4 m 



Elaodendron.] xxxiv. c£Lastrine.e. 403 



Albumen copious.— F. Muell. Fragm, iii. 61 ; Foriensclilaaia australis, Tratt. 

 Ai-ch. t. 250. 



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Queensland, Wide Buy and 3roreton Bay, C. Moore; Ipsuich, NemsL 



N. S. Wales. Uuniev's Kivcr, R. Brow fi; Hastings, \Jacleay, and Clarence rivers, 



BecUer; IlJawarra, A. Cunmngham and others; Kiania, Ilarver/. 



Var. avgiisti folia. Leaves lanceolate or iiaiTow-oblong, entire or nearly so ; fruit more 



^m^oi^.—Porienschlagia integrifolia, Tratt. Arch. t. 284 ; Elceodendron uitegrifoHnm, 



G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 12. — Burnett, Dawson, and Pine rivers, in Queensland, F, Mueller ; 



Warwick, BecJder. 



According to P, Mueller, the fruit in E. australe is occasionally 3-cclIed ; but this must 

 be rarely the case, as I have never found more than 2 cells to the ovary in any of the nu- 

 merous specimens I have examined. The above references to Trattinick's Archiv are quoted 

 after G. Don \ I do not find the second volume of that work in any of our libraries. 



2. E. melanocarpiun, F. Muell. Fragm, iii. 62. A glabrous tree. 

 Leaves opposite; obovate or oval-elliptical, broadly crenate, scarcely to be dis- 

 tinguished froui those oi E. australe, except that tlie veins m^e more conspicu- 

 ous on the upper as well as the lower side. Flowers smaller than in E. amtrale, 

 the males more numerous, in slender cymes like those of the small-flowered 

 rndum Illppocrafeas, usually 3-mcrous. Pemale flowers in less-branched 

 cymes and often 4-merous. Ovary 3-celled, but very imperfect in the flowers 

 examined. Drupe ovoid or globular, shining-black, rather larger than in E, 

 audrale, the hard putamen always 3 -celled, or showing the traces of a second 

 or third cell when reduced to one. Albumen copious. 



N Australia. Arnlicm North Bay, R. Brown. * • 



Queensland. Keppcl Bay, R, Brown; Port Boweu, A, CunnlngJiam ; Pitzroy and 

 I^i^ard Islands, M'-GilHvrarj ; Port Denison, Fiizalan ; Rockhampton, Thozei, 



5. SIPHONODON, Griff. 



Calyx 5"cleft. Petals 5, spreading. 'Disk not distinct from the base of 

 the calyx. Stamens 5, connivent round the ])istib the fdamcnts flattened. 

 Ovarj^ half immersed in the disk or base of the calyx, conical, the summit 

 hollowed and stiguiatie in the cavity round a central style-like column ; cells 

 numerous, in 2 to 4 series ; ovules solitary in each cell, alteniately ascending 

 and pendulous. Drupe globular, hard-fleshy, with Jiumerous 1-seeded bony 

 pyrenes superposed in rings of about 10 rouTul the central axis. Testa of the 

 seed membranous ; albumen almost horny ; cotyledons h^rge, flat \ radicle 

 short. — Glabrous trees. Leaves alternate, entire or crenate. Stipules minute, 

 deciduous. Peduncles short, axillai-y, few^-flowered. 



Besides the Australian species, wlTich is endemic (and referred to this f^enns from the 

 fruit), it comprises only one from the Indian Ai'chipelago, from nhich the floral characters 

 are taken. 



1- S. (?) australe, Benth, A tree of 40 ft. or more. Leaves obovafe or 

 broadly oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 in. long, entire or slightly sinuate, coriaceous, 

 drying of the pale colour so freciucnt in Celastrinea, Plowcrs unknown. 

 Peduncles very short, bearing 1 or 2 fruits on pedicels of | to i in., as in 

 S, celastrineus. Griff. Drupe globular, \ to 1 in. diameter, the flesh hard 

 and dry, with the stigmatic scar at the top, and the scar of the calyx at the 

 ]^ase, as in ^S'. celastrineus. Nuts numerous, appearing to have been arranged 

 in 2 rows in each of 5 cells, irregularly ovoid, somewhat compressed, 3 to 4 



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