ZanihoxyluM.'l xxviii. rutace.e. 363 



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Leaflets Bcarcely oblique, cot coriafeous. Panicles terminal, 

 riovvers very numerous, under IJ line 3. Z.jiamforum. 



1. Z. brachyacanthxim, F, Muell. PL Vict. I 108. A slender glabrous 

 tree, the trunk and brandies covered with short conical prickles. Leaves 

 pinnate, the common petiole 6 to 10 in, long ; leaflets usually 9 to 13, oppo- 

 site \\\ pairs, -with or witliout a terminal odd one, petiolulate, from ovate to 

 oblong-elliptical, shortly acuminate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in. long, equal or 

 oblique at the base, coriaceous and shining. Panicles axiUary^ ranch shorter 

 than the leaves, irregularly 2-3-chotomous, Flowers on very short pedicels, 

 tlie males nearly 3 lines long, the females shorter. Sepals 4, small and broad. 

 letals obtuse, mncli imbricate. Ovaiy rudimentary an the male flowers; in 

 the females consisting of a single carpel with a large oblique stigma, nearly 

 sessile or on a very short style, terminal but excentrical. Fruit opening wide 

 to the middle in 2 valves. 



yueensland. Moreton Bay, Upper Brisbane river, etc., A . Cunningham, F. Mueller^ 

 and others; Araucaria ranges on the Burnett river, Z Mueller; Rockhaoipton, Thozet. 

 W. S. Wales. Clarence river. Herb, Mueller. 



2. 2, Blackburnia, BentJi. A shrab or small tree, glabrous and un- 

 armed. Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole of 4 to 8 in. Leaflets 3 to 

 9, very obbquely ovate, shortly acuminate, usually 2 to 3 in. long, very un- 

 equal at the base and petiolulate. Panicles axillary or terminal, loose, but 

 shorter than the leaves. Flowers rather smaller than in the last species, 

 t'etals imbricate in our specimens (induplicate-valvate, according to Endlicher), 

 ^vary and fruit of Z, br achy acanth inn. — Blaciburnia pinnata, Forst. ; EndL 



Prod. FL Norf. 88. 



., ^: ®' Wales- Lord flowe's IsIanJ, Milne, The specimen being in leaf only, its 

 laentity with the Norfolk'Islaua plant, from which the above cbaracfer is taken, is not cer- 

 am but the foliage corresponds so well, that 1 am unwilling to omit it, in order to give tlie 

 ■Lord Howe's Island flora as complete as possible. 



3. 2. parviflorum, Benth. A small tree, glabrous and unarmed, or 

 with very few minute distant prickles. Leaves pinnate, with a common petiole 

 ^\4 to fi in., angular but not winged; leaflets usually 9 to 11, opposite in 

 P^^irs, the terminal odd one occasionally wanting, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 

 •rarely above 2 in. long, entire or slightly denticulate, usually obHque, the up- 

 per edge most rounded at the base, membranous or at length scarcely coriaceous, 

 panicles terminal, 3-chotomous, broad, with numerous small 4-merous flowers, 

 ^^pals small, triangular. Petals scarcely 1^ Uncs long, slightly imbricate, 

 ^tamens in the males 4, about as long as the petals. Ovary rudimentary, of 



or 2 carpels. Female flowers not seen. Cocci solitary, 3 to 4 lines long, 

 coriaceous, rugose outside, opening broadly to below the middle in 2 valves, 

 •Budocai-p persistent. Seeds with u hard bony testa enveloped in a thin black 

 shnung cpidcrm. 



^-Australia. Ooulburu Island, A. Cunriinjham; Port Essiugton, Armstrong; is- 

 ™ds of the Gulf of Carpentaria, K Brown. 



21. GEIJERA, Schott, 



(Coatcsia, F. Muell.) 



Flowers herma])Iiio(lIte. Sepals 4 or 5. Petnls 4 or 5, valvatc or imbri- 



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