Limima.] LXXV. SAtOTACE^. 956 



Style 1^ to 2 lines long, the upper portion glabrous. Stigma undivideid. Fruit 

 ovate, lin. long. Pericarp black and glabrous outside. Seed solitary, oblong- 

 ellipsoid, not compressed, about 8 lines long. 



Hab.: From Eockhampton to Cape York. 



Wood light colour, supposed to resemble the European Birch ; close-grained, firm. A useful 

 cabinet wood Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 263. 



3. la. galactoxyla (from the copious flow of milky sap), F. r. M.; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. iv. 279. A tall tree, copiously exuding a inillcy juice, glabrous 

 except the rusty-pubescent young shoots. Leaves shortly petiolate, narrowly 

 obovate-oblong or oblong- ouneate, very obtuse, thinly coriaceous, penniveined 

 but the veins scarcely conspicuous on the upper side, 3 to 5in. long. Calyx-lobes 

 about 1 line long, orbicular-deltoid, the 3 outer ones almost valvate, herbaceous ; 

 3 interior ones membranous, slightly imbricate and silky on the midrib at the 

 back. Corolla glabrous ; tube scarcely IJ line long ; lobes 5, semi-lanceolate, 

 acute, longer than the tube. Staminodia either scales or. Wanting. Stamens 

 10, glabrous, 1 -seriate. Filaments free. Anthers fixed between the basal 

 lobes. Style filiform, glabrous, about 4 lines long. Fruits on pedicels of about 

 ^in., ovoid, 1 to l^in. long, contracted at both ends, the pericarp apparently thin 

 and succulent. Seeds 1 or 2, with a smooth ' shining testa, and large broad 

 lateral hilum ; no albumen' ; cotyledons very thick and hard ; radicle scarcely 

 prominent. — Bassia ;ialai:to.vijla, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 27. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



Wood of a " oedary" nature, of alight-red colour ; light, firm, straight, and close in grain; 

 does not shrink or warp much in drying ; excellent tor joinery, cabinet, carving, or fret-work.^ — 

 Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods No. 263a. 



4. Xi. i\.Tnorphosperma (a previous generic name), Benth. and Hook. Gen. 

 PI. A tree about 50ft. high, the young branches rusty-tomentose, at ; length 

 greyish or blackish. Petioles 4 to 8 lines long, rather slender. Leaves 

 lanceolate-ovate," obovate, or orbicular-ovate, or rarely narrow-lanceolate, 1? to 

 Bin. long, thin coriaceous, finely penninerved, the veinlets scarcely, distinct, 

 upper side nearly glabrous or soon glabrous, under side with a very thin sub- 

 sericeous appressed tomentum, at first ferruginous. Flowers small, sessile, 

 crowded in the axils of the leaves. Calyx-segments 5, imbricate, ovate, obtuse, 

 about a line long, thinly brown-silky on the back, interior margins membranous. 

 Corolla 5-lobed ; lobes imbricate in the bud, glabrous, tube scarcely 1 line long ; 

 lobes nearly 2 lines long, ovate-oblong, at length revolute. Stamens 5, exserted 

 opposite the corolla-lobes, glabrous. Filaments subulate, setaceous, adnate to 

 the corolla-tube, then free. Anthers extrorse, versatile, central dorsifixed, 2- 

 celled, dehiscing longitudinally, cordate-ovate, yellow, Ovary 5-celled, silky. 

 Style about a line long, setaceous. Stigma very minute. Fruit almost globdse, 

 drupaceous 1-seeded, purple outside, lin. or more in diameter. Seed globose. 

 Testa livid, opaque. Hilum short, vertical, verruciform. Chalaza lateral. 

 Cotyledons thick. Eadicle rotund, basal, much depressed.: — Amorphospermiim 

 antilogum, F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 113. 



Hab.: Eockhampton, P. O'Shanesy ; Mt. Dryander, Kilner and Bowman. 



5. Ii. chartacea (leaves of thin texture). Bail. A small tree, the young 

 growth rusty-pubescent. Leaves lanceolate to obovate-oblong, acuminate, 

 tapering, from above the middle to a short petiole, 2 to 4in. long and to 16 lines 

 broad at the widest part ; margins entire, undulate ; midrib, lateral nerves and 

 reticulate veins prominent ; texture thin-coriaceous. -Flowers small, sessile in 

 dense axillary or lateral clusters. Calyx-lobes much imbricate, 1 line long, rusty- 

 hairy on the back, the upper part winged. Corolla-lobes recurved, much 

 imbricate, twice as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens sometimes longer than the 



