Euphoria.] XL. SAPINDACEyE. 307 



ovoid. Ovary 8-celled. Style rather thick, with 8 divergent lobes. Young fruit 

 deeply divided into 3 globular lobes, very tomentose and tuberculate, but not seen 

 fully formed. 



Hab.: (?) Leichhardt (Herb. F. v. M.) 



Var. hebepetala. Calyx rather smaller. Petals pubescent outside. " Nurrum Nurrum " 

 Leichhardt (Herb. F. v. M.) ' 



Baron Mueller places this species with the Nepheliums. I think, however, until better known 

 it may as well be left as placed by Mr. Bentham. 



11. HETERODENDRON, Desf. 



(Various tree, parts.) 

 Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, very 

 shortly and irregularly toothed. Petals none. Disk small. Stamens 6 to 15, 

 inserted within or upon the disk ; anthers nearly sessile, longer than the calyx. 

 Ovary 2 to 4-lobed, 2 to 4-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell ; style short, with an 

 obtuse lobed stigma. Fruit of 1 or 2, rarely 8 or 4 coriaceous or hard lobes, 

 indehiscent. Seed half immersed in an arillus ; testa crustaeeous ; cotyledons 

 thick, flexuose.— Shrubs. Leaves simple, entire or lobed. Flowers small, in 

 short terminal, slightly-branched panicles, often reduced to simple racemes. 

 The genus is limited to Australia. 



Leaves entire, coriaceous, linear, oblong or rarely obovate, usually above 

 2m. long 1. jj. olecefoUum. 



Leaves entire, muerouate, toothed or pinnatifid, scarcely coriaceous, rarely 

 2in. long 2. H. diversifolium. 



1. H. olesefolium (Olive-leaved), Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. iv. 8, i. 8 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. i. 469. A tall shrub, the young shoots hoary or glaucous with a minute 

 silky pubescence. Leaves linear, lanceolate or narrow-oblong, rarely almost 

 obovate, acute or obtuse, 2 to 4in. long, quite entire, narrowed into a very short 

 petiole, coriaceous and sometimes very rigid. Panicles usually few-flowered and 

 much shorter than the leaves. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, varying from 1^ to 

 nearly 8 lines diameter. Ovary usually 3 or 4-celled, densely tomentose. Fruit 

 of 1, 2, or very rarely 3 or 4 nearly globular lobes, 3 or 4 lines diameter. — DC. 

 Prod. ii. 92 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. i. 90; Nephelium oleifblium, F. v. M. Fragm^x. 82. 



Hab.: Burdekin Eiver, F. v. Mueller; Bowen Eiver and Connor's Creek, Leichhardt; common 

 in the interior. 



The Queensland specimens have smaller and more glabrous flowers than the more southern 

 ones, with the ovary usually 2-earpellary.— Bcni/s. 



Wood with the outer yellow, the inner dark-brown, hard and close-grained ; suitable for 

 engraving or any purpose to which the box-wood is applied. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. lOOa. 



2, H. diversifolium (various-leaved), F. v. M. Fragm. i. 46 ; Benth Fl. 

 Austr. i. 469. A shrub, the young branches tomentose, pubescent, or perfectly 

 glabrous. Leaves from linear-cuneate to oblong-ouneate or almost obovate, rarely 

 2in. long and often under lin., usually mucronate with an almost pungent point, 

 either enitre or with a few sharp teeth or lobes towards the end, or pinnatifid with 

 the triangular pungent lobes rigid and sometimes coriaceous, but less so than H. 

 olecefolium. Flowers few, in short panicles, pubescent or glabrous. Ovary 2- 

 celled. Fruit-lobes very divaricate, ovoid, glabrous or tomentose. — Nephelivm 

 diversifolmm, F. v. M. Fragm. x. 82. 



Hab.: Keppel Bay, iJ. JSrowm ; thickets at the foot of the dividing range, A. Cunningham; 

 Eookhampton, TAozet; Warwick, BecWer ; Comet Eiver, Xeicftftai'dfc 



There are two forms, one perfectly glabrous, the other with the young shoots and flowers 

 pubescent, the fruit densely pubescent or tomentose. 



Wood pinkish except the centre, close in grain, hard and tough ; useful for engraving and 

 many other purposes. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 101. 



