844 ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA. 



[ in. long, acute, deciduous. Petioles $i~i in. long, glabrous. 

 Leaves membranaceous, oblong-elliptic, base often somewhat 

 oblique, obtuse or subcuneate-acute, apex acuminate and then 

 cuspidate, 4-8 in. long, 2-3^ in. broad, glabrous, slightly rough, 

 veins about 10 on either side of the midrib, patent, nearly strict, 

 prominent on both sides, reticulations very slender hardly dis- 

 cernible. Receptacles on special branches from the trunk 16-18 

 in. long, upper peduncles 3-4 lines long covered with a pale 

 appressed ferrugineous pubescence, apical bracts 3, squamiform, 

 obtuse receptacle depressed globose, nearly 1 in. broad, }i in. long, 

 densely covered with an appressed pale ferrugineous pubescence. 

 Male flowers at the apex of the receptacle, stamen 1, sepals cucul- 

 late, all involute; all flowers densely crowded, perianth infundi- 

 buli'form, hyaline, style hairy, apex very shortly dilated and 

 somewhat 2-lobed. 



Hab. : Damp spots in the scrub, banks of streams, &c., Lower Russell 

 River, L. Dicls. 



A tree belonging to the section Covellia, having bright reddish- 

 yellow hairy receptacles and a bristly style. The receptacle 

 branches on the stem are pendant and often nearly 20 in. long. — 

 Warb. I.e. 



P. 504.— Add:— 



Seel ion IV. — Sycidium. 



F. Dielsii, Warb., Fedde Rep. 1, 75. — A small tree, young 

 branchlets grey-pubescent, soon glabrous. Stipules caducous, 

 r /2-2 in. long, involute, lanceolate, acute, in the centre grey- 

 tomentose. Petioles f^-i in. long, grey pubescent at length 

 glabrous. Leaves membranaceous, elliptic to oblong, base narrow, 

 sub-cuneate, apex acuminate or shortly cuspidate, glabrous above, 

 pubescent on the nerves on the upper surface, 3^4-6 in. long, 

 1 34-234 in. broad, veins about 10 on either side of the midrib, 

 slender, oblique, ascending, somewhat curved at and scarcely 

 joined near the margin, basal nerves 2 or 3 on either side of the 

 midrib, the central ones more ascending, reticulations slender, 

 verv distinct on the under surface but not prominent. Receptacles 

 numerous, borne on short-branching branches from the trunk, 

 peduncles Yi-fi in. long, at the apex subincrassate, bracts 3, 

 squamiform, obtuse, -;4 line long and broad. Receptacles pyri- 

 form, covered with an appressed pubescence, about ]/ 2 in. long, 

 3^2-4 lines broad, apex rugose, ostiole impressed; inside among 

 the flowers are numerous bracts or white hairs. Male flowers 

 monandrous, perianth segments cucullate, filament thick, anther 

 rotund-ovate, base nearly cordate. Female flowers (gall-flowers?) 

 sessile, perianth segments 3 or 4, red with a pale margin, obtuse 

 or rotundate, often subcucullate ; style short, lateral, white, 

 narrow-infundibuliform. 



Hab. : In stony bed of a creek, shady localities, Central Barron, 

 I. Dicls. 



