283 Lxxi. sAPOTACEiE. [Jc/iras. 



carpa, but the peduncle ratlier sliorter, aud tlie calyx-segments apparently 

 rounder aud more obtuse. 



Queensland. Tamoshanter Point, DaUachy. 



5. A. laurifolia, Z. Muell, Herb. Glabrous or the young shoots 

 slightly pubescent. Leaves oval-oblon;? or broadly oblong-elliptical, obtuse 

 or scarcely acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole^ thinly coriaceous, shining 

 above, 3 to 5 in. long. Flowers clustered in the axils on pedicels of 4 to 6 

 lines. Calyx-segments 5, broadly ovate, 2 lines long, usually subtended by 

 a bract like them, but ratlier shorter aud broader. Corolla only seen lu 

 bud, but apparently exceeding the calyx, the lobes broad and almost trun- 

 cate ; scales of the throat subulate. Anthers large. Ovary very villous, ta- 

 pering into a thick glabrous style ; ovules laterally attached near their base. 

 Fruit black, obovoid, f in. long, the pericarp not thick. Seeds 1 or 2, the 

 hilum very broad, and more than half as long as the seed ; albumen copious ; 

 cotvledons very broad and flat. — Sersalkia laimfolia, A. Kich. Sert. Austral 

 8i.^. 31 ; A. DC. Prod, viii. 177 ; S. glabra, A. Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. 

 Sc. V. 327. 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, Baclhonse^ Traser ; Rocl^iD^ham Bay, DaUachj. 



N. S- \^*^ales. Woolongoug, American Exploring Ex})edition. 



In foliage, this differs but little from A. australis and A. a-erocarpa ; the leaves are, how- 

 ever, lesd acumiuate than in the former; the flowers are rather larger than ^^-^'^'T^^fT^' 

 the sepals not so broad as in A. anstralis, and the pedicels much lonKcr, hut the chiel ■ 

 ference is in the seed, if I have correctly matched it. The specimens I have sc^a are : 

 typical one in flower of A. Gray's species ; one in flower also, which I believe to have D 

 from the collection which supplied A. Richard's species; and a few in fruit from DaUacny. 



6. A. australis, R. Br. Prod. 530. A tree attaining sometimes a 

 great elevation, quite glabrous except a slight appressed pubescence on tli 

 very young shoots. Leaves shortly petiolate, from elliptical-oblong au 

 shortly aud obtusely aeuminate to broadly obovate-oblong and ^'^ry obtu= , 

 mostly 3 to 4 in. long but sometimes larger, usually much reticulate. Jlo^' 

 in axillary clusters or almost solitary on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines, more ?;loDi-^- 

 lar than in A. xerocarpa and A. laurifoUa. Calyx-segments 5, hroadly o^ 



bieular, about 2 lines diameter. Corolla scarcely excecdir.g the calyx, ^^^^^^^ ..^ 



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ds. AntlR^J 



sliort and spreading; scales of the throat slightly dilated upwards. ""^"'"Vj; 

 on very short filaments near the base of the corolla-tube. Ovary densely . 

 lous, tapering into a short glabrous style, 5-celled; ovules laterally »"*J'^ . 

 near their base. Fruit 1 in. diameter. Seeds few, large, ^^onipressed, 

 hilum on the inner edge more than half as long as the seed, much oro ^ 

 tban in A. xerocarpa, narrower than in A. laurifoUa.— Sapta australis, 

 DC. Prod. viii. 175. 



Queensland. Rockhampton and Rockingham Bay, Dallachj\ Bnsljane river, wo 

 of the Pans Exhibition, 1855, MacartJiur, n. 44. „. ^ „. Hvers, 



K. S. Wales. Hunter's River, i2. Brown ; Haatings, Clarence, and Kjchniona ^ 

 ^eMer Wilcox, C. Moore; Tweed river, and woods of the Loiidou ^^^Wntiou, i^ ' 

 28, a Moore; Illawarra, Macarthnr ; Kiaiiia, Uarceij ; aud apparently the bame f 

 but m leaf only. Lord Howe's Maud, Milne. . .. ^^^ 



It is possihle that when better kuowu A. a:erocarpa, A. ausiraVis, and \^^^^'-^l^^U 

 prove to be varieties only of one species ; but, as far as our specinieas go, there seem 

 constant, although but slight, differeuces iu the flowers as well as in the seeds. 



