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CIX. MONIMIACE.E. 
Daphnandra. 
the young inflorescence minutely hoary. Leaves petiolate, oblong-lanceolate 
or elliptical, acuminate, more or less serrate, contracted at the base, 3 to 4in. 
long, green on both sides, the primary veins oblique and anastomosing. Panicles 
shorter than the leaves, the flowers not numerous. Bracts scarcely 1 line long, 
very deciduous. Perianth-tube short and broad, outer segments broad, about 1 
line diameter, inner ones narrower and more petal-like. Stamens not exceeding 
the perianth. Carpels of the ovary glabrous or slightly hairy, sessile in the hairy 
receptacle. Fruiting perianth narrow, about lin. long. Carpels hairy, with 
glossy brown hairs . — Atherospenna micrcmthum, Tul. Monogr. Monim. in Arcliiv. 
Mus. Par. viii. 421, t. 34 ; Alph. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 676. 
Hab : Moreton Bay, Fraser, II'. Hill. Common in southern scrubs. 
Wood of a glossy-yellow colour, close-grained and firm, stands well in seasoning ; useful for 
cabinet-work and for carving. — bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 309. 
2. D. repandula (slightly repand), F. v. M. Fra pm. x. 105. A moderate 
sized tree, the young branches tomentose. Leaves thm cliartaceous, 4 to 7in. 
long, long-acuminate at the apex, the margins slightly repand or crenate ; nerves 
very oblique, the upper ones distant, hairy with short hairs. Panicles axillary, 
very slender, about 3in. long. Perianth minute, glandular-fringed. Fruiting 
perianth about 9 lines long, dark, enlarged above the middle, thence tapering 
towards each end. Seeds fusiform, 3 lines long, covered with light-brown glossy 
hairs as long as the seed itself. 
Hab.: The tropical scrubs. 
Wood of a light-brown colour, nicely figured, grain close ; would probably serve for engraving. 
Considered to closely resemble the English Holly. — Bailey's Cat Ql. Woods, No. 309a. 
3. D. aromatica (aromatic), Bail. 1st Suppl. Syn. Ql. FI. 46. (i Cheed- 
ingnan,” Barron River, J. F. Bailey. Trees of moderate size and sweet aromatic 
bark. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, entire or with few distant often indistinct 
teeth, 2 to 6in. long, and from -J- to ljin. wide in the centre, with often 
a narrow elongated point, on petioles of 3 or 4 lines long, the principal 
ateral transverse veins joining far within the margin and forming a 
prominent intramarginal one. Inflorescence axillary or terminal. Peduncle 
solitary, or several when terminal, about 4 lines, bearing usually at the 
end 2 pedicellate flowers. Fruiting perianth about 9 lines long, black and 
rough on the outside, enlarging at the base. Carpels densely hairy. 
Hab.: Johnstone River and other tropical scrubs. 
Wood of a light colour, not unlike Pine wood, for which it would form a substitute.— -Bailey's 
Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 308a. 
Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft, who examined the barks of these trees some years ago, found them to 
contain several alkaloids which were respiratory and cardiac poisons. 
Order CX. LAURINE./E. 
Perianth regular, the tube very short or none at the time of flowering, 
sometimes enlarged over or under the fruit, or rarely adnate to the ovary 
and fruit ; segments 6 or rarely fewer, all equal or 3 outer ones smaller, 
imbricate in the bud. Stamens normally twice as many as perianth-segments, 
6 opposite them tvith introrse anthers, 6 within and opposite to the outer ones 
with the anthers extrorse in some genera, introrse in others, but in many 
genera 3 or sometimes all of the inner stamens, and in other 3 or all of the 
outer ones reduced to short staminodia or wanting, and in some flowers the 
stamens abnormally and irregularly increased or diminished in number ; there 
are also frequently a pair of sessile or stipitate rather large glands, one on each 
side of the filament either of the inner or rarely of the outer of the two stamens 
opposed to the inner perianth-segments ; anthers adnate, with 2 collateral cells or 
2 superposed pairs of cells, each cell opening in a valve from the base upwards or 
