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ON A NEW SPECIES OF SY2IPL0C0S FROM NEW 

 SOUTH WHALES. 



By R. T. Baker, F.L.S., Curator, Technological Museum. 



Sydney. 



(Plate xxviii.) 



Symplocos Baeuerleni, sp.nov. 



A small, glabrous, delicate shrub, about 6 to 9 feet high. 



Leaves ovate, acuminate, or lanceolate, terminating in a sharp 

 point, glabrous, pale on the underside, membranous or chartaceous, 

 irregularly toothed or entire, slightly shining on the upper surface, 

 about 2 inches long and under 9 lines wide ; principal veins 

 distant and more distinct on the underside, pale-coloured, slightly 

 oblique, not always parallel; petiole about 1 line long. 



Flowers small, solitary in the axils or 3 to 5 in an exceedingly 

 short raceme; petiole slightly under a line long. Bracts few, 

 small, minutely hirsute. Calyx glabrous, lobes exceedingly short 

 and broad. Petals glabrous, imbricate, broad, about 1 line long. 

 Stamens united at the base of the petals, indefinite, numbering 

 from 20 or more. Pistil about as long as the stamens. Stigma 

 slightly bifurcated. 



Fruit ovoid, bluish-black, under 4 lines long, 2 lines in diameter, 

 contracted at the top and crowned by the calyx lobes. 



Hah. — Tumbulgum, Murwillumbah, Tweed River (W. Bauerlen). 



This shrub differs considerably in its foliage from S. spicata, 

 Roxb., S. Thwaitesii, F.v.M., and S. paucistamineics, F.v.M. — the 

 three species at present recorded for Australia ; in fact, the 

 difference is so great in this feature that one would never at first 

 sight take this plant to be a Symjyhcos. The floral and carpellary 

 characters, however, show it conclusively to be such. The 

 inflorescence of the above three species of Si/mplocos described 



