Halfordia.] XXIX. EUTACE^. 211 



bracteoles at the base. Calyx about 1 line long. Petals 2,^ lines long, narrow- 

 lanceolate. Filaments linear-subulate, ciliate, those opposite the petals shorter 

 than those opposite the calyx-lobes. Anthers yellow, cordate, about J line long, 

 minutely apiculate. Style simple, very short, glabrous. Stigma very minute. 

 Ovary glabrous, disk 10-ribbed. Drupe purple, about ^in. long, oval with a 

 truncate base. Putamen bony. Seeds ellipsoid-cylindric, slightly angular, 2^ 

 lines long. Testa black, smooth, fragile. Albumen amygdaloid. Embryo about 

 2 lines long. — Eriostemon Leichhardtii, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 5. 



Hab.: Fraser's Island. 



Wood of a yellowish colour, close in grain, tough and durable. — Bailey's Cal. Ql. Woods No. 52. 



2. H. SCleroxyla (alluding to its hard wood), F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 142. 

 "Ghittoe," Herberton, J. F. Bailey. A tree of about 60ft., but flowering as a 

 shrub. Bark grey. Leaves coriaceous, obovate-lanceolate, tapering and decurrent 

 upon the petiole, upper side glossy. Drupe a pretty red colour, globose-ovate, 

 truncate or introrse at the base, 4 to 8 lines long, pericarp acidulous. 



Hab.: Scrubs about Bookingham Bay, J. Dallachy {F. v. M., I.e.) ; Evelyn to Bussell Eiver, J. 

 P. Bailey. 



Wood when freshly cut yellowish, turning brownish with age ; hard, tough, and very inflam- 

 mable even in a green state. — J. F. r 



21. GLYCOSMIS, Corr. 



(Name from its fragrance.) 



Calyx 5-cleft, the lobes broadly imbricate. Petals 5, imbricate in the bud. 

 Stamens 10, filaments dilated at the base, anthers often tipped with a small gland. 

 Ovary 3 to 5 or rarely 2-eelled ; style very short, thick and persistent, the stigma 

 scarcely broader, ovules solitary in each cell. Berry succulent or almost dry, 

 usually 1-seeded. Seeds with a membranous testa, without albumen ; cotyledons 

 fleshy.— Unarmed trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, pinnate, with few alternate 

 leaflets or 1-foliolate. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal panicles. 



A genus of very few species, dispersed over . tropical Asia and the Eastern Archipelago, the 

 Australian one being the most widely spread over the whole region. — Benth. 



1. G. pentaphylla (number of leaflets), Cory.; Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 V. Suppl. 37 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 867. A tall shrub or small tree, quite glabrous. 

 Leaves occasionally 1-foliolate, on short petioles, but more generally pinnate, with 

 2 or 3 leaflets, from ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or acuminate, 2 to 4 or rarely 5in. long. Panicles dense, shorter, or 

 scarcely longey than the petiole of the pinnate leaves. Petals about 2 lines long. 

 Ovary 5 or sometimes 4-celled, contracted into a very short, thick style. Berry 

 globular, fin. in diameter, or smaller. 



Hab.: Northumberland Islands, B. Brown ; islands of Torres Straits, F, v. Mueller ; scrub near 

 Eockhampton, Thozet. 



The species has a very wide range in tropical Asia, and is very variable in the size of the 

 leaves and the flowers, full details of which and of the consequently extended synonymy of the 

 species will be found in Oliver's paper above quoted. .The character given above has special 

 reference to the Australian variety, which is almost identical with the Chinese and Eastern 

 form, usually distinguished as Q. citrifolia, Lindl.; Benth. in Fl. Hongk. 51, and figured as 

 Limannia parvifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2416. — Benth. 



22. MICROMELUM, Blume. 



(Small Apple ; fruit small.) 



Calyx 5-toothed or entire. Petals 5, valvate in the bud or nearly so. Stamens 



10 ; filaments linear-subulate. Ovary 2 to 6 usually 5-eelled, the dissepiments 



spirally twisted after the flowering ; style deciduous with a small capitate stigma ; 



