Kvadia.] XXIX. RUTACE.^. 201 



sessile, 3^ to lOin. long and often over Sin. broad, quite entire or slightly repand, 

 thin-herbaceous. Panicles in the upper axils 3 to 7in. long, the lower blanches 

 rather distant. Flowers minute, greenish, clustered or here and there solitary. 

 Sepals deltoid. Petals rhomboid-ovate, scarcely f line long. Stamens shorter 

 than the petals, some sterile. Style short, pubescent. Stigma deeply 4-lobed. 

 Cocci rotundly-obtuse, deeply bivalved. Epicarp rugose. Seeds globose, about 1 

 line diameter. 

 Hab.: Many parts of the tropics, and sometimes somewhat south. 



5. IS. accedens (near to another species), Blume ; F. v. M. Frarpn. ix, 102. 

 " Bunnec-walwal," Moreton Bay ; " Boogoobi," Herberton, J. F. Bailey. An erect 

 tree 70 to 80ft. high, thinly-pubescent or glabrous. Bark light-coloured, somewhat 

 thick and corky. Leaves trifoliolate. Petioles 1 to 3in. long. Leaflets 2J to Sin. long, 

 ovate, shortly acuminate, chartaceous, pale on the under side, shortly petiolulate. 

 Cymes lateral, the flowers crowded, pink, turning bluish as they die away. Peduncles 

 short. Pedicels about as long as the flowers. Calyx-lobes about 1 line long. 

 Petals 2 to 8 lines long, slightly imbricate. Filaments glabrous, filiform, 4 lines 

 long. Anthers oblong. Disk lobes semi-orbicular. Style 8 to 4 lines long, 

 shortly pubescent. Stigma minute, capitate, 4-lobed. Ovary velvety. Cocci 4 

 or less by abortion, slightly compressed, globose-ovate, about 8 lines long. Seeds 

 dark reddish-brown, ovate-globose, IJ line long. — E. Elleryana, F. v. M. Fragm. 

 v. 4, 56, 179, and vii. 22. 



Hab.: Not uncommon in damp scrubs in both southern and northerri^ Queensland. 

 Wood very white, light and soft, furnishing a good substitute for that of the European lime- 

 tree. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. 42. 

 Leaves sometimes infested with the fungus Phyllosticta Evodite, Cke. 



6. IS. littoralis (of the coast), Endl, Bot. Bull. xiv. 7. An erect tree, 

 glabrous except for a slight pubescence on the young growth and inflorescence, 

 about 50ft., with a light-coloured bark, the branchlets very stout, terete, but 

 bluntly 4- angled at the ends where the leaves and flowers are borne. Leaves 

 somewhat crowded towards the end of the branchlets, digitately 3-foliolate, on 

 petioles 2 to 2|^in. long ; leaflets oblong, lateral ones oblique at the base, the 

 middle one sometimes tapering into a petiolule, all obtusely acuminate, 5 or Gin. 

 long, and 1^ to 2in. broad, texture thick, deep-green, and somewhat glossy. 

 Flowers small, white, in triohotomous panicles, the flowers borne in clusters of 3, 

 4, or more at the ends of the branchlets of the panicle. Sepals 4 minute. 

 Petals 4, oblong, 1 line long, with reflexed tips, the base or very short claw woolly 

 at the sides, stamens 4 ; filaments subulate, slightly hairy at base. Anthers 

 ovate-oblong, light-coloured. Disk prominent, annular. Ovary deeply 4-lobed, 

 glabrous ; style short, thick. Fruit as yet not obtained. 



Hab.: Eumundi, Field Nat. Excursion, Nov., 1895. 



The above is, I believe, identical with the Norfolk Island tree described by Steph. Endlicher, 



and I think this the first time the tree has been met with in Australia since collected by Allan 



Cunningham near the Brisbane Eiver in 1829. One of these specimens now in my possession 



has but imperfect flowers, and the leaflets are somewhat larger than those gathered at Eumundi. 



♦ 



7. IS. vitiflora (vine-flowered), F. i-. M. Fragm. vii. 144. A shrub with 

 glabrous trifoliolate leaves. Petioles 4 to 5in. long, nearly terete, slightly 

 canaliculate. Leaflets ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 5 to 6in. long, 2 to 2^in. 

 broad on narrow petiolules of about f or lin. long. Panicles terminal, very 

 slightly pubescent. Peduncles about 2in. long, flowers minute in small umbels 

 on the branches. Pedicels about 1 line long. Calyx-lobes deltoid. Petals 

 scarcely 1 line long, valvate, slightly silky. Stamens shorter than the corolla. 

 Anthers ovate, about ^ line long. Ovary tomentose. 



Hab.: Bockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v, M., I.e.) ; near E. aromatica, according to 

 F. V. M., I.e. 



