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by them. Filaments filiform. Anthers almost ovate, basifixed, 

 longitudinally dehiscent. Style very firm, longer than the stigmas. 

 Disc slightly undular at the margin. Ovulary three-celled, 

 almost fully emerged. Fruit roundish, somewhat turgidly tri- 

 lobed, by the persistent short calyx-tube surrounded only at the 

 base ; exocarp crustaceous, irregularly trivalvular ; endocarp re- 

 ceding, thinly pergamenous, each of the three portions splitting 

 to near their base along the inner side, much ruptured and 

 twisted on the outer side. Seeds roundish, very convex at the 

 outer side, much flattened and somewhat trigonous at the inner 

 side ; testula chartaceous ; albument none ; cotyledons outward 

 very convex ; radicle minute, ovate, included. 



This genus must stand near Colubrina, to which it could be 

 referred as a section ; but the course of the primary venules of 

 the leaves is different, the calyx-tube under the fruit is shorter 

 and less completely adherent, the cotyledons are outward very 

 turgid and the albument is wanting. The last-mentioned 

 characteristic this new plant of ours has in common with Scutia 

 and Dallachyra, but both have a fruit of different structure, ours 

 approaching that of Macrorhamnus. 



ScHISTOCARPiEA JOHNSONI. 



On Mount Bartle-Frere ; Stephen Johnson. 



A plant of laurinaceous aspect. 



Leaves on very short stalks, scattered, of firm texture, mostly 

 lanceolar-ovate, acuminated, entire, glabrous, 3 to 7 inches long, 

 1 — 2}4 inches broad, shining on both sides but paler beneath, 

 their primary venules rather distant, costular-adscending ; their 

 ultimate venules reticularly joined. Stipules semi-lanceolar, 

 fugacious. Panicles small or even diminutive, axillary and 

 terminal, formed by cymous clusters of flowers, beset with short 

 scattered hairlets. Bracts very small, varying from almost lance- 

 olar to nearly deltoid. Calyx about yi inch long. Petals some- 

 what short than the calyx, membraneous, pale-yellowish, as well 

 as the stamens glabrous. Style and ovulary bearing short hairlets. 

 Ripe fruit measuring rather more than y$ inch, dark outside, 

 glabrous ; valves of the exocarp somewhat bifid from the 

 summit ; endocarp of each fruitlet after secession divaricately 

 spreading. Seeds about \ inch measurement ; testule greyish- 

 brown, without lustre, irregularly reticulate-rugular. Embryo 

 almost amygdaline. Colubrina Travcmcorica, doubtfully admitted 

 by Beddome into that genus, has some resemblance to our new 

 species, but the leaves are almost opposite, bear some indument 

 and are distinctly serrulated ; and as the mature fruit remains 

 unknown, the generic position continues also dubious. 



