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NepMium,'] xxxviii. sapikdace^- 467 



4 ovoid lobes, attaining sometimes \ in., opening in 2 thickly coriaceous 

 valves. Seeds completely enveloped iu the aiillus. — Arytera foveolata, F. 

 Muell. in Trans. Viet. Inst. iii. 24. 



Queensland. Moreton Eay, 7F. Hill, F, Mueller. 



6. N. leiocarpum, F. MuelL Herb, A tall tree, usually glabrous 

 except a very slight pubescence on the young leaves and shoots, and some- 

 times on the panicles. Leaflets 3 to 6, mostly oblong-elliptical, ovate-lanceo- 

 late or lanceolate, acuminate or obtuse, 3 to 4 or even 5 in. long, but more 

 variable in size and shape than in most species, entire or rarely with a few deep 

 serratures, narrowed into a very short petiolule, not coriaceous. Panicles 

 loose, not much branched, usually glabrous. Calyx about 1 line diameter, 

 with very short broad teeth. Petals broad and sLort but variable, the scale 

 usually nearly as long as the lamina. Filaments often exceeding the calyx ; 

 anthers oblong, glabrous or nearly so. Fruit sessile or nearly so, glabrous, 

 With distinct globular lobes of 4 to 5 lines diameter, coriaceous, indehisccnt 

 or opening irregularly in a longitudinal slit, or breaking off transversely. 

 Seed deeply enclosed in the arillus. — Spanogliea nepkelioides^ F. Maell, in 

 Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 25. 



Queensland. Brisbane river, F. Mueller ; Curtis Island, Henne (a var. with smaller 

 more obtuse and more coriaceous leaflets). 



N, S. V/ales. Port Jackson, R, Brown ; northward to Hastings river, Fraser, 

 BecMer ; Eichrnond river, C. Moore ; Macleoy and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; soutliward 

 to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, Backhouse; Kiama, Harvey ; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller, 



7. N. Beckleri, Benth, A tree of considerable size, the voun^ shoots 

 ^nd mfloresceiice slightly hoary with a minute toineutum, otheiTpise glabrous. 

 liCaflets 3 to 6, ovate-lanceohite or obloug, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 2 to 4 

 m. or when luxiu-iaut 6 in. long, entire, narrowed into a petiolulc of 3 to 6 

 hnes, thinly coriaceous, quite ghibrous. Panicles much branclied. Flowers 

 niimerous, shortly pedicellate. Calyx pubescent, deeply divided into 5 orbi- 

 cular or broadly-ovate very obtuse segments about f line long. Petals in tlie 

 males short, with a very small scale, in the females longer with a more deve- 

 loped scale. Pilaments veiy short; anthers oblong, pubescent. Fruit dis- 

 tinctly stipitate, glabrous, witli 2 or 3 horizontally divaricate ovoid lobes 

 of about ^ in., either indehisccnt or rarely opening in a short slit; often re- 

 duced to a single perfect lobe, the tw^o others forming short tubercles at its 

 base. 



N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler, The calyx is more deeply cleft and more im- 

 bricate than iu any other Nei)heliu'my thus approaching tiiat of Euphoria ; but tlie species is 



too closely allied iu fruit aad other characters to iV, divaricatum to be generically sej)arated 

 from it. 



8. N, divaricatum, JP. MuelL Herb. A handsome tree of considerable 

 "eight, the young shoots and panicles slightly hoary with a minute toinrntum, 

 otherwise glabrous- Leaflets 4 or rarely 2, oval-oblong, elliptical or oblong- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 in. long, entire, narrowed 

 iiito a petiolule of 2 or 3 lines, thinly coriaceous. Panicles loose, with few 

 divaricate branches, the flower-cymes shortly pedunculate. Calyx very open, 

 ^l»out \ line long, pubescent, divided to the middle into 5 or rarely 4 broad 

 "^btuiie lol)es. Petals srnalL the inner scale short or in sonic females nearlv 



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