950 LXXIV. MYESINEiE. [Mi/mne. 



when perfect 1^ line long or rather more ; divided nearly to the base into 4 or 5 

 aetite narrow lobes, valvate in the bud or neai:ly so. Anthers nearly sessile at 

 the base of the lobes, rather large, but not' exceeding the lobes. Drupe globular, 

 2^ to 3 lines diameter. — A. DC. Prod. viii. 94. 



Hab.: Keppel Bay, Broadsound, Shoalwater Bay, JS. Brown ; Bookh&m^ton, Thozet ; Nerkool 

 Creek, Bowman; Brisbane, F. v. Mueller ; Ipswich, Nernst. 

 Wood close-grained, light-coloured, and firm. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 260. 



5. Wt, achradifolia (Aohras-leaved), F. v. M. Fragni. vi. 164 ; Benth. Fl.' 

 Austr. iv. 276. A moderate-sized tree. Leaves on rather long petioles (J to lin.), 

 oblong- elliptical, obtuse, thickly coriaceous, smooth and shining above, 4 to Sin. 

 long. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. Flowers larger and more globular than in most 

 species. Calyx broadly campanulate, about IJ line long, the lobes broad, not 

 longer than , the, tube. Corolla not twice as long as the calyx, deeply .divided 

 into broad very thick valvate lobes. Anthers nearly sessile at the'tase of the 

 lobes, shorter than them, ovoid, obtuse. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, DaJZacAj/. 



The foliage is that of the largest-leaved forms of M, capitellata, Wall., but the flowers are 

 different. — Benth. 



3. EMBELIA, Burm. 

 (The Ceylonese name of one species.) 



(Samara, Linn.) , ,, 



Flowers small, polygamous, mostly . dioecious, , white or greenish yellow. 

 Calyx free, 5 or 4-lobed, persistent. Petals 5-4, free or slightly coherent at the 

 base, elliptic, imbricate in bud. Stamens 5-4 ; filaments more or less adnate to 

 the petals ; anthers ovate-oblong. Ovary ovoid or globose ; style cylindric ; 

 stigma capitellate ; ovules few. Fruit small, globose, 1 (rarely 2) seeded. Seed 

 globose, base hollowed, albumen pitted subruminate ; embryo curved, transverse. 

 Shrubs, mostly climbing, or small trees. Leaves entire or toothed; petiole often 

 margined or glandular. Eaoemes axillary or terminal, simple or compound, or 

 flowers subfascicled ; bracts small ; no bracteoles. 

 A small genua, dispersed over tropical Asia and Africa. The Australian species are endemic. 



Climber, quite glfibrous. Leaves ovate-elliptical, IJ to Sin. long. Flowers 



in short axillary racemes , . 1. E. australiana. 



Laurelylike shrub. Leaves 4in. long, IJin. wide. Panicle densely tomentose 2. E. Flueckigeri. 



1; E. australiana (Australian), Benth. and Hook. Qm. PI. A tall woody 

 climber, quite glabrous. Leaves ovate-elliptical or obovate, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, narrowed into a petiole, thinly coriaceous, shining above, prominently 

 penniveined, and w:ith intermediate veinlets, 1| to Sin. long. Flowers very 

 small, in short, loose, axillary raceines, the rhachis rarely above Jin. long and 

 the pedicels Jin. Calyx-lobes 4, about J line long. Petals 4, about 1 line long, 

 imbricate in the bud. Filaments exceedingly short; anthers ovate. Ovary 

 tapering into a style, sometimes nearly as long as the petals, but usually much 

 shorter ; stigpia broad. . Drupe red, hard, globular, about 8 lines diameter. 

 Seeds embedded in the globular placenta, — Choripetalum australianum, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. iii. 36 ; Samara australiana, F. v. M.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 274. 

 . Hab.: Taylor's Eange, near Brisbane ; Burnett River, F. v. M^l£ller. Fruit ripe abbut April. 



2. E, Flueckigeri (after Dr. Frederick Flueckiger), F, v. M. Vict. Nat. 

 Apr. 1892. A shrub of Laurel-like aspect, though of rambling, habit. . Leaves 

 on short corrugated petioles, attaining a length of 4 in. and a breadth of l^in,, 

 shining on both surfaces, texture firm, almost elliptic, blunt at the base, pellucid 



