142 DESCRIPTION OF A NEW TILIACEOUS TREE, 
consulted by Mr. F. M. Bailey, the Government Botanist of 
Queensland. The branchlets transmitted by him for taxologic 
identification bear leaves, flower-buds, well-developed flowers, 
and fruit. 
Exzocarpus Banororti, F'.v.M. & Bail. 
Tree over 1l00ft. in height; the diameter of stem 
over 2ft.; bark scaly of a brownish colour, about jin. 
in thickness. Branchlets, thinly brownish, velvet-downy. 
Leaves, ovate-lanceolar, or almost ovate ou rather long 
somewhat velvety stalks, entire at the margin, or slightly 
wavy, shining above, paler and without lustre beneath, and 
there the ascendent primary veins prominent, nearly glabrous 
on both pages; flower-stalks axillary or lateral comparatively 
short bearing only 2-5 flowers, at or near the summit—as well 
as the stalklets and calyces—thinly velvety-downy. Flowers, 
rather large, longer than their stalklets. Buds ovate-globular ; 
sepals four, oblong-lanceolar, of thick consistence ; petals four, 
glabrous, cleft at the upper end into generally three short 
roundish lobes without fringes; stamens numerous; filaments 
nearly or fully as long as the anthers, the latter glabrous, only 
slightly pointed; ovary greyish velvet-downy, four-celled, 
passing into an upwards glabrescent style. Fruit, very large, 
ovate-globular; endocarp, remarkably thick, somewhat uneven, 
and slightly foveolated outside, separable into four valves; 
cavity, one-celled. Seed one, very large, oblique-ovate. 
On the Johnstone River ; Dr. Bancroft, jun. 
A tall tree; branchlets robust. Leaves, 3-5 inches long 14-2 
inches broad, rather smooth above, gradually narrowed at the 
base, the closely-reticulated veinlets subtle; no foveoles at the 
mid-rib beneath. Leaf-stalks attaining a length of from one to 
twoinches. Flower-stalks comparatively thick, but generally not 
above an inch long, occasionally even shortened to tin. Stalklets, 
not bent downward, finally sometimes lengthening to one inch. 
Sepals $-3in. long, pale silky inside. Petals somewhat longer, 
