64 New Australian Plants. 



forest trees, only Pomaderris elllptica and Fagus fusca (the 

 black birch of the New Zealand colonists) have been identified 

 with Australian or Tasmanian trees, whilst, according to 

 Dr. Hooker's flora of New Zealand, many of the shrubs, 

 and a considerable portion of the herbaceous plants, proved 

 identical with ours. 



Wilhiea. 



Flowers unisexual, female ones racemose apetalous ; 

 male ones unknown. Calyx subglobose, perforated at 

 the apex, circumcised ; germens numerous, sessile ; styles 

 none ; stigma depressed, conical ; carpels drupaceous, 

 succulent, borne by the fleshy calyx ; embryo minute 

 at the base of a copious albumen. 



A tree of eastern subtropical Australia, with exception of 

 the ovaries smooth, with opposite short stalked coriaceous ob- 

 long or lanceolate ovate leaves, which are remotely serrated 

 or entire, with a yellow calyx and black drupes. 



I distinguish this interesting genus most regardfully with 

 the name of one of the Vice-Presidents of the Institute, and 

 regret that the specimens in my possession do not admit of a 

 more perfect characteristic. 



Wilkiea calyptrocalyx. 

 On subsaline banks of the Brisbane River. Hill & Mueller. 



Sapindace^:. 

 Nephelium tomentosum. 



(Sect. Arytera.) 



Branchlets, rachis of leaves and panicles brownish-tomen- 

 tose ; leaves on short petioles ; leaflets in two to four 

 pairs, opposite, oblique ovate, or ovate lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, serrated, above at last glabrous, beneath downy, 

 with very short stalks; terminal pair the largest; pani- 

 cles axillary and lateral ; divisions of the calyx 5, acute ; 

 style trifid at the apex, carpels twin or ternate, ovate 

 globose, often somewhat compressed, tomentose. 



On the Brisbane River. Hill & Mueller. 



A middle-sized beautiful tree. 



