258 XXXVI. CELASTKINEiE. \Denhamia. 



prominently veined ; on barren branches the leaves are sometimes broadly ovate 

 and bordered by coarse prickly teeth like those of a holly. Flowers in small 

 pedunculate cymes in the upper axils, or forming a short oblong terminal panicle. 

 Calyx-segments ovate. Petals rather broad, 1^ lines long. Ovary 1-eelled, with 

 8 to 5 placentas ; style very short, with 3 to 6 oblong-linear stigmatic branches. 

 Ovules 4 to 8 to each placenta. Capsule ovoid or globular, attaining about lin., 

 of a pale-whitish hue when dry, the thick valves bearing slightly projecting 

 placentas along their centre. — Leucocarpon nbseurum, A. Bich. Sert. Astrol. 46, 

 t. 18 ; Denhamia xanthosperma, F. v. M. Trans. Phil. Inst. iii. 28, and D. hetero- 

 phylla, F. v. M. I.e. 29. 



Hab.: Broadsound, R. Brown; Newcastle Range, between Gilbert and Burdekin Rivers, F. v. 

 ihieller. 



Wood of a light-yellow colour, very close in the grain, easily worked ; useful for engraving and 

 cabinet-work. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 77a. 



8. D. pittosporoides (Pittosporum-like), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. Inst. Vict. 

 iii. 80 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 402. A tree, the trunk, according to Thozet, beauti- 

 fully striated. Leaves lanceolate or rarely ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, 2 to 3 or 

 rarely 4in. long, obtusely serrate, narrowed into a petiole, coriaceous, with" very 

 prominent pinnate and reticulate veins, not so glaucous as in the other two 

 species. Cymes pedunculate, few-flowered, on short leafless branches on the old 

 wood or at the base of young leafy branches. Calyx-segments broadly orbicular. 

 Petals ovate, about 1 line long, rather thick at the base. Ovary fleshy, completely 

 8-celled, with 8 or 4 ovules in each cell. Capsule globular, attaining in our 

 specimens ^in. or rather more, but many of them opening when not half that 

 size, the thick woody valves bearing the dissepiments on their centre. 



Hab.: Wide Bay, sources of the Burnett River, Rookhampton, Warwick, Keppel Bay, Fitzroy 

 River, Taylor's Range. In flower in September. 



Wood of a uniform pale colour, resembling English Elder ; suitable for engraving, pattern- 

 making, and similar uses. — Bailey's Cat. QL Woods No. 77. 



4. B. viridissima (very green), Bail, and F. r. M. A small tree with dense 

 head of dark-green foliage. Leaves alternate or nearly opposite, often clustered 

 at the ends of the branchlets, lanceolate, 3 or 4in. long, 1 to Ifin. broad in the 

 centre, tapering to a very short petiole, the apex more or less elongate, margins 

 entire, green on both surfaces, and the reticulation more or less prominent. 

 Flowers in terminal pedunculate cymes or racemes, but the tree only met with in 

 early fruit. Capsules 3-valved, somewhat fusiform, prominently obtusely 

 3-angular, 1 to l^in. long, bursting luculieidally, bearing the seeds on the 

 prominently projecting placentas. Seeds 4 to 6 to each placenta, half enclosed 

 in a rather large fleshy arillus. 



Hab.: Bellendeu Ker Expedition 1889. 



7. CARYOSPERMUM, Blume. 

 (From its nut-like seeds.) 

 Calyx cupular, 5-fid, open in the bud. Petals 5, 3-angular, reflexed, valvate, 

 keeled inside. Stamens 6, inserted on the margin of the disk ; filaments subu- 

 late. Anthers subglobose. Disk sinuate-lobed, somewhat thick. Ovary half 

 sunk in the disk, not at all confluent with it, 3 to 4-celled. Stigma subsessile, 

 obsoletely 3 to 4-lobed. Ovules solitary, erect, in each cell. Berry globose! 

 small, 2 to 4-celled, 2 to 4-seeded. Seed erect, subrotund, exarillate ; testa 

 thick, erustaceous, fleshy outside.— Glabrous shrubs, leaves alternate, petiolate, 

 subcoriaceous, ovate-oblong, acuminate, serrulate. Stipules minute, caducous. 

 Cymes axillary, short ; flowers small. 



A genus of few species inhabiting, besides Queensland, Java and Amboyna. Habits and 

 flowers of Rhamnads, but the stamens are alternate with the petals. - Benth. and Hook. Gen- 

 PI. i. 367. 



