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ON AN UNDESCRIBED SPECIES OF GRYPTOCARYA 

 FROM EASTERN AUSTRALIA. 



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



Sydney. 



(Plate XXX.) 



Cryptocarya fcetida, sp.nov. 



A small tree from 30 to 50 feet high, and 9 inches in diameter, 

 so far as at present known; glabrous, except the inflorescence, 

 which is minutely rusty or silvery. 



Leaves glabrous on both sides, ovate to oblong, acuminate or 

 obtuse, mostly 4 to 5 inches, rarely 6 inches long, from IJ to 2 J 

 inches broad, rarely 3 inches, paler on the underside but not 

 glaucous, not shining, although perhaps a little so on the under 

 surface, rigid, thick, almost coriaceous, margins slightly recurved, 

 reticulations well marked and coarsely so on the undersurface. 

 The leaves have irregularly scattered over the upper surface 

 black spots or markings, probably caused by sudden changes of 

 temperature, as they do not appear to be caused by any organism. 



Panicled cymes axillary or terminal, solitary, but occasionally 

 in twos or threes; flowers numerous, hoary pubescent, smaller 

 than those of C. patentiyiervis F.v.M., but larger than those of G. 

 glaucescens R.Br. Perianth segments about 1 line long, the 

 tube turbinate half the length of the tube. Glands shortly 

 stipitate, much shorter than the inner or outer stamens, and not 

 attached to either the inner or outer series of these organs. 

 Staminodia three, about half the length of the stamens. Fruit- 

 ing perianth globular, 4 to 5 lines in diameter, mostly with a 

 *' bloom." 



Hah. — Moreton Bay (Allan Cunningham) ; Ballina (W. 

 Bauerlen). 

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