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CX. LAURLNEjE. 
[ Cryptocarya . 
11. C. graveolens (heavy-scented), Bail. Bot. Bull ii. 1G. “ Gir-irjal,”' 
Johnstone River, Wm. C. Hardiny. Tree attaining 80 to 100ft. in height and 2, 
or more feet diameter of stem. Branches smooth and angular. Leaves often 
opposite, oblong, coriaceous, 6 to llin. and 2J to 3 Jin. broad, primary veins, 
looping within the margin like those of an Eugenia, upper side glabrous and 
glossy, underside thinly puberulous ; petiole Jin. Panicles or racemes terminal, 
about 4in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruit red, resembling a bergamot pear in 
shape, 2 to Bin. diameter, outer succulent part when fresh having a sharp acid 
flavor, inseparable from the endocarp, substance of the thick cotyledons thickly 
studded with large cells full of a bright-yellow resin having a strong disagreeable 
odour. 
Hab.: Tringilburra Creek, Bellenden Ker Expedition, 1889 ; Johnstone River, Dr. T. I.. 
Bancroft ; Tully River and Atherton, J. F. Bailey. 
12. C. Palmerstonii (after Christie Palmerston), Bail. Bot. Bull. 
ii. 1G. Black Walnut. “ Koi-ie” Barron River, J. F. Bailey ; “Pal-la-ga,” 
Atherton, Roth. Tree of large size, girth at base 36ft., tapering proportionally 
upwards as straight as an arrow for 80 or 100ft. before branching ; branches 
pithy (C. Palmerston). Brauchlets compressed or irregularly angular. Leaves 
alternate, oval -oblong, rounded or slightly tapering at the base ; apex obtusely 
acuminate, 4 or Sin. long and about 2in. broad, upper surface glabrous and 
glossy, under clothed with a close light-coloured tomentum ; primary veins 
about 8 pairs prominent, the smaller reticulations somewhat indistinct ; 
petioles Jin. or rather more long. Fruit about 2Jin. long and nearly as 
much in diameter, more or less prominenly marked by irregular longitudinal 
corrugations, pericarp becoming hard and brittle, enclosing a round free 
nut of more than lin. diameter, with a thin hard brittle shell, the interior 
filled by the large thick fleshy cotyledons, the oil or resin cells of which, 
are very minute and only visible under a strong lens. 
Hab.: Russell and Barron Rivers. 
Fruit eaten after being roasted, beaten up, and steeped iu running water. 
13. C. Bancroftii (after Dr. T. L. Bancroft), Bail. Bot. Bull. ii. 16- 
Red Walnut. “ Bara,” Tully River, Roth. A glabrous tree of medium size. 
Branchlets slender. Leaves alternate or at times nearly opposite, lanceolate, 4 
or Sin. long, 1 to ljin. broad in the centre, tapering towards a slender petiole 
scarcely over a Jin. long, apex bluntly acuminate, penniveined with more or 
less conspicuous reticulations on both sides. Racemes terminal or in the upper 
axils about 4in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruit about 2in. long, with a diameter 
of ljin., on a thickened pedicel of about Jin., rough, the apex pointed and 
tapering much at the base ; the outer covering forming but a thin bark to the 
endocarp or shell of the nut, testa brown, the thick cotyledons which form the 
kernel white, not dark-brown as in C. Palmerstoni , the oil-cells very minute, and 
only visible under a strong lens. 
Hab.: Johnstone River, Dr. T. L. Bancroft; other scrubs of tropical Queensland, Bellenden 
Ker Expedition. 
The fruit of this tree, which is used in a similar manner to C. Palmerstoni, is much more- 
abundant than any of the other kinds. 
2. BEILSCHMIEDIA, Nees. 
(After O. S. Beilschmiedius). 
(Nesodaphne, Hook, f.) 
Flowers small, usually hermaphrodite, fascicled on paniculate. Perianth-tube 
short; lobes 5 subequal. Perfect stamens 9 ; filaments of 1st and 2nd series 
eglandular with introrse 2-celled anthers, of 3rd series 2-glandular with extrorse 
