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487. Plumbago zeylanica L. 



Wingrah Pass, Napier Range ; Barker and Isdell Bivere 



(W.V.F.) 

 A spreading shrub, 2-3ft. high ; flowers white. 

 In rocky spots. 



EBENALES. 



SAPOTACEyE. 



488. Lucuma sericeus Benth. 



A spreading shrub of 15ft. in height 



489. Sideroxylon ariihemicum Benth. et Hook. 



Between Roe and Drysdale Rivers (J. Bradshaw and Allen) ; 

 Isdell and Barker Rivers ; King Leopold, Lady Forrest, 

 Paokhorse, Isdell, Synnott, Artesian, Edkins, and 

 Harding Ranges (W.V.F. ). 



A tree to 30ft. ; trunk 10-15ft. ; diameter 8-9in. ; bark grey, 

 somewhat rugose ; timber pale and not very hard ; fruits 

 globular or ovoid, succulent, yellowish, scantily tomen- 

 tose, lin. diameter, seeds 4, obovate-ellipsoid, |in. 

 long, the testa brown and shining. 



Among sandstone and quartzite rocks. 



490. Mimusops parvifolia R. Br. 



Careening Bay (A. Cunn.) ; Swan Point and Cape Leveque 

 (W.V.F.). 



A tree of 40ft. ; trunk 20ft. ; diameter 1ft. ; bark greyish, 

 smooth ; timber pale, not hard ; fruits globular, reddish, 

 ^in. diameter ; seeds eaten by aborigines. 



In sandy loam. 



EBENACE^. 



491. Diospyros montana Roxb. 



Goose Hill, Ord and Denham Rivers ; Swan Point (W.V.F.). 

 A twiggy shrub of 6-8ft. in height and not spinescent ; flowers 



white to pale yellow ; fruits brown, sometimes above lin. 



diameter. The D. cordifolia Roxb. of the Flora Aus- 



traliensis. 



492. D. nitens (W.V.F.). 



A strong-growing bushy shrub, the branches and leaves glab- 

 rous, the young shoots silky-hairy ; leaves distinctly 

 petiolate, ovate-oblong to broad-lanceolate, shortly acumi- 

 nate or rounded at the apices, tapering at the base, thin 

 but coriaceous, olive-green and shining above, dull-green 

 beneath, the veins flne, ascending and reticulate between ; 

 flowers not seen ; fruiting calyx solitary, sessUe and sur- 

 rounded at the base by a few small broad bracts, pube- 



