246 XXXIV. OLACINEJ;. [Gomphandra. 



2. G. polymorpha (many-formed), WigJit ; var. 6 Bail. Bot. Bull. viii. 

 A handsome tree about 60ft. i" height, the inflorescence and young shoots 

 puberulent, otherwise glabrous. Leaves alternate, 3 to Sin. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 with a more or less elongated blunt apex and cuneate base, petioles about 4 or 5 

 lines long, dark-green on the upper, pale on the under surface ; the primary veins 

 distant, only 8 or 4 on each side of the midrib, reticulate veinlets obscure, 

 margins entire. Flowers in short axillary, dichotomous cymes. Calyx very 

 short and cup-shaped, with almost entire edge. Corolla-tube about 2 lines long 

 with minute teeth, the tips inflexed, from which proceeds down the inside of the 

 corolla-tube a prominent rib. Stamens glabrous, 6, at length exserted and 

 widely spreading, but incurved again near the anthers. Ovary glabrous, 4-angled, 

 stigma sessile. Fruit not as yet been gathered. 



I oanno;t separate this plant from the East Indian species, of which several (5) varieties are 

 named and described in Hook. Fl. of Brit. Ind. i. 586. From the fragmentary specimens which 

 I have of G. australiana, F. v. M., the present plant seems to differ considerably both in foliage 

 and inflorescence. 



Hab.: Scrubs of the Barron Eiver, E. Cowley. 



Wood of a light colour, nicely marked. 



6. APODYTES, E. Meyer. 

 (Divested of flowers.) 



Calyx minute, cup-shaped, 5-toothed. Petals 5, free, valvate. Stamens 5, 

 alternate with the petals, filaments dilated ; anthers long or short, oblong, basi- 

 fixed, sagittate, 2-lobed, dehiscing longitudinally ; pollen triangular. Ovary 

 1 -celled, obliquely gibbous ; style excentric, curved, stigma small ; ovules 2, 

 pendulous, superposed. Drupe obliquely ovoid, compressed, stone crustaceous. 

 Seed pendulous ; embryo small in the apex of fleshy albumen, cotyledons narrow. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate simjie, coriaceous, usually black in 

 drying. Flowers small in terminal or axillary corymbose cymes. — Hook. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 



The species, besides the Queensland one, are natives of tropical Asia and Africa. 



1. A. brachystylis (short styled), F. v. M. Frarjm. ix. 149, and Ind Add. 

 3rd Supp. Syn. Ql. Flora at end of Cat. Ind. and Nat. PI. of Ql. p. 107. Tree of 

 medium size. Leaves alternate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 3 or 4in. long, 1 to 

 Ifin. broad, tapering to a petiole of 2 to 4 lines, both sides more or less glossy, 

 primary veins few and distant, the small reticulation very close and wavy. 

 Inflorescence terminal, axillary, or lateral, in cymes or racemes about lin. long, 

 clothed with short appressed light-brown hairs. Calyx cup-shaped, with 5 minute 

 teeth. Petals 5, valvate, inflexed at the point. Stamens 5 ; filaments flat, 

 broadening upwards, glabrous except at the top, where the anther is surrounded 

 with a dense mass of scale-like hairs, like in Lasianthera. Style very short, 

 slightly curved ; stigma lateral ; ovary large, glabrous. Fruit bluish-green and 

 glossy, about IJin. long, 6 to 8 lines broad, flat, emarginate, with prominent 

 midrib and 8 branching prominent veins on either side, on the outer side the 

 midrib in the fresh fruit expands into a soft fleshy gibbosity of a dirty-white or 

 light-brown colour, in the dried specimens this part dries to a rather loose roll of 

 skin over the midrib or suture of the fruit. Seeds flat, lanceolate, three-quarters 

 the length of the fruit. 



Hab.: Eockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.) ; Johnstdne Eiver, Dr. T. L. Bancroft; 

 Herberton District, J. F. Bailey. 



This is in all probability the plant described by Baron Mueller, I.e., he only having flowering 

 specimens. The flower I examined was only a single bud, in which the stamens were probably 

 only Btaminodia, for I found no anthers. Thus the flowers may be polygamous. 



Wood of a yellow colour, hard, and considered useful for many purposes. — J. F. Baiky. 



