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No. 224. 
Geissois lacknocarpa n.sp. 
Red Carabeen. ,- 
(Family CUNONIACE^E.) 
From what has been said in Part 58 (under Geissois Benthami, F.v.M.) and in 
Part 59 (under Weinmnnnia r.bifolia, Benth.) \vc shall bo better able to understand 
the position of the tiec HDW being debit with. 
Botanical description.- Gcnns. Galois, already ecp.lt with in Part 58, p. 205. 
Botanical description. -Species, G. laclmocarpn (as Wcinmanma lachwcarpa, 
F.v.M., in Fragm, viii, 7). 
The original description may be translated as follows : 
Tall tree with trifoliate glabrous loaves, with ovate-lanceolate leaflets nearly all sessile, crenatc 
or repando-serrulate, small flowered racemes simple or compound, pedicels longer than the calyx, which 
has usually 6 segments, valvate in bud, with about 12 stamens hardly exceeding the calyx, 2-or rarely 
3-celled ovarium, with few ovubs in piirs, 4-ravely G-sjptato, a small capsuh dmsely woolly with 
long hairs, valves long coherent with the s;ptum, not spreading, djcply intruding into the c:lls, with 
glabrous winged seeds, solitary in the calls when rips, and orbicular cotyledons. 
In forests on the Tweed River and on the slopjs of Mount Warning; C. Moore, W. Guilfoyb. 
An evergreen tree up to 100 feet high, called Marara by the aborigines. Stem erect. Foliage 
loose. Wood hard and tough. Brauchlets and petioles glabrous. Petioles to 1 inch long. Stipules 
dropped in specimens seen. (" Stipules dimidiate-lanceolate, 1J line long," according to F. M. Bailey in 
" Queensland Flora" : I could find none. J.H.M.) Leaflets varying from 2 to 6 inches in length, and 1 to 2 
inches in breadth, thinly coriaceous, flat, often acuminate at the apex, shining and deep green on both 
sides, veins much spreading, slightly prominent underneath, the smaller ones copiously reticulate, base 
of the leaflet narrowed into a short petiole. Racemes 1 to 2 inches long, solitary, few or more on an 
elongated peduncle, thus often forming an ample panicle. Pedicels mostly scattered, even the fruit- 
bearing ones very slender, 2-3 lines long, articulate above the base, silky hoary as well as the peduncles. 
Calyces deeply, 6-rareIy 5 or 7-parted, persistent, the lobes lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1 linefc. long, 
outside imparfectly silky hairy, inside minutely tomsntoss, unchanged when old. Petals I have not seen 
in the already withered flowers at my disposal perhaps fugacious (Bailey writes " Petals none or very 
fugacious " ; there are no petals, J.H.M.). Stamens long, persistent. Filaments glabrous, linear, 
setaceous 1J to 2 lin^s long. Anthers minute, roundish cordate, longitudinally dehiscent on both sides, 
obtus?, dorsifixed. Styles 2, rarely 3, subulate setaceous, about 1 lines long, glabrous, free. Stigma 
minute. Capsules ovate, about 2 lines long, nearly always with two short straight beaks at the top, and 
inclined to split into two, d-nsely covered with a soft fulvous wool, so that they form globular masses 
(fluffy balls, J.H.M.) nearly J an inch in diameter, furrowed on the commissural side. Endocarp thinly 
cartilaginous, divisible, glabrous, livid, shining. Ripe seeds obliquely orbicular-ovate, nearly a linj long, 
slightly compressed. Testa membraneous, light brown. Embryo straight, little shorter than the albumen 
which is rich in amygdalin. Cotyletlons flat, radicle cylindrical, three times broader and slightly longer. 
