292 CH. MONIMIACEJE. | Palmeria, 
shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly elliptical, acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, 
hoary-tomentose on both sides or at length glabrous above. Male in- 
the top, the lobes connivent and produced into long points inflexed over 
the stamens into the centre of the disk before the flower expands. 
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a small hairy disk; anthers oblong, slightly hairy, not longer than the 
oer PUE peri b i ill 
bony endocarp. Seed 
with a membranous testa, pendulous from near the apex of the cavity, 
with a rather long hilum, the inside dried up and the embryo unde- 
DC. m a xvi. ii. 657. 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
- 9. ? P. racemosa, 4. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 657. A tree (Tulasne) with 
the foliage inflorescence and indumentum of P. scandens, or the leaves 
rather more contracted at the base. Male flowers also the same, a 
that the stamens are 60 or more, and occupy the whole dis f the 
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in Ann. Sc. Nat. Sér. 4, iii. 45, and in Archiv. Mus. Par. viii. 409, t. M 
Queensland? or N. S. Wal ‘New Holland,” Baume, Huegel; probally 
from Moreton Bay, or from the northern districts of N. S. Wales. 
15 ft., have some female flowers in very young bud, which in that state dene 
those of P. scandens, but are not sufficiently advanced for accurate identification. 
8. PIPTOCALYX, Oliv. 
SI 
t unknown.—Woody climber. Leaves s 
entire. Flowers in simple racemes, the males opposite with the 
flower hermaphrodite. ges 
The genus consists of the single Australian species. The habit is ingi pA doubtful. 
but the flowers are very different, and the fruit being unknown the ud than that 
I am unable, however, to trace any closer connection with any other | 
which it evidently bears. to. Monimiacee. to 40 
Moorei, Oliv. in Herb. Kew. A woody climber wi on the 
vore), the branches inflorescence and principal. ve? 
single carpel, with a single pendulous anatropous ovule and a8 si 
broad stigma. i d i al 
LP. 
ft. (C. 
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