Samadera.] XXX. SIMARUBE^. 219 



1. S. Bidwillii (after J. C. Bidwill), Oliver: Hook. Ir. PI. t. 2449. A small 

 tree or tall shrub ; branohlets minutely hoary-pubescent. (Leaves alternate, 

 sub-coriaceous, narrowing towards both ends, somewhat obtuse, sometimes 

 emarginate, 3 to 4^in. long, 6 to 9 lines broad, lateral nerves parallel, rather 

 obscure, confluent with an intromarginal one, upper side glossy-glabrous, the 

 under side pale ; petioles usually only a few lines long. Flowers 4 or 5-merous, 

 usually few in axillary clusters or on a very short peduncle. Pedicels short, buds 

 ovoid or subglobose. Sepals suborbular, scarcely J line long. Petals much 

 imbricate, broad ovate-elliptical, slightly hairy on the back, 1| line or more long. 

 Disk thick. Stamens about as long as the petals, filaments free, broadly dilated 

 and abruptly constricted at the top, hirsute except the narrowed summit. Ovary 

 hirsute, style glabrous, short. Stigma shortly 4 or 5-lobed. Fruit 4 or 5 lines 

 long. — Hyptiandra Bidwilli, Hook, in Fl. Austr. i. 874. 



Hab.: Wide Bay. 



2. S. Baileyana (after F. M. Bailey), Olirer : Hook. Ic. PL t. 2450. An 

 erect glabrous tree, about 20ft. Leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate, 5 to 9in. long, 

 the larger ones 2in. broad in the centre, obtusely acuminate, narrowing to a 

 petiole of about 8 lines ; midrib and veins prominent ; the lateral nerves looping 

 some distance from the margin. Inflorescence terminal or in the upper leafless 

 axils, the shoot ultimately growing out. Peduncles about Sin. long, forked at the 

 end, the branches sometimes again shortly forked and bearing 2 or 3 pedicellate 

 pink flowers, pedicels incurved. Calyx-lobes 5, coriaceous, about ^ line long, 

 thick and obtuse. Petals 5, oblong, boat-shaped, about 5 lines long and 1 line 

 broad, caducous. Stamens broad near the base, narrow above, glabrous except 

 for a dense ring of hairs at the top of the expanded portion of the filament. Disk 

 fleshy sulcate. Ovary glabrous or hairy at the base, 5-celled or 5 carpels. Style 

 slender, stigma small, 5-lobed. — Hyptiandra Bidwilli, var. grawliusctda, Bail, and 

 F. V. M. in Syn. Ql. Fl. iii Suppl. p. 12. 



Hab.: Bellenden Ker, at an altitude of 4000ft. (Expedition 1889). 



4. CADELLIA, F. v. M. 



(After F. Cadell.) ' 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals usually 5, nearly as long as the petals, 

 enlarged and stellately spreading under the fruit, imbricate in the bud. Petals 5, 

 imbricate in the bud. Stamens 10, filaments filiform. Disk none. Carpels 1 

 to 5, free ; styles distinct, inserted on the inner angle above or below the middle ; 

 stigma dilated or capitellate ; ovules 2 in each carpel, collateral, pendulous or 

 ascending. Fruit-carpels coriaceous, small, indehiscent or obscurely 2-valved. 

 Seeds solitary, without albumen ; testa membranous ; embryo curved. Small 

 trees. Leaves alternate, simple, with small, often deciduous stipules. Flowers 

 in short loose axillary racemes. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It only differs from Suriana in the arborescent habit and 

 thinner spreading calyx.— Beiift. 



Carpels 5. Leaves mostly obtuse. Eaoemes very loose . . 1. C pentastylis. 



Carpels solitary. Leaves mostly acute or acuminate. Eaoemes short . . 2. C. numostylis. 



1. C pentastylis (styles five), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 25, t. 12 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 874. A tree of about 40ft., the smaller branches very slender and 

 minutely pubescent. Leaves from obovate- oblong to elliptical or lanceolate, 

 obtuse, about Ij to 2in. long, entire, narrowed into a short petiole, occasionally 

 bearing a gland on one side, glabrous, penninerved and reticulate, not dotted. 

 Peduncles in the upper axils slender, bearing a short raceme of 2 to 4 flowers. 

 Sepals nearly 8 lines long at the time of flowering, enlarged to 5 or 6 lines, and 

 stellately spreading under the fruit. Petals white, slightly exceeding the sepals. 



