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- when ripe is free from the fleshy part or sarcocarp. In some respects — 
this species approaches O. Griffithiana, Wight, differing from it in ; 
colour of fruit as well as in form of foliage. : 
- Hab. : Tropical scrubs in the Cairns district, and thence to the Bellenden-Ker : 
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Of my specimens, I picked up the fruit under the trees, and the shoot of foliage 
was given to me by a settler as from the tree which bore the fruit. 
C. Palmerstonii (n. sp.) Coohoy or Conkie nut. (After : 
Christie Palmerston, who first sent fruit to Brisbane.) Tree of large | 
size, girth at base 36 ft., tapering proportionally upwards as straight — 
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: 3 primary pairs prominent, the smaller — 
reticulations somewhat indistinct ; petioles 4-in. or rather more long. 
filled by the large thick fleshy cotyledons, the oil or resin cells of 
which are very minute and only visible under a strong lens. i 
iver. Leaves and fruit, Bellenden-Ker Expedition. Fruit,and | 
notes on tree, C. Palmerston, who says that “the aborigines generally chew the — 
kernel till they get sufficient dough to make a johnny-cake ; toasting it on coals, it : 
rises like self-raised flour. Probably its rising may be attributed to saliva ; owever, — 
lour ; this damped and bound tightly by 2 
C, Bancroftii (n. sp.) (After Dr. Thos. Bancroft, who first q 
sent fruit specimens to Brisbane.) A glabrous tree of medium 
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Branchlets slender eaves alternate or at tim arl posite, | 
lanceolate, 4 or 5 in. long. 1 to 2 In. broad in the centre, tapering 
owards a slender petiole scarcely over +4-in apex bluntly 
acuminate, penniveine more or less conspicuous reticulations — 
n both Racemes terminal or in the upper axils about 4 10. — 
_ _ The fruit of this tree is usually much more abundant than any of the other | 
kinds, and probably the natives use it in a similar manner to C. Palmerstoni. - 
C. graveolens (n. sp.) Tree attaining 80 to 100 ft. in height . 
» DT. L. Bancroft. Branchlets smooth | 
and angular. Leayes often opposite, oblong, somewhat coriaceous, | 
7 or 8 in. and 23 to 8 in. broad, primary yeins looping within 
margin like those of a Eugenia, on petiole of }-in, Fruit red, 
