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at the Lase or sometimes twice that size, glabrous and deep green ; 
petioles 1 to 2 in. long with 2 sessile rather large glands at the 
top ; nerves 5 to 7 on each side of the midrib, the lowest pair starting 
from the top of the petiole, the smaller reticulations fine, but 
promment in the dried leaf. Inflorescence slightly ferruginously 
pubescent, in pedunculate cymes in the upper axils of lateral shoots, 
somewhat trichotomously branched, about 2 in. long and broad. No 
male flowers found in the inflorescence examined. Female perianth of 
5 imbricate hairy lobes, 1^ line long, the flowers very variable as to 
size and length of pedicels, some quite sessile ; style very short with 3 
spreading stigmatic brandies. Pruit large, globular, yellow or nearly 
white, 3 to 5 in. diameter, 2 to 3 or in some 4-celled ; exocarp thick, 
fleshy, ultimately separating into as many cocci, with a thin hard 
endocarp containing a solitary globular seed. The flowers may 
probably sometimes have 4 stigmatic lobes. 
The specimens from whicli tlie above description was written were received 
some years ago from Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft, when that gentleman was on the John- 
stone River, and the nuts were described by him as edible. At the time I felt 
diffident about publishing the plant as new, so placed it in the herbarium, marked 
"Near Oinphalea,^^ this American genus seeming its nearest ally. While on the 
Belienden-Ker expedition I frequently noticed the plant and saw fruit on the ground, 
but could obtain no flowers. However, I have ventured to name it as a new species 
of Omphalea, although no male flowers are yet to hand. I notice also, in a late issue 
of the Toivnsville Bulletin, that some nuts collected by Mr. Christie Palmerston 
were sent to the Royal G-arclens, Kew, and the authorities there considered one of 
these nuts to belong to some species of OmpTialea, probably the same plant here 
described. I did not obtain the native name ; but the name there given is 
" Coorwah." Plants for years have been growing at Bowen Park which were raised 
from Johnstone River seeds. 
A sj^ecies, O. oleifera, Hemsley, at Salvador, Sonsonate, is called by the natives 
" Tambor," and Dr. Dorat says that it yields a large quantity of a very fine oil, pleasant 
to the taste, and resembling castor oil in its purgative qualities, with the advantage 
that its action is painless. Bio. Cent.— Ame. (Botany) iii. 134. 
Dr. Lindley, Veg. King. p. 279, says that the juice of a Guayaua species, 
O. triandra, turns black in drying, and is there used in the place of ink. I notice 
that the coagulated sap of our native plant often forms small black lumps on the 
branches. 
EXCJ:CARIA, Linn. 
E. AgallOCha, Linn.; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 1220; PI. 
Austr. vi. 152. Milky Mangrove. 5. 
Order URTICACE-ffi. 
TEEMA, Lour. 
T. aspera, Bhme; Mus. Bot. ii. 58; PI. Austr. vi. 158. Peach- 
leaf Poison-bush. 1. 
T. Orientalis, BUme; Mus. Bot. ii. 62; PI. Austr. vi. 158. 
Grunpowder Charcoal tree of India. 7. 
APHANANTHE, Planch. 
A. philippinensis, Blanch, in Ann. Sc. IN'at. ser. 3, x. 337; PI. 
Austr. vi. 160. 7. 
PSEUDOMOEUS, Bureau. 
P. Brunoniana, in Ann. Sc. ]Nrat.'!ser. 5,-xi. 372; PI. 
Austr. vi. 181. 1, 7. 
