234 XXXIII. MELIACEifi. [Synotm. 



the cavity. Capsule 8-celled, opening loeulicidally in 3 valves, or reduced by 

 abortion to 2 valves and cells. Seeds 2 in each cell, attached by a broad lateral 

 hilum, and half embedded collaterally itt a fleshy arillus formed by the enlarged 

 placenta. — A tree. Leaves pinnate, with entire leaflets. 



The genus is endemic in Australia. 

 Leaiiets 5 to 9. Panicles very short. Flowers dense. Ovary 3-celled, 



3-suloate .... 1. S. glandulosim. 



Leaflets 7. Panicles about the length of the leaves. Ovary 2-eelled . . . 2. S. Muelleri. 



1. S. glandulosum (glandulous), A. Juss. in Mem. Mtis. Par. xix. 227, t. 

 15 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 384. A moderate-sized tree, glabrous or the young 

 leaves and shoots slightly silky- tomentose. Leaflets 5 to 9, elliptical-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, mostly 2 to 3in. long, narrowed at the base, somewhat coriaceous, the 

 lateral veins few and scarcely prominent. Flowers in short dense axillary 

 panicles, rarely exceeding lin. Sepals small, orbicular, spreading. Petals about 

 2J lines long. Staminal tube broad, slightly crenulate, glabrous or with a few 

 hairs inside ; anthers sometimes slightly protruding. Ovary villous. Capsule 

 depressed-globular, glabrous, about fin. diameter, furrowed opposite the dissepi- 

 ments so as to be almost 8-lobed. — Trichilia glandulosa, Sm. in Eees' Cycl. xxxvi. 



Hab.: Southern scrubs. 



It has the general habit of some Dysoxyla, but, besides the want of any free disk and the • 

 curious insertion of the ovules and seeds, it is easily recognised by its very short inflorescence. — 

 Benth. 



Wood of a red colour, close-grained, and easy to work ; a us'efttl wood for the cabinetmaker. — 

 Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 63a (cut in mistake for Dysoxylon Fraserianum). 



2. S. Muelleri (after Baron von Mueller), C. DC, Mono. Phan. i. 593. 

 Branchlets glabrous. Leaves shortly petiolate, impari-pinnate, 8-jugate, about 6 

 or Tin. long ; leaflets opposite, petiolulate, elliptic-lanceolate, equal and acute at 

 the base, the apex obtuse cuspidate, glabrous on both sides, subcoriaceous, the 

 superior leaflet attainmg about 4in. long and nearly 2in. broad, the others smaller, 

 secondary nerves fine. Panicle long as or longer than the leaf, the branches 

 elongated, glabrous. Buds globose-ovate. Flowers on long pedicels. Calyx- 

 teeth 5, ovate, glabrous. Petals 5, elliptic, acute, glabrous, staminal tube uroeo- 

 late-cylindric, glabrous. Anthers 10, elliptic, glabrous. Ovary 2-celled, densely 

 covered with yellow hairs, the style also hairy. — C. de CandoUe I.e. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, F. v. M. 



7. HEARNIA, F. v. M. 

 (After William E. Hearn, LL.D.) 

 Calyx 5-dentate, 5-partite, or 5-sepalous, very short. Petals 5, distinct or 

 connate at the base. Staminal tube a little shorter than the petals, free, apex 

 crenulate or dentate. Anthers 5, rarely 6, at the apex of the teeth, connective 

 incrasated often mucronulate. Disk none, or inconspicuous. Ovary 1 or 2-celled, 

 often sterile, 1 to 2-ovulate, ovules collateral. Style none. Stigma minute, 

 globose. Fruit indehiseent, baccate, septa frail, 1-celled, 1 or 2-seeded. Seeds 

 almost ovate, exalbuminous, cotyledons superposed, thick, semi-ovate, radicle 

 ■ short included. Trees with alternate impari-pinnate foliage. Leaflets entire. 

 Inflorescence axillary, paniculate. Flowers hermaphrodite (or sometimes poly- 

 gamous difficious ?), minute, globose.— C. de CandoUe, Mono. Phan. i. 628. 



1. H. sapindina (Sapindus-like), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 66, DC. I.e. 

 "Boodyarra," Herberton, J. F. Bailey. A small' tree, with smooth 

 bark and pale-coloured soft wood. Branchlets, petioles, and peduncles covered 

 over with a very thin tomentum. Petioles 2 to 4in. long. Leaves 2 or 

 3, rarely 1, jugate. Leaflets chartaeeous, the young ones stellate-puberulent 

 on both sides, when dry glaucescent, opaque, pellucido-punctate (dots 



