240 MR HIERN, ON EBENACE^I. 



ceous, shining above, pale and yellowish at least beneath, 1 3 in. long by ^ 1 in. wide . 

 petioles ^ Jin. long; midrib slightly either raised or depressed above; net-veins nume- 

 rous rather prominent above, rather inconspicuous beneath. Leaves usually marked beneath 

 by some small dark glands arranged along 2 straight lines equally distant from the midrib. 



j? . Flowers 3 5 together, f in. long, on short silky drooping cymes which measure 

 without the flowers about ^ in. long; pedicels very short. Calyx hemispherical, pubes- 

 cent outside, glabrous or shining inside, half the length of the flower, 5-fid, with deltoid 

 lobes; rarely 4 6-fid. Corolla sub-globose, open at the mouth, pale and shortly pubes- 

 cent outside, glabrous inside, deeply 5-lobed, imbricated sinistrorsely in bud ; lobes oval. 

 Stamens 15 20 ex Bentham I.e., usually 20 in pairs or in groups; anthers "tetragono- 

 linear, rostellate, dehiscing laterally from apex downwards," silky; filaments very short, 

 glabrous. Ovary rudimentary, hairy. 



9 . Flowers subsessile, 13 together, usually solitary (?). Fruit solitary, subsessile, globose 

 or spheroidal, about in. long, glabrate except the apex, tipped by the remains of the 

 hairy style, 2 4-usually 4- or rarely 1-celled ; cells 1-seeded ; pericarp thin, crustaceous ; 

 dissepiments membranous ; seeds in. long or rather more ; albumen white, cartilaginous ; 

 embryo \ in. long ; radicle clavate-cylindrical, slender, equalling the flat narrowly or linear- 

 lanceolate cotyledons. 



Fruiting calyx ^in. long, receiving the base of the fruit, puberulous or pubescent on 

 both sides, 5- rarely 4-fid ; lobes often somewhat spreading. 



Australia, Moreton Bay, Leichhardt ; Brisbane river, A. Cunningham!; New South 

 Wales, C. Moore/, Paris Exhibition, Sydney woods 30, W. Macarthur ! 49. Plentiful on 

 the mountain brushes of the Hastings River, C. Moore ; Clarence River, C. Moore ! , Beckler, 

 J. Wilcox; Queensland, Hill!; Ash Island, Hunter's River, Mrs Forde and Miss Scott ex 

 W. Woolls, Contr. Fl. Austr. p. 192 (1867). Fruit eaten by the Carpophaga magnified, Selby. 

 Called Black Myrtle by the colonists. Timber soft when fresh, but exceedingly tough. 



120. DIOSPYEOS PARALEA, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. edit. ii. vol. I. p. -514 (1840). 

 D. foliis ovalibus, alternis, apice acuminatis, basi obtusis supra nitidis glabrescentibus, 

 subtus costd margineque tomentosis vel subglabrescentibus, coriaceis, breviter petiolatis ; floribus 

 masculis aggregates, subsessilibus, ferrugineo-tomentosis, tetrameris, calyce 4-fido, corolla cam- 

 panulatd, 4>-fidd, staminibus circiter 16, antheris linear i-lanceolatis, hirsutis, filamentis brevibus 

 glabris ; floribus femineis subsolitariis vel aggregatis, subsessilibus, staminodiis 8, ovario 

 tomentoso, 8-loculari; fructibus globosis, subglabratis, seminum albumine non ruminato. 



Alph. DC. Prodr. vm. p. 224. n. 10 (1844), Miq. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vn. p. 6. t. 3 (1856). 



Paralea guianensis, Aubl. PI. Guyan. I. p. 576 (1775). P. guyannensis, Aubl. I. c. t. 231 

 (stain, char, et fig. excl.) ; Paralia guianensis, Desv. ex Hamilt. Prodr. PI. Ind. Occ. p. 45. 

 n. 89 (1825). 



D. ferruginea, Spltgbr. in Vriese Ned. Kruidk. Arch. p. 327 (1848). 



D. longifolia, Spruce in Journ. Proceed. Linn. Soc. Lond. V. p. 7 (1861), PI. Bras, exsicc. 

 n. 1516 (1851). 



A small moderate-sized or lofty tree of hard white wood ; young shoots buds and 

 inflorescence ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves oval-oblong or ovate-oblong, alternate, more or 

 less rounded occasionally somewhat narrowed at base, acuminate at apex, coriaceous, 



