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XLV SAXIFRAGES. 
[Weinmannia. 
prominent underneath, with transverse reticulations, the terminal one usually 
2 to Sin. long, or rarely more, the lateral ones smaller. Stipules large, hairy, 
deciduous. Racemes axillary, usually several together on a very short common 
peduncle, H to Bin. long when in fruit. Pedicels very short or scarcely any. 
Sepals shorter than the fruit. Petals as many as sepals, of the same length, but 
much narrower, pale, glabrous, and entire. Stamens 6 to 8, alternate with and 
rather longer than the calyx. Anthers glabrous, cordate, reddish, exappen- 
diculate. Cells dehiscing longitudinally. Capsules reflexed, 1^ to nearly 2 lines 
long, narrow, hairy, with 2, rarely 3, recurved styles, the stigmas shortly 
decurrent. Seeds 2 or 3 in each carpel, narrow-oblong, the testa more or less 
extended into a loose wing at one or both ends, or in some seeds the nucleus 
appears to extend nearly the whole length . — Geissois rubifolia, F. v. M. 
Fragm. ii. 82. 
Hab.: Southern scrubs. 
4. W. lachnocarpa (capsules densely hairy), F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 7, 281. 
Scrub Rosewood, Scrub Redwood. “Merrany” or “ Marara,” Nerang, Schneider. 
A tall tree with spreading head, the trunk often straight and 2ft. in diameter, the 
bark rough and scaly. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves trifoliolate, the common 
petiole often very short. Stipules dimidiate-lanceolate, 1^ line long. Leaflets 
nearly sessile, ovate-lanceolate, remotely crenate or repand-serrulate, 2 to Gin. 
long, 1 to 2in. broad, thinly-coriaceous, acuminate, shining on both sides, lateral 
nerves spreading, the veins and veinlets copiously reticulate. Racemes usually 
several on a very short peduncle or solitary, 2 to 3in. long at the end of the 
branchlets. Pedicels short, articulate near the base, silky tomentose. Calyx 
deeply 6, rarely 5 or 7-partite, persistent, lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. 
Petals none or very fugacious. Stamens usually about 20. Filaments glabrous, 
linear-setaceous, about 2 lines long. Anthers minute, cordate-rotundate, dorsi- 
fixed, dehiscing. Styles 2, rarely 8, straight, subulate, setaceous, about line 
long, glabrous, free. Stigmas very minute. Capsule ovate, about 2 lines long, 
almost all superior, densely woolly, with reddish-brown hairs. 
Hab.: Southern localities; Upper 'Barron River, J. F. Bailey. 
Wood light-pink, close in the grain ; might be used for making planes, mallets, and chisel 
handles. —Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 155. Wood used for boomerangs. — Schneider. 
5. W. apetala (without petals), Bail. Bot. Bull. viii. A tall tree, glabrous 
except the inflorescence. Leaves opposite, digitately compound, leaflets 3, sessile, 
lanceolate and bluntly or glandularly serrate, 2 or 3in. long, the petiole usually 
under 2in. long, texture membranaceous. Inflorescence hoary-pubescent, race- 
mose, at the nodes below the leaves of the branchlets. Some of the smaller 
branchlets are destitute of leaves and then change the inflorescence to a peduncle 
bearing at its end an umbel of three racemes, the common peduncle 6 to 8 lines, 
the secondary peduncles about 6 to 8 lines, bearing racemes of from 1J to 3in. 
long ; flowers numerous, scattered. Bracts narrow-lanceolate, petiolate, about as 
long as the pedicels. Pedicels very slender, about 2 or 3 lines long. Flowers 
when expanded 2 lines diameter ; calyx-lobes 5. Petals none. Stamens 12 or 
more, much exserted, the filaments of unequal length, and often somewhat 
flattened ; anthers some much larger than the others, didymous. Styles 2, free, 
spreading, glabrous. Ovary hirsute except at the very base. Fruit as yet 
unknown. 
Hab.: Kamerunga, E. Cowley. Flowering in December and January. 
The present species approaches near to W. lachnocarpa, F. v. M., but differs in its more lax 
slender inflorescence, more membranous leaves, which are not so prominently reticulate ; its 
longer stamens, as well as probably the flower lobes to the calyx. 
