276 LXX. MYRsiNE^. [Mpsine. 



Queensland. Rockiughaui Bay, BaUacliy. The foliage is that of the largest-IeaveJ 

 forms of M. capitellata, Wall., but the flowers are different. 



4. AEDISIA, Linn. 



Calyx free, 5- (or 4- ?)lobed. Corolla deeply 5- (or 4- ?)lGbed, the lobes 

 spreading, contorted-imbricate in tlie bud. Stamens inserted at the base of 

 the corolla-lobes ; filaments sbort ; anthers erect, lanceolate, the slits of the 

 cells sometimes not reaching the base. Ovary superior. Style subulate, 

 usually long and persistent, the stigma not enlarged. Berry or drupe 

 globular. — Trees or shrubs or, in species not Australian, almost herbaceous. 

 Flowers not so small as in most genera, usually in short umbel-like racemes, 

 axillary or terminal, solitary or several together in branching panicles. 

 Corolla white or pink, frequently spotted. 



A large genus, widely dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the New as 

 well as the Old World. The Australian species appear both to be endemic. 



Umbels several, in a slender but not large terminal panicle. Co- 

 rolla induplicate-valvate 1. J. psendojamoosa. 



Umbels solitary on short terminal (or axillary ?) peduncles. Corolla 



contorted-imbricate 2. A.brevipedala. 



. 1. A. pseudojambosa, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 81. A tree, attaining 

 about 30 ft., quite glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong, acuminate, narrowed 

 into a short petiole, entire or obscurely sinuate, rather thin, the pinnate veins 

 numerous and usually conspicuous, 3 to 5 in. long. Umbels several m a 

 terminal panicle, which is sometimes sessile and shorter than the last leaves, 

 sometimes pedunculate, longer and loose, with slender divaricate branches. 

 Pedicels 3 to 4 lines long. Flowers small. Calyx deeply divided into seg- 

 Tuents of about f line. Corolla almost rotate, the tube short, the lobes 

 about 1 hue long, ovate, acute, with membranous margins, indupUcate-valvate 

 in the bud. Anthers nearly sessile, lanceolate, acuminate, the pomts exceea- 

 ing the corolla-lobes. Stvle long and slender. Drupe globular, about 4 lines 

 diameter. 



Queensland. Eocthampton and Rockingham Bay, I) all achy ; Kockhampton and 



w J ^J,'"'"' ^^^"^"^ • *''*^'"°y "ver. Bowman. , ., ,, 



w. S. Wales. Richmond river, C. Moore, apparently the same, but in fruit om)- 



A. brevipedata, T. Muell. Fraam. vi. 163. A taU glabrous shrub- 



flowers. Pedicels filiform, i to i in. long. Calvx open, ^- 

 diameter, broadly and shortly 5-lobed. Corolla-tube''shoi-t and broad ; lobe 

 acutely acuminate, about 1 line long, contorted In the bud. Anthers almo^ 

 sessi e, lanceolate, acuminate but shorter than the corolla-lobes. ^tJ" 

 slender, about as long as the corolla. Fniit aInhiiLnr. .S to 4 lines diameter, 

 ripening usually a single seed. Albume 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Da//«.;,y. " ^^ ,^„ 



A. repandula F. JIueU. Fragm. iv. 82, from " the Brush going to Buruo," near Mo.^ 

 Bay. Ze/a//a,-rf/, appears to be this species, with a few but not all of the leaves mmut j 





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