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XLIV. ROSACEA. 
1. PARIN ARIUM, Juss. 
(From Parinari, native name of a Guiana species.) 
(Petrocarya, Jack ; Grymania, Presl.) 
Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals 5, rarely 4. Stamens numerous or rarely 
few, all perfect or those on one side reduced to small staminodia ; filaments 
filiform ; anthers small. Ovary of a single carpel, adnate on one side to the 
mouth of the calyx-tube and protruding from it, more or less completely 2-celled, 
with 1 erect ovule in each cell ; style from the base of the ovary. Drupe ovoid or 
spherical, the endocarp bony. Seeds 1 or 2, erect. — Trees. Leaves alternate, 
coriaceous, entire. Stipules deciduous, usually small. Flowers white or pink, in 
cymes forming terminal raceme-like or corymbose panicles. 
The genus is dispersed over the tropical regions both of the New and the Old World. Of the 
two Australian species, one is also in the Indian Archipelago, the other is endemic. — Benth. 
Petiole without glands. Leaves much veined. Flowers small. Calyx- 
lobes acute. Perfect stamens about 8 1. P. Nonda. 
Petiole with 2 glands. Leaves shining, little veined. Flowers rather large. 
Calyx-lobes obtuse. Perfect stamens 30 to 50 2. P. Griffithianum. 
1. P. Nonda (see note at foot), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 426. 
“ Ran-na,” Morehead River, N.Q., “ Wo-in-ya,” Cooktown, Both. Branches 
rather slender, loosely tomentose when young. Leaves ovate, obtuse or obtusely 
acuminate, rounded or almost cordate at the base, 2 to Bin. long, 1 to 14in. 
broad, rarely narrower and narrowed at each end, glabrous but rather rough 
above, whitish with a minute tomentum underneath, with many prominent 
parallel pinnate veins and much reticulate between them. Flowers small, the 
terminal panicle or thyrsus loose, the axillary ones smaller and raceme-like. 
Bracts shorter than the flowers, deciduous. Calyx pubescent, nearly re’gular, 
about 2 lines long, the lobes acute, rather shorter than the tube and almost as 
long as the petals. Stamens short, usually about 8 perfect on the same side of 
the flower as the ovary, the ring completed by 6 to 10 small staminodia. Drupe 
ovoid, densely villous inside, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
Hab.: Gulf of Carpentaria; Gilbert Biver, F. v. Mueller; Cape York, M'Gillivray ; Albany 
Island, V. v. Mueller. 
The speeies is nearly allied to the P. sumatranum of the Indian Archipelago, and still more to 
the African P. curatellecfolium , Planch., but the flowers appear to be smaller than in either, with 
some slight differences in the foliage. It is the one to which Leichhardt gives the name of 
“ Nonda-tree” in his travels. — Benth. 
Leichhardt says that he called this tree Nonda from its likeness to some tree so-called by the 
natives of the Moreton Bay district. 
Wood a light-yellow; cross in grain ; very tough. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 151. 
2. P. Griffithianum (after Dr. Griffith, a collector of Malacca plants), 
Benth. in Hook. FI. Nig. 834, and FI. Austr. ii. 426; F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 34. 
A tree about 30ft. high. Branches stout, glabrous or minutely hoary when 
young. Leaves elliptical-oblong, acuminate, 3 to 4in. long or rather more, acute 
at the base, shining above, paler underneath, but quite glabrous, the veins not 
very prominent and distant ; 2 small glands at the top of the petiole. Flowers 
rather large, in terminal corymbose hoary-pubescent panicles. Calyx-tube 
obliquely turbinate, incurved, about 2 lines long ; lobes very obtuse, the largest 
as long as the tube. Petals white, exceeding the calyx. Stamens very numerous 
(30 to 50), all perfect. Ovary very villous, with a long style. Drupe oblong, 
very villous inside, 2-celled, 2-seeded. 
Hab.: Cape York Peninsula, F. v. M. 
The species extends over the Indian Archipelago to the Philippine Islands, for Grymania 
salicifolia, Presl., Epimel, Bot. 193 (Cuming, n. 1057), appears to be the same species, 
although with rather narrower, more rigid leaves. — Benth. 
