Cardivellia.] 
CXI. PROTEACEiE. 
1355 
sometimes shorter sometimes longer than the leaves. Pedicels exceedingly 
short. Perianth hoary-tomentose, the tube about fin. long. Hypogynous 
glands globular. Ovules 12 to 16. Fruit oblong, 3in. Jong, lfin. broad. Seed 
about Sin. long, fin. broad. 
Hab.: Mountains about Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Barron River, J. F. Bailey. 
Wood of a light colour, prettily marked ; suitable for cabinet-work, wine-casks, and coopers’ 
work; stands well in drying. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. J Foods, No. 345. 
20. STENOCARPUS, R. Br. 
(Narrow fruit.) 
(Agnostus, A. Cunn.) 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth slightly irregular, the tube opening along 
'the lower side, the limb nearly globular and recurved, the segments at length 
separating. Anthers broad, sessile within the concave laminae, the connective not 
produced beyond the cells. Hypogynous glands united in a short semiannular 
disk or cup or almost obsolete. Ovary stipitate, tapering into a long style dilated 
at the top into a flat oblique disk, stigmatic in the centre ; ovules several, 
laterally attached at or near the top, imbricate downwards in 2 rows. Fruit a 
follicle, usually narrow, coriaceous ; seeds produced at the lower end into a 
membranous wing. — Trees. Leaves alternate or scattered, entire or deeply 
pinnatifid with few lobes. Peduncles terminal or in the upper axils, sometimes 
several in an umbel or short raceme, each bearing an umbel of pedicellate red or 
yellow flowers. Bracts none or falling off at a very early age. 
The genus extends to New Caledonia, the Australian species are however all endemic. 
Leaves 6in. to 1ft. long. Perianths a^ove lin. long, the pedicels radiating in a 
single row round the disk-like end of the peduncle 1. S. sinuatus. 
Leaves under bin. Perianth ^in. long or less, the pedicels irregularly crowded 
on the summit of the peduncle. Ovary usually pubescent 2. H. salignus. 
1. S. sinuatus (sinuate), Endl. Gen. PI. Suppl. iv. 88; Benth. FI, Amtr. 
v. 539. Tulip-flower,” “ White Silky Oak,” of Barron River. A tree some- 
times described as small and slender, sometimes said to attain 60 to 100ft., 
glabrous or the inflorescence minutely tomentose. Leaves petiolate, either 
undivided oblong-lanceolate and 6 to 8in. long, or pinnatifid and above 1ft. long, 
with 1 to 4 oblong lobes on each side, mostly obtuse, quite glabrous but reddish 
underneath, penniveined and minutely reticulate. Peduncles terminal, either 2 
or more together in a general umbel, or several at some distance forming a short 
broad raceme, each peduncle 2 to lin. long, and bearing an umbel of 12 to 20 
bright red flowers, the pedicels about fin. long, radiating in a single row round 
the disk-like dilated summit of the peduncle. Perianth tube lin. long or rather 
more, straight, tapering upwards, the limb recurved, globular, about 2 lines 
diameter. Ovary densely pubescent, on a glabrous stipes, with a rather thick 
glabrous style. Ovules 12 to 14. Fruit about 4in. long, narrowing towards 
each end, containing numerous closely packed winged seeds. — Meissn. in DC. 
Prod. xiv. 451; Agnostus sinuatus, A. Cunn. in Loud. Hort. Brit. 580; Steno. 
carpus Cunningham ii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4263 (copied into FI. des. Serres. iii. 
189, t. 7) not of R. Br. ; Paxt. Mag. xiv. i. with a fig. 
Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, T V. Hill; Araucaria Ranges, 
Leichhardt; Queensland woods, London Exhibition, 1862, IF. Hill, n. 17; Barron River, •/. 
F. Bailey. 
Wood of a light colour, close in grain, tough and firm ; suitable for cabinet-work or any work 
in which English Beech is employed. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 346. 
2. S. salignus (willow-like), E. Br. in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 202, Prod. 391 ; 
Benth. FI. Amtr. v. 539. “ Silky Oak,” of some. A moderate-sized tree, glabrous 
or the inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves in the typical form ovate-lanceo- 
late or elliptical, acute acuminate or rarely obtuse, tapering into a short petiole. 
