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(Queensland localities). Our Tia specimens agree exactly with 

 the narrow-leaved Warwick specimens in the Melbourne Her- 

 barium. 



RHAMNACE^. 



POMADERRIS PHYLICIFOLIA, Lodd. 



Warrumbungle Range (W. Fors3^th, October, 1899). Most 

 northerly locality recorded. 



SAPINDACE^. 



Nephblium Forsythii, sp.nov. 



A tree attaining 25 feet in height, with a stem 14 inches in 

 diameter, but generally shrubby and 10 to about 15 feet high; 

 glabrous except the young shoots. Leaves abruptly pinnate; 

 leaflets shortly pedicellate, 2 rarely 4, opposite, usually oval-oblong 

 and obtuse, 2 J to 3| inches long, quite entire, coriaceous, reticulate 

 on both sides, rather pale green but shining above, paler and 

 opaque underneath. Flowers in axillary or lateral sometimes 

 apparently terminal panicles, little branched, not (or scarcely) 

 exceeding the leaves when in flower, the single flowers on short 

 pedicels, often in clusters of 2 or 3. Calyx 5-toothed. Petals 

 absent. Stamens 7 or 6, inserted round the ovary within the 

 disk; anthers oblong, glabrous, as long or longer than the short 

 filament. Ovarium sessile, 2- or rarely 3-celled, 2- or rarely 3- 

 edged, slightly hairy ; style very short or the stigmatic lobes 

 almost sessile. The calyx, stamens, pedicels, and more or less the 

 rachis of the panicle are of a dark violet colour, giving the whole 

 inflorescence a blackish appearance in the dried specimens; the 

 thick annular disk is yellow. Carpels usually 2 (apparently only 

 exceptionally 3), flattened, quite connate, horizontally spreading, 

 the whole fruit flat-topped, with a short central stigmatic cone, 

 often rather above | of an inch broad, about 4 lines high and 1 

 to 2 lines thick, very shortly or scarcely stipitate and apparently 

 quite indehiscent, glabrous inside. Seeds flattened, partially 

 enclosed in the arillus; embryo curved. 

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