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Geijera salicifolia Sehott. 
An Ironwood. 
(Family RUTACE^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus, Geijera, in " Heinrich Sehott, Rutacese. Fragmenta 
botanica. Vindebonise (Vienna), Wallishauser, 1834, folio, 14 pp. 7 tab." 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 4 or 5. Petals 4 or 5, valvate or imbricate. Disk thick and 
fleshy. Stamens 4 or 5 ; filaments subulate. Ovary depressed, partly immersed in the disk, 4 or 5-lobed ; 
styles terminal, immediately united into a single short style, with a capitate 4 or 5-lobed stigma. Fruit 
of 4 or 5 or sometimes fewer, distinct, 2-valved cocci, the endocarp adherent or partially separating. Seeds 
with a hard or crustaceous shining testa ; albumen fleshy ; embryo straight ; cotyledons broad. Trees 
or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, not articulate on the petiole. Flowers small, in terminal panicles. 
Sepals small. 
Botanical description. Species, salicifolia Sehott, Fmgm. Rut., t. 4. 
A moderafcely-sized tree, glabrous, or with a minute hoary pubescence on the inflorescence, and 
sometimes on the under side of the leaves. Leaves from ovate to ovate-lanceolate or rarely oblong- 
lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 3 or 4 inches long, entire, coriaceous, narrowed or rarely rounded 
at the base, with a rather long petiole. Panicles rather loose, broadly pyramidal, but much shorter than the 
last leaves, alternately branched, with numerous small white flowers. Petals about 1 line long, valvate. 
Cocci often reduced to 1 or 2, obovoid, net beaked, 2 to 3 lines long, the endocarp persistent or partially 
separating (B.F1. i, 364). 
Variety augustifolia Maiden and Betche. 
Tia Falls, New England (W. Forsyth, October, 1900). Leaves not above 7 to 8 lines broad, with 
a length of 2i to nearly 3 inches. Bentham says, in a footnote in the Flora Australiensis, " Schott's figure 
(Sehott, Fragm. Rut. t. 4) represents a remarkably narrow-leaved form, which I have only seen in Brown's 
specimens, and in those from Warwick and from Rockhampton " (Queensland localities). Our Tia 
specimens agree exactly with the narrow-leaved Warwick specimens in the Melbourne Herbarium. (Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., xxvi, p. 80, 1901.) 
I have not seen either Schott's type nor his figure of G. salicifolia, and the late 
Mr. Betche and I constitiited a variety, augustifolia, assuming that Bentham had 
correctly described the leaves. But bearing in mind the name salicifolia, which implies 
a narrow leaf, and Bentham's note as to Schott's " remarkably narrow-leaved form," 
it may turn out that instead of a var. angustifolia being desirable, the widely-diffused 
form described by Bentham should be more properly looked upon as a variety, and 
given a name to indicate the greater width of its leaves. 
