228 XXXIII. MELIACE^. [Dysoxylon. 



Tree of medium size. Branohlets brownish, at first puberulent, and 



bearing round lentioels. Panicles much shorter than the leaves, the 



branches few-flowered. Petals glabrous. Fruit subglobose, 4-valved, 



1 to IJin. long, pyriform, rubrescent glabrous 7. -D. Fraseran-um. 



Tree, the wood having a strong odour of onions. Lentioels on the 



branohlets pale and minute. Panicles on shoots of the present year. 



Petals yeUow, glabrous. Fruit globose, glabrous, 4 to 6-valved, 4 to 



6-seeded, 7 to 8 lines diameter . S. D. Lessertiamim. 



A tall tree, the branohlets puberulent ; the pedunculate panicles 



slightly hirsute, pyramidal. Flowers dense. Petals glabrous, 



laoiniate, acute. Fruit 4-celled ; arillus orange 9. D. Muelleri. 



Tree, the young branches velvety, grfeenish. Panicles half the length 



of the leaves. Petals puberulent, laciniate ; apex sharply acuminate. 



Ovary with 2-ovulate ceUs 10. D. Becklerianum. 



Tree. Branohlets pilose, glabresoent. Panicles short. Petals 5, 



yeUowish. Ovary 4-celled, cells 2-ovulate U. D. Nemstii. 



Oalyx polysepalous. Sepals imbricate. Staminal tube free. 

 A small tree, the branohlets clothed with a close yellow pubescence. 



Panicles long, drooping, often from the axils of the lowest leaves. 



Petals 5 ; apex acute. Fruit globose, 5-celled, nearly lin. diameter 12. D. rufum. 

 A small tree. Young branohlets clothed with a ferruginous pubescence. 



Fruiting panioles racemose, near the end of the branohlets. Fruit 



pyriform or globose, the pericarp deeply wrinkled, clothed with 



short orange- coloured hairs; ,5-celled, 1 or 2 ovules in each cell . 13. D. cereiriforme. 



1. S. arborescens (tree-like), Mig.; F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 134 ; C. DC. Mono. 

 Phan. i. 489. A small tree, tall shrub, the branches glabrous, dark-red with pale 

 lentioels. Petioles moderately long, impari-pinnate. Leaflets about 9 pairs, on 

 short petiolules, elliptic-oblong, narrowed into an unequal-sided base, the apex 

 somewhat obtusely cuspidate, glabrous on both sides ; terminal one often 6in. 

 long and nearly 2in. broad, the lateral ones smaller. Panicle glabrous, flowers 

 pedicellate. Calyx minutely 5-dentate, teeth sharp, pubescent outside. Petals 

 5 to 7 mill, long, membranous, oblong, the apex subacute, puberulous outside. 

 Staminal tube cylindrical, crenulate, glabrous. Disk crateriform, outside 

 glabrous, inside beset with reversed hairs. Ovary hirsute, 5-celled, 2 ovules in 

 each cell, collateral. Style pilose at the base. Fruit 15 mill, long, seed in cell 

 solitary. — Goniocheton arborescens, Bl. Bijdr., p. 177 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 540 ; 

 Trichilia arborescens, Spreng. Syst.; Hartiglisea acuminata, Miq. Fl. Supp.; 

 Disoxylum lampongum, Miq. var. 2 I.e. 



Hab.: North-east coast, locality (?) 



2. I>. latifolium (leaflets broad), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 381 ; F. v. M. Fragm. 

 ix. 61. Leaves glabrous ; leaflets in our specimens 4 or 5, ovate or broadly oval- 

 oblong, shortly acuminate, 3 to 4in. long, oblique at the base, somewhat 

 coriaceous. Flowers in sessile or shortly pedunculate clusters, along a simple, 

 axillary, nearly glabrous peduncle of 4 to 5in. Pedicels short, slightly pubescent. 

 Calyx cupular, not 1 line long, with 4 very short broad teeth. Petals 4, pubescent 

 outside, about 3 lines long, valvate in the bud, free from the staminal tube. 

 Staminal tube truncate and shortly and irregularly 8-toothed. Disk broadly 

 tubular, sprinkled with a few minute hairs. Ovary in the flowers examined 

 2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, pubescent, tapering into an elongated style ; 

 stigma disk-like. Fruit 1 or 2-celled, globose or pyriform-oval, 1 or 2, rarely 3 

 or 4-seeded. 



Hab.: Islands off Eockingham Bay. 



8. D. Schiffneri (after Dr. R. Schiffner), F. v. M. (section Cleisocalyx) in 

 Melb. Chemist, 53 (1881). A tree about 80ft. in height, having a greyish-brown 

 smooth bark and yellowish wood. Leaves and petioles almost glabrous. 

 Leaflets ovate to lanceolate, opposite, thin-ehartaceous, of few pairs, 2 to 5in. 

 long, inequilateral at the base, oil dots minute. Eacemes 2 or 3 together, 2 to 

 4in. long, flowers fragrant, silky. Pedicels long as the flowers, Calyx large, in 



