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446. T. biangulata W.V.F. n. sp. 



An evergrcKsn tree with a bushy crown ; branchlets stout and, 

 along with the leaves, glabrous or scantily villous ; the 

 young shoots almost villous ; leaves alternate, orbicular 

 or very broadly ovate, obtuse, on stout mealy-pubescent 

 petioles, the laminfB shortly decurrent, coriaceous, greyish, 

 the veins Jirominent, spreading and much reticulate 

 between ; spikes solitary, axillary, simple, silky-tomentose, 

 scarcely or not exceeding the leaves ; fruit oblong-ovate, 

 densely tomentose, pink, prominently biangular, termin- 

 ating in a broad obtuse slightly compressed beak which 

 has one or more raised lines on each face. 



Hills near Grace's Knob, Isdell River, Packhorse Range, 

 between Isdell, Charnley, and Calder Rivers, near Wynd- 

 ham. Goose Hill, near Ord River (W.V.F. ). 



Height .30-40ft. ; trunk to 12ft. ; diameter to above 1ft. ; 

 bark greyish, thin, somewhat rugose ; timber brown, 

 very tough, hard, and heavy ; leaves 4r-7in. long ; 

 petioles l|in. long ; fruits from f to nearly lin. long, 

 the beak 4 lines long. On sandstone and quartzite 

 elevations. The fruits are subacid to the taste and are 

 eaton by birds. 



Afifinities to T. chlorocarpa W.V.F., and T. platyphylla 

 F. v. M. 



447. T. platyphylla F. v M. 



Fitzroy, Lennard, Isdell, Harm, Adcock, Throssell, Barnett' 

 Charnley, Calder, Barker, Ord, King and Denham Rivers ; 

 Walcott Inlet ; Bell, Synnott, MacNamara, and Harris 

 Creeks (W.V.F.). 



A tree of 40-50ft. ; trunk to 20rt. ; diameter 1-1 Jft. ; bark 

 dark-grey, rough, longitudinally fissured ; timber rather 

 pale-coloured and not very hard ; flowers white to pale- 

 yellow ; fruits pink when ripe, exangular, fin. long, 

 narrow- ovoid, terminating in a thick straight beak of 

 above 2 lines long. " Pear-tree." Along banks of 

 streams in deep black soil. 



448. T. petiolaris A. Cunn. 



A shady tree of 30-3 5ft. ; trunk to 10ft ; diameter 1ft. or 

 more ; bark dark-grey, rather rough ; timber pale- 

 coloui'ed and moderately hard ; leaves to 4in. long, 

 crowded at the ends of the branchlets ; spikes soHtary, 

 axillary, simple, shorter than or equalling the leaves on 

 peduncles of lin. long, which, along with the rachises, 

 are closely silky-tomentose ; flowers white, not crowded ; 

 calyx glabrous without, the adnate tube about IJ lines 



