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CX. LAURINEyE. 
[Cryptocarya. 
tts the tube or rather longer. Glands stipitate, appearing to belong as much to 
the outer as to the inner filaments. Staminodia acuminate. Fruiting perianth 
depressed-globular, ^ to nearly ^in. diameter. — Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 72. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallachy ; Brisbane Rivor, 
Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller, and others. 
Wood of a light colour, easily worked, and likely to prove useful for many purposes. — Bailey’s 
Cat. Ql. Woods, So. 312. 
Asterina cryptocaryce, Cke., is met with on the leaves. 
Var. reticulata, Meissn. Veins of the leaves more conspicuous on both sides but fine. — 
C. microneura, Meissn. l.c. — Southern localities. 
Var. coriacea. Leaves thick, rigid, and more prominently reticutate, often very glaucous 
underneath. — Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Var. Hitirfa. Leaves coriaceous and shining with fine veins, green on both sides or scarcely 
■glaucous. — C. Moretoniana, Meissn. l.c. 74. — Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham ; Archer’s Creek, 
Leichhardt. 
C. Bidicillii, Meissn. l.c. 74, of which the specimens from Wide Bay, Bidicill, are in young 
Jruit only, and not satisfactory, may be the same variety. — Benth. 
All the above varieties run much one into the other, and in view of the large number of 
specimens I have had before me, it seems impossible to consider any of them as species 
permanently distinct. — Benth. 
6. C. triplinervis (3-nerved), R. Br. Prod. 402; Benth. FI. Austr. v. 
297. A tall tree. Leaves ovate-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 
glabrous above, more or less pubescent underneath, rarely above 4in. long, tripli- 
nerved or more or less irregularly penniveined with 2 to 5 primary veins on each 
side of the midrib, sometimes very prominent underneath sometimes fine, 
the reticulations not very conspicuous. Panicles dense short and thyrsoid in 
the axils, or the upper ones much branched forming a terminal panicle with 
numerous flowers, hoary-pubescent with appressed hairs or more frequently 
hirsute with spreading hairs. Flowers nearly sessile. Perianth-tube cylindrical, 
about 1 line long, the segments narrow and nearly as long. Stamens nearly as 
long as the perianth, the glands stipitate, as near to the outer as to the inner 
stamens ; staminodia rather narrow, acuminate. Fruiting perianth ovoid, about 
iin. long. — Caryodaphne Bromiiana, Nees. Syst. Laurin. 230 ; Meissn. in DC. 
Prod. xv. i. 78. 
Hab.: E. coast, R. Brown ] Edgecombe and Rockingham Bays, Dallachy : Port Denison. 
Fitzalai t; Rockhampton, Dallachy, O’Shanesy, and others ; Cape River, Crocodile and Nerkool 
Creeks. Bowman ; Archer’s Creek, Leichhardt ; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, Leichhardt, 
F. v. Mueller, W. Hill, and others. 
There are two or three market forms of foliage, but with occasional intermediates and some- 
times the leaves of the principal branches different as to venation from those of the younger 
branches of the same specimen. In the more typical forms the leaves are rather thick, 
prominently triplinerved or quintuplinerved and softly pubescent underneath, in other forms 
the primary veins are more numerous, and in some of the northern specimens the leaves are 
often almost glabrous and almost as penniveined as in C. glaucescens. The fruit appears to be 
always differently shaped from that of C. glaucescens, although the perianth-tube is equally 
consolidated with the pericarp in both species. — Benth. 
Wood of a grey colour, close in grain and tough. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 313. 
In the bark of this species, and also that of C. australis, Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft detected an 
intensely bitter poisonous alkaloid. 
Specimens of this plant were sent to me a few years ago, with the statement that the tree 
had caused the death of some pigs which had eaten the leaves. 
7. C. cinnamomifolia (Cinnamon-leaved), Benth. FI. Austr. v. 298. A 
tree of 40ft. (Dallachy), the young shoots and inflorescence minutely ferruginous- 
tomentose. Leaves ovate or broadly elliptical, acuminate, cuneate at the base, 
rigidly coriaceous, prominently triplinerved, glabrous above, glaucous or white 
underneath, with the reticulations conspicuous, 3 to 6in. long. Panicles axillary 
or in terminal panicles, short and dense in the specimens seen but as yet only 
