D'mpi/m.] LXXII. EBENACE^. *^' 



sliortly contracted into a sliort petiole, 2 to 3 in. long. Flowers not seen. 

 rruit on a very sliort pedicel, the calyx forming a thick flat dislc of ^^ m. 

 diameter, with 'sharp edges, and 4 short broad reflexed lobes. Bei-ry 4 to 

 1 in. diameter, covered with short hairs which sometimes wear off at the 

 base. Seeds 8, in pairs, but with perfect dissepiments between them, com- 

 pressed ; albumen cartilaginous ; embryo about f the length of the seed ; 

 cotyledons flat, nearly as long as the radicle. 



Queensland. Cape York, JF. Hill; N.E. coast, A. Cunnini/ham. Tliu foliage is 

 nml^ IM ol L. Elieninn, 



2. CAEGILLIA, R. Br. 



Ovary 4- or 5-cellcd 



Calyx-lobes usually 4 or 5. Corolla-lobes as many. Uvary 1- or o-tei cu 

 with 2 ovules in each cell, not separated by any spurious dissepnnent ; styles 

 more or less connate. Fruit globidar.— Trees or shrubs, with the habit ana 

 inflorescence of the Order. 



As far as hitherto known there are no species besides the Australian ones, of which three 

 are endemie, the remaining one {C. laxa), which is also iu the luJiau Archipelago, may 

 prove to be a Diospyros. 



lowers mostly 4-merou8. 

 Leaves glabrous, 4 to 6 in. long or more, obtuse. Froit nearly 1 m. 



diameter z' ^' , ' ^^^ 



I«aves slightly hairy underneath, 3 to 4 in. long ^- ^- '^^^J^^Hg 



Leaves glabrous, nnder 3 in. long ,/ „^„f„,„pra 



Rowers mostly 5 -merous. Leaves glabrous, under 2 in. long . . • i. O. peman . 



. 1. C. laxa, n. Br. Prod. 526. A handsome tree attaining 50 ft (^^ 

 ^'"^0. glabrous except the flowers. Leaves petiolate, from oval-oblong 

 oblong-elliptical, usually broad, obtuse, coriaceous, shimng above, opaque 

 underneath, 4 to 8 in. long or even more, almost always diymg biacK^ 

 Flowers sessile, the males clustered. Calyx pubescent, 4-lobed, about is 

 lines long. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx, s^ky-pubescent 

 4-lobed. Stamens 16 to 18. Female flowers not seen l™it "g ca jx 

 broadly cup-shaped or opening flat, closely appressed to the truit. i>e y 

 gobular, attaining nearly 1 in. diameter. Seeds f«f P^^'-^^^'^f {/"*„' .rt^^^^^ 

 •tuiing testa. Radicle longer than the ovate cotyledons Alburn ncartda^ 



gmous.-A.DC. Prod. viii. 243; Dimpyros '««7^*«^V 'S 'im Bat i' 

 A^DC. Prod. viii. 234 ; Car.ilUa narUma, Hassk ; ^Lq. ^^^I^;}^^^; ^ 



1049 ; a menalocarm. F. Muell. Fragm. y. 163 ; 



Maha 



igm. V. 163. 



Sulk. 



Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, opposite Groote Island, B. Bro,m ; Escape Cliffs. 



Queensland. Cape York, W. Hill. „ ,., ,, 



nd Samoa Islands. Lut.l the 

 ther this may not be a species 



v>^^j^ ^v.iv, rr. --."•- 



The species is also on tlie coast of Timor, South Java, an 

 ™ flowers shall have been examined, it is not certain ^vhether ^^^%'^^,^^ "V^"^ of 



^^^iospyros, but there does not appear to have been any septum between the 2 o^ule 

 each carpel. 



, 2. C. mabacea, F. Muell. Tragm. v. ir>2. A tree of about 20 ft., the 

 ^^nchlets and veins on the underside of the leaves stngose-pubescent. 



