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XLV. SAXIFRAGES. 
[David snnia . 
1. D. pruriens (referring to the prickly hairs covering fruit, &c.), F. v. M. 
Fraiiin. vi. 4, pi. 46. “ Oo-ray,” Tally River, J. F. Bailey. A tree attaining 
the height of 80 or 40ft. Leaves 18in. or more long, the rhachis bordered with 
more or less broad lobes or teeth, the end leaflets often exceeding 1ft. long and 
Bin. broad, the lower ones more or less abbreviated and often decurrent, all 
coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, sharply and irregularly dentate, the 
rhachis like the young shoots and panicles clothed with irritable hairs. Panicles 
pendulous, lft. or more long ; flowers clustered on the short branches. Bracts 
and bracteoles small, lanceolate or linear-subulate. Calyx reddish, lobes 2 or 3 
lines long. Filaments 1A to 2 lines long, glabrous. Style about 2 lines long. 
Fruit a juicy drupe-like berry covered by a loose thin coating of short brown 
hairs ; skin plum-colour, pulp a rich red. Seeds flat with laciniated border.— 
Ql. Agri. Journ. ii. pi. 37, fruit natural size (coloured). 
Hab.: Most of the tropical scrubs. 
Fruit used for jam -making. 
Wood of a dark-brown, close-grained, hard, tough and durable ; useful for tool-handles and 
mallets. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. I Foods, No. 154. 
Var. Jerseyana. (D. Jersey ana, F. v. M) This principally differs from the northern plant 
in being smaller in all its parts. Hab.: Towards Tweed River. 
10. APHANOPETALUM, Endl. 
(Petals obscure.) 
(Platyptelea, J. Drumm.) 
Calyx-tube very short, adnate to the broad base of the ovary ; lobes 4, slightly 
imbricate, 2 opposite ones rather larger than the other 2, persistent and enlarged 
after flowering. Petals none or very minute. Stamens 8 ; filaments short, 
anthers oblong, 2-lobed at the base. Ovary 4-furrowed, 4-celled, with 1 pendulous 
ovule in each cell, tapering into 4 more or less united styles, shortly divergent at 
the top ; stigmas terminal. Fruit hard, small, indehiscent, surrounded at the 
base by the horizontally spreading wing-like enlarged calyx-segments. Seed 
solitary, reniform or horseshoe-shaped, rugose. Embryo curved, in the axis of 
the fleshy albumen. — Shrubs or trees, with weak or twining branches, quite 
glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple. Stipules minute or none. Flowers few in 
short cymes or leafy panicles, or solitary in the axils of the leaves. 
The genus is limited to Australia. It is nearly allied to Ceratopetalum in character, and 
especially in the fruit, but with a very different habit. — Benth. 
1. A. resinosum (bearing resinous dots), Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 35, and 
Iconoyr. t. 26 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 441. A tall straggling or climbing shrub, quite 
glabrous, the smaller branches scabrous with raised resinous dots. Leaves ovate 
lanceolate or elliptical, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, obtusely serrate, 1A to 3in. 
long, acute at the base, on a petiole of 1 to 3 lines, thinly coriaceous, smooth and 
shining. Peduncles axillary, sometimes 3-flowered, the central pedicel without 
bracteoles, the 2 lateral ones bracteolate, or all bracteolate and an additional pair 
lower down, or the inflorescence further developed into a short dense more or less 
leafy panicle. Calyx-lobes at first small, but soon enlarging, and under the ripe 
fruit oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, about Ain. long. Petals, when present, quite 
microscopic. Fruit without the wings scarcely 1A line diameter. — F. v. M. 
Fragm. i. 228. 
Hab.: River scrubs of southern Queensland. Flowering about September. 
11. GILLBEEA, F. v. M. 
(After Dr. Win. Gillbee.) 
Calyx 5-partite, {estivation valvate. Petals 5, shorter than the calyx, with 
biglandular appendage at the apex. Stamens 10, free, inserted on the hypo- 
gvnous annular disk. Filaments linear-setaceous. Anthers almost globose, 
