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Albumen copious, oily-fleshy, whitish. Embryo greenish-yellow. Cotyledons oval, foliaceous, 
twice as long as the thin-cylindrical radicle. 
The dehiscence of the staminal tube seems not to be previously noticed in Turraea. The 
occurrence of this genus within the Australian territory was already known to All. Cunningham 
(Conf. Append, to King’s Intratrop. Surv. p. 23.) 
ME LI A AZEDARACH. 
L. Sp. Plant. 550. 
Port Molle. Occurs southward at least as far as the Hastings River. Common in 
many parts of East and North Australia. 
AMPELIDEAC. 
CISSUS OrACA. 
F. M. in Transact. Phil. Inst . Victor, iii. 23. 
Port Molle. 
COCHLOSPERMEyE. 
COCHLOSPERMUM GREGORII. 
F. M. Fragm. Phytogr . Austr. i. 71. 
Port Denison. 
Attains the height of 20 feet. 
BUETTNERIACE^E. 
MELHANIA OBLONGIFOLIA. 
F. M. Fragm. Phyt. Austr. i. 69. 
Cleveland Bay. 
Shrub 8-10 feet high. Leaves and indument are subject to many variations. Hence 
the possibility of our plant proving identical with M. incana, which, moreover, has already 
been introduced into the list of In do- Australian plants by Dr. Jos. Hooker. 
STERCULIACE2E. 
BRACHYCHITON RAMIFLORUM. 
P. Brown , in Horsfield's Plant. Javan, rarior. 234 ; B. Bidwillii, Hook. Bot. Mag. 5133. 
Mount Gordon, Port Denison. 
The plant is by no means rare in the drier littoral tracts of tropical Australia. Although 
a tree, it never attains the height of its congeners. An opportunity was recently afforded by 
Pemberton Walcott, Esq., of examining the seeds of Brachy chiton Gregorii, and proving their 
normal congeneric structure. 
STERCULIA QUADRIFIDA. 
B. Br. in Horsf. Plant. Javan, rarior. 233. 
Port Denison. 
This species extends from Arnhem’s Land to Moreton Bay. 
A tree, attaining the height of about 30 feet. Leaves generally 2-3 inches long, entire, 
chartaceous, above shining, beneath paler and opaque. Flowers monoecious. Calyx 4- rarely 
3-cleft, only inch long, pale green, at the inner base red ; the margins of the lobes towards 
the base reflexed. Anthers yellow. Ovary velvet-downy. Styles short, downy, united. Stigmas 
4, yellowish-green. Follicles coriaceous, turgid, outside beautifully scarlet, inside yellowish- 
red, smooth, 4-6-seeded. Seeds broad- ovate, about 8 lines long, glabrous, smooth, black, 
somewhat of the taste of filberts. Strophiole minute, rather spongy, whitish. Outer integument 
somewhat shining, black, very thin, brittle ; inner one crustaceous and separable ; between both 
a layer of whitish mucilaginous substance. Albumen fleshy, whitish, outside fulvous. Cotyle- 
dons flat, adnate to the albumen. Radicle very short, superior. 
MALVACEAE. 
PARITIUM TILIACEUM. 
A dr. de Juss. in St. Hilaire Flor. Brazil, i. 198. 
Halifax Bay. 
SIDA INDICA. 
I. Sp. PI. 964. 
Cleveland Bay. 
AUR ANTIACE JL 
GLYCOSMIS SUBVELUTINA. 
F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 25. 
Port Molle. 
A tree 20-30 feet high. 
