Aijiaia.] XXXIll. MEijIACEiE. 233 



Found also in New Caledonia, the New Hebrides, and in New Guinea. The station, King 

 George's Sound, given by A. de Jussieu on the authority of the Paris Herbarium, is evidently 

 one of those errors of locality which occurs in many of the early collections of Australian plants 

 deposited there. A. de Jussieu having found as 'many as 10 stamens, gives that as the typical 

 number, although he observes at the same time that there are sometimes fewer. We, therefore, 

 not having then any Australian specimens, failed to recognise his plant, and from the technical 

 characters referred it in our " Genera Plantarum" to Ainoora. Having since, however, examined 

 Leichhardt's and R. Brown's Australian specimens, and also some flowers from A. de Jussieu's 

 specimens, kindly transmitted to me by M. Brongniart, I have been able satisfactorily to identify 

 tne species, which, notwithstanding an occasional increase in the number of stamens, belongs 

 undoubtedly to Agliiia, a very natural genus if extended so as to include Milnea. In the 

 majority of specimens examined I find almost always 5 stamens, and only now and then 6. Out 

 of tiiree unexpanded flowers from A. de Jussieu's plant, I found 7 stamens in two of them, and 

 only 5 in the third. — Benth. 



5. AMOORA, Eoxb. 



(From the Bengalese name of A. cuculata.) 



Flowers polygamous. Calyx 3 to 5-tootlied or lobed. Petals 8 to 5, imbricate 

 in the bud, free from the staminal tube. Staminal tube urceolate or nearly 

 globular, truncate or crenate ; anthers within the tube, twice as many as petals. 

 Disk none besides the thickened base of the ovary. Ovary 8 to 5-celled or rarely 

 2-celled, with 1 or 2 superposed ovules in each, cell ; style short or long with a 

 disk-like stigma. Capsule obovoid or globular, coriaceous or hard, opening 

 loculicidally in 3 to 5 valves '(or sometimes indehiscent ?). Seeds solitary in each 

 cell, enclosed in a fleshy arillus (or sometimes without an arillus?). — Trees. 

 Leaves pinnate, with entire leaflets. Flowers small, but usually larger than in 

 Aglaia. 



The genus is spread over tropical Asia and the Indian Archipelago ; the Australian species is 

 endemic. — Benth. 



1. A.m nitidula (shining), Benth. Fl. Aicstr. i. 883. " Jimmie Jimmie," 

 Herberton, ./. F. Bailey. A tall tree, quite glabrous. Leaflets 2 

 or 4, opposite, without any terminal odd one, elliptical-oblong, 3 to 

 4in. long or sometimes more, obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, 

 somewhat coriaceous and shining, narrowed at the base, the common 

 petiole often slightly dilated towards the end. Panicles axillary, loose, but 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx very short, with 5 short teeth or lobes. Petals 

 6, about 2 lines long, glabrous or minutely ciliate. Staminal tube broadly 

 urceolate ; anthers 10, the tips slightly protruding. Ovary 2 or 8-celled, with 1 

 ovule in each cell. Fruit obovoid, hard and almost woody, narrowed almost into 

 a stipes at the base, 2 or 8-celled. Seeds nearly globular, laterally attached near 

 the top, apparently without any arillus. 



Hab.: Southern scrubs. 



The species has much of the habit of some DysoTijla, but the want of any free disk and the 

 form of the staminal tube agree better with Amoora. — Benth. 

 Wood of a light colour, hard, tough, and close in grain. — Bailey's Cat Ql. Woods No. 64. 



6. SYNOUM, A. Juss. 

 (The ovules united.) 

 Calyx 4 rarely 5-cleft. Petals 4, rarely 5, valvate or slightly imbricate in the 

 bud. Staminal tube cylindrical, slightly crenulate ; anthers twice as many as 

 petals, within the summit of the tube. Disk continuous with the thickened base 

 of the ovary. Ovary 8-celled ; style short, with a disk-like stigma ; ovules 2 in 

 each cell, attached collaterally to a thickish placenta pendulous from the apex of 



