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47. Medicosma Hook f. 1 — Flowers 4-merous ; sepals 4, decus- 

 sately imbricated, deciduous. Petals 4, sessile, finally recurved- 

 patent. Stamens 8, 2-seriate, inserted below thick pulvinate 4-lobed 

 disk ; oppositipetalous, shorter ; filaments free, widely subulate, 

 robust glandular-verrucose, connivent in cone, margins woolly, con- 

 nivent ; anthers oblong-ovate, introrse, 2-rimose. Carpels 4, oppo- 

 sitipetalous, sessile ; germens free ; ovules in each 2, descending ; 

 micropyle extrorse, superior ; styles 4, shortly coalescing in one, 

 slender, stigmatiferous 4-lobed at apex. Fruit cocci 4, tomentose ; 

 endocarp separating, 2-valved. — A glabrous shrub ; leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, simple (or 1-foliolate?) glandular-punctuate ; flowers 2 

 in few-flowered, axillary cymes ; pedicels bracteolate {Eastern 

 Australia 3 ). 



48. Platydesma H. Mann. 4 — Flowers nearly of Medicosma; 

 sepals 4, decussately imbricated ; exterior 2 larger. Petals same in 

 number, alternate, contorted, finally recurved at apex. Stamens 8, 

 2-seriate, inserted below slightly 8-lobed disk; filaments subpeta- 

 loid; anthers subsagittate, introrse, 2-rimose, inserted inside filaments, 

 subadnate. Germen deeply 4-sulcate, 4-locular ; cells oppositipeta- 

 lous ; connate only at internal angle ; style central, short, stigma- 

 tiferous at apex ; ovules in each cell 4-6, inserted at internal angle, 

 descending. " Cocci erect, discrete, succulent, often 1-spermous by 

 abortion ; endocarp thin, cartilaginous ; seed . . . ?" — Small trees, 

 subglabrous (graveolens) ; leaves opposite, simple, obovate-lanceolate, 

 petiolate ; cymes 5 axillary, few-flowered ; pedicels 2-bracteolate {Sand- 

 ivich Islands 6 ). 



49. Dutaillyea H. Bn. 7 — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle 

 shortly conical. Sepals 4, valvate, at first slightly decussate. Petals 

 same in number, alternate longer, contorted or oftener (sometimes 

 decussately) imbricated. Stamens 4, alternipetalous ; filaments free, 

 subulate, inserted at base of glandular-thickened and obscurely-lobed 



1 Gen., 296, 991, n. 48. Walp., Sep., ii. 825.— Fvodia Cimninghami 



2 Rather large, handsome, white, pubescent. F. Muell., Fragm., iii. 2. 



3 Spec. 1, culta. M. Cunninghami Hook. p., 4 In Proceed. Bost. Soc. Hist. Nat., x. 317. 

 loc. cit. — Benth., Fl. Austral., i. 362. — — B. H., Gen., 991, n. 50 a. 



Acronychia Cunninghami Hook., in JBot. Mag., 5 Flowers large, " white." 



t. 3994. — H. Bn., in Adansonia, ii. 253. — 6 Spec. 1. P. campanulaia H. Mann., loc. cit. 



7 In Adansonia, x. 327. 



