Baloghia.j CXVIi. fetJf HORfelACte^. 1489 



border. Stamens indefinite, the filaments shortly united or inserted on a raised 

 or conical central receptacle or column without any rudimentary ovary ; anthers 

 dorsally attached, with two distinct parallel cells opening outwards and longitud- 

 inally in 2 valves. Female flower : Calyx petals and disk as in the males. Ovary 

 8-celled, with one ovule in each cell. Styles 3, distinct or shortly united at the 

 base, spreading, deeply divided into 2 branches. Fruit globular, the exocarp often 

 fleshy or succulent, the endocarp rather hard, separating into 3 2-valved cocci. 

 Seeds oblong, with a small carunculus ; albumen copious, cotyledons flat, longer 

 than and at least twice as broad as the radicle. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous except 

 sometimes the flowers. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, finely veined. Flowers 

 few, not small, the racemes sometimes almost reduced to umbels ; bracts ' very 

 deciduous, with 1 flower within each. 



The genus contains but few species, chiefly from New Caledonia the Queensland one. 



1. B. lucida, (shining) Encll. Prod. Fl. Xorf. 84, aiul Iconogr. t. 122, 123 ; 

 Benth. b'l. Austr. vi. 148. Scrub Bloodwood. A large tree, the trunk with 

 the bark often much knotted and much stained by the flow of red sap. Leaves 

 opposite, very shortly petiolate, oblong obovate-oblong or elliptical, obtuse or 

 obtusely acuminate, rigidly coriaceous, glabrous, and shining, the primary veins 

 numerous, fine but prominent, transverse and anastomosing. Flowers white, 

 fragrant, few together in short loose sessile terminal racemes, the males and 

 females usually on separate branches, but sometimes the lower 1 or 2 pair 

 female and the upper 2 or 3 pair male ; the pedicels opposite, J to ^in. 

 long, solitary in the axils of very small bracts. Calyx deeply divided into 

 5 lanceolate lobes, varying to 4 only in the males, or rarely to 6 in the 

 females, 2 to 2-| lines long. Petals oblong or lanceolate, nearly twice as 

 long. Disk in both sexes with a thick irregularly lobed undulate margin. 

 Stamens numerous, the filaments very shortly united in a conical or 

 oblong column or receptacle. Styles divided almost to the base into 2 

 branches. Capsule echinate, hard, globular, | to fin. diameter, somewhat tridy- 

 mous, with a furrow bordered by 2 narrow ridges on the back of each coccus. — 

 CodicBum lucidum, Muell. Arg. in DC, Prod. xv. ii. 1116. 



Hab.: Bockingham Bay, DaZZac/ii/ ; Rookhampton, O'Shanesij ; MoietonBay, F. v. Mueller! 

 Taylor's Eange. 



Wood o( a light-yellow, prettily marked, close in the grain, hard and tough ; a useful cabinet- 

 wood ; might probably prove suitable for engraving. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 373. 



The red sap which flows copiously from tbis tree when cut, hardens to a red gum. Analysis 

 of the inspissated juice according to Lauterer : Water 18-7 ; Arabin, 4'6 ; Tannin (derived from 

 protooatechuic acid) 76'8. 



30. FONTAINEA, Heckel. 



(After E. F. Desfontaines). 



Flowers dioecious or more rarely monoecious ; calyx gamophyllous sacciform 

 very shortly 4 to 5-dentate at apex, valvate, sometimes unequally broken. 

 Petals 8 to 6 imbricate. Stamens numerous, central (of Codiaum), exterior of 

 base surrounded by continuous 4 to 6-gonal disk ; anthers extrorosely rimose ; 

 cells adnata to'linear connective or more or less high discrete at apex. Calyx of 

 female flowers valvate, unequally broken. Petals as in the male flower. Disk 

 hypogynous continuous surrounding base of gynseceum ; ovary 3 to 6-celled ; 

 cells (when equal in number) oppositipetalous ; style afterwards divided into 

 branches, same in number, rather thick, stigmatiferous within ; ovules solitary ; 

 micropyle obtected by short obturator. Fruit drupaceous, suboliviform or 

 obtuse angular ; putarnen bony ; cells 2 to 6 ; 1 (or rarely 2, 3) usually fertile, the 

 others small effete. Seeds exarillate glabrous ; albumen copious oily ; cotyledons 

 of central embryo foliaceous elliptical many times wider than terete radicle. — 

 Trees, leaves alternate. Raceme axillary, Heck, Baill. Hist. PI. v. 194. 



