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long, 14 in. at the widest part, those near the end of leaf taniceolate 
owermost ones abruptly rounded at the base, points elongate 
petiolules very short. (On a leaf sent separate from the fruit-bearing 
specimen the petiole and rhachis measured 1 ft. long, see the leaflets 
were of the same form but measured 82 in. long and 3 in. 
g growth shows a ferru inous pubescence, but the olde leaves 
are hirsute with white hairs, some of which are much longer than the 
Flowers not seen. Fruit on short racemes or panicles near 
the summit of the branchlets, pyriform-globose, 14 in. long, 14 im. m 
diameter, 5-celled, 5-seeded; in some uits one or more of the cells 
2-seeded ; seeds attached near the base, testa orange-madder coloured, 
bluntly 3-sided, the arillus only covering at third of the seed. Pericarp 
prominently wrinkled, covered with a dense coating of short orange-_ 
coloured hairs besides the longer white ones with which other parts of 
.: Freshwater Omak ti ear Cairn ig oe. ‘Wu gent. The only other AGS 
tralian te a that I know of with a deeply wrinkled peri — is one of whichI 
gathered fruiting specimens on the Mulgrave River in 1889; this had the 5- elle 
fruit and the very oblique base to the leaflets of D. rufum, Ben ith hus ; 
my specimens under that species, but now I am inclined to think it may prove a y 
distinct species or variety. a 
Order RHAMNEZ. 
POMADERRIS, Cahill. : 
P. ferruginea ve Of this species Beaten says, at page 
417, ~ I., Flora » Austr. : ise ae P. elliptica, and united : 
: with it by F. ’ Mueller, Fae the leaves Sie above, an the r Z 
flower of that s te but the leaves are usually rather longet ae 
their breadth and more acute, and the down of the under side 1s mu 
more dense, salveny, and usually ferruginous. The flowers are ley 
numerous, the calyx more softly and —— hairy, aot the perm 
usually narrower. The fruits are the same 
P. f., . Canescens. Leaves 3 to 4 in. long, . 
less (sonba underneath. Easaarras almost between P- ferr- 
ginea and P. elliptica. Percy Island, A. Cunningham. 
this I have no authentic specimens, but + from specimens yes te 
received from Mr. F. C. Simmonds it would seem that the Ngee 
ote = sally s Range. This plant forms as shrub 5 oF eee 
plea sO ily abd nd ae light or dark erst longer het 
late, 24 to 44 in. lon; 1 to 14 in. bro hs 
eth hale trae ae nit Shae of about 4 S suscans entity, 
above, the under side P coneay clothed with ‘a nearly white 0 
and lonpish scattered brownish hairs. Panicles corymbos® ish. 
and in the upper axils. Stiptilee hairy outside, glabrous and put, 
brown inside, ovate-lanceolate 3 lines long, fre ee a 
white, and 
Benth. le. = 
