have 

 obtained flowers, and am able to supplement the description in 

 the following words : — 



Flowers in a very short apparently terminal bracteate panicle, 

 not exceeding the generally crowded leaves. Pedicels very short 

 and thick, angular or flattened, as is also the whole inflorescence 

 and young branches, covered with minute rust-coloured hairs. 

 Calyx-segments scarcely 1 line long, rust-coloured, hairy inside 

 and outside. Glands large, free from the stamens, sessile. 



The plant is hence a Cryptocarya, and I have pleasure in 

 naming it after my friend Jesse Gregson, Esq., of Newcastle, 

 who has actively assisted my botanical work for many years. 



TILIACEJE. 



No species of Elaeocarpus has hitherto been recorded from 

 Lord Howe Island, but I have obtained specimens of a species 

 from a plant stated to be a shrub growing on the top of Mount 

 Gower. A leaf and fruit are figured herewith (PL xv.), but no 



