958 LXXV. SAfOTACEJE. [Sideroxylon. 



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thinly" coriaceous, shining above, 3 to oin.'long. Flowers clustered in the axils 

 on pedicels of 4 to 6 lines. Calyx-segments 5, broadly ovate, 2 lines long, 

 usually subtended by a bract like them, but rather: shorter and broader. Corolla 

 only seen in bud, but apparently exceeding the calyx, the lobes broad and almost 

 truncate ; scales of th,e throat subulate. Anthers large. Ovary very villous, 

 tapering intp a thick glabrous style; ovules laterally attached near their base. 

 Fruit black, ovoid, fin. long, the pericarp qot thick. Seeds 1 or 2, the.hilum 

 very broad, and more than half as long, as the seed ; albumen copious ; cotyledons 

 very broad and flat. — Sersalisia laurifolia, A. Eioh. Sert. Austral. .84 t. 31; 

 A. DC. Prod. viii. 177 ; S. glabra, A. Gray in Proc. Airier. Acad. Sc. v. 827 ; 

 Achras laurifolia, F. v. M.; Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 282. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, Backhouse, Fraser; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Brisbane Biver and 

 southern scrubs. 



Wood of a light-grey' colour towards the outside, brown in the centre ; grain close. — Bailey's 

 Cat. Ql. Woods No. 264a. 



6. S> australis (Australian), Benth. and Hook. Gen. PL ii. 655. A tree 

 attaining sometimes a large size, quite glabrous except a slight appressed 

 pubescence on the ivery young shoots. Leaves shortly petiolate, from elliptical- 

 oblong and shortly and obtusely acuminate to broadly obovate-oblong and very 

 obtuse, mostly 3 to 4in. long but, sometimes larger, usually much reticulate. 

 Flowers in axillary clusters or almost solitary on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines, more 

 globular than in S. xerocarpum and 5. laurifolium. Calyxrsegiments 5, broadly 

 orbicular, about 2 lines diameter. Corolla scarcely exeeeding the calyx, the lobes 

 short and spreading ; scales of the throat slightly dilated upwards. Anthers on 

 very short filaments near the base of the corolla-tube. Ovary densely villous, 

 tapering into a short glabrous style, 5-celled ; ovules laterally attached near their 

 base. Fruit 2in. diameter, almost globose, of a deep plum colour. Seeds few, 

 large, compressed, the hilum on the inner edge more than half as long as the 

 seed, much broader than in .S'. xerocarjnom, narrower than in S. laurifolium. — 

 Sapota australis, A. DC. Prod. viii. 175; Achras axcstralis, R. Br. Prod. 530; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iv. 282. .... 



Hab.:.Eoekhampton and Eoekingham Bay, Dallachy; Brisbane Eiverand southern scrubs. 

 According to A, J. Hocking^, " Panunpin Plum " of the natives. 



Wood dark-coloured, close-grained and tough ; useful for building purposes. — BQ,iley's Cat, 

 Ql. Woods No. 265. 



7. S. argenteum (silvery), Spreny. Syst. i. 666 (partly) ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iv. 283. A smairtree attaining about 20ft., the branches and under side of 

 the leaves minutely and often sparingly silky-pubescent. Leaves obovate or 

 broadly elliptical,, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous 

 above, 3 to Sin. long. Flowers in axillary clusters on pedicels about as long as 

 the flowers, but attaining 3 lines when in fruit. Calyx-segments a little above 

 1 line diameter, orbicular, oiliolate, membranous, the outer ones rather thicker 

 and pubescent. Corolla small, spreading sometimes to nearly 3 lines diameter, 

 the lobes broad and obtuse ; scales of the throat ovate-acuminate or linear, 

 sometimes very small, or one or two of them quite deficient. Anthers often 

 shortly exceeding the corolla. Ovary densely hairy, at least round the circum- 

 ference, tapering into a short thick glabrous style, 5-oelled ; ovules laterally 

 attaiihed. Fruit oboVoid or oblong, ^in. long or more, usually 1 -seeded. Seed 

 obovate, compressed ; hilum linear, lateral ; albumen not very thick ; cotyledons 

 broad, thin, and flat ; radicle very short. — Sersalisia obovata, E. Br. Prod. 530 ; 

 A. DC. Prod. viii. 177 ; Achras obovataj F. v. M.; Benth. I.e. 



Hab.: Endeavour Biver, Banks and Solander ; Albany Island, W. Hill ; Kowiok's Group, 

 i''. V. M-ueller. . ,, 



In establishing the genus Sersalisia, Brown had seen the seed only of S. siricea, and was not 

 aware that in the present species it was albumlnons. — Benth. 



Wood of a yellow colour, hard, and close in grain. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 265a. 



