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lanceolate, attaining about 8 in. in length, and then scarcely over 
1; in. broad in the widest part, colour pale, the apex blunt or minutely 
emarginate, on petioles of about 3-in. which are flattened, the upper 
surface glossy, the under surface of lighter colour, midrib flattish, the 
primary lateral nerves very oblique, few, the basal pair faint, and very 
near the margin until lost in the reticulation about half way up the 
leaf. Panicles slender, terminal, and in the upper axils, 2 or 3 in. long, 
of few branches, hoary or velvety hairy, branches few, with usually 
2,3, or 4 pedicellate flowers at the end of each branchlet. Perianth 
hairy on both sides, as are also the broad filaments of the stamens. 
Stamens all shorter than the perianth. Ovary and style glabrous; 
stigma peltate. The only fruit seen was much deformed by gall insect 
and fungus. 
Hab.: Maroochie, where it is known as the “ Sassafras Tree.” 
From imperfect specimens I thought this tree only a form of Bentham’s 
Beilschmiedia obtusifolia, and under which name its wood and bark have been 
noticed in my catalogue of Queensland Woods, . 815. Professor D. Oliver, of 
the Kew Herbarium, to whom I sent specimens of the bark for the museum, and 
= i e my mistake, and hinted at the proba- 
bility of its being a innamomum, which, from the examination of somewhat better 
Specimens, I think is the case and record it as above, although even now the | 
naterial is but imperfect. So far as at present known the tree is only met with in 
the scrubs of the Maroochie River. Of the bark, the late K. T. Staiger said it 
contained a tannin similar or identical with cinchona tannin ; the amount, seven and 
thalf per cent. One ton of the dry bark yields 770 oz. of oil. 
When on the summit of Bellenden-Ker, in 1889, one of the party brought to the 
camp, on the South Peak, a shoot of a probably new Cinnamomum, which, judging 
from the foliage alone—for no flowers or fruit were obiained—closely approaches 
th ong, tly coriaceous, 3-nerved, the lateral ones vanishing at a little more 
half way up the leaf, the reticulation somewhat obscure ; upper surface glossy, 
under surface whitish. In the event of ite proving new, I would recommend its 
dele Yolium Cc, propiagaem, from its near resemblance to C. Wightii and C. 
Order PROTEACEA. 
HELICIA, Lour. 
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seomen €. Filaments flat, inserted near the base 
glands od ; Sapam with prominent gland-like sguiiaate mes 
MES orming acup. Ovary clothed with white hairs; sty 
“tgular, glabrous. cree z 
oe : Serubs about the Bellenden-Ker Ranges. 
