306 : CIII. LAURINEZ. [ Tetranthera. 
racts orbicular, enclosing 5 or 6 flowers on very short thick pedicels. 
Perianth-segments 6, lanceolate ciliate and very deciduous in the females, 
broader more obtuse and sometimes fewer in the males. Per fect sta- 
F. Muell. nr 
Queens Cape Grafton and Endeavour river, Banks and Solander, A. Cun- 
ningham ; cpg neo Bay, Dallachy ; between Cleveland and Rockingham Bays 
W. Hil. 
Var. lanceolata, Meissn. Leaves di d js Man al Fe Male flowers as in 
d i ical form, females unknown.— T. n a, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 169.—Fa mily 
Rockin gham ‘Bay, Dallachy ; alisbeue pom C. Moore (Sydney woods, Paris 
Esti, 1855, n. 15). 
It seems very den btful whether Hexanthus of —— from Cochinchina, usually 
pra to T. di is really the same specie 
de v reticulata, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 199. A tree of con- 
siderable agis glabrous except the flowers, or the jouns shoots minutely 
Ra ae escent. Leaves obovate-oblong or oblong-elliptical, obtuse or 
females, usually in short irregular racemes or clusters, on à common 
rhachis at first very short but sometimes lengthening to 3 in., glabrous 
as well as the bracts rianth-segments narrow, acute, silky-villous 
id, 
cup-shaped perianth- pL — Oylieodaphne Faweettiana or  Tetr 
capri bns n. AE | 
ngham d , Dallachy ; Sydney woods (probably from Bris 
bane rhet Paris Eie 1855, Mirer n. 24,1 92. 
6. LITSZEA, Juss. 
Flowers diccious. Perianth- cgi usually 4, equal or nearly £% P 
Stamens of the outer series usually 4, perfect, of the inner series ? 
fect, without staminodia; glands 4, one on each side of the 
stamens ; anthers all 4-celled introrse ; ; stamens in the females re di 
to stamin ary imperfect or abortive in the males, free "n 
alter 
ends of the sii usually us but with has primary 
the lower pair more prominent so as often to appear iei 
