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2. Pennantia Endlicheri, Reisseck, Linnsea, xiii. 341 . tab. 13. 
P. corymbosa, Endl. Prodr, Fl.Norf. 80j Iconog. tab. 121; Ferd, 
Bauer, III. PI. Norf. tab. 165 ; — ramulis teretibus, fistulosis, 
cortice viridi, lenticellis paUide fuscis maculato ; foliis elliptico- 
oblongis, aut obovatis, obtusis, retusisve, basi cuneatis, coria- 
ceis, glaberrimisj supra nitentibus, subtus pallidioribus, nervis 
venisque prominulis, margine revolutis ; panicula corymbosa, 
ampla, terminab, diffusa, multiflora, glabriuscula, floribus her- 
maphroditis cum pedicellis bracteatis pubescentibus articulatis, 
paucis masculis interm^tis, alabastris globoso-ovoideis glabris, 
petalis luteo-viridibus, subreflexis, filamentis subulato-filifor- 
mibus, antheris ovoideis : drupa minori, ovata, atro-pm’purea, 
stigmate coronata. — In Insula Norfolkise. — v. s. in herb. Hook. 
(A. Cuun.). 
It is worthy of notice that the dehneations and analytical de- 
tails of this species given in the ‘ Linnsea,^ though marked on 
the plate as having been drawm by Reisseck, form a perfect fac- 
simile of the plate in the ‘ Iconographia ’ above-quoted, which is 
a production of the pencil of Perd. Bauer, and published four 
years pre\’iously ; but in that of the ‘ Linnsea ’ several figures are 
added which do not exist in the other, giving sections of the 
ovarium, which are manifestly founded on error ; for the o\'ule is 
there represented as being suspended at its apex from a long 
podosperm, springing from the base of the cell, as in Rhus. 
Much faith is to be placed on the drawings of Bauer, who has 
the reputation of having always correctly depicted what he saw, 
and it is therefore necessary to make a remark in regard to the 
figures in question, in which the ovarium is represented as 
bearing no style, but crowned with a pulvinate, 3-iobed, sessile 
stigma : this is so different from what I have observed in the 
young flowers of the species fi’om New Holland, that I suspect 
the drawing was made from flowers advanced in age, where, by the 
growth of the ovarium, the styles had become obliterated, and 
the stigmata rendered sessile. Cunningham^s specimens of the 
same plant are fructiferous only, and the berries are all crowned 
with a sessile stigma, so that I am unable to solve the doubt as 
to the fact in question, othemise than from analogy, as shown in 
the preceding pages. 
The lower leaves of this species are described by Endlicher as 
being 7^ inches long and 5 inches broad, but in the specimens 
in Sir Wm. Hooker’s herbarium the upper leaves are 4^ inches 
long, 2~ inches broad, narrowed to the base into a somewhat 
slender petiole | inch in length ; they are shining, very thick and 
coriaceous ; the corymb has its branches spreading broadly at 
nearly right angles, and is about 3 inches long. The fruit is an 
