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Quintinia Sieberi A. DC. 
The Opossum Wood. 
(Family SAXIFRAGACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Quintinia A.DC. 
Calyx-tube obconical, adnate to the ovary, with 5 persistent teeth. 
Petals 5, imbricate, deciduous. 
.^foment 5 ; anthers ovate. 
Ovary inferior, 3- to 5-celled, with several ovules in each cell, the free summit broadly conical, 
tapering'into a persistent 3- to 5-furroweti style, with a capitate 3- to 5-lobed stigma. 
Capsule inferior, opening at the summit in teeth or valves continuous with the styles, which 
separate up to the stigma. 
Seeds ascending, long, swindle-shaped, with a loose testa; embryo (very minute) in a fleshy 
albumen. 
Glabrous trees or shrubs. 
Leaves alternate,- coriaceous, without stipules. 
Plovers small, white, in racemes, either simple in the axils, or several forming a terminal 
panicle. (B.F1. ii, 437.) 
Botanical description. Species, Quintinia Sieberi A.DC. Monogr. Camp. 90 
(1830) and in DC. Prod, iv, 5 (a translation of which will be found in Don's 
" History of Dichlamydeous Plants," iii, 195). 
A spreading tree of 30 to 40 feet, and more. 
Leaves oval-elliptical, shortly acuminate, mostly 3 to 4 inches long, entire, narrowed into a 
petiole'of about ? r inch, coriaceous, reticulate. 
Racemes numerous, in a terminal panicle, scarcely longer than the last leaves. 
Pedicels very short, rarely 1 line long. 
Calyx-lobes very short and broad. 
Petals oval-oblong, spreading, about 2 lines long. 
Styles separating in the "ripe capsule up to the stigmas, which remain united. 
teeds obovate or oblong, with a loose reticulate testa, but not winged. (Endl. in Flora, 1832, 
ii,'389, t. 3, and Atakta, 10, t. 10.) (B.F1. ii, 438.) 
. Quintinia, in honour of "La Quintinie, qui olim de hortis 
scripsit." In Pritzel the name is given as Jean De la Quintinye, who wrote a work 
entitled " Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, arec un traite" des 
