236 XXXIII. MELlACEiE. [Owenia. 



leaflets 15 to nearly 30, lanceolate, acuminate, often above 2in. long, oblique, with 

 a prominent midrib and transverse reticulations. Panicles 8 or 4 in. Jong, 

 with divaricate branches and numerous flowers, much smaller than in 0. acidula. 

 Sepals about ^ line long, slightly ciliate. Petals little more than 1 line. Staminal 

 tube short, with 10 subulate teeth. Fruit the size of that of 0. acidula, the st^ny 

 endocarp thicker and harder, usually 3-celled. 



Hab.: Musgrave, Cape York Peninsula, Geo. Jacobson. 



Var. (?) pubescens. Young shoots and inflorescence softly pubescent ; flowers still smaller and 

 more numerous. — Mouth of the Victoria Kiver, F. v. Mueller (Herb F. v. M.) 



3. 0> venosa (veins prominent), F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 304 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 886. " Crow's Apple." A tall tree, quite glabrous, the 

 young shoots slightly glutinous. Leaflets 6 or 8, obliquely oblong or ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse or emarginate, 2 to 8 or rarely 4in. long, coriaceous, pro- 

 minently penninerved, slightly reticulate underneath, the petiole angular or some- 

 times broadly winged. Panicles narrow, 3 to Sin. long, glabrous. Flowers not 

 yet open in our specimen, but apparently like those of 0. acidula, except that the 

 staminal tube is exceedingly short, but possibly it may grow out as the bud 

 advances. Sepals orbicular, about 1 line diameter. Fruit globose, 1 to Ifin. 

 diameter. 



Hab.: Between the Dawson and Burnett Rivers, F. v. Mueller; Rockhampton, Thozet ; and 

 many other localities of south Queensland. 



Wood resembles that of the Emu Apple ; very durable. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 67. 



4. O. cepiodora (Onion-scented), F. v. M. Frar/m. xi. 81. A tall tree, 

 branohlets thick, prominently and copiously cicatrisate, neither glutinous nor 

 lactescent. Leaves crowded near the end of the branches, about 10-jugate, 

 impari-pinnate, leaflets 2-J- to 5in. long, f to IJin. broad, quite entire, often some- 

 what sharply acuminate, sometimes obtuseate, very seldom retuse, upper side deep 

 the under pale green, oblique oblong-lanceolate ; petiolules 2 to 3 lines long, 

 narrow. Panicle about 7in. long, wide or at length divaricately branched. 

 Pedicels about 1^ line long. Bracts minute, solitary, at the base of the pedicels, 

 semi-lanceolate or linear-subulate. Sepals 5, orbicular, persistent, about 1 line 

 long, imbricate, connate at the base. Petals deciduous, 1^ to 2 lines long, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, white, the margins slightly imbricate. 

 Stamens 10 ; tube free, about 1 line long ; teeth 10, very short, truncate or bifid 

 at the end. Anthers scarcely 1^ line long, almost terminal, oblong-linear, some- 

 what acute, introrse, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk very short. Stigma globose 

 or conical, ovate, red, style scarcely f line long, bifid, lobes cohering. Ovary 

 2-celled. Drupe spherical, 8 lines diameter, pericarp red outside, pulpy and white 

 inside, putamen bony, smoothish. Seeds 2, rarely 1, erect, oval, basally attached; 

 arillus none; albumen none; embryo upright or a little oblique; cotyledons 

 dimidiato-ovate, amygdaline, greenish ; radicle very short, almost globose. 



Hab.: Southern coastal scrubs. 



5. O. reticulata (reticulate), F. v. M. in Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 305 ; £enth. 

 Fl. Austr. i. 386. A small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves often above 1ft. long, 

 the common petiole angular or slightly dilated, terminating in a short point. 

 Leaflets 4, 6, or 8, sessile, ovate or broadly ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 4 to 8in. 

 long, oblique at the base, coriaceous, smooth above, with very prominent pinnate 

 veins and numerous raised reticulations underneath. Panicles loose, very divari- 

 cate, the branches often 6in. long or more. ' Flowers sessile, clustered. Sepals 

 above 1 line long, orbicular. Petals twice as long. Staminal tube often divided 

 to near the middle into 10 flat 2-lobed teeth or lobes. Ovary 2 or 3-celled. Fruit 

 IJin. diameter, the epicarp fleshy but not thick. Putamen hard and very rugose. 

 — 0. xerocarpa, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 13. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, F. u. Mueller, Henne. 



