Acmiyclda?^ xxviir. eutace.e. 367 



n^ 



I pediuiculate and few-flowered. Sepals very short, rounded, glabrous. Petals 



narrow, indiiplicate-rakate, with iaflexed tips, 3 to %\ lines long, glabrous. 

 Filaments rather thick, dilated and ciliate towards the base, subulate and in- 



P flexed at the top. Ovary hirsute round the base of the style, otherwise gla- 



brous ; style rather long, the stigma not thickened, obscurely 4Jobed. Fruit 

 succulent, with a crustaceous 4- celled endocai-p, obtusely 4-angled, truncate 

 at the top, and depressed in the centre, \ in. diameter or rather smaller.— 

 Laicsonia Acromjchia, Linn. f. ; Lablll. Sert. Austr. Caled. 66, t. 65 ; C^mi- 

 nosma oblong if olhm, A. Ciinn. in Eot. Mag. 3222 ; Acronijchia lauriiia, F. 

 MuelL Fragm. i. 27. 



Queensland, Keppel Eay, H. Brown ; Moreton Bay and Brisbane river, A. Cun- 

 ningham^ F. Mueller, aud others ; Rockhaiiipton, ThozeL 



W. S, ^Vales. Port Jackson to the Ehie Mountains, R. Brown, A, CunniyigJiamj 

 and others; northward to Clarence and Ilastiiigs rivers, Eeclder ; southward to Yowaka 

 river and Lake King:, F. Miteller, 



According to F. Jlucllcr, the leaves are occasionally S-foHoIatCj but I have never seen 

 tnern BO- 



S' A. im 



A moderate-sized tree. 



^^ry nearly allied to A. lavis. Leaves of the same shape and size, hut on 

 inuch shorter petioles, and much more coriaceous, the minute pellucid dots 

 f^idy visible before a strong light. Inflorescence and flowers as in A, lavls, 

 ^xcept tliat the peduncles are much shorter and the flowers rather larger. 

 J^iluuients much ciliate. Truil somewhat obovoid and obscurely or not at all 

 angular, and not depressed at the top. 



Queensland. N.E. coast, B. Brown ; Erisbanc river, ^. mil, F. Mueller. 



Tribe IV. Aurantiete. — ^Trccs or shrubs. Leaves pinnate with alternate 

 |eaflets or 1-foliolatc or simple. Stamens twice as many as petals or more, 

 ^vary not lobed. Fruit indchiscent. Seeds without albtmien. 



24. GLYCOSMIS, Corr. 



Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes broadly imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. 

 stamens 10, filaments dilated at the base, anthers often tipped with a small 

 g^and. Ovary 3^ to 5- or rarely 2-celled; style very short, thick and per- 

 sistent, the stigma scarcely broader, ovides solitary in each cell. Berry suc- 

 culent or almost dry, usually 1 -seeded. Seeds with a membranous testa, 

 ^vithout albumen; cotyledons flesliy. — Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves 

 [Alternate, pinnate, witli few alternate leaflets, or 1-foliolate. Flowers small, 

 in axillary or terminal panicles. 



A genus of very few species, dispersed over tropical Asia and the Eastern Archipelago, 

 ^ Australian cue being the most widely spread over the whole region. 



1. G, pentaphylla, Cor)\; OUv, in Joiim, Zmn. Sac, v. SuppL 37. A 

 tjill shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves occasionally 1-foliolate, on 

 «|ort petioles, but more generally pinnate, with 2 or 3 leaflets, from ovate- 

 ^^liptical or ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, 2 to 4 

 ^^ rarely 5 in, long. Panicles dense, shorter, or scarcely longer than the 

 petiole of the pinnate leaves. Petals about 2 lines long. Ovary 5- or some- 



