28 Diagnostic Notes on New or 



Leaflets generally alternate, thin-coriaceous, on very short 

 stalks, above shining, below opaque. Calyx about one line 

 long. Capsule measuring 8-10 hues, inside often purple. 

 Seeds two lines long, slightly compressed, with a red arillus. 



It appears nearer in its affinity to C. subcinerea, than to 

 the other Australian species, viz.: C. Pseudorchus, C. Cun- 

 ninghami, and C. anacardioides. 



Besides these and the preceding noble sapindaceous trees, 

 two species of Schleichera, and many others belonging to this 

 order, occur along the humid east coast of Australia, all as 

 evergreen with horizontal umbrageous foilage, highly adapted 

 for avenues, unless trees of greater rapidity of growth were 

 needed. 



Celastrixe^e. 



Derihamia. 



(Meisn. gen. 18. Leticoearpon Ach. Rich. voy. de 1' Astrolabe, II. 46. Sert. 



Astrol., 18, nonBrideL) 



Calyx 5-cleft, persistent ; lobes semi-ovate, as well as the 

 corolla with imbricate prse-florescence. Petals 5, ovate, 

 alternate, with the lobes of the calyx inserted beneath 

 the disk. Stamens 5, opposite to the lobes of the calyx, 

 inserted to the sbghtly sinuate disk. Filaments subulate- 

 linear. Anthers cordate, affixed above the base, introrse, 

 two-celled, bursting longitudinally. Stigmas 3, very 

 short, sessile, somewhat clubshaped, long cohering into 

 a cone. Ovules ascending in two rows along the septa. 

 Capsule bony, with loculicidal dehiscense, 3-5 valved, 

 3-5 celled, or, through imperfect development of the dis- 

 sepiments, one celled, few-or many-seeded. Seeds 

 ovate, perfectly enclosed in the succulent arillus. Em- 

 bryo straight, in the axis of a fleshy albumen. Cotyle- 

 dons flat. Eadicle very short, next to the hilum. 

 Smooth shrubs or small trees inhabiting the warmer parts 

 of Australia, with alternate flat coriaceous ovate or lanceo- 

 late net-veined leaves, which are entire or toothed and desti- 

 tute of stipules, and with small minutely bracteolate panicu- 

 late flowers. 



Denhamia xanthosperma. 



Branchlets almost terete ; leaves lanceolate, acute or 

 acuminate, with rather long petioles, entire, be- 

 neath pale from a powdery at last separating pellicle ; 

 flowers panicidate ; filaments as long as the anthers ; 



