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No. 205. 
Ackama Muelleri Benth. 
A Corkwood. 
(Family CUNONIACE./E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Ackama. A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist, ii, 358 
(1837).* 
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, two-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. (B.F1. ii, 444.) 
Botanical description. Species, A. Muelleri Benth., in Flora Amtraliensis ii, 
444 (1864). 
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 or 4 inches long, but sometimes much larger, narrowed at the base, 
and more or less petiolate, 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 J line long. 
Petals slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. 
Stamens exserted. 
Capsule ovoid-globular, 1 to If lines long. (B.F1. ii, 444.) 
* The full title of Allan Cunningham's work, sometimes referred to under the simple title of " A. Cunn. Precur," 
or " Precursor," is as follows, and it is of especial interest to students of Allan and Richard Cunningham's work : 
FLOB/E INSULAHUM NOV.E ZELANDLE PRECURSOR ; OR A SPECIMEN OF THE BOTANY OF THE 
ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND. 
Comprising, in a synoptical form, those plants that were discovered by Sir Joseph Banks and Dr.. 
Solander, during the first voyage of Captain Cook, that have been, for the most part, already 
published : as also those that were collected in the subsequent voyage of our great Circum- 
navigator, which were described by Dr. Sparmann, and afterwards published in the work, known 
as Forster's Prodromus ; to which are added some new plants, gathered by Allan Cunningham 
whilst on a visit to the Bay of Islands and circumjacent country in 1826 ; the few that were 
found by the French Naturalists attached to the voyages of La Coquille and L'Astrolabe, as 
indicated by the recent Essay of M. Achille Richard ; and, finally, those interesting discoveries 
which Richard Cunningham made during his excursions on the northern Island, in portions of 
the years 1833 and 1834. 
(The whole arranged and edited by his Brother, Allan Cunningham, Esq.) 
The first part appeared in Hooker's " Companion to the Botanical Magazine," vol. ii, p. 222, and the 
remaining portions in the " Annals and Magazine of Natural History," vols. i-iy. 
