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glabrous, stipitate ; style glabrous, slightly compressed, 

 the stigmatic disk oblique, with n prominent conical 

 centre ; fruit smooth, obliquely ovate, terminating in a 

 stout recurved beak. Banks of Hann River, between 

 Mt. Caroline and the junction with ^lacnamara Creek 

 (W.V.F.). 



Height 30-40ft., trunk to 20ft., diameter 1ft. or more ; bark 

 dark-coloured, very thick, deeply olngitudinally fissured 

 and corky. Timber dark brown, not very hard, straight- 

 grained. Leaves half to above 1ft. long, IJ lines broad. 

 Racemes | to fft. long. Pedicels slender, 2-2J lines. 

 Perianth Jin. long, white. Ovary-stipes IJ line. Style 

 above fin. Fruit above lin. long by a little more than 

 fin. broad ; beak at least Jin. long. 



In moist sandy soil. 



Named in honour of the late Dr. A. Morrison, formerly Govern- 

 ment Botanist of Western Australia. 



Affinity, H. lorea, R. Br. 



SANTALALES. 



SANTALACE^. 



178. Authobolus foveolatus F. v. M. 



Perianth lobes in both male and female flowers, three only • 

 fruits smooth and greenish when ripe. 



179. Exocarpv.s latifolia R. Br. 



A shrub to a tree of 25ft. ; trunk 8-lOft., diameter 9in., bark 

 dark grey to almost black, rough, timber reddish, close- 

 grained, with a faint sandalwood odour, flowers greenish- 

 yellow, fruits red. 



OLACACE^. 



180. Opilia amentacea Roxb. 



York Sound (A. Cunn) ; Isdell, Charnley, Calder and Barker 

 Rivers ; Edkins Range, Dillen's Springs (W.V.F.). An 

 erect shrub of 8ft., branches pendulous, and somewhat 

 flexuose ; flowers greenish-white, scented. 



LORANTHACE.E. 



181. Viscum articulatum Burm. 



Messmate Creek, Packhorse Range (W.V.F.). 



Plant greenish-yellow, flowers greenish, fruits yellow. 



Parasitic on Btichmiania oblonqijolia (W.V.F.). According 

 to Hooker fil., the specimens referred by Bentham to this 

 species, in the Flora Australiensis belong to V- japom'cimi 

 Thunberg. 



