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XLV. SAXIFRAGES. 
[Schizomeria. 
attached to a pendulous placenta ; styles distinct, short, recurved, with terminal 
stigmas. Fruit a drupe, with the small calyx-lobes reflexed from its base ; 
epicarp thick and fleshy ; endocarp bony. Seed solitary, somewhat curved ; 
embryo green, rather large, in a fleshy albumen.— Tree. Leaves opposite, simple. 
Stipules small. Flowers small, in terminal trichotomous cymes. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia, and very nearly allied to 
Ceratopetalum in habit and flowers, but the fruit is different, and the leaves truly simple, the 
lamina continuous with the petiole. — Benth. 
1. S. ovata (leaves ovate), D. Don, Cunon. 12, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 
Apr. to June, 1830; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 443. A tree attaining 50ft., with a 
dense foliage of a light green. Leaves ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or 
acuminate, mostly 3 to 4in. long, nearly entire or with irregular obtuse serra- 
tures, shortly narrowed at the base and continuous with the petiole, coriaceous, 
penniveined and reticulate. Flowers small, the cymes usually loose. Calyx- 
lobes scarcely above 1 line long. Petals shorter than the calyx, broad and 
toothed and lobed at the end. Drupe ovoid or globular, under Jin. in diameter, 
white. 
Hab.: Scrubs along the North Coast Railway. 
The fruit is very fleshy, and has a nice sharp acid flavour, and is useful for making jam. 
Ripe about March. 
14. ACKAMA, A. Cunn. 
(From the Maori name, Makamaka.) 
Calyx-tube short, campanulate ; lobes 5, valvate. Petals 5. Stamens 10, 
inserted round a crenate disk ; anthers small, tipped by a minute gland-like 
appendage to the connective. Ovary free, 2-celled, with several ovules in each 
cell ; styles filiform, deciduous. Capsule small, turgid, septicidally dehiscent. 
Seeds few, ovoid, hairy ; embryo cylindrical in the axis of a fleshy albumen. — 
Trees. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers small, very numerous, in compound 
panicles, in terminal pairs, becoming axillary by the elongation of the central 
shoot. 
Besides the Australian species, which is endemic, the genus comprises another from New 
Zealand. The inflorescence, which is uniformly racemose in Weinmannia, being paniculate in 
both species of Ackama, gives them a habit so different from that of Weinmannia. that when 
coupled with the valvate calyx and the shape of the fruit there seems to be quite sufficient to 
maintain Ackama as a distinct genus rather than as a section of Weinmannia, as proposed by 
A. Gray. — Benth. 
1. A. Muelleri (after Baron von Mueller), Benth. FI. Axtstr. ii. 444. A 
tree, glabrous or nearly so except the inflorescence. Leaflets usually 5, rarely 7 
or 3, ovate-elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, obtusely and very shortly 
serrate, usually 3 to 4in. long but sometimes much larger, narrowed at the base 
and more or less petiolulate, somewhat coriaceous, penniveined, with usually a 
minute tuft of hairs in the axils of the principal primary veins underneath. 
Flowers very small and numerous, clustered along the short ultimate branches of 
a very compound panicle, the branchlets all minutely pubescent. Calyx about \ 
line long. Petals slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens exserted. Capsule 
ovoid-globular, 1 to 1J line long. — Weinmannia paniculata , F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 
83, altered to W. paniculosa, l.c. 175. 
Hab.: Scrubs along North Coast Railway. 
15. WEINMANNIA, Linn. 
(After J. W. Weinmann.) 
Calyx divided almost to the base into 4 or 5 more or less imbricate segments. 
Petals as many as calyx-segments or wanting. Stamens twice as many as petals, 
inserted round the disk ; anthers small. Ovary free, 2 or rarely 3-celled, with 
