348 A NEW CRYPTOCARYA FROM LORD HOWE ISLAND, 



flowers are available. I give a description of the leaves and 

 fruits for general information. 



Leaves narrow-oval, 2-2^ inches long, remotely denticulate in 

 the upper half, narrowed into a petiole about ^ inch long, 

 coriaceous, with prominent principal veins, but not very promi- 

 nently reticulate, glabrous when full grown. Inflorescence in 

 short cymes crowded on the base of the last year's shoots. Drupe 

 ovate, rather above j inch long, bluish (*?), the putamen only 

 slightly wrinkled but distinctly ribbed in the one fruit examined. 



SYMPLOCACEiE. 

 Symplocos CANDELABRUM, Brand. 



The following is taken from Brand's Revision of the Symplo- 

 cacese (p. 39), in Engler's ' Pflanzenreich ' : — ■ 



" 49. S. candelabrum, Brand, n.sjD. [S. Staiuelii, Hemsl. in Ann- 

 of Bot. X. (1896) 242, non F. Muell.).— Arbor. Folia coriacea, 

 8-10 cm. longa, 2|-3 cm. lata, oblongo-elliptica, subintegra, in 

 petiolum 3 cm. longum attenuata. Racemi glabri, pedicellis 

 longitudine calycis; bracteae inaequales, lanceolato-acutae, cili- 

 atae; cal3^cis lobi tubo subbreviores; stamina c. 25 (ex 1 flore) 

 longitudine corollae, ovarium glabrum ; caetera spec, praec* 

 Fructus ignotus. 



"Australien: Lord Howe Island (Maiden; Herb. Berlin). — 

 Bliiht im April." 



Hemslej^'s reference is " *?. Staioelli, F. Muell. Fragm. v. p. 60, 

 ix. p. 77; Benth. Fl. Austral, iv. p. 292 (sub siyicata) " (Ann. Bot. 

 X. 242). 



MYRSINACE^. 



In the recent monograph of the Myrsinacea} by Prof. Carl 

 Mez in Engler's ' Pflanzenreich,' I observe that it is stated that 

 there is no true 3Iyrsine in Australia, the species hitherto referred 

 to that genus belonging to the genus Rapanea, Aubl. I will deal 

 with this matter on a subsequent occasion, only treating it now 



S. gracilis, Brongn. & Gris, etc. 



