BY BARON VON MUELLER, 143 
inflexed along the margin while in bud. Filaments slightly 
hairy. Anthers very narrow, about tin, long, unbearded. 
Style subulate, 3-3in. long. Annular disk slightly lobed, rather 
broad, bearing the stamens chiefly on the summit, thinly velvety. 
Ovules generally four in each cell. Fruit measuring 1-l}in. 
exocarp thinly crustaceous. Mesocarp exsiccating, forming a 
stratum not very thick. Endocarp woody, the sutural lines 
very perceptible outside, the commissural spaces permanently 
cohering, but on forced separation showing a silky fibrous vesti- 
ture. Seed turgid, about 2in. long; testa brown-black, 
smooth; albumen copious, almost amygdaline; embryo white, 
nearly as broad as the albumen and almost as long; cotyledons, 
foliaceously flat, about jin. long, oblique-ovate ; radicle hemiel- 
lipsoid-cylindrical, several times shorter than the cotyledons. 
These ‘‘ kernels’ have an agreeable flavour, and are eaten by 
the settlers. The wood of this tree is hard and durable, con- 
siderably resembling in this and other respects the American 
lignum vitee—for which indeed it might form a good substitute. 
This remarkable species bears alliance to H. Horckii, so far as 
the form of the leaves, the few-flowered peduncles, and the large 
size of the fruit are concerned; elongated filaments occur like- 
wise in E. aristatus, HE. amnoeus, H. venustus, and some others, 
while the sutural indication is also well-marked in EK. tubercn- 
latus, EK. ganitrus, and several other congeners—thus a transit is 
offered to Dubouzetia, which, indeed, may well be regarded as a 
subgenus of Eleocarpus, the valvular dehiscense of the endocarp 
being complete in Dubouzetia, according to the observations of 
Brogniart and Gris, while a close approach to its inflorescence is 
shown by Eleocarpus Bancroftii; the flowers of the latter how- 
ever, resemble externally those of HK. Guillaini (Vieillard) from 
New Caledonia, though the normally tetramerous calyx and 
corolla are quite exceptional in the genus Eleocarpus, nor are 
they occurring in Dubouzetia, and remind one of Sloanea, with 
which our new Eleocarpus agrees also in inflorescence. 
