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SchizomeriaA xlii. saxifkage^e. 443 



side a lobed disk; anthers ovate, the connective produced into a short conical 

 appendage. Ovary short, free except the broad base, 2-celled, Avith 4 ovules 

 in each cell attached to a pendulous placenta ■ styles distinct, short, recurved, 

 with terminal stigmas. Fruit a drupe, with the small calyx-lobes reflexed 

 from its base ; epicarp thick and fleshy ; endocarp bony. Seed solitary, some- 

 what curved; embryo green, rather large, in a fleshy albumen. — Tree. Leaves 

 opposite, simple. Stipules small. Flowers small, in terminal trichotomous 

 cymes. 



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The genus is limitecl to a single species, endemic in Australia, and veiy nearly allied to 

 Cerafopetalmn in habit and flowers, but the fruit is different, aud the leaves truly simijle, 

 the lamina continuous with the petiole. 



1. S, ovata, D. Don, Cnnon, 12, in Edlnh. New PJiil. Journ, Apr. to June^ 

 1830. A tree attaining* 50 ft., with a dense foliage of a light green. Leaves 

 ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 in. long, nearly 

 entire or with ii'regular ol>tuse serratures, shortly narrowed at the base and 

 continuous \vith the petiole, coriaceous, pcnniveined and reticulate. Flowers 

 rather smaller than those of Ceratopetahira apdaliun, and the cymes usually 

 looser, hut otherwise much resembling them. Calyx-lobes scarcely above 1 

 line long. Petals shorter than the calyx, broad and toothed or lobed at the 

 end. Drupe ovoid or globular, under \ in. diameter. 



N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Blue Mountnins, Miss Atkinson ; uorih- 

 i^ardto Macleay and Hastings rivers, Beckler ; southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, 



11. ACROPHYLLUM, Beiitli. 



(Calycoiuis, B. Bon, not of R. Brown) 



Calyx divided jiliuost to tlie base into 4 to 6, usually 5, valvate segments. 

 Petals as many, entire, exceeding the calyx. Stamens twice as many as petals, 

 inserted round the slightly crenate disk; anthers small. Ovary free, 2-lobed, 

 2-ceI!ed, with several ovules in each cell ; styles 2, subulate. Capsule small, 

 septicidally dehiscent, the valves or carpels terminathig in the long, persistent, 

 straight but divergent awn-like styles. Seeds few, globular.— Shrub. Leaves 

 opposite or verticillate, simple. Flowers in dense axillary clusters (reduced 

 •^ynies), the 2 opposite ones forming a false whorl, 



Tlie genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 



1. A. venosum, Beiith. in Maund, Botanist, ii. 95. An elegant, erect, 

 glabrous shrub, with slender branches. Leaves opposite or in threes, sessile 

 orvery shortly pctiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 2 to 3 in. long, 

 Jordered by triangular acute and regular teeth, rounded or truncate at the 

 ?ase, rigid, prominently penniveined and reticulate. Flowers puik, numerous 

 [n dense false whorls, 'each subtended by a pair of floral leaves reduced to 

 •tracts, whilst the uppermost leaves of the flowering branch are agaui large 

 y'tliout flowers in their axils. Pedicels filiform, short at the time of flower- 

 '•^S. 3 to 4 lines long in fruit. Calyx-segments about 1 line long. Petals 

 lather longer, very narrow. Stamens longer. Capsules slightly exceedmg 

 ^r c%x, the slender rigid divaricate styles at least 2 lines long.— ^e?w"v««- 

 '"« cudralis, A. Cunn. in Field, N. S. Wales, 353 ; DC. Prod. iv. 9 ; Caly- 

 '''"»« i-erlicillaia, D. Don, Cunon. 10, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. Aprd to 



