960 LXXV. SAPOTAOEiE. [<^idero!cylon. 



12. S. myrsinoides (Myrsine-like), Benth. and Hook. Qen. PI. ii. 655. 

 A slender twiggy shrub or small tree, the young branches and leaves more 

 or less pubescent or villous, the full-grown leaves glabrous above or sometimes 

 on both sides. Leaves shortly petiplate, mostly ovate or broadly elliptical, 

 but sometimes obovate, obtuse, narrowed at the base, 1 to 2 or rarely 3in. long, 

 the veins usually prominent. Flowers not numerous, in axillary clusters or 

 almost solitary, on recurved . pedicels longer than the flower (usually about 3, 

 sometimes 4 lines)^ tomentose-pubescent. Calyx-segments 5, the 2 outer 

 tomentose and about 2 lines long. Corolla-tube as long as the calyx ; lobes 5, 

 shorter than the tube, broad, truncate ; scales of the throat linear. Ovary very 

 villous; ovules laterally attached. Fruit not seen. — Achras myrsinoides, A. Cunn. 



Hab.: Eodd's Bay, A. Cunningham; Brisbane Biver, Moreton B&j, Frafer, W. Hill; 

 Breakfast Creek. ietcA&ardt ; Queensland woods, London Exhibition, 1862, n. 49, W. Hill; 

 Bundaberg, B. Scortechini. 



4, HORMOGYNE, A. DC. 



(Ovary bearded.) 



Calyx-segments, corolla-lobes, stamens, and ovary-cells 5. Scales (or 

 staminodia ?) 5, in the throat of the corolla alternating with the corolla-lobes. 

 Ovary surrounded by a hirsute disk ; ovules solitary in each cell, laterally 

 attached. Fruit unknown. — Shrub. Leaves small. Flowers axillary, mostly 

 solitary. 



The genus is limited to the single species endemic in Australia. The flowers differ from those 

 of Lucuma, Sideroxylon, and allied genera chiefly in the hypogynous disk surrounding the 

 ovary, vphioh may not in itself be sufficient to constitute a distinct genus, but in the absence of 

 the fruit and seed it is impossible to say to which of them it ought to be referred. — Benth. 



1. H. cotinifolia (Cotinus-like), A. DC. Prod. viii. 176. A dwarf thick- 

 stemmed tree, sometimes a straggling or diffuse shrub with slender branches, 

 the young shoots sprinkled with a few hairs, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 

 shortly petiolate, obovate or almost orbicular, very obtuse, under lin. long. 

 Flowers solitary in the axils, on recurved pedicels of 1 to 2 lines.. Calyx- 

 segments 5, ovate, slightly pubescent or glabrous, about 1 line long. Corolla- 

 tube exceeding the calyx ; , lobes short, truncate. Scales in the coroll9,-throat 

 slightly dilated towards the top.' Ovary within the disk glabrous as well as the 

 rather long style. — Deless. Ic. Sel. v. t. 37 ; Sersalisia cotinifolia, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. v. 161. 



Hab,: Moreton Bay, W Hill; Bockhampton, Dallachy, Thozet; Nerkool Creek and Fitzroy 

 Biver, Bowman ; Port Denison, Fitzalan. 



Wood light or darkish-yellow edlour, close in grain, and very hard ; does not shrink or warp 

 much in drying. A useful cabinet wood. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 266 and 266a. 



5. MIMUSOPS, Linn. 

 (Flowers of some species ape-face like.) 

 Calyx-segments 6 to 8. Corolla-lobes 3 times or rarely twice as many as 

 calyx-segments, in 8 rarely 2 rows, with scales in the throat. Stamens 6 

 to 8, inserted in the throat of the corolla opposite the inner lobes, without 

 intervening staminodia. Filaments short ; anthers lanceolate, turned outwards, 

 but opening laterally. Ovary 6 to 8-celled ; ovules laterally attached near the 

 base or almost erect. Seeds more or less compressed ; testa, hard and shining ; 

 hilum either very small ovate and basal, or more or less elongated and laterai. 



