G. parvifiora 



A tall shrub or 



small tree, with slender, erect or pendulous branches, glabrous or the in- 



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cate. Disk thick and fleshy. Stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments subulate. Ovary 

 depressed, partly immersed in the disk, 4- or 5-lobed; styles terminal, imme- 

 diately united into a sins^le short style, with a capitate 4- or 5-lobed stigma, 

 Pruit of 4 or 5 or sometimes fewer, distinct, 3-valved cocci, the endocai-p ad- . 

 herent or partially separating. Seeds with a hard or crustaceous shining 

 testa; albumen fleshy ; embrj^o straiglit ; cotyledons broad.— Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate, simple, not articulate on the petiole. Flowers small, iu ter- 

 minal paiucles. Sepals small. 



The genus is limited to Australia, and differs from ZanihoJ'f/ium chiefly iu the simple 

 leaves and hermaphrodite flowers. 



Panicles compact. Petals imbricate. Leaves hroad 1. ff. MueUen, 



Panicles loose. Petals valvate. ... I 



Leaves from ovate to lanceolate 2, G^. salwfoha. j 



Leaves linear »...>♦. 3, G.parviflora. 



1. G. Muelleri, Benth. A glabrous tree. Leaves ovate or obovate- 

 oblong, 2 to 3 in. long, narrowed into a rather long petiole, coriaceous, with ^ 

 a prominent midrib, the lateral veins slender and rather distant. Panicle 

 compact, scarcely equalling the last leaves. Flowers rather larger than in the 

 other species. Petals nearly \\ lines long, distinctly imbricate, obtuse, with- 

 out inflexed tips. Cocci 2 to 3 lines long, distinctly but very shortly beaked, 

 very spreading, but cohering at the base. Endocarp persistent. — Coalesm 

 paniculata, P. MuelL Pragm. iii. 26. 



Queensland. Cumberland islands, B. Brown ; Araucaria woods near Morcton Bay, 

 F, Mif.eUer ; Curtis Island, Henne, This species was geuerically distiiignishcd by r. 

 filuellcr, on account of the iml}ricate estivation of the petals, and a slight difTcreucc in the 

 fruit, but the habit is that of the other species, and the gcnu^ is too closely allied to Zan- 

 thoxt/htm, which contains species with valvate as well as with imbricate testivation, to admit 

 of dividing it solely on that ground. 



2. G. salicifolia, ScJiott, Tragm. Rut. t, 4. A moderately-sized tree, 

 glabrous or with a minute hoary pubescence on the inflorescence, and some- 

 times ou the under side of the leaves. Leaves from ovate to ovate-lanceolate 

 or rarely oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, en- 

 tire, coriaceous, narrowed or rarely rounded at the base, with a rather long 

 petiole. Panicles rather loose, broadly pyramidal, but much shorter than the 

 last leaves, alternately branched, with numerous small white flowers. Petals 

 about 1 line long, valvate. Cocci often reduced to 1 or 2, obovoid, not beaked, 

 2 to 3 lines long, the endocarp persistent or partially separating. — G. lat^foliai 

 Lindl. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 236. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, U. Broivn ; "Moreton Bay and Brisbane river, J- Can- 

 niffffhamj F. Mudhr, and others ; Brigalow scrub on the Burdekin, and near Warwick, T. 

 Mueller; Wide Bay, C, Moore ; Port Benison, Fitzalan ; llockhampton, Thozet ; Man- 

 tua Downs, Mitchell, 



K. S. VTales. Clarence river, C. Moore; near Paramatta, Woolls. 



Schott'9 figure represents a remarkably narrow -leaved forin, which I have only seen m 

 BrowD's specimens, and in those from Warwick and from Eockhamptou. These, however, 

 pass into the common broad-leaved form. 



florescence and young parts slightly hoaiy. Leaves linear, acute or obtuse 



