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the bud oval, perfectly entire, without any rupture or sutural lines ; afterwards 

 torn to about the middle into 2 undivided or slightly cleft lobes. Petals 4, free, 

 elongated-oblong, Jin. long, being about a third longer than the calyx, silky outside, 

 white, upwards slightly imbricate, downwards valvate. Staminal column 

 glabrous, broadly tubular, 7 or 8-toothed, teeth semi-lanceolate, about three times 

 shorter than the tube, their connectives often minutely pointed. Disk cup- 

 shaped, free, slightly crenulated, glabrous. Style filiform, densely tomentose at 

 the base as well as the ovary, stigma depressed-hemispherous ; ovary 4-celled 

 with 2 superposed ovules in each cell. Fruit globular, glabrescent, brown outside. 

 Seed ripening solitary in each cell, turgid, almost longitudinally adnate. Testa 

 thin, dark-brown. Albumen none. Cotyledons plano-convex, collateral. Eadiole 

 very short, terminal, almost concealed between the minute lobes of the coty- 

 ledons. — F. V. M. I.e. 



Hab.: Mount Bellenden Ker Ranges, Karsten (F. v. M., I.e.) ; Harvey's Creek ; Russell River 

 scrubs. 



Baron von Mueller notes that the present plant, from the exceptional structure of its calyx, 

 might be raised to generic distinction under the sectional name used by him I.e., Cleisocalyx, on 

 account of the fruit not splitting into valvular divisions ; in which event D. Klanderi must 

 be included, or both might be placed in Blume's genus, Epicharis, which would only seem to 

 differ from Bysoxylum in the structure of the calyx. 



4. 2>. oppositifolium (opposite-leaved), F. i;. M. Frcujin. v. 144, 177; 

 CDC. Mono. Phan. i. 501. A medium-sized tree with a brownish smooth bark. 

 Leaves opposite, 2 to 8-foliolate. Leaflets alternate, almost glabrous, lanceolate- 

 ovate or lanceolate, shortly acuminate, a little unequal at the base, about 4in. 

 long and 2in. broad ; rhachis sub-tetragonal. Panicles racemose, shorter than 

 the leaves, axillary. Flowers subsessile. Calyx oupuliform, 4-dentate, puberulent 

 outside. Petals 4, pale-yellow, 2 or 8 lines long, valvate, puberulent, semi- 

 lanceolate, free. Staminal tube truncate, glabrous, very slightly crenulate. 

 Anthers 8 ovate, mueronulate. Disk patelliform, pilose inside. Ovary densely 

 hirsute, 4-eelled, 1 to 2-ovulate, collateral, style glabrous. Capsule (sometimes 

 6-celled, F. v. M.) 4-celled, subglobose, 4-seeded, about lin. thick. Seeds oblong- 

 elliptic, slightly 3-angled. Arillus fulvous. Cotyledons plano-convex. Albumen 

 none. Radicle short. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallacky (P. v. M.) ; Endeavour River, W. E. Armit. 



Wood reddish towards the centre, with a small, prettily-marked heartwood, and a large 

 quantity of yellow wood towards the bark ; grain close, easily worked, and fragrant. A useful 

 wood for both joiner and cabinetmaker. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 63b. 



5. D. Klanderi (after Dr. Klander), F. r. M. Fragni. v. 176, ix. 61, 97 and 

 134. A tree of medium size, with terete glabrous branches. Leaves glabrous, 

 4 to 8-foliolate. Leaflets opposite on long petiolules, lanceolate-ovate, equal 

 sided, acuminate, 4 to 6in. long, 1^ to 2in. broad, both sides glossy, oil-dots 

 linear. Panicles very long, often 2ft., pendulous, the branches very short and 

 patent, racemose, or bearing at the end little corymbs of flowers. Bracteoles at 

 base of pedicels, 2-opposite, canaliculate-subulate, and with the pedicels silky. 

 Pedicels somewhat thick, 1^ to 2 lines long. Calyx scarcely 1 line long, deltoides- 

 quadridentate. Petals about fin. long, more or less coherent. Staminal tube at 

 the apex 8-dentate. Anthers 8, sessile below the apex of the tube, oblong-linear. 

 Disk cylindrical, half including the pistillum, minutely 8-dentate. Style about 

 as long as the staminal tube. Stigma truncate. Ovary glabrous. Fruit globose- 

 pyriform, about lin. in diameter, very, thinly puberulous, usually 4-celled, 

 4-seeded. Seeds trigono-ovate. Cotyledons almost semi-ovate. Radicle very 

 short, lateral. Albumen none. — Schleiclwra ptyehocarpa, F. v. M. I.e. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) ; now known from many other localities in 

 North Queensland. 



