BY R. T. BAKER. 381 



Hah. — Tumbulgum, on the Tweed River (W. Bauerlen); in deep, 

 rich gullies. 



This tree was discovered by Mr. Bauerlen in October, 1897, at 

 the above-mentioned locality, where it is associated with other 

 plants only recently added to the known flora of New South 

 Wales, such as Freycinetia excelsa, F.v.M., Petermannia cirrosa, 

 F.V.M., Tecoma Baileyana, Maiden and Baker, and other species. 



It differs principally in the mode of inflorescence from the three 

 species of Ardisla described from Australia. A. pseudo-jambosa, 

 F.v.M., has comparatively large terminal panicles, often over six 

 inches long, and with an induplicate-valvate corolla; small, shining 

 sepals and petals, and well exserted anthers — characters that do 

 not apply to this species. 



A. brevipedata, F.v.M., differs from it in having flowers arranged 

 in umbels on very short peduncles, and in having numerous 

 flowers, with imbricate, broad and short sepals, and imbricate 

 petals. 



A. 2>ci'ChyrrhachiSy F.v.M., differs from it in its thick rhachis, 

 more numerous flowers (up to 40) in a fascicle, larger leaves and 

 flowers. 



Its nearest affinity is A. brevipedata, and in botanical sequence 

 it might be placed between that species and pseudo-jambosa, 

 F.v.M. 



The leaves of all four species are very similar in texture and 

 shape, and have minute, crenulate and repandulate edges, and 

 all dry with a wrinkled surface. 



The name A. repandula, F.v.M. (Frag. iv. 82), was attached to 

 leaf specimens only, and was thought by Bentham (B.Fl. iv. p 276) 

 to be identical with A. brevipedata, F.v.M. No specimen of this 

 species now appears to be available. 



Baron von Mueller, in his 'Papuan Plants,' describes two 

 Ardisias, A. solanacea var. haplosciadea, from a plant discovered 

 by W. Bauerlen on the Strickland River in 1885, and A. poran- 

 thera from a New Guinea plant cultivated in the Sydney Botanic 

 Gardens. 



