160 XXIV. TILIACEJi. [Sloanea. 



Filaments short. Anthers scarcely pointed. Style acute, much longer than the 

 stamens, the exserted portion deeply furrowed. Ovary 4-celled. Capsule opening 

 in 4 hard almost woody valves, or sometimes 3-valved, about fin. long, external 

 sets short and exceedingly densely crowded. 



Hab.: Marooohie, Rockingham Bay, F. v. M.; Herberton scrubs, J. F. Bailey. 



Wood pinkish, close-grained,' light, suitable for lining boards. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. 32a. 



2. S. Iiangii (after Dr. G. Lang), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 28. A small tree, 

 with a white, smooth bark ; branchlets almost glabrous. Leaves 8 to 5in. long, 

 lanceolate-ovate, chartaeeous, glabrous, quite entire or indistinctly remotely den- 

 ticulate, penninerved and copiously reticulate. Stipules long, persistent, canalicu- 

 late, almost silky, 3 lines long, denticulate. Flowers light-yellow, solitary or in 

 corymbs. Pedicels 1 to 2in. long, very slightly velvety. Sepals valvate, white, 

 lanceolate or orbicular-ovate, 4 to 6 lines long, the outside slightly the inside 

 distinctly velvety. Petals white, ovate, thinner than the sepals, ■ and a little 

 imbricate and thinner on both sides. Stamens numerous, very short ; anthers 

 oblong-linear, about 2 lines long ; style subulate, 1| line long. Ovary 3-oelled. 

 Capsule mostly 2-valved, hispid. 



Hab.: Mount Elliott, E. FiUalan (F. v. M.) : Herberton scrubs and Tully River, J. F. Bailey. 



3. S. IKEacbrydei (after J. Macbryde), F. v. 'M. Fragm. vi. 170. A large 

 tree ; wood yellow ; branchlets at length glabrous. Leaves obovate, 2 to 6in. 

 long, 1 to 2in. broad, chartaeeous or thinly coriaceous, orenulate or repandly- 

 dentieulate, glabrous, base cuneate, lateral nerves distant with transverse and 

 reticulate veins between. Flowers fragrant, in corymbose racemes, on el6ngated 

 pedicels. Sepals 4, white, fleshy-coriaceous, valvate, ovate, about 4 lines long. 

 Petals none. Anthers 60 to 70, tetragonous-linear, puberulous, 1^ line long, 

 conneotivum acute, style short. Ovary ovate, 2-celled. Capsule nearly lin. long, 

 slightly compressed, pyriform-ovate, 2-celled, woody, awned outside with subulate 

 setsB 1 to 1^ line long. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallaehy (F. v. M.) 



4. S. Woollsii (after Eev. Dr. W. Woolls), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 171. A tall 

 tree with a deeply sulcate bark ; branchlets slightly velvety. Leaves lanceolate 

 or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 5in. long, l|in. broad, dark green and bordered by some- 

 what remote blunt teeth, on petioles about lin. long. Flowers in racemose 

 corymbs ; pedicels 1 to Ifin. long. Sepals 4 or 5, rhomboid-orbicular, slightly 

 imbricate, hoary-velvety on both sides. Petals none. Stamens numerous ; 

 filaments very short or scarcely any. Anthers almost linear. Capsule about 

 fin. long, 2-valved, woody, covered with somewhat soft prickles on the outside, 

 glabrous inside. Seeds pendulous, mostly solitary, ovate or ellipsoid, turgid. 



Hab.: Mount Mistake and Bunya Mountains. 



Wood of a light colour, close-grained and tough, useful for flooring and lining boards. When 

 newly cut has somewhat the scent of Deleij.— Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 33. 



6. ARISTOTELIA, L'H6r. 



(After the philosopher.) 



(Friasia, DC.) 



Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Petals as many, imbricate, 3-lobed, toothed or entire 



inserted round the base of the thickened torus. Stamens indefinite, inserted on 



the torus, within a glandular ring ; anthers linear, the cells placed back to back 



and opening from the top in short confluent slits. Ovary 2 to 4-celled with 2 



ovules in each cell ; style subulate. Fruit a berry. Seeds few, ascending or 



