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MORINDA CITRIFOLIA. 
L. Sp. Plant. 250. 
Percy and Sinclair Islands. 
The opportunity is an apt one for offering here some remarks on the “ Leichhardt-tree” of 
the settlers of Rockhampton, which occurs also on the Burdekin and extends thence to North- 
Western Australia. It was correctly referred by the lamented traveller, whose name it bears, 
to Sarcocephalus, and appears to be identical with S. cordatus (Miq. Flor. Ind. Batav. i. 133 ; 
Nauclea cordata, Roxb. Flor. Ind. ed. Wall. ii. p. 118). If it should prove distinct from the 
Java plant it might be distinguished as S. Leichharditii. It forms an extremely handsome and 
umbrageous tree of considerable size. The wood is pale-yellowish, and regarded as useful for 
building purposes. The leaves are from 2-8 inches long. The stipules attain a length of 1 
inch. The flowers are fragrant. The tube of the corolla is yellowish ; the limb fulvous, the 
pistil white. The fruit measures from 1-2 inches, is irregularly globose and fleshy, outside 
areolate and grey-brown, inside pale, of bitter taste. The seeds are appended by a fleshy 
yellowish funicle, oblique- or angular-ovate, compressed, finely wrinkled ; the cotyledons ovate, 
a little shorter than the cylindrical radicle. 
GARDENIA FITZALANI. 
Randia Fitzalani, F. M. coll. 
Arboreous, unarmed ; stipules deciduous ; leaves opposite, rather large, thin coriaceous, 
glabrous, ovate, tapering into the petiole, shining above, paler and almost opaque beneath, 
remotely penninerved, faintly veined ; berries axillary, solitary, short-stalked, large, globose, 
completely two-celled ; placentce central; seeds large, fulvous, somewhat turgid. 
Cape Upstart, Magnetical Island, Halifax Bay. 
A small tree. Branchlets, at least in age, glabrous. Leaves several inches long ; their 
petioles measuring ^ inch. Flowers unknown. Fruit-stalks about as long as the petioles, 
stout. Berry pulpy, of agreeable scent, about 1J inch in diameter, terminated by the short 
persistent truncate neck of the calyx. Pericarp coriaceous, hardly thicker than 1 line. Pulp 
dark- and squalid-brown, somewhat laminar. Septum thin towards the middle, yet quite perfect 
or almost so. Seeds 3-5 lines long, oblique, roundish-ovate. Testa membranous, smooth, 
slightly shining. Albumen cartilaginous, white. Embryo shorter than the albumen, white, 
axillary. Radicle cylindrical, not much longer than the ovate-orbicular flat cotyledons. 
In G. resinosa, which amongst Australian species ranks nearest to this, the leaves are of 
equal greenness on both sides and shining as if varnished ; they are moreover abruptly terminated 
at the base, not gradually narrowed into the petioles, and reticulated by numerous conspicuous 
veins. 
Another species of Gardenia, indigenous to Queensland, although not collected during 
the Burdekin expedition, might be introduced on this occasion. 
GARDENIA CIIARTACEA. 
(Sect. Piringa.) 
Shrubby ; branchlets strigulose ; leaves opposite or 3 or 4 in a whorl, narrow- lanceolate, 
rarely ovate-lanceolate, chartaceous, acute, tapering into a very short petiole, conspicuously 
penninerved, veined, glabrous and shining above, paler and somewhat strigose beneath ; 
peduncles axillary, one-flowered, as well as the calyx strigose ; corolla small ; segments of its 
limb from a subcordate base lanceolate , acuminate , longer than its campanulate tube ; berries 
rather small, subovate, imperfectly two-celled ; pericarp very thin ; seeds several, nigrescent, 
turgid. 
In the vicinity of Moreton Bay and on the Clarence River. 
A shrub, generally from 5-8 feet high. Branchlets almost cylindrical, rather slender. 
Leaves 2-6 inches long, ^-1 inch broad, not unfrequently distichous ; the lateral nerves 
diverging in a very acute angle and occasionally rufous. Stipules connate, appressed-hairy, 
4-6 lines long, deciduous. Peduncle very short or fully J inch long. Flowers fragrant. Tube 
of the calyx protracted into a persistent irregularly cleft cylinder beyond the ovary. Corolla 
white, with very spreading imbricate lobes of the limb. Berry 1 inch or less long, in age 
nearly deprived of its strigulous indument. Pericarp almost chartaceous. Pulp somewhat 
lamellar. Seeds more or less obtusangular and turgid, large in proportion to the size of the 
fruit, and therefore never numerous, about 2 lines long. Albumen more horny than fleshy 
Cotyledons flat, rhomboid-orbicular, hardly shorter than the radicle. 
LORANTHACE2E. 
LORANTHUS VITELLINUS. 
Leaves alternate or some opposite, petioled, ovate- or lanceolate- or oblong-ovate, rarely 
oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, opaque, somewhat penninerved, almost veinless ; peduncles bearing 
a few-flowered raceme , rarely 3-1 -flowered, sometimes obliterated, as well as the pedicels, 
bracteoles and calyces subvelutinous or glabrous ; bracteoles solitary, roundish-ovate, considerably 
shorter than the teethless or at last irregularly 5-toothed calyx ; petals 5, glabrous, rarely 
tomentose, orange-yellow, coherent into a cylindrical, curved, unilateral fissured tube ; limb in 
(estivation narrower than the tube ; filaments glabrous, fulvous ; anthers linear, basifixed ; 
stigma small, capitellate ; berry truncate, globose-ovate. 
