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tips of branchlets, pedicellate, the pedicels varying from 3 

 to 5 mm. long, so arranged in many instances that the 

 inflorescence lias the appearance of a simple umbel. Bracts 

 solitary, about 4 mm. long, somewhat retuse, deciduous. 

 Bracteoles 2, about 2 mm. long, deciduous. Calyx tube 

 glabrous terminated with 5 minute crescent-shaped sepals 

 which are minutely ciliate and very deciduous. Petals 

 white, orbicular, about twice the size of the sepals. 

 Stamens about 25 - 30. Style 2 mm. long, with a capitate 

 stigma. Ovary glabrous, the valves protruding from the 

 rim of the calyx-tube to about 2 mm., the mature fruits 

 normally five-celled, and reaching a diameter of about 

 4 — 5 mm. 



In the herbarium this species has been mixed up with 

 two or three different species, as for example L.attenuatum r 

 L. flavescens, and L. abnorme. It belongs to the Eulepto- 

 spermae group and has affinities with L. ivooroonooran, but 

 may be distinguished from the latter in the different habit 

 of growth, and the leaves being blunt and notched and 

 more nerves in L. ocloratum, whereas in L. ivooroonooran 

 they are pointed and recurved at the apex and only three- 

 nerved, also in the fruits being sessile in the latter and 

 pedicellate in the new species. L. ocloratum also some- 

 what resembles L. amboinense of Blume, but may easily 

 be distinguished from the latter species in that the flowers 

 and fruiting capsules are in terminal clusters or umbellate, 

 while those of L. amboinense are solitary and axillary. 



Although the oil glands are very numerous they are 

 scarcely visible to the naked eye, but are easily seen under 

 an ordinary pocket lens, and when bruised between the 

 fingers the oil has a nice pleasant fragrant odour. Mr. 

 A. R. Penfold has this under investigation, and states that 

 the most characteristic constituents are eudesmol and levo- 

 aromadendrene in fairly large quantities. 



