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lines long, slender, hairy inside, the lobes acuminate, twisted, 
imbricate, white, slightly over 2 lines long. Stamens 4, inserted at 
the top of tube, the anther tips alone exserted. Fruit nearly 
Hab.: Tringilburra Creek, Bellenden-Ker Expedition, 1889. 
Order MYRSINEZ., 
& Trine EUMYRSINEZ. 
: EMBELIA, Burm. 
| (The Ceylonese name of one species.) 
Flowers small, polygamous, mostly diccious, white or greenish 
yellow. Calyx free, 5-4-lobed, persistent. Petals 5-4, free or slightly 
; ovules few. uit small, globose, 1 (rarely 2) seeded. Seed globose, 
base hollowed, albumen pitted subruminate; embryo curved, trans- 
ve rubs, mostly climbing, or small trees. Leaves entire or 
toothed ; petiole often margined or gla xillary or 
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except in EZ. amentacea, no bracteoles. (Samara austrdliana should be 
‘Placed in this genus.) 
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texture firm, almost elliptic, blunt at the base, pelluced dots _ 
plainly visible, margins entire, the veins closely reticulate, glabrescent. 
Panicle densely tomentose, numerously branche : 
brownish. Flowers in racemous clusters very shortly pedicellate. 
Bracts rather large, ealyx-segments 5, rather long, narrow-elliptic. 
Petal about 3 lines long, very perceptibly dotted, much less pubescent 
than the calyx, tender membranous; stamens 5, about as long as a 
sce linear-setaceous, hairy ; anthers broadly cordate. Ovary and the 
ower portion of the style woolly. Fruit not seen.—F-. v. IL. Le. 
ab: Russell River, Stephen Johnson. ; 
OT8.— Samara australiana has to be changed to Embelia australiana. See 
Benth. and Hook., Gon., Pl. I., 1240, 
Order SAPOTACEAL. 
s SIDEROXYLON, Linn. aes es 
» arnhemica, F. v. U.,in Flora Austra. iv. 280. ree a 
25 ft. high, the head well shaped and affording good shade; diameter 
k about 1 ft. with a greyish tessellated bark. Wood white, a 
hg Branchlets softly pubescent. Leaves ovate or oe 
tuse, much tapering towards the base, softly silky-pubescent on 
