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363. Excaecaria agallocha L. 

 Wyndham (W.V.F.). 



An erect deciduous shrub, 6-1 Oft. high. In tidal muds. 



364. E. parviflora J. Miill. 



Nine-Mile Ridge, nine miles from Wyndham (W.V.F.). 



A tree (often deciduous) of 40ft. ; trunk to 20ft. ; diameter 



1-1 Jft. ; bark greyish, smooth or somewhat rugose ; 



timber pale-coloured and not very hard. Yields quantities 



of an acrid milky juice. On saline fiats. " Gutta Percha- 



tree." 



SAPINDALES. 



ANACARDIACEiE. 



365. Buchanania oblongifolia W.V.F. n. sp. 1 

 A small tree with stout spreading branches, the young shoots 



and inflorescence villous or rusty-tomenose, otherwise 

 glabrous ; leaves oblong or ovate- oblong, obtuse or almost 

 rounded, gradually tapering into a petiole, coriaceous and 

 rather rigid, pale-green and hardly shining, veins rather fine 

 but prominent on both sides, much diverging and con- 

 spicuously reticulate between ; panicles lax, much shorter 

 than the leaves, few to many together, terminal, sub- 

 terminal or occasionally axillary, many-flowered, the 

 peduncles and pedicels rather slender ; bracts ovate ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate, and, like the bracts small ; pedicels 

 short ; sepals five, almost orbicular, ciliate, longer than 

 the tube and nearly half as long as the petals ; petals five, 

 elHptical, obtuse ; filaments subulate ; fruits broadly 

 ovate ; slightly compressed, tomentose. 



Mt. Rason, between Precipice and Isdell Ranges, Harm, 

 Barnett, Isdell, King, and Ord Rivers, Bell Creek, near 

 Wyndham (W.V.F.). 



Height to 30ft. ; trunk to 10ft. ; diameter 1ft. Bark not 

 very thick or rough, dark-coloured, becoraing somewhat 

 corky on old trees, the inner with a purple sap. Timber 

 pale, not hard, and rather tough. Leaves 4-6in. long 

 by l-2in. broad ; petioles J— |in. long. Flowers pale- 

 yellow, sweetly-scented. Sepals under 1 line long. Petals 

 2 lines long. Fruits purplish, 3-4 hnes diameter. In 

 stony and sandy localities. 



Affinity to B. lucida Blume. 



366. B. latifolia Roxb. 



Between Bell Creek and the King Leopold Ranges (W.V.F.). 

 Tree of 30ft. ; trunk to 10ft. ; diameter 1ft. ; dark greyish 



to reddish, scarcely rugose ; timber pale, soft and tough ; 



branches stout and spreading ; flowers pale yellow 



odorous. 



