Mus.'] . XXXIX. ANACAIiMACE^, 489 



Stamens as many as petals or rarely 10, inserted round the base of tlie disk. 

 Ovary l-ccUcd ; styles 3, free or connate, ^vitli simple or capitate stigmas ; 

 ovule suspended from an erect filiform funicle. Drape globular or compressed, 

 usually small. Seed inverted or transverse, the radicle turned upwards. — 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves pinnate, 3-foliolate, or in species not Australian 

 simple. Flowers small, in terminal or axillary panicles. 



The species are numerous in tlie warmer extratropical regions of both the northern and 

 'southern hemispheres, especially in S. Africa, more rare within the tropics. The Australian 

 species arc both endemic. 



Leaves pinnate, glabrous. Flowers rather large. Stamens 10. Drupes 



globular 1. ^. rhodaniJiema, 



Leaves digitatcly 3- or 5-foliolate, toraeutose underneath. Flowers very 



small. Stamens 5 2. ^. vitimfoUa. 



1. R, rhodanthema, F. MnelL Herb, A tree of 70 to 80 ft., quite 

 glaLrous except little tufts of hairs along tlie midrib of the leaflets underneath. 

 Leaves pinnate, tlie common petiole tei^ete ; leaflets usually 7 or 9, oblong, 

 obtusely acnniinate, mostly 2 to 2^ in. long, entire, shortly petiolulate, the 

 pinnate veins prominent underneath. Panicles pyramidal or broadly thyr- 

 soid, dense. Flowers dioecious, red, very shortly pedicellate, larger than in 

 most species. Sepals broadly ovate, very obtuse, about 1 line long. Petals 

 ovate, recurved, about 1|- lines. Stamena 10, Ovary broad; styles 3, 

 short, thick, diverging, with capitate stigmas; ovule nearly globular, sus- 

 pf?ndcd as in the rest of the genus from an erect funicle* Drupe globular, 

 shining, about \ in. diameter, putamcn thick and woody, striate outside, lined 

 ^vith a separaUe cartilaginous layer inside. Seeds orbicular, flat ; testa 

 membranous, but rather tliick. 



Queensland. "Wide Bay, C. Moore ; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Frascr, A. Cun- 

 ningham, W. mil, F, Mueller. 



M. S. "Wales. Clarence river. Herh, F. Mueller. 



Tliis species differs from the greater i)art of the genus in its large red flowers, 10 stamens, 

 and larger globular drupes. K simarubdfoHay A. Gray, from the Fiji islands, aiix)roaches 

 it in general liabit and in the size of the flowers, but they arc white and peutandrous, and 

 the leaflets are firmer and more obtuse. 



2 ? R» viticifolia, F. MuelL Ilerh. Branches, petioles, and inflores- 

 cence hoary-pnbcscent. Leaves digitately compound ; Leaflets 3 or (accord- 

 ing to r. Mueller) rarely 5, ovate or elliptical, acute, 2 to 3 in. long, entire 

 or sinuate-toothed, narrowed into a petiolule, glabrous above, white or hoary 

 underneath with a close tomentum. Flowers very small, in a pyramidal or 

 tliyrsoid terminal panicle. Sepals lanceolate, hirsute, about ^ line long. 

 Petals oblonc:, nearly 1 line lou":, j^hibrous. Stamens 5. Female flowers and 

 imit not seen. 



Queensland (?), LeichJmrdt, Evidently closely allied to the S. African i?. iomeriloaa, 

 Linn. The loaves appear to be less coriaceous, but otherwise the fragmcntar}' specimens 

 arc insufTieient to give diagnostic characters. Can it be the species imported ? 



2. BUCHANANIA, Koxb. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx short, obtusely 3- to 5-tootlicd. Petals 5, 

 imbricate in the bud. Disk orbicular, crcnatc. Stamens 10, inserted round 



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