382 XXXI. MELTACEiE. [_BpoxJjlon. 



as the staminal tube. Ovary hirsute, 4-cellecl, with 1 ovule in each cell. 

 Fruit only seen very young, soon becoming glabrous. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Morcton Bay, F". HiU, F, Mueller. 

 N. S. ^Vales. Clarence river, Beckler. 



4* D. Lessertianum, BentJi. Quite glabrous, or the young shoots mid 

 panicles minutely pubescent. Leaflets 4 to 10, usually without any terminal 

 odd one, elliptical or lanceolate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 4 to 5 m. 

 long. Panicles loose, extra-axillary, 3 to 4 in. long. Calyx short, cupular, 

 entire or irregularly crenulate. Petals 4 or 5, glabrous, more or less adherent 

 to the staminal tube at their base, rarely at length free. Staminal tube gla- 

 brous, 8- or 10-toothed. Tubular disk broad, scarcely longer than the ovary. 

 Ovary hirsute, 4- or 5-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Fruit hard, obovoid, 

 about \ in. long in the specimens seen, Arillus of the seeds thin.— Hnrtff/h- 

 sea Lessertianay A. Juss. in Mem. Mas. Par. xix. 264* 



, N- S. "Wales. "Williams River, R. Brown; CWence river, JFilcox, BecHer. 



Var. puhescens. Young shoots, petioles, under side of the leaflets, and inflorescence softly 

 pubescent. Clarence river, Beckler {Sb, F, MuelL). 



5. D. rufam, BentJi. A slender tree of 30 to 40 ft., the young branches, 

 petioles, and under side of the leaves clothed with a soft often rust-coloured 

 pubescence. Leaves \\ to 2 ft. long; leaflets numerous, vciy shortly petio- 

 lulate, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 6 in. long, very oblique 

 at the base, glabrous on the upper side. Panicles axillary or lateral, not 

 much branched, pubescent. Flowers sessile. Sepals 5, almost free, orbicu- 

 lar, imbricate, about 1 line long. Petals 5, pubescent, ^ in. long, adhering 

 to the staminal tube to about the middle. Staminal tube truncate, with 10 

 retuse short lobes or teeth ; anthers tipped with a short point. Disk broadly 

 tubular, very hairy. Ovary husute, 5-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. 

 Fruit depressed-globular, 1 in. diameter, densely hirsute with short, rigid, 

 almost golden hairs. Seeds arillate. — IlarllgUm riifa, A. Eich, Sert. Astrol. 

 29, t. 11. 



Queeusland. Moreton Bay, A, Cunningham, W. EllI, F. Mueller, 

 ^ N. S. "Wales. Port Macqaarie, A. Cminingham ; Hastings river, Fraser ; Clarence 

 river, C. Moore, The wood, known to the colonists as Bastard Cedar-pencil wood, is soft 

 .and easily worked, used ia honse-ljuilding. 



Var. (?) glahrescens. Leaves quite glabrous. Fruit tomeutosc, with very short golden 

 hairs. — Bockhampton, Thozet, 



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4. AGLAIA, Lour. 



(Mihiea, Roj-b. ; Nemedra, A. Juss.) 



riowers polygamous. Calyx 4- or o-tootlied or cleft. Petals 4 or 5, 

 short, eoTinivent, imbricate in the bud. Staminal tube globular or urceolnte, 

 entire or shortly toothed ; anthers as many us petals or rarely more, within 

 the summit of the tube. Disk none, or not distinct from the base of the 

 ovary. Ovary 2- or 3-celled, with a short thick style and disk-like stigma; 

 ovules 1 or 2 in each cell. Fruit coriaceous or almost succulent, indehiscent. 

 Seeds 1 or 2, enveloped in a mealy pulp, without any arillus.— Trees, either 

 glabrous or clothed with small scurfy scales or rarely with stellate touientnm. 



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