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EXPLANATION OF PLATE 77 (FLOWEKS). 



A. Flowering branch wltli the flowers of natural size. 



B. Flower (enlarged). 



c. Expanded flower showing — (a) Petals, (6) Stamens, (c) Stami- 

 uodla, {d) Disc, (e) Ovary, (/) Stigma. 



D. Part of flower showing — (a) Stamens, (6) Staniinodia, (c) Disc, 



(d) Ovary, (e) Stigma. 



E. Stamens, 

 p. Staminode. 



u. Transverse section of ovary. 

 H. Calyx. 



EXPLAXATIOX OF I'LATE 7S (FEUITS). 



A. Leaf (with leaflets.) or portion of stem showing articulation of" 



petiole. 



B. Fruit. 



c. Capsule opening septicidally. 



D. One valve. of capsule. 



E. Seed, winged all round. 



N.B. — The fruits were drawn from specimens attached to leaves, and there- 

 fore their botanical origin is not open to doubt. 



Flindei'sla Oxleyana, E.v.M. 



The ViiL low -wood. 



Botanical Name. — Oxleyana, in honour of John Oxley, Surveyor-General 

 of New South Wales, who, with Messrs. Uniacke and Lieutenant Stirling, 

 discovered the Brisbane Eiver (the locality where, this species was first 

 found) in the year 1823. . 



Vernacular Names. — "Yellow-wood," or perhaps "Light or Pale Yellow- 

 ■wood," is its commonest name. 



" Long Jack " is a name frequently used in northern Xew South Wales- 

 for this tree, in reference, to its great height. 



Leaves. — The leaflets are softly tomentose underneath, and more readily 

 wilt than those of any other species. The coinnaon rhacliis is also tomentose. 

 Sometimes the venation on the under side of the leaf is \'ery conspicuous. 



The leaflets arc not alwaj's strictly opposite. 



The ar-ficulation of the leaves is usually rounded. It has no sharp- 

 edges. 



Mr. W. Dunn says that the foliage, in mass, reminds him of that of the 

 Teak (F. aiialralis), but tlic leaves are shorter iind hairy. 



Bark. — Smooth in young or medium trees; patchy in appearance, but 

 not flaky, in older trees. A bushman's description is, '' It has a cracked 

 sort of bark, a little resembling that of Teak, but less rough, and not 

 flaky." 



