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Bauer's. Alphitonla zizyphoides, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. Expel. Exped. i. 278, t. 20 (Rhamnus 

 .limjphoides, Soland.), which extends from Borneo and New Caledonia to the Pacific Islands, does 

 not appear to differ at all from some of the eastern Australian specimens ; whilst A. franguloiden, 

 A. Gra^, I.e. 280, is very like soiile of the more tomentose N. Australian specimens.— BeJit/i. 



Wood near the outside somewhat pinkish, the inner wood dark-brown, or parti-coloured 

 throughout, close-grained, very tough, warps in drying, but probably a good wood for the cabinet- 

 maker. The wood usually, by keeping, becomes deeper in colour. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 84. 



The leaves are sometimes infested with the fungi Glrposporimn ^'lZp/iifo?)iffl, Cke. and Mass,, 

 and Pestalozzia Gnepini, Desm. 



7. EMMENOSPERMUM, F. V. M. 

 (Referring to the seeds remaining attached to the torus.) 

 Calyx 5-lobed, the tube campanulate. Petals hood-shaped, inserted with the 

 stamens on the margin of the disk. Stamens 5, enclosed in the petals. Disk 

 thin, lining the calyx-tube. Ovary inserted on the disk in the bottom of the 

 ealyx-tube, but not immersed, 2-celled or rarely 3-celled, tapering into a shortly- 

 cleft style. Fruit almost capsular, with a very thin almost dry epicarp, ihe 

 endooarp separating into 2 or rarely 3 cartilaginous almost crustaeeous cocci, 

 opening along the inner face in 2 valves. Seeds inserted on a turbinate or 

 slightly cup-shaped funicle, without any arillus ; testa hard and shining ; albumen 

 cartilaginous ; cotyledons flat. — Tree^. Leaves opposite or alternate, penninerved. 

 Cymes or panicles trichotomous,- many-flowered. Seeds often persisting on the 

 torus after the pericarp has fallen off. 



The genus is endemic in Australia. It is closely allied in technical characters to the S. 

 African Noltia, but with a different habit. — Bertth. 



Leaves opposite or nearly so . . . . . 1. E. alphitonioides. 



Leaves alternate ... . ... . . 2. JS. Cunninghamii. 



1. Em alphitonioides (Alphitonia-like), F. v. M. Frcujm. iii. 63 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. i. 415. A tall hard-wooded timber tree, quite glabrous. Leaves opposite 

 or nearly so, petiolate, ovate, acuminate, 2 to Sin. long, entire, coriaceous, shining 

 above, green on both sides. Flowers numerous, in little dense umbel-like cymes, 

 arranged in trichotomous cymes or corymbose panicles in the upper axils or 

 terminal. Calyx-lobes almost petal-like, nearly 1 line long. Fruits apparently 

 about 3 lines long, but either unripe or already open in our specimen. Seeds 

 persistent, like those of Alphitonia, but without the peculiar arillus of that 

 species. 



Hab.: Brush of Brisbane River, M' Arthur ; Peri Creek, Leichhardt; Rockingham Bay, J. 

 Dallachy. 



Wood yellow, with a small, pinkish centre, close-grained ; useful for cabinet-work. — Bailey's 

 Cat. Ql. Woods No. 84a. 



2. ZS. (?) Cunninghamii (after A. Cunningham), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 415. 

 Leaves alternate, similar to those of E. alphitonioides, except that the petioles are 

 longer. Flowers not seen. Umbel-like cymes apparently not numerous, in a 

 terminal corymbose panicle. Fruits rather larger than in E. alphitonioides, 8 or 

 4-celled ; epicarp scarcely any ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds red and shining as in that 

 species, but not persistent on the torus, and the funicle very small. 



Hak: This species has been recorded by Baron Mueller for Queensland. 



8. POMADERRIS, Labill. 



(From poma, a lid, and dsrris, a skin ; membranous covering of seed vessels.) 



Calyx-tube entirely adnate to the ovary, the limb divided to the base into 5 



lobes, usually deciduous or reflexed. Petals either concave or nearly flat, not 



enclosing the anthers, or none. Stamens 5, the filaments long and usually 



suddenly inflected and attenuate near the top ; anthers oblong or ovoid. Disk 



