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veins visible but not prominent, upper surface smooth and 
glossy, under surface darker and duller, measurement of lamina 
34-54 in. (9-14 cm.) long, 1-5-2-5 times as long as broad. No 
flowers available. Fruit ovoid-globular, red, over 1} in. 
B 
TLforon 23. 
Text-figure 7. 
Cryptocarya pleurosperma sp. nov. A, leafy shoot. B, fruit. C, 
seed. D, seed in transverse section showing thick, ribbed putamen. All 
half natural size. 
(3-8 em.) long. Seed ovoid-globular, rugose and very pro- 
minently longitudinally ribbed, ribs generally 12 in number, 
putamen walls 2-4 lines (4-5 mm.) thick. (Text-figure 7.) 
Hab.: Bellenden-Ker, C. T. White (type); Gadgarra, Atherton 
District, T. Fuller; Johnstone River, Rev. N. Michael. 
In its triplinerved leaves and costate seeds this species resembles 
C. australis Benth., to which it is apparently closely allied. It is dis- 
tinguished from C. australis by its more strongly costate and larger very 
rugose seeds which are twice the size, and its broader and larger leaves. 
ORDER PROTEACE. 
Persoonia oxycoccoides Sieb. This species, previously 
known from Victoria and New South Wales, has been collected 
at Inglewood, west of Warwick, Southern Queensland, by 
C. J. Smith. 
