sessile, preted thin-veined, oil dots much concealed. Flowers § 
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sessile flowers. Calyx-tnbe tapering much towards the base, some- 
what hoary, about 3 lines long; lobes about 1 line long, very broad. 
Petals twice as long as the ealyx-lobes; the oil-dots very prominent 
when dry. Stamens twice the length of petals. No fruit obtained. » 
Hab: Near the summit of the South Peak of Bellenden-Ker, Exped. 1889, 
=. Johnsoni, / v., I, Vict. he April 18992. (After Stephen — 
Johnson.) A glabrous tree of about 40 feet in height; branchlets 
almost cylindric. Leaves seldom over cS in. long and 15 broad, often 
smaller, of firm consistence, mostly ovate-lanceolate, much contrac ted 
towards the blunt summit, gradually narrowed into a con 
n 
' Bractioles narrow, fugaci Calyx before expansion clawate-ovate ; 
tube smooth, pag gradually into the ation el; lobes 4, rather large, 
Seed turgidly wee its colyledons ne above the other. The unex 
panded flowers resemble those of some eucalypt and impart to this 
“species a peculiar-appearance.—F7. v. M. Le ell 
ab.: Mount Bartle Frere, Stephen Johnson, 5 
This is the species I alluded to in my report of the botany af the Beilender- 
se ae as a probable form of E. grandis, but then no fruit was esau 
E. apodophylia, M., Vict. Nat. April 1892. (Lares 
cmikken ) A tree of sb “40 ft. “ak. “branchlets promineesy qua uad- 
rangular, some parts quite membr anously mar Leaves 1 to 
23 in. long, firmly Pe soastioles long-acuminate, with Bea er 
: together between terminal leaves ; ; peduncles none ; united 
pedicels and flower-buds club-shaped; calyx passing gradua ually 10 
the twice longer pedicel, punctular-scabrous. Petals 1 line, at first 
coalescent into an hemi-spheric lid, but some finally expanding. Stamens _ 
much longer than the petals, some 4 lines long ; anthers roundish whet 
open ; style elongated ; ovary sunk deeply. Fruit reddish.— —fv Df he. 
Hab.: Bellenden-Ker Range, Wm. Sayer. 
. hedraiop Rail wo F. v. I, Vict. Nat. April 1892. (Referring 
to "the want of stal. ie the leaves. 5 Stature not recorded. Branchle 
glabrous and prominently quadrangular. Leaves rather large, chat 
taceous, elliptic-lanceolate, gradually acuminated, with rounded et 
almost sessile, veins faint, pinnate and immersed, nil dots copious Bb | 
not conspicuous. Flowers ‘small in ample branchiate eet, ee él ; 
from decurrent prominences, very quadrangular ; fend 
ternate on the ultimate pedun neles _ pedicels Sekery ” ahort or 0 
literated ; calyx hemispheric-turbinate, slightly lobed or almost trun 
a 
cate. Petals hardly expanding. Anthers very minute, bout as lond 
as broad. Style capillary, thin : ovary much ee Fruit quite ind 
almost globular, one-seeded, terminated by a comparatively broad. rp 
of thin SuTS and spare from it by some constriction 5 per 
very thi 
a : ins is Tu. Sayer; Russell River, Stephen Johusom 
