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nearly glabrous; leaves 3 to 7 in. long, on petioles of about 1 or 2 in. 
fone ee tly angular as well as the rhachis; leaflets petiolulate, of 
from 2 to 5 pairs, Said a terminal odd one, oval-oblong 2 to 4 in. long, 
and except the end one, which has a rather long cuneate base, very 
turbinate, from 1 to 4 in. or more in diameter, ite vis a dee pre 
when ripe, and then with a juey sarcocarp ; putame rd, rugose, 
outside, 12-celled, containing 1 seed in each cell. From ee a 
Engler’ s descriptions in part. 
tree of which eh above is a botanic pam se 2 is that known it 
Queensland as the Burdekin Plum, or sweet plum, and e Ro 7 natives 
as Rancooran, and at Port Ourtisa s Noongi. In the Ist af ay the Flor; ustraliensis, 
Mr. Bentham pee it in Melincema as ? Owenia cerasifera, as published S previoualy 
= y. Mueller in Hooker’s Kew Journal, with a note that, “until the flowers ha? 
been seen, this eecias must remain in some measure doubtf ul ” the fruit spe 
sia being then known. At page 492 of this same volume, Mr. entham describes the 
‘ same tree as Spon ndias — changing it from cs — as named by So ander i 
the Banksian Herbariu @ specimens were not in fruit, but he tells us that m 
the i HO a datoas was a ipahlons of drupes, — as bdlon nging to this species 
and described as such by R. - Brown, : and arom this ppc tevee there is littie doubt — 
but what the Ley nd that it and Owenia cer : 
are identical. Baron v. Mueller, it. oniie seem, a come fe ea soo for we : 
find 8. p vaya, one which he described it in his Fragm. i now ns 10 se 
into S. Solandri; in toa last: edition of ‘his census of Australian lane “Tt seems 
me better tl t the e given in De Candolles work, l.c., should be used for of 
Burdekin Plum, hevefone a paar is given in the present Bulletin A change 
of name is always to be ayoided where possible, but in the present instance it 306, 
= ecess — By an n Mivfoveasiate oversight C. De Candolle, Monogr. Phaner. bv 
f ni 
n, of Ons enia cerasifera, F.v.M., which name had been changed to 8p) ih : 
ed twelve 9 or fourteen years before, --F.v. M. in Fragm. IV.,78; and Vs . 
Order LEGUMINOSA. 
Trrpe GALEGEX. 
MILLETTIA, W. et Arn. : 
M. Maideniana (n. sp.) (After J. H. Maiden, F.LS. te 
of the Pyateeatase Museum, Sydney.) Branchlets strat 
clothed with appressed silky-hairs. Leaves about 6 in. long, P 
mee nate 11 to 13, narrow, oblong or lanceolate, the largest 
about 2 in. long, dive broad, on petiolules under 2 lines ep — ous 
branches race one. bearing more or less scattered pu ple 
Pedicels about 4 lines tone, hairy, Calyx silky, about 
deeply lobed. Standard 4 to nearly {-in. broad, mu uch ‘proa 
