lo. AXACARDTACE.E. 



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stellate - downy, netveined 

 capsule, '2o-S0 Dim. (I-I3 

 in.) long, opening at the 

 smnmit by the inner edges, 

 valves 4, rounded at top 

 and compressed so as to 

 make the capsule appear 

 4-winged ; seeds black, shin- 

 ing, usually 1 in each 

 cell. 



Near Cape Jervis ; Water- 

 fall Gully.— Sept. -Nov.— 

 South Africa. 



3/. iiKijor, L., a tall 

 glabrous shrub, also from 

 South Africa, -with larger 

 leaflets, flowers in a dense, 

 erect raceme, stipules uni- 

 ted, and capsule - valves 

 acute at the summit, is 

 grown in gardens, but 

 does not appear to have 

 gone wild. 



Melianthus comosus. 

 Family 15 — ANACARDIACE/E. 



1. SCHINUS, L. 



1. Schinus Molle, L. 



I'cpj)er-ticc. A large aromatic, 

 evergreen tree with drooping 

 branchlets ; leaves alternate, pin- 

 nate, of 3-17 linear-lanceolate 

 sessile leaflets, alternate or rarely 

 opposite; flowers small, white, 

 dia>cious, in long, bracteate, 

 drooping panicles ; calyx o-lobed, 

 exceeded by the oval petals ; 

 stamens 10, inserted outside a 

 ''^ A. ring-shaped, 10-toothed disk ; 

 styles 3, short ; fruit a depres.sed- 

 globular, red drupe, the size of a 

 peppercorn, and containing a 

 bony nutlet. 



All the South Australian speci- 

 mens seem to belong to the var. 

 A id 1(1, DC, with entire leaflets, 

 but seedlings and shoots from 

 polled trees show the toothed 

 leaves of the type. 



Cultivated all over the State, 

 and often spontaneous from seed. 



Schinus Molle 



