490 XXXIX. ANACARBiACE.E. [BucJianaula. 



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the disk. Gynoecium of 5 or 6 distinct carpels, of which one only perfect, 

 the others rudimentary and style-like ; style of the perfect one short, with a 

 truncate stigma ; ovule suspended from an erect fihform funicle. Drupe 

 small, the putamen crustaceous or bony, 2-valved, Seed with thick cotyle- 

 dons and a superior radicle. — Trees, Leaves alternate, simple, entire, coria- 

 ceous. Flowers small, white, in terminal or axillary panicles. 



The genus extends over tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacific, the Austrahan species 



having also a wide Asiatic range. 



gustifoli 



^.263. A tree, cither 



quite glabrous or the young sJioots and panicles slightly rusty-tomentose or 

 pubescent- Leaves oblong or cuneate-oblong, obtuse and rounded at the 

 end, 3 to 8 in. long, and 1 to 2 in. broad, gradually narrowed into a short 

 petiole, rather rigid, of a pale colour, the pinnate veins and transverse reticu- 

 late veinlets prominent on both sides. Panicles rather loose, shorter than the 

 leaves, several together at the ends of the branches, each in the axil of a 

 floral leaf usually reduced to a small bract ; occasionally the central bud 

 grows out and the panicles are placed at the base of the new branch. Flowers 

 glabrous ; petals nearly 1-^ lines long. Drupe more or less compressed, ob- 

 lique, from broadly ovate to nearly oblong, rarely exceeding |- in. — W. and 

 Arn, Prod. 169, with the synonyms adduced ; Wight, Ic, t. 101. 



W. Australia. Victoria river, Bf/noe, F, 3fiieller ; Port Essington, Jrmsiron^ ; 

 islands of the Gulf uf Carj)eutaria, R. Brown, 



Queensland. Albany Island, F. Mutller ; N.E. coast, A. Cunningham, 



The species is widely distributed over East India and the Archipelago. 



3, EITROSCHINUS, Hook. f. 



Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Calyx small, 5-lobed, Petals 5, ira- 

 Lricate in the bud. Disk orbicular, deeply crenate. Stamens 10, inserted 

 round the disk. Ovary 1-celled, with 3 tliick short styles, or in the males of 

 3 or 4 linear style-like rudiments ; ovule pendulous from the top of the 

 cavity. Drupe small, more or less compressed, tlie putamen coriaceous. 

 Seeds compressed, with flat cotyledons ; the radicle turned upwards. — Tree. 

 Leaves pinnate. Flowers rather small, in terminal or lateral panicles. • 



The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. It is closely allied to the 

 American genus Schimis, but with a rather diifercnt hahit, a gamosepalous calyx, and the 

 putamen of the fruit does not appear to contain the oily receptacles so conspicuous in that 



genus 



JTook. / 



A low 



tree, glabrous or the young shoots minutely hoary. Leaflets 4 to 8, very 

 oblique or falcate, ovate to lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, all 

 but the terminal one very itnequal at the base, on petiolules of 1 to 3 lines, 

 penninerved and reticulate^ the common petiole terete. Panicles divaricate, 

 many-flowered, not exceeding the leaves. Flowers almost sessile, clustered 

 along the branches, about 1 line long and glabrous. Calyx-lobes obtuse, 

 slightly imbricate. Petals twice as long, oblong, very spreading. Drupes 

 at first broadly and obliquely ovate, but in some specimens where they are 

 better ripened more oblong, and attaining abnost \ in. in length. 



