1370 
CXIL THYMELTEACE^E. 
[ IVickstrcemia. 
Bot. Ges. iii. 287 ; IF. Shuttleicorthiana, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 544 ; IF. 
riridiflora, Meissn. in Denkschr. Begensb. Bot. Ges. iii. 286 and in DC. Prod, 
xiv, 546 ; Benth. FI. Hongk. 297. 
Hab.: Shoal Bay Passage, R. Brown ; Port Denison, Fitzalan : Edgecombe and Rockingham 
Bays, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Thozet ; Logan River, A. Cunningham, Frazer ; Burnett and 
Brisbane Rivers, F. v. Mueller. Not uncommon. 
Wood of a yellowish colour, soft and close-grained. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods. No. 351a. 
Reported as poisonous to stock. 
The species appears to be also in the Indian Archipelago, in S. China, Sikkim, and the 
islands of the N. and S. Pacific. It is, however, not always easy to determine the limits to be 
assigned to it. The character derived from the perfect freedom or the union in pairs of the 
bypogynons scales appears to be of little or no value. — Benth. 
3. PHALERIA, Jack. 
(From phaleros, shining white; flowers.) 
(Drymispermum, Reinw. ; Leucosmia, Benth.) 
Perianth tubular, with a spreading 4-lobed rarely 5 or 6-lobed limb, without 
scales in the throat. Stamens twice as many as the perianth-lobes, in 2 rows, 
those opposite the lobes inserted in the throat, the alternate ones in the tube. 
Hypogynous scales united in a short sinuate or lobed cup. Ovary 2-celled, 
with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell ; style terminal, elongated. Fruit a drupe, 
with a succulent epicarp, the endocarp coriaceous or hard, 2 celled or 1 celled 
by abortion. Seed one in each cell without albumen, cotyledons thick and 
hemispherical.- — Shrubs or trees. Leaves opposite, petiolate, larger than in most 
Tliymelea. Flowers white or yellowish, several together in lateral or terminal 
sessile or pedunculate heads, surrounded by an involucral of about 4 bracts much 
shorter than the perianth-tube. Perianth longer than in most Tliymelea, white 
or yellowish. Stamens usually as long as or longer than the perianth-lobes, but 
variable in this respect in different individuals of the same species. 
The genus is dispersed over the Eastern Archipelago, Southern Asia, and the islands of the 
North and South Pacific. The species are difficult to discriminate, especially from the few 
specimens in herbaria. Jack’s name, published in the Malayan Miscellany, has six years’ 
precedence over Reinwardt’s. — Benth. 
Flower-heads terminal. Perianth-tube glabrous, 5-6 lines long . . . . 1. P. Blumei. 
Flower-heads terminal. Perianth-tube loosely pubescent, 7-8 lines long . 2. P. Neumanni. 
Flower-heads mostly axillary or lateral. Perianth-tube glabrous, 1^-l^in. 
long 3. P. clerodendron. 
1. P. Blumei (after C. Blume), Benth. var. latifulia, FI. Austr. vi. 38. 
A bushy glabrous shrub. Leaves oblong-elliptical or oval-oblong, shortly 
acuminate, more or less contracted at the base but the petiole distinct, mostly 
about 6in. long and 2 broad, but varying from 4 to 8in. and broader or narrower 
in proportion. Flower-heads mostly terminal, on a very short common peduncle. 
Involucral bracts 4 to 6, oblong or obovate, obtuse, about 3 to 4 lines long. 
Flowers usually numerous. Perianth-tube glabrous, 5 to 6 lines long, the lobes 
obtuse, pubescent inside especially towards the end, usually 4 but varying 
occasionally to 5 or even 6. Drupe shortly acuminate, when 2 celled 4 or 5 lines 
in diameter and furrowed outside opposite the partition, when 1 -celled more 
ovoid and acuminate ; epicarp succulent but not very thick ; endocarp coriaceous. 
— Drymispermum Blumei, Dene. ; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 604. 
Hab.: Cape York, M'Gillivray, W. Hill, Daemel. — Also in Java and Sumatra. 
There is great confusion between this and P. ( Drymispermum ) laurifolia, Dene., although 
distinctly characterised by Decaisne, Meissner and Miquel as having the perianth glabrous 
outside in the one, pubescent in the other. The Hookerian herbarium has two specimens, 
cultivated at different times in the Kew Gardens. The one figured in Bot. Mag. t. 5787 as 
P. laurifolia, has the perianth glabrous, and would therefore belong to P. Blumei, whilst the 
