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to his means, enclosing a smaller one to hold a portion of chunam 
(lime obtained by the calcination of shells), whilst the larger contains 
the nuts of the Areca and a few fresh leaves of the epg As 
inclination or habit impels, he scrapes down the nut, whic 
in catechu, and, rolling it up with a little of the lime in ‘a betel-leaf, the 
salivation. ‘No medical speuneiution = could be more judiciously com. 
pounded to effect the desired See, than this practical combination of 
antacid, the tonic, and carminative 
Order CHENOPODIACEZ, 
Tring CHENOLEEZ. 
KOCHIA, Schrad. 
K. planifolia, F. . W., Fragm. i. 213; Fi. Austr. vy. 187. = 
or divaricately branched shrub of 2 or 8 ft., the ranches ve 
the older leaves. Leaves pia or oblanceolatt, 
pri contracted into a distinct petiole, ¢ to 4 n, long, rather thie 
but flat. Fr ruiting perianth precisely that of id “eilladd a, glabrous 0 
tomentose, the wing generally entire, membranous and attaining 5 to 
6 aos diameter. —Fl. Austr. l.c 
b.: Queensland, F. v. I. 
Order LAURINEA, 
Trrsz PERSEACE A. 
ENDIANDRA, RB. Br. 
E. Sankeyana sp.) Aboriginal name at Barron River, 
Goolaway.” A 3 attaining the height of about 70 ft. ; the young 
branches often 4-angular and more or less see tg fonruginows ey 
tomentose. Leaves alternate or subopposite at the en nds. oF 
or 
more or less velvety. Flowers not seen. Fruit racemes — 
23 in. long, with or two fruit at the it black, obose, 
often compressed, 1 to 14 in. diameter, resting upo? 
perianth, not exceeding 2 lines diameter. 
ab.: Scrubs about the Barron River, E. Co time 
ae | ollowing my plan of attaching to new v native e pla ™ interest 
time the names of those members of our Royal Society who So erined eres _ 
in the bo' of the colony, to the present new Endiandra is 
that list 
Soctien. the treasurer of the e society and an active member of the Field Ni a 
Order PROTEACES. 
BANKSIA, Linn. f. 
B. ericifolia, Linn. f, Suppl. 127; _ Fl. Austr. 
= sheet or small tree of 12 to 14 ft.; glabrous ex< 
runeate - 
