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CX. LAURINE2E. 
[Cryptocanya. 
upper ones often forming an apparently terminal panicle with the subtending 
leaves very small or deficient Fruiting perianths globular ovoid or oblong, 
having the appearance of inferior fruits. 
The genus is chiefly Asiatic, with a few species from S. Africa and S. America. The 
Australian species appear to be all endemic. 
Nees and Meissner distinguish Caryodapline from Cryptocarya by the triplinerved leaves and 
the adherence of the fruiting periauth-tube to the pericarp, but I can find no difference in the 
latter respect between the fruits of the typical C. glaucescens and those of C. triplinervis, and the 
triplinervel venation, though well marked in two species and in some leaves of C. triplinervis, 
passes gradually into the penniveined arrangement in other leaves of the latter species, and in 
no case draws any natural line of demarcation between the two. — Bentli. 
Inflorescence pubescent or villous. 
Leaves penniveined with the reticulations very conspicuous under- 
neath, scarcely so above. 
Panicles very villous, compact. Leaves 6 to lOin. long. Fruit 
nearly globular 1. C. Murrayi. 
Panicles tomentose-pubeseent, loose and many -flowered. Leaves 
4 to 8in. long. Fruit ovoid 2. C. Mackinnoniana. 
Panicles tomentose-pubeseent, loose, few-flowered. Leaves 2 to 5in. 
long, softly pubescent underneath till old, the reticulations less 
raised than in the two preceding species. Fruit oblong .... 3. C. patentinervis. 
Leaves penniveined, the reticulations faint or equally prominent on 
both sides. Fruit globular. 
Leaves thickly coriaceous, smooth and shining above, the primary 
veins very prominent underneath, the reticulations inconspicuous 4. C. obovata. 
Leaves more or less coriaceous, the reticulations fine, conspicuous 
or obsolete on both sides 5. C. glaucescens. 
Leaves more or less triplinerved or quintuplinerved. 
Leaves usually pubescent underneath, triplinerved, passing into 
penniveined. Fruit ovoid 6. C. triplinervis. 
Leaves glaucous or white underneath, prominently triplinerved. 
Fruit globular 7. cinnamomifolia. 
Inflorescence glabrous. Panicles small and loose. 
Leaves penniveined, the veins scareely prominent 8. C. Meissneri. 
Leaves more or less prominently triplinerved 9. C. australis. 
I he Jour following species are placed here provisionally, the tloicers not having been examined. 
Fruit oblate, the transverse diameter l|in. Pericarp ribbed, fleshy . . 10. C. oblata. 
Fruit red, depressed-globose, 2in. diameter. Pericarp succulent . . . 11. C. graveolens. 
Fruit 2£in. long and nearly the same in diameter. Pericarp irregularly 
corrugated 12. 0. Paljnerstonii. 
Fruit 2in. long, l^in. diameter, pointed at each end. Pericarp thin . . 13. C. Bancrojtii. 
1. C. IVIurrayi (after J. J. Murray). F. v. 31. Fragm. v. 170 ; Bentli tl. 
Austr. v. 295. A large tree, the young branches stout and softly tomentose- 
villous, more or less ferruginous. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong oval or 
elliptical, obtuse or shortly acuminate, 6 to lOin. long, glabrous above when full 
grown or the midrib minutely pubescent, very prominently penniveined and 
reticulate underneath, the veins rusty-pubescent, somewhat glaucous between 
them. Panicles short compact and villous. Flowers sessile in the cymes. 
Perianth hirsute, the segments rather longer than the tube (about 1 line), almost 
acute. Glands scarcely connected with the inner stamens, stipitate ; staminodia 
thick, rather sessile, acute. Fruiting perianth ovoid or nearly globular, shining, 
-about 4in. diameter. 
Hab.: llockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Barron River and other tropical scrubs. 
Wood of a dark colour, hard and close-grained. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 310. 
2. C. IVIackinnoniana (after L. Mackinnon), F. v. 31. P rag in. v. 169; 
Bentli. FI. Austr. v. 296. “ Koonjoongaroo,” Barron River, J. F. Bailey. A noble 
tree of 100ft. high (Dallachy) or a tall shrub of 12ft. ( IF. Hill), the young 
branches petioles and inflorescence minutely rusty-pubescent. Leaves oblong or 
almost ovate, o btuse or shortly acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base, 4 to 
8in. long, rathe r thick, at first minutely pubescent, at length glabrous and almost 
