ENUMERATION OF THE 
PLANTS COLLECTED DURING 
THE BURDEKTN EXPEDITION. 
OAPPAEIDEiE. 
BUSBECKEA CORY.MBIFLORA. 
F. M. Fragm . Phytogr. Austr. i. 63. 
Port Denison. 
GUTTIEEIUE. 
CALOPHYLLUM INOPHYLLITM. 
LinnS, Sp. Plant. 732. 
Percy Islands. 
The stems of the young plant are quadrangular. Trunk about 2 feet in diameter ; wood 
white and close-grained, similar to that of box. 
PITTOSEOEEyE. 
BURS ARIA SPINOSA. 
Cavan. Icon. iv. 30 t. 350; F. M. Plants indigenous to the Colony Victoria, i. 74. 
Cape Upstart. 
Port Denison. 
MELIACEJL 
OWENIA CERASIFERA. 
F. M. in Hook. Journ. of Pot. ix. 305. 
TURRA5A PUBESCENS. 
Hellenius, inKongl. Sevensk Vetenslcaps Academiens Handling ar, 1788, p. 26, t. 10,/. 3; Bennett , 
in Horsfield' s Plantce Javanicce rariores , 181. 
Percy Island. On the Bur dekin northward as far as opposite Halifax Bay ; thence in 
the Brigalow scrub sparingly southward as far as Mount Lindsay ; on the latter locality found 
by Walt. Hill, Esq. 17 
The identity, of the Australian plant with the Chinese species not being sufficiently 
established, I deem it desirable to append a detailed description of our plant, chiefly from the 
botanical diary kept during Mr. Gregory’s expedition. 
A small tree or more generally a shrub, several feet high, with several or many erect 
stems and spreading branches ; the latter terete, distant, covered with exceedingly thin pube- 
scence, sordidly brown, often smooth in age. Leaves deciduous, alternate, herbaceous or at last 
chartaceous, in a young state often fasciculate, ovate, entire, blunt, provided with a petiole of 
3—4 lines length, penninerved, 1—4 inches long, downy along the nerves, otherwise almost glabrous 
or but slightly hairy, occasionally acuminate. Umbels lateral and terminal, sessile or short- 
pedunculate, few-flowered. Pedicels 2-6 lines long, with three bracteoles at the base. Exterior 
bracteole about 1 line long, triangular ; inner ones lanceolate, about 1 line loner. Calyx five- 
toothed, almost campanulate, 1J line long, persistent, outside almost silky. 'Corolla white 
fragrant, consisting of five petals, which are about 1 inch long, glabrous, outside towards the 
apex greenish and broadest, imbricate in estivation, inserted outside the disk, at first coherent 
into a tube, m age separating, deciduous. Staminal tube free of the corolla, adnate to the 
margin of the disk, white, deciduous, at first with exception of the toothed limbus entire soon 
however, splitting unilaterally from the apex to below the middle, as lono- as the corolla ’at the 
apex divided into ten deeply bifid teeth, which are alternate with the anthers Segments of the 
teeth linear-subulate, about 1 line long. Anthers yellow, with introrse dehiscence, less than 1 
line long, tetragonous-oblong, rostellate, attenuated at the base ; their fissures not extending quite 
to the base. Pollen golden-yellow. Style finally considerably longer than the columna, glabrous, 
filiform, with a thickened truncate-ovate or urccolato apex of 1 line length, on which the 
hemispherical glabrous yellow stigma is inserted. Hypogynous disk short, entire Germen 
smooth globose five-celled. Ovules affixed to the central angle of the dissepiments. Capsule 
fave-valved, thickly coriaceous ; the septum forming a ridge along the middle of each valve 
glabrous. Valves broad-ovate, acute, outside squalid-green, inside yellowish, about 5 lines long’ 
Seeds saturate-brown, renate-clubshaped, hardly longer than 2 lines, smooth. Testa chartaceous. 
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