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7. PENNANTIA, Forst. 

 (After Thomas Pennant.) 

 Flowers dioecious or polygamous. Calyx minute. Petals 5, hypogynous, glab- 

 rous, valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals ; anthers oblong- 

 sagittate. Ovary 1-celled ; stigma nearly sessile, entire or 3-lobed ; ovule soli- 

 tary, suspended from the apex of the cavity. Drupe with a hard putamen, or 

 almost baccate with a slightly coriaceous endocarp. Seed pendulous ; embryo 

 small within the apex of the fleshy albumen.— Trees. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 entire or (in New Zealand species) coarsely toothed. Flowers in terminal corym- 

 bose panicles. 



Besides the Australian species, which is endemic, there is one from Norfolk Island and another 

 from New Zealand. 



1. P. Cunninghamii (after A. Cunningham), Miers, in Ami. Nat. Hist. ser. 

 2. ix. 491, and Oowfrifc. 80, i. 12 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 395. A glabrous, sub- 

 erect, tall shrub. Leaves ovate or broadly elliptical, acuminate, 4 to 6in. long, 

 entire, coriaceous, and shining when old, narrowed into a petiole of ^in. or more. 

 Flowers numerous, in broad rather dense panicles, either terminal or in the upper 

 axils, the males only known. Calyx scarcely prominent. Petals nearly 1^ line 

 long. Filaments bent in below the summit in the bud ; anthers oblong, sagit- 

 tate. Eudimentary ovary narrow, with 2 or three erect style-like lobes, and 

 occasionally containing an imperfect pendulous ovule. Drupes or berries ovoid, 

 about ^\n. long, the endocarp scarcely hardened. Seed pendulous ; testa thinly 

 membranous ; embryo much shorter than the albumen. 



Hab.: Mt. Mistake. Specimens in early fruit only. 



The ovaries described by Miers appear to me to have been imperfect, at least I find none but 

 male flowers in the specimen he examined, nor in any others I have seen. It is probable that 

 the female flowers, as in the New'Zealand species, are smaller, and have therefore not attracted 

 the notice of collectors. — Binth. 



8. PHLEBOCALYMNA, Griff. 



(Veiny involucre.) 



Sepals 5, distinct, imbricate. Corolla tubular, limb 6-parted. Stamens 5, 

 alternate with the petals, adherent to the tube of the corolla. Anthers ovoid- 

 oblong, dorsij&xed, 2-lobed, dehiscing longitudinally. Disk fleshy, hypogynous, 5- 

 lobed, lobes opposite the petals. Ovary conic, 1-celled. Style subulate. Ovules 

 2, pendulous. Fruit oblong, with a crustaceous rind ; seeds pendulous. Albumen 

 coriaceous, lobulate, ruminate. Embryo minute. — Trees. Leaves alternate, 

 petiolate, simple, coriaceous. Flowers polygamous ; males in globose heads, 

 borne on short spikes ; females shortly pedicellate. 



Besides the Queensland plant, the species are found in the Malay Peninsula and Islands. — 

 Hooker's Flora af British India. 



1. P. lobospora (seeds lobed), F. v. M. Fragm. ix. 151. A small glabrous tree. 

 Leaves thin, coriaceous, lanceolate-ovate, pale beneath, sparsely or almost verti- 

 cillately crowded, 2 to 4in. long, f to 1-J^in. broad, thinly and very widely penni- 

 nerved, distantly and minutely glandular denticulate. Inflorescence terminal ; 

 peduncles short or very short, somewhat thick at the ends. Pedicels to the fruit 

 2 lines or less. Fruit 8 to 10 lines long, almost truncate, a little protracted 

 or apiculate, 1 or 2-seeded. Seeds deeply lobed. Albumen amygdaloid, testa 

 membranous, shiny brown. Embryo ovate, scarcely f line long. 



Hab.: About Eookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (P v. M., I.e.) 



