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9. VILLARESIA, Euiz and Pav. 

 (After Mattias Villarez, a Spanish botanist.) 



(Pleuropetalum, Blumei Chariessa, Miq.) 

 Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamous. Sepals 5, distinct, broad, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, with the midrib prominent inside, imbricate or almost valvate in the 

 bud. Stamens 5, alternating with the petals ; anthers cordate. Ovary 1-celled, 

 the cavity marked on one side with a raised ridge half dividing it ; style short, 

 thick ; ovules 2, suspended from the summit of the raised ridge. Drupe ovoid or 

 globular, the endocarp forming a prominent haU-dissepiment which penetrates 

 into a deep vertical furrow in the seed. Embryo small, in the apex of the albu- 

 men. — Lofty trees (or tall woody climbers ?) Leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire 

 or toothed. Flowers in small cymes, along the simple rhachis of a raceme-like 

 panicle. 



Besides the Australian species, of which one is and the other may be endemic, there is one 

 (perhaps not really different) from the Indian Archipelago, one from the S. Pacific Islands, and 

 several from S. America. The genus is exceptional in OZacineffi by the more or less imbricate 

 petals. I have not seen the 2 cells to the ovary which Miers met with in one species, possibly in 

 accidentally abnormal flowers. — Benth. (for the most part). 



A large tree. Petals about 1 line long . . 1, V. Moorei. 



Small tree or shrub. Petals 2 or 3 lines long 2. V. Smythii. 



1. V. Moorei (after C. Moore), F. r. M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 896. 

 A lofty handsome tree, glabrous except the inflorescence. Leaves ovate-lanceolate 

 or oblong, acuminate, 3 to 4in. long, entire, narrowed into a short petiole, 

 coriaceous and shining, but not so thick as in the American species. Eaceme- 

 like panicles irregularly lateral or axillary, 2 to 4in. long, hoary with a minute 

 pubescence. Cymes numerous, few-flowered, on short peduneles along the 

 rhachis. Flowers almost sessile in the cymes, those seen all males. Petals 1 hne 

 long, very slightly imbricate. Drupes globular, the putamen hard, about fin. 

 diameter, rugose outside, the half-dissepiment projecting quite to the centre of 

 the cavity and there slightly thickened, forming a column, up the centre of 

 which the placenta appears to pass, as if the endocarp had grown over it as in 

 the New Zealand Pennantia. Seed quite enclosing the half-dissepiment, its 

 transverse section being horseshoe-shaped. 



Hab.: Bunya Mountains. 



Wood of a light-grey colour, close-grained, and prettily marked ; useful both for the cabinet- 

 maker and joiner. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. lie. 



The Javanese V. smveolens (Pleuropetalum suaveolens, Blume) is unknown to me, but must, 

 from the character given, be nearly allied to this species. V. Samoensis (Pleuropetalum Samoense, 

 A. Gr.) which we have also from the Fiji Islands, appears to be quite distinct. — Benth. 



2. V. Smythii (after B. B. Smyth), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 156, ix. 150. 

 Sometimes attaining the size of a small tree. Branchlets thinly pubescent. 

 Leaves 3 to Sin. long, 1\ to 2Jin. broad, the nerves thinly pubescent on the under 

 side, ovate, acuminate, membranous, very thinly reticulate veined, quite entire. 

 Panicles racemose, the branches from 1 to 4in. long. Sepals broad-ovate, | 

 line long. Petals white or slightly yellowish, oblong-cuneate, 2^ to 3 lines 

 long. Filaments glabrous. Anthers cordate-ovate, ^ line long. Style setaceous, 

 a little exceeding 1 line long, with the ovary also glabrous. Fruit unknown. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (P. v. M., I.e.); Johnstone and Daintree Rivers, W. Hill 

 (P. V. M., 1.0.) 



10. CARDIOPTERIS, Wall. 



(Fruit heart-shaped.) 



Calyx 4 or 5-parted ; lobes imbricate, persistent, but not or only slightly accres- 

 cent. Corolla deciduous, between rotate and funnel-shaped, 4 or 5-lobed ; stamens 

 4 or 5, inserted on the base of the tube of the corolla, alternate with its lobes ; 



