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CX. LAURINEiE. 
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the reticulation close and conspicuous. Panicles axillary and terminal, much 
shorter than the leaves, often numerous, the peduncle and pedicels with brown 
appressed hairs. Flowers very small. Calyx and petals brownish, paler towards 
the margin, nearly glabrous ; calyx-lobes semi-ovate, somewhat longer than the 
petals. Stamens glabrous, with 2 lanceolate appendages at the base, thin upper 
portion exserted. Style rather conspicuous, as well as the ovary glabrous ; 
stigma minute. Fruit large, globular. 
Hab.: Daintree River, Theod. Pentzke. — F. v. M. 
11. 22 . IiOwiana (After the Messrs. Low t , of Maroochie), Bail. Bot. Bull, v- 
24. A small-sized glabrous tree. Leaves lanceolate, the a,pex sometimes some- 
what elongated, 3 to 5in. long ; petiole 4 or 5 lines long, slender ; primary 
nerves very oblique, distant, and only about 4 on each side of the costa ; the 
reticulation fine, close, and prominent between them, on both sides of the leaf ; 
texture thin. Flowers not seen. Fruit nearly globular, but showing more or 
less of a point at each end, about lj to nearly l^in. in diameter, when fresh of a 
a’ich red colour. 
Hab.: Maroochie (Yandina), J. A. Low ; Eudlo, Field Naturalists. 
The fruit resembles that of Cryptocarya australis , Benth., somewhat in colour and shape, 
hut is much larger, and the foliage is quite distinct from that or any other Australian species of 
the Order. 
12. E. Sankeyana (after J. R. Sankey), Bail. Bot. Bull. viii. “ Goolaway,” 
Barron River, K. Cowley. A tree attaining the height of about 70ft. ; the young- 
branches often 4-angular and more or less densely ferruginous velvety-tomentose. 
Leaves alternate or subopposite at the ends of the branchlets, from elliptical- 
oblong to lanceolate, the larger ones 5in. long and 2|in. broad in the widest part, 
shortly petiolate, the upper surface glabrous, the primary veins sunk, under 
surface pale, with the primary and reticulate veins very prominent, of a reddish- 
brown, and more or less velvety. Flowers not seen. Fruit racemes lateral or 
axillary, erect near the ends of the branchlets, rather slender, about 24in. long, 
with one or two fruit at the end. Fruit black, globose, often compressed, 1 to 
14in. diameter, resting upon a star-like perianth, not exceeding 2 lines diameter. 
Hab.: Scrubs about the Barron River, E. Cowley. 
Wood of a greenish colour, hard and tough; a useful building timber. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. 
Woods, No. 317c. 
13. E. insignis (notable), Bail. Ql. Ay. Jl. i. 80. “Boomban,” Barron 
River, J. F. Bailey, “ Koo-roong-gi ”, Atherton, Both.' A tree of large size, the 
branchlets bluntly angular, and densely ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves G to Sin. 
long, 3 to 4in. broad, ovate, obtuse-apiculate, emarginate or shortly and bluntly 
acuminate, tapering at the base to a petiole of about lin., margins entire, upper 
surface glabrous, under surface more or less covered with ferruginous hairs, 
often very dense on the midrib, oil-dots numerous, but only visible under a 
strong lens, primary nerves few and distant, alternate or nearly opposite, about 
5 pairs, the cross veins almost parallel and prominent. Flowers minute in 
slender trichotomous panicles under 2in. long, pedicels slender, longer than the 
flowers. Flowers nearly globular in the bud, usually about a line long ; outer 
segments nearly rotund, inner ones somew-hat apiculate, hairy on both sides. 
Stamens (in the flowers examined), the 3 inner ones alone fertile. Ovary and 
style more or less hairy. Fruit a rich pink, glabrous, somewhat pear-shaped, 
about 24-in. long, 2Jin. diameter, inclosing a pendulous globose nut l^in diameter, 
which when ripe is free from the fleshy part or sarcocarp. — Cn/ptocan/a iusiqnis, 
Bail. Bot. Bull ii. 15. 
Hab.: Tropical scrubs in the Cairns district, and thence to the Bellenden-Ker Range, Bailey, 
Nugent and Coioley. 
The kernel of the nut after undergoing a similar preparation to that of the Koi-ie, form a 
•food for the natives. — J. F. Bailey. 
