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498 XLVii. coMBUETACEiE. [TeminaUa, 



Leaves large with a petiole of 2 to 3 in. Drupe acuminate, 



with 2 slightly prominent angles 11- T. eauhs. 



Leaves minutely hoaiy uuderueath. Drupe ovoid-gloLular, without 



j^j^„.|pg • 12. T. discolor. 



Leaves loosely tomcntosc-puhesceut, at least uuderueath. 



Drupe ovoid glabrous '. , 12>. T.porphjrocarj^a. 



Drupe ovoid or oblong, often acuminate, tomcutose .,•.14.2'. pJatuphijua. 

 Leaves mostly shortly acuminate. Howers rather small. Stamens 

 not above 3 lines long. 

 Leaves ovale. 



Leaves three or four times as long as the petiole, the pellucid 



dots very conspicuous under a Iciis . . . • 15 x. microcarpa. 



Leaves not twice as long as the petiole, the pellucid dots quite 



microscopic , 16. T. fetlolans. 



Leaves lanceolate or narrow oblong-elliptical. Drupe acuminate •. 17- T. eryihrocarpa. 

 Leaves narrow^ obtuse. Flowers large. Stamens 5 to 6 lines long . 18. T. grandijiora. 



Section I. Catappa, DC— Fruit with 2 longitudinal meuibranous or 

 coriaceous wings, or rarely with a third narrow wing or promuient nerve. 



1. T. platyptera, V. Muell. Fragm, ii. 151. A tree, the young 



brunches and petioles hoary-pubcscent or almost velvety. Leaves crowded a 

 the ends of the flowering branches, obovate or obovatc-oblong, very obtuse, 

 '1| to 2^ in. lung in our specimens, on a rather long petiole, velvety-pubes- 

 cent on both sides when young, at length nearly glabrous above, tlie reticulate 

 veins prominent. Spikes tomentose, slender, interrupted, exceedmg ^ 

 leaves. CalvJf softly tomcntose inside and out, the adnate tube about as IoHq 

 as the broad^campanulate lirab ; lobes short and broad. Filaments glaorou.^ 

 Style villous. IVuit 2-M'inged, tomentose-pubescent, about 1 in. long am 

 in' broad, including the horizontally divaricate wings, which are quite distuic , 

 broadly obovate, plica tely veined. 



N, Australia. Aroheai's Laud, F, Jfueller (in tlower) ; Lyud river, leichhardt (m 

 fruit). ' , iLgj 



Var. (?) fflabrata. Minutely hoary or nearly glabrous j leaves more coriaceuas and r 

 larger.— Gilbert river, F. Mueller. 



2. T. volucris, Herb, R. Br. Branches divaricate, the young shooU 

 very minutely hoary of silky.pubcscent. Leaves from broadly obova 

 oval-elliptical, 1^ to 3 in. long, narrowed at the base and often decurrem^^^^ 

 the rather long p<;tiole, thin, pale underneath, the primary veins ^^^^^^^^.^ 

 merous and less oblique than in T, pterocarpa, which this species ^^^'^^j^^^ 

 without the fmit, and much and finely retieuUitc between them. ^P^ ^^^^^^^ 

 der, interrupted, usually longer than"^the leaves, especially when the ^^^^^^^^^ 

 are chiefly males, the niore female spikes shorter and denser. ^^^-J^^L^ents 

 pubescent, the broad limb as long as the ovarv. Disk villous. ^*' 3 jn 

 glabrous. Style glabrous or hairy at the "base. ' Fruit 2.winged, ^^?"^^^^ 

 long, and twice that breadth including the broad wings, which are ei ^^^ ^^^ 

 tiact or slightly continuous above or below the drupe or both; |'"^''^, 

 frequently on oneftice of thednipe 1 or 2 prominent longitutlinal ang • ^_^^ 



N. Australia. Port Keats and Cambridge Gulf, N.W. coast, A. '^''"'I'J^^g^'^iglanJ, 

 toriu river, P, Mueller; islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; ^ ^^^^^. 



Eenne; in the interior, lat. 18° 35', M-DouaH t:tuarfs Expedllton. . ..^^.,peudix t** 

 mens are the only oues iu good fruit, and are those alluded to by hiiu m tn it 





