Sideroxylon.] LXXV. SAP.OTACE^. 957 



the pericarp soft and juicy. Seeds 4 or 5, compressed, the hilum nearly as long 

 as the seed ;• albumen not very thick ; cotyledons oblong, 3-nerved ; radicle short. 

 — Achras arnhemica, F. v. M. ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 280. 



Hab.: Musgrave, Cape York Peninsular, Geo. Jacobsen, who recommends the tree for planting 

 for shade. He says that cattle and horses are very fond of the foliage, and that in times of 

 scarcity of feed this tree is cut down for fodder. There is no doubt that the foliage is 

 nutritious. We know that the inner bark of another species of this genus was at one time used 

 for food by the natives of the Maroochie district. 



Wood white and close-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 263c. 



2. S. Pohlmanianum (after R. W. Pohlman), Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL 

 ii. 655. " Arlian," Princess Charlotte Bay, Roth. An erect tree, the branchlets 

 thick, clothed as well as the petioles with soft appressed hairs. Leaves crowded 

 at the ends of the branches, narrowly obovate-oblong, obtuse, contracted into a 

 rather long petiole, rather thin, green on both sides, the principal veins more or 

 less silky-hairy, otherwise glabrous, 3 to 4in. long. Flowers in clusters on the 

 old wood below the leaves, almost sessile or the pedicels shorter than the calyx. 

 Calyx-segments 5, very much imbricate, orbicular, obtuse, !■§• line diameter, 

 silky-hairy outside. Corolla about as long as the calyx, the lobes broad, very 

 obtuse ; scales of the throat small and entire. ' Stamens inserted in the broad 

 tube, the anthers imperfect in the flowers examined. Ovary surrounded by a 

 dense ring of long hairs, tapering into a short thick glabrous style, 5-celled ; 

 ovules laterally attached. Fruit globular, 5-angled, above lin. diameter, the flesh 

 hard. Seeds 5 in the fruit opened, about Jin. long, ovate somewhat compressed ; 

 hilum linear, lateral ; albumen not very thick ; cotyledons large, flat, thin ; 

 radicle very short. — Sapota Pohlmaniana, F. v. M. I.e.; Achras Fohlmaniana, 

 F. V. M. ; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 281. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller; Queensland woods, 

 London Exhibition, 1862, n. 98, W. Hill; Kockhampton, Thozet ; Eockingham and Edgecombe 

 Bays, Dallachy ; Fort Denison, Fitzalan. 



Wood a bright-yellow, hard, and close-grained; the best Queensland species for engraving- 

 wood. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 264. 



3. S. xerocarpum (dry -fruited), Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 655. A 

 tree of 20 to 30ft., the young shoots minutely tomentose. Leaves when full 

 grown quite glabrous, on long petioles, oval-elliptical or oblong, acuminate, 

 penniveined but smooth and shining on both sides, 3 to 5in. long. Flowers 

 clustered in the axils, on pedicels of 4 to 6 lines. Calyx-segments ovate, almost 

 acute, not so broad as in S. laurifoUum, and scarcely 2 lines long. Corolla Scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx, the lobes broad ; scales of the throat oblong or linear. 

 Ovary 5-celled ; style rather long but thick. Fruit nearly globular, not very 

 succulent. Seeds usually 2 or more, compressed ; hilum linear ; albumen 

 copious ; cotyledons very broad and flat. — Achras xerocarpa, F. v. M. ; Benth; Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 281. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 



4. S« chartaceum (papery), Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL ii. 655. " Moiary," 

 Barron Kiver, J. F. Bailey. An erect tree, very near S. xerocarpum, but perfectly 

 glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong or elliptical, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 

 much thinner and more acuminate than in S. xerocarpum, narrowed into a short 

 petiole, with an intra-marginal vein on each side usually decurrent almost 

 into the. petiole. Flowers not seen. Fruit and seeds of S. .verocarpum, but 

 the peduncle rather shorter, and the calyx-segments apparently rounder and 

 more obtuse.— .<4f/wa.? chartacea, F, v. M.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 284. 



Hab.: Tamoshanter Point, Dallachy. 



5. S> laurifolium (Laurel-leaved), Benth. and, Hook. Gen. PL ii. 655. 

 Glabrous or the young shoots slightly pubescent. Leaves oval-oblong or broadly 

 obldng-ellipiical, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, narrowed into a short petiole, 



