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14. PAGETIA, F. v. M. 



(After Dr. J. Paget.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx 5-parted, lobes semi-ovate. Petals 5, almost 

 valvate in the bud. Stamens 10, free, all fertile. Filaments linear-subulate. 

 Anthers ovate-cordate, dorsally attached, cells longitudinal. Hypogynous disk 

 annular. Ovary 5-celled, 5-sulcate, or the 5 carpels confluent. Styles 5, short, 

 twisted into 1, or reduced to 1 in the southern species. Stigmas minute. Ovules 

 fasciculate. Eipe carpels bivalved. Seeds 1 or 2, matured, .af5Bxed laterally. 

 Strophiole cordiform, membranous. Albumen none. Cotyledons ovate, plano- 

 convex, not convolute, green, base emarginate. Radicle very short, cylindric, 

 superior. — Trees, with opposite, simple, or here and there bi-tri-foliolate 

 leaves and terminal trichotomous panicles of white flowers. — F. v. M. Frag. 

 V. 178-215. 



Leaves mostly l-£oliolate. 

 Leaflets 3 to 4in. long, 2 to 4in. broad, broadly ovate. Styles 5 . . . . 1. P. medicinalis. 

 Leaflets 4 to 6in. long, IJ to 2Jin. broad, narrow-oblong. Style single . . 2. P. monostylis. 



1. P. medicinalis (medicinal), F. v. Fragm. v. 178-215, vi. 167, ix. 103. 

 A tall tree, with opposite glabrous branchlets and leaves. Bark smooth, whitish. 

 Leaves 8 to Bin. long, 2 to 4in. broad, on petioles of only a few lines, entire, 

 shortly and obtusely acuminate, the under side pale, copiously veined, rarely all 

 trifoliolate. Panicles about as long as the leaves. Flowers numerous in 

 crowded cymes, very thiply puberulent. Calyx scarcely f line long, persistent. 

 Petals deciduous, ovate, sessile, scarcely 2 lines long. Stamens opposite 

 the sepals, longer than those opposite the petals. Anthers pale-yellow, 

 blunt, scarcely ^ line long, with an introrse dehiscence. Style scarcely 1 line 

 long, glabrous. Ovary depressed-globose, thinly pubescent. Disk glabrous. 

 Carpels ovate or rhomboid-globose, slightly compressed, 5 to 6 lines long. Seeds 

 brown, glabrous. Strophiole 2 to 2^ lines, cordiform. — F. v. M., I.e. 



Hab.: Near Eockhampton, Messrs. Tliozet and O'Shanesy (F. v. M.) ; Crocodile Creek, 

 Bowman (F. v. M.) ; Mount Buzzard, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) ; Wide Bay, Leichhardt (F. v. M.) 



2. P. monostylis (single-styled), Bail. Bot. Bull. xiii. 7. An erect, glabrous 

 tree of about 60ft. in height, with a rather smooth, whitish bark ; branchlets 

 usually ternate, flattened, green, and cane-like, smooth except for the numerous 

 lenticels ; internodes long. Leaves opposite, mostly 1-foliolate with very short 

 petioles, oblong, 4 to 6in. long, If to 2|-in. broad, base usually cuneate, apex 

 often abruptly acuminate, blunt ; the first leaves of the young growth are 

 represented by linear, membranous bud-scales about lin. long, 2 lines broad, and 

 very deciduous ; the pair of leaves under the inflorescence are 2 or 3-foliolate, the 

 lateral leaflets often oblique at the base and nearly or quite sessile, lanceolate, 

 about 3in. long. Flowers white, in terminal trichotomous, corymbose panicles, 

 peduncles flattened, pedicels hairy. Bracts minute, hairy. Sepals about J line ■ 

 long, tomentose. Petals tomentose, 2 or 3 lines long. Stamens 10 ; filaments 

 flattened, glabrous. Djsk a glabrous, thick, slightly-lobed ring. Ovary hairy, of 

 5 pustulate lobes. Style glabrous, shorter than the stamens ; stigma capitate, 

 globose, slightly sulcate. No ripe fruit obtained. 



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



This graceful tree differs from P. medicinalis, P. v. M., in having narrow-obloijg not broadly 

 ovate leaves ; the oil-dots are more prominent also in this fresh species. The flowers also have 

 but one style. Further distinction will probably be found in the ripe fruit. The foliage has 

 been distilled and a fair quantity of oil obtained, which has not yet been tested for medicinal 

 virtues said to be contained in the leaves of the northern tree. 



