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Sources of the Russell-River ; W. Sayer. 



A tree, attaining a height of 25 feet. Leaves 1^-2^ inches 

 long, rather brittle, almost suddenly passing into the slender but 

 very conspicuous petiole. Flowers unknown. Fruits about yi 

 inch long, on pedicels of nearly the same length ; endocarp thinly 

 cartilagineous, the spurious dissepiment longitudinally divisable 

 into halves. Seeds, if two, only on one side turgid. Albument 

 oily, somewhat granular. Embryo minute, roundish. 



So far as our material reaches, the generic position is in- 

 disputable. The smallness of the leaves and particularly of the 

 fruits as well as the externally obliterated venulation of the leaves 

 separate already this species from its several congeners. 



Randia spinuligera. 



Nearly glabrous ; leaves chartaceous, almost sessile, from a 

 roundish base lanceolar, at the upper end narrowly protracted, 

 but the apex bluntish, paler beneath, thinly venulated ; stipules 

 broad-linear, acute, dilated at the base, soon wearing away ; 

 cymes much shorter than the leaves, usually developing one 

 flower only ; peduncles occasionally converted into short acicular 

 spinules ; flowers rather small ; calyx minutely but acutely five- 

 denticulated, somewhat beset with appressed hairlets ; corolla 

 glabrous, its lobes five, nearly as long as the cylindric tube, 

 narrow-lanceolar, conspicuously reticular-venulated ; filaments 

 very short ; anthers fixed about their middle, linear, slightly 

 exserted, by about one-third shorter than the corolla-tube ; style 

 glabrous, almost capillary ; stigmas disconnected, oval ; fruit 

 comparatively small, ovate ellipsoid, wrinkled ; seeds two or 

 even one only ripening in each half of the fruit, ovate, convex 

 on one side. 



On Mount Bartle Frere : Stephen Johnson. 



Leaves to 4 inches long to 1^ broad, without any lustre in 

 their dried state ; peduncles seldom above half an inch in 

 length, spinules often less long ; pedicels always short ; calyx ]4, 

 to 1^ inch long, its limb persistent : corolla-tube narrower down- 

 ward, about y 2 inch in length, and so the style ; stigmas hardly 

 */ I2 inch long ; fruit % to 2 /i inch long, but not seen in its 

 perfect maturity ; seeds 1 / s to ^ inch long. 



Distinguished from R. tetrasperma in larger leaves, not 

 gradually narrowed into the base, in extension of the calyx 

 beyond the ovulary, in longer corolla, in enclosed anthers and 

 larger not globular fruit. Differs from R. Moorei already in 

 longer upwards more narrowed leaves, more slender and more 

 elongated calyx-tube ; narrower, thinner, more pointed and con- 

 spicuously venulated corolla-lobes, in longer anthers ; the fruit of 

 R. Moorei may also be different, but the stigmas are likewise 

 severed. Also allied to R. patuhe. 



