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XLV. SAXIFRAGES. 
[Quint inia. 
almost straight primary venulation becomes very conspicuous in the absence of secondary well- 
visible venules ; as regards the proportionate length of the stigmas to the styles, this plant 
differs from the other known species. The leaves remind of those of some Fagus ; they are 
broad in comparison to their length. Ripe fruit not yet available for examination. — F. v. M. 
3. Q. Verdonii (after Sir George Verdon), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 125, vi. 189 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 438. Small tree with spreading branches. Very near Q. 
Sieberi, the leaves of the same shape and size, hut much less reticulate. Racemes 
in the specimens seen all simple and solitary in the upper axils, 3 to 4in. long. 
Flowers pale-yellow, rather smaller than in Q. Sieberi, on pedicels about 2 lines 
long. Calyx-lobes narrower, about half as long as the petals. Capsule smaller 
than in Q. Sieberi. Seeds small, ovoid-oblong, obtuse, not winged. 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
4. Q. Fawkneri (after John Pascoe Fawkner), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 92. 
A tree of about 60ft. in height, with a white smooth bark. Branchlets angular 
by the prominent decurrent raised lines from the base of the petioles. Leaves 
li to 2^in. long and about i to fin. broad, cuneate-oblong, apex retuse or 
emarginate ; the margins narrowly recurved, quite entire, silvery-hoary on the 
under surface and dotted with brownish resinous dots, the veins inconspicuous. 
Petioles short. Racemes axillary, 2 to 3in. long, very resinous, nearly glabrous ; 
rhachis angular, furfuraceous. Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. Bracts at the base of 
the pedicels cordate-semiovate, at length deciduous, scarcely £ line long. Calyx 
scarcely 1 line long. Petals white, oblong-ovate, cuneate to 2 lines long. 
Filaments linear-subulate, 1 line long ; expanded anther cordate-ovate, f line 
long. Style somewhat thick, cylindric, IV line long ; stigmas patently recurved. — 
F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M.); Bartle Frere, Bellenden Ker Expedition, 1889. 
2. ARGOPHYLLUM, Forst. 
(Silvery-white under side of leaf.) 
Calyx-tube shortly turbinate or hemispherical, adnate to the ovary ; lobes 5 or 
6, persistent. Petals as many, valvate, persistent, fringed inside below the middle 
with long hairs, forming a corona. Stamens as many as petals ; anthers usually 
shorter than the filaments. Disk scarcely prominent. Ovary half-adnate, 2 to 
5-celled, with numerous ovules in each cell ; style shortly conical, with a capitate 
shortly lobed stigma. Capsule small, coriaceous, 2 to 5-celled, opening loculi- 
cidally and sometimes also septieidally into as many or twice as many valves or 
cells. Seeds minute, globular, reticulate. Embryo minute in a fleshy albumen. 
— Shrubs. Leaves alternate, usually white underneath. Flowers small, in 
terminal or axillary corymbose panicles. 
Leaves 6 to even 9in. long, membranous, serrate 1. A. Lejourdanii. 
Leaves 2 to 4in. long, entire or somewhat serrate 2. A. nitidum. 
1. A. Lejourdanii (after M. Lejourdan), F. v. M. Fragm iv. 33 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. ii. 437. An elegant shrub of 6 to 7ft., the branches and inflorescence 
clothed with a close silky-white or reddish tomentum. Leaves ovate, acuminate, 
serrate, mostly 5 to 6in. long, on a petiole of about lin., not coriaceous, green 
and glabrous, or with scattered hairs above, silvery-white with a close silky 
tomentum underneath, the pinnate parallel primary veins erecto-patent, about DO 
on each side of the midrib, the transverse secondary ones and smaller reticula- 
tions prominent underneath. Panicles axillary in the upper axils, shorter than 
the leaves, corymbose or more frequently ovate. Flowers, including the small 
expanded petals, about 3 lines diameter. Capsule depressed-globular, about 2 
lines diameter, usually 2-celled and 4-valved, rarely 3-celled and 6-valved. 
