ite 

 loose 



Mindersia.] xxxi, MELiACEiE. 389 



Petals about 2 lines long, glabrous outside, sprinkled on tlie inside as well as 

 tlie anthers with a few hairs. Fruit not seen. 



^ Queensland. "VYidc Bay, B id will ; Cnmbcrland Islands, Herh, F, Mueller ; Brisbane 

 nver, A. CumiinQham. 



«. S. "Wales. Hastings river, Thozet ; Clarence river, Bechler, 



3. F. Oxleyana, T, Muell, Fragm. i. 65; iii. 25. A tall, much-branched 



tree, attaining often 100 ft. Leaves opposite, crowded under the panicles ; leaf- 

 lets 4 to 10, with or without a terminal odd one, broadly lanceolate, obtuse or 

 shortly acuminate, 2 to 4 in. long, oblique and almost* falcate, nanwved into 

 a distiuct petiolule, glabrous or sprinkled underneath with minute stelh 

 hairs, thinly coriaceous, rather sparingly glandular- dotted. Panicles lot _ 

 ''^jid many-tiowered, but shorter than the leaves. Sepals very small. Petals 

 about 2 lines long, obovate-oblong, glabrous or nearly so. Fruit woody, 3 to 

 4 m. long, muricate. Seeds winged at both ends. — Oxleya xantlwxyla^ S., 

 Cumi. in Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 246, t. 54. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, Fnuer, A. Cunningliam, F, Mueller. "Yellow Wood" 

 Oi the colonists. 



4. F. Bennetiana, F. MuelL Herb, A large tree. Leaves opposite, 

 crowded under the panicles; leaflets 3 or 5, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate or 

 oolong-elliptical, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long in some speci- 

 ^t^ns, 4 to 5 in. in others, glabrous, very coriaceous, not oblique, and scarcely 

 petiolulate, the common petiole angular. Panicles ample, sometimes short, 

 sotnetimes exceeding the leaves, minutely stellate-pubescent. Petals about 2 

 hues long, rather broader tlian in F. Oxlei/arw, glabrous or nearly so. Fruit 

 ^ or 3 in. long, murieate. Seeds wiiiged at the upper end only, or some with 

 ^^very small wing also at the lower end, but only seen ia one capsule. — 

 -''• audralis, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 26, not of 11. Brown. 



Queensland. ^Yide Bay, Bidicill : Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A, Cunningham, 

 Fraser, JF, Hill :^ > 



N. S. Wales- Clai'encc river, BecUer. 



5. P. maculosa, F, MuelL in loimi. Pharnu Soc. Vict, ii. 44. A small 

 tree the tnmk remarkably spotted by the falling off of the outer bark in 

 P'^^tchcs. Leaves opposite or nearly so, glabrous, coriaceous, the glandular 

 l^ots often only visible on the young ones, in some specimens all sin)ple, 



inear-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or emarginate and mucronate, 1 to 2 in. 

 iong or rather more; in other specimens a few of the leaves break out into 3 

 ^ 3 narrow continuous lobes, in others, again, all are pimuile, with 3 or 5 

 ^^ittets, like the simple leaves, but smaller, and a winged common petiole. 

 Panicles terminal, rather dense, usually shorter than the leaves. Sepals 

 scarcely 1 line long. Petals about 2 lines long, glabrous. Capsule oblon 



O 



'"'a murieate, like those of tlic other species, but much smaller, often not more 

 Uian 1 in. bng when fuUy ripe. Seeds wiiiircd at both ends and along the 

 Y^};-'~'F^l(eodi^ndronmaciilosum,\AUiS\.'m. :^iitch. Trop. Austr. 3S4.; Strze- 

 ^^cki/a dmosperma, F, iMuell. in Hook. Kcw Jouni. ix. 308; FlinJersia 

 ^i'-zelecldana, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 65. 



Queensland. Scrub on the Burdekin auJ Burnett rivers, F. MueUer ; St. George's 

 ^"uge on the Balouue river, lililchell ; Port Boweii and Broad Sound, Herb. F. Mueller. 

 spotted Tree " of tl.o r.nl.,nkf<: 



