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or subacute, siraple, excepting the lowest two, which are 

 again divided into 2-4 segments, the veins concealed ; 

 flowers small, numerous in erect racemes ; pedunculate 

 and several together in a broad panicle usually exceeding 

 the leaves ; the primary and secondary raohises stout ; 

 perianth white or greenish-yellow, the tube rather slender 

 and slightly contracted beneath the reflexed globular 

 limb, torus oblique, gland semi-annular, conspicuous ; 

 ovary glabrous, stipitate ; style terete, with a rather broad 

 terminal stigmatic cone ; fruit obliquely ovate, somewhat 

 compressed, smooth and viscid ; seed- wing broad and 

 continuous all round. 



Upper Isdell and Hann Rivers (W.V.F.). 



Height to 30ft.; trunk to 10ft.; diameter 8in.; bark dark-coloured 

 to somewhat reddish, rough, and longitudinally fissured; 

 timber pinkish, and tough leaf ; segments |-lft. long ; 

 racemes 3-6in. long, the panicles frequently above l|ft. 

 long ; pedicels 1 line ; perianth 1| line long ; ovary 

 stipes 1-li line ; style scarcely above two lines long ; 

 fruits fin. long. In moist sandy loam. 



Affinity, O. leucadendron A. Cunn. 



168. O. leucadendron A. Cunn. 



Shrub to a tree of 30ft. ; trunk 10ft. ; diameter lOin.; bark 

 dark-coloured, rough and longitudinally fissured ; timber 

 whitish to reddish, and rather tough ; flowers white, in 

 terminal panicles of a foot or more in length ; fruits covered 

 with an almost liquid viscid substance. 



169. O. pyramidalis A. Cunn. 



Prince Regent's River (A. Cunn.) ; Lennard, Barker and Isdell 



Rivers, etc. (W.V.F.). 

 In sandy loam. 



As surnaised by Bentham in the Flora Australiensis, this proves 

 to be only a short-leaved form of O. leucadendron A. 

 Cunn. In the field they cannot be separated. 



170. O. chrysodendron R. Br. 



A beautiful symmetrical tree to 50ft. in height ; trunk to 20ft.; 

 diameter 2ft. ; bark greyish, rough, and longitudinally 

 fissured ; timber reddish, straight grained and not very 

 hard, prettily grained ; flowers showy ; perianth brownish- 

 yellow or greenish ; style orange-red with a yellow stigma. 

 The flowers secrete abundance of nectar, which falls on 

 the ground at night ; it affords food for numerous birds 

 and insects. 



