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5. EUROSCHINUS, Hook. f. 

 (The southern Schinus.) 

 Flowers polygamous, dioecious, or hermaphrodite. Calyx small, 5-lobed, semi- 

 orbicular, imbricate. Petals 5, oblong or oblong-ovate, imbricate in the bud. 

 Disk orbicular, deeply crenate. Stamens 10, inserted round the disk, filaments 

 short. Anthers oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary 1 -celled, with 3 thick short styles, or 

 in the males of 3 or 4 linear style-like rudiments ; ovule pendulous from the top 

 of the cavity. Drupe small, more or less compressed, the putamen coriaceous. 

 Seeds compressed, with flat cotyledons ; the radicle turned upwards. — Tree. 

 Leaves pinnate. Flowers rather small, in terminal or lateral panicles. 



The germs is limited to a single species endemic in Australia. It is closely allied to the 

 American genus Schinus, but with a rather different habit, a gamosepalous calyx, and the 

 putamen of the fruit does not appear to contain the oily receptacles so conspicuous in that 

 genus.^ — Benth. 



1. E. falcatus (falcate), Hook. f. in -Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL 422. 

 Maiden's Blush Wood. " Punburra," Moreton Bay, Watkins ; " Kokare," Barron 

 Eiver, J. F. Bailey. A low tree, the branchlets rough with lenticels, glabrous 

 or the young shoots minutely hoary. Petioles 2 or Sin. long, slender. Leaflets 

 4 to 10, irregular, sometimes opposite, very oblique or falcate, ovate to lanceolate, 

 shortly acuminate, 2 to 4in. long, all but the terminal one very unequal at the 

 base, on petiolules of 1 to 8 lines, penninerved and reticulate, the common 

 petiole terete. Panicles divaricate, many-flowered, not exceeding the leaves. 

 Flowers almost sessile, clustered along the branches, about 1 line long and 

 glabrous. Calyx-lobes obtuse, slightly imbricate. Petals twice as long, oblong, ' 

 very spreading. Drupes broadly and obliquely ovate, 3 or 4 lines long. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver ; sources of the Burdekin, F. v. Mueller; Sunday Island, M'Gillivray. 



Yar. angustif alius. Leaves falcate-lanceolate, much acuminate. Flowers rather larger. — 

 Northumberland Islands, JR. Brown ; Eockhampton, Thozet. The two forms run the one into 

 the other, and in most of the Queensland coast scrubs. 



The wood of each form is very similar — ^pinkish or white, very soft, light and tough ; perhaps 

 might serve for making oars. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. Ill and Ilia. 



6. SEMECARPUS, Linn. f. 

 (From semeion, a mark, and karpos, fruit : juice of tree used to mark clothes.) 



Flowers polygamous or dioecious. Calyx small, 5-lobed. Petals 5, imbricate 

 in the bud. Disk orbicular, slightly lobed or crenate. Stamens 5, inserted round 

 the disk. Ovary 1 -celled, with 3 styles, and somewhat club-shaped stigmas ; 

 ovule suspended from the top of the cavity. Drupe or nut reniform, seated on 

 the much-enlarged, thick, succulent, fleshy pedicel, cupular, or turbinate base of 

 the calyx ; pericarp thick, hard, filled with resinous cells. Seed pendulous, the 

 testa coriaceous, somewhat fleshy inside ; embryo thick, with plano-convex 

 cotyledons and a very, short superior radicle. — Trees. Leaves alternate. Flowers 

 small, in terminal or lateral panicles. 



The genus ranges over tropical Asia, the species most numerous in Ceylon. — Benth. 



1. S> australiensis (Australian), Engler. DC. Mono, Phane. iv. 482. 

 Marking- Nut Tree ; " Jaln-ba," Annan River, Both. A spreading-headed 

 medium or large tree. Branches thick, with grey bark, the branchlets rough 

 with lenticels. Leaves broadly obovate, very obtuse, 3 to 6in. long, entire or 

 lanceolate and 9in. long, cuneate at the base, on very short petioles, glabrous 

 above, hoary or white underneath but scarcely tomentose, the pinnate veins and 

 reticulate veinlets conspicuous on both sides, and a very prominent nerve-like 



