Macadamia. | CIV. PROTEACEZX. 407 
Queensland. Pine river and Moreton Bay, W. Hill; Dawson and Burnett rivers, 
Leichhardt (with the leaves less toothed and the flowers rather larger). 
N. S. Wales. Clarence and Richmond rivers, C. Moore (leaves rather small). 
.9. M. verticillata, P. Muell. Young shoots and inflorescence 
slightly hoary or rusty-tomentose. Leavesin whorls of 5 or 6, oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse with a small callous point or almost acute, coarsel 
contracted into a very short petiole, 3 to 5 in. long, coriaceous, 
much reticulate. Racemes much shorter than the leaves, with nume- 
tous small crowded flowers. Bracts on the very youn broad 
villous, falling off long before the flowers expand. Pedicels filiform, 
scarcely 2 lines long, hirsute. Perianth glabrous, about 14 lines long: 
Mypogynous glands united in a ring or cup. Ovary densely villous; 
Syle-end clavate.— Helicia verticillata, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 191. 
Queensland or N. S. Wales, Leichhardt, the precise station not given (Herb. 
F. Mueller), : 
15. XYLOMELUM, Sm. 
Flowers partiall ly cylindrical 
: y polygamous. Perianth regular, nearly cylindric 
in the bud, the segments. revolute, dilated at the end into short con- 
? 
flowers the ovary is abortive, but the style is clavate at the end 
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Upper side or in 2 valves, Seed flat, Saban, d ovate, with a long ter- 
aad prickly-toothed. Flowers in op se sp axl 
tion t ing a terminal cluster, becoming ] by the elonga- 
late 
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cing the branch. Bracts small, at first imbricate, but falling off 
oo the vane Flowers sessile x pairs within imd Proin 
[ ones of the spi t, the upper ones w - 
tive ovaries, e spike usually perfect, pper on 
: M P is endemic in Australia, where itis widely spread, the fruits generally 
Mown un ler the name of wooden pears. 
pakira those at least of the barren branches prickly- 
; Labios of De 8 ferruginous-villous, 5 to 6 lines e 
Specie oweri tire. istern ; 
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