Aiherosperma.] 
CIX. MONIMIACEjE. 
1295 
carpels and tapering into a minute glabrous rudimentary style, the numerous inner 
carpels with elongated styles. Fruiting perianth -with a persistent broadly 
campanulate tube 4 or 5 lines diameter, the lobes deciduous, but the outer 
abortive carpels somewhat enlarged and assuming the appearance of 2 or 3 rows 
of teeth to the perianth. — A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 676 ; Baill. Hist. PI. i, 320, f. 360 
to 364 ; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 12 ; F. v. M. PL Viet. i. 24. 
Hab.: Near the border of N.S.W. 
7. DORYPHORA, Endl. 
(Spear bearing.) 
(Learosa, Rciclib.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube campanulate, segments 6 in 2 rows. 
Stamens usually 6, perfect, opposite the perianth-segments round the orifice of 
the tube, with 6 to 12 staminodia within them ; filaments short, with a wing-like 
appendage on each side, anthers extrorse, with 2 distinct cells opening from the 
base upwards in convex valves, the connective produced into a long linear-subulate 
appendage. Carpels several at the base of the tube with one ascending ovule in 
each. Style long, slightly lateral. Fruiting carpels included in the persistent 
perianth-tube, the segments deciduous, each carpel growing out laterally so that 
the long plumose style appears almost basal. Seed not seen perfect. — Tree. 
Leaves toothed. Flowers 3 together on short axillary peduncles. The whole 
plant highly aromatic. 
The genus is limited to a single species endemic in Australia. 
1. IX. sassafras (Sassafras-like), Endl. Iconogr. t. 10; Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 
283. A tree of considerable size but of irregular growth, glabrous except the 
inflorescence or young shoots hoary-tomentose. Leaves petiolate, ovate elliptical 
or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely toothed, narrowed at the base, 2 to 4in. 
long, nearly smooth on the upper side, prominently penniveined and reticulate 
underneath. Peduncles 2 to 3 lines long, with a pair of very deciduous bracts of 3 
or 4 lines close under the flowers. Perianth -tube about 1 line long when in flower, 
enlarged and irregularly split when in fruit, segments about 4 lines long, lanceo- 
late, very acute. Anther-appendages nearly as long as the perianth-segments. 
•Carpels slightly hairy, the styles lengthening after fecundation into long plumose 
awns. — Tul. Monogr. Monim. 424 ; A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 676 ; Baill. Hist. PI. i. 
318, fig. 357 to 359. 
Hab.: Logan River to border of N.S.W. 
8. DAPHNANDRA, Benth. 
(The anthers like those of a Daphne.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube short, segments about 15 in about 3 
rows. Stamens 4 or 5, opposite the inner segments ; filaments flat, with a wing- 
dike appendage on each side ; anthers short, extrorse, with 2 distinct cells opening 
from the base upwards in convex valves, the connective truncate ; staminodia (or 
abortive carpels ?) 5 to 12 between the stamens and carpels. Carpels hairy 
several in 2 or 3 rows with one pendulous ovule in each, and tapering into the 
hairy style. Fruiting perianth enlarged at the base or middle, bursting longitu- 
dinally ; carpels dry, hairy, with a bristle-like hairy persistant style. — Trees. 
Leaves serrate or almost entire. Flowers small, axillary or terminal. 
The genus is limited to Australia. With the stamens of Atherosperma it has the infloresceuce 
and pendulous ovules of Mollinedia . — Benth. 
'Leaves seriate, 3 to 4in. long 1. Z). micrantha. 
Leaves minutely serrate, 4 to 7in. loog 2. B. repandula. 
Leaves entire or with a few distant teeth, 2 to Gin. long 3. D. aromulica. 
1. D. micrantha (flowers small), Benth. bl. Austr. v. 285. A handsome 
darge tree, young growth much flattened at the joints, quite glabrous or 
