232 ixXlII. MELlACEiS. [bywxyion. 



13. I>. cerebrlforme (pericarp marked like the brain), Bail. Bot. Bull, xiv., 

 Pi. 1 and 2. A small tree, leaves on the fruiting branchlets, 6 to 9in. long, 

 more or less hirsute, impari-pinnate, leaflets 7 to 9, 1^ to Sfin. long, l^in. at the 

 widest part, those near the end of leaf lanceolate, the lowermost ones abruptly 

 rounded at the base, points elongated, petiolules very short. (On a leaf sent 

 separate from the fruit-bearing specimen the petiole and rhaehis measured 1ft. 

 long, and the leaflets were of the same form but measured 8^in. long and 3in. 

 wide.) The young growth shows a ferruginous pubescence, but the older leaves 

 are hirsute with white hairs, some of which are much longer than the others. 

 Flowers not seen. Fruit on short racemes or panicles near the summit of the 

 branchlets, pyriform-globose, l^^in. long, IJin. in diameter, 5-eelled, 5-seeded ; 

 in some fruits one or more of the cells 2-seeded ; seeds attached near the base, 

 testa orange-madder coloured, bluntly 3-sided, the arillus only covering a third of 

 the seed. Pericarp prominently wrinkled, covered with a dense coating of short 

 orange-coloured hairs besides the longer white ones with which other parts of the 

 plant are sprinkled. 

 Hab.: Freshwater Creek, near Cairns, L. J. Nugent. 



The only other Australian species that I know of with a deeply-wrinkled pericarp is one of 

 which I gathered fruiting specimens on the Mulgrave River in 1889 ; this had the 5-oelled fruit 

 and the very oblique base to the leaflets of D. rufum, Benth. Thus I placed my specimens under 

 that species, but now I am inclined to think it may prove a distinct species or variety. 



4. AGLAIA, Lour. 



(One of the Graces.) 



(Milnea, Boxb.; Nemedra, A. Juss.j 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 4 or 5-toothed or cleft. Petals 4 or 6, short, con- 



nivent, imbricate in the bud. Staminal tube globular or urceolate, entire or 



shortly toothed ; anthers as many as petals or rarely more, within the summit of 



the tube. Disk none, or not distinct from the base of the ovary. Ovary 2 or 



3-oelled, with a short, thick style and disk-like stigma; ovules 1 or 2 in each 



cell. Fruit coriaceous or almost succulent, indehiscent. Seeds 1 or 2, enveloped 



in a mealy pulp, without any arillus. — Trees, either glabrous or clothed with 



small scurfy scales or rarely with stellate tomentum. Leaves pinnate, with 



entire leaflets. Flowers very small, nearly globular, in axillary panicles. 



The genus is dispersed over tropical Asia and the islp,nds of the Indian Archipelago and the 

 Pacific. The only Australian species is also a native of New Caledonia and New Guinea. — Benth. 



1. A., elaeagnoidea (Elssagnus-like), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 383. A tree of 

 40 to 50ft. Wood yellow, bark smooth, grey. The young branches, inflorescence, 

 and under side of the leaves covered with silky or rust-coloured scurfy scales, 

 often fringed at the edges. Leaflets 3 or often 5, petiolulate, ovate-oblong, or the 

 terminal one obovate, acuminate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 3in. long or rarely 

 more, coriaceous, glabrous above when full-grown. Flowers globular, about 1 

 line diameter, numerous in loose panicles which rarely exceed the leaves. Calyx 

 shortly 5, rarely 4-Iobed, ^Petals 5, rarely 4, much imbricate, sprinkled as well 

 as the ovary with the scurfy scales that cover the calyx and inflorescence. Anthers 

 usually 5, but in some flowers 6, 7, or even more, within the short urceolate tube, 

 which is thickened into raised filaments below the anthers. Ovary 8-celled, with 

 1 (or sometimes 2 ?) ovules in each cell. Fruit globose or obovoid, ^ to lin. long, 

 covered with minute orange-yellow or rust-coloured scurfy scales. Seeds 1 or 2, 

 enveloped in a mealy pulp. — Nemedra elmagnoidea, A. Juss. in Mem. Mus. Par. 

 xix. 259, t. 14 ; Aglaia odoratissima, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. ii. 213, but 

 probably not of Blume. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown (specimens in fruit and flower) ; Entrance 

 Island, Endeavour Straits, Leichhardt ; Mt Elliott and Rockingham Bay, F. v. M. 



