492 XXXIX. ANACAEDIACEiE. [SnOildiaS. 





1. S. Solandri^ Benth. . A moderate-sized tree, the trunk occasionally 

 acquiring a very great thickness, quite gh^brons in all its parts. Leaflets 7 

 or 9, obliquely ovate or oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 in. long, entire, veiy unequal at 

 the base^ pale underneath, with fine pinnate veins and reticulate veinlets. 

 Flowers sessile, densely clustered, in short axillaiy interrupted spikes or ra- 

 cemes, rarely branching into panicles. Calyx-lobes separate almost to the base, 

 ovate, obtuse, about ^ line long. Petals 5, spreading, obtuse, about \\ lines 

 long. Stamens 10, inserted in or under the crenatures of the disk ; filaments 

 slender ; antliers small. Ovary half immersed in the disk, with 4 or some- 

 times 3 short conical styles. — JSpondias acida^ Soland. in Herb. Banks, not of 

 Blume. 



Queensland. Endoa^our rivary Ban^s and Solan der ; Keppel 33ay, Shoalwater Bay, 

 Broad Sound, and NorthumLerland Islands, i?. Brown, The above description is taken 

 from R. Brown's notes, and from two flowering specimens in the Banksian herbarium, and 

 one in R. Brown's. There is also in the Banksian collection a packet of drupes named as 

 belonging to this species and described as such in R. Brown's notes ; but perhaps really those of 

 some allied species, for they havx from 10 to 15, usually about 12 cells, althouji;h in every other 

 respect like- those of the section Evia of Spondias. They are of a depressed globular forni, 

 the pntameii with as many angles as cells, exceedingly hard, nearly 1 in. diameter; the cells 

 diverging at the top as in other Evias, 



