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No. 7. 
Doryphora sassafras, Endl. 
The New South Wales Sassafras. 
(Natural Order MONIMIACE^E.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Doryphora, Endl. 
Flowers. —Hermaphrodite. 
Perianth-lube. —Campanulate, segments six in rows. 
Stamens. —Usually six perfect, opposite the perianth-segments round the orifice of the tube, with 
six to twelve staminodia within them. 
Filaments. —Short, with a wing-like appendage on each side. 
Anthers. —Extrorse, with two distinct cells opening from the base upwards in convex valves, 
the connective produced into a long linear-subulate appendage. 
Carpels .—Several at the base of the tube, with one ascending ovule in each cell. 
Style.— Long, slightly lateral. Fruiting carpels included in the persistent perianth tube, the 
segments deciduous, each carpel growing out laterally, so that the long plumose style 
appears almost basal. 
Seed. —Not seen perfect. 
Tree .—Leaves toothed. Flowers three together on short axillary peduncles. T1 e whole plant 
highly aromatic. 
Botanical description. — Species, D. sassafras, Endl., Iconogr., t. 10. 
A tree of considerable size, glabrous, except the inflorescence or the young shoots hoary-tomentose. 
Leaves .—Petiolate, ovate, elliptical, or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely toothed, narrowed 
at the base, 2 to 4 inches long, nearly smooth on the upper side, prominently penniveined, 
and reticulate underneath. 
Peduncles .—Two to three inches long, with a pair of very deciduous bracts of 3 to 4 lines close 
under the flowers. 
Perianth-tube. —About 1 line long when in flower, enlarged and irregularly split when in fruity 
segments about 4 lines long, lanceolate, very acute. 
Anther-appendayes. —Nearly as long as the perianth-segments. Carpels slightly hairy, the styles 
lengthening after fecundation into long plumose awns. 
Although the embryo has been described by Endlicher in his Genera Plantarum, it is doubtful 
whether he had seen it, for throughout that work the- tribual characters are repeated under each genus 
without his having always verified them in each case, and the seed is not figured in his Iconographia, t. 10. 
In the 2nd Suppl. to the Genera, p. 35, lie proposes to substitute the name of Lcarosa (Reiclib. Nomend . 
2fil2, a work I can find no record of) for Doryphora, the latter bting pre-engaged by Zoologists, a plea 
now insufficient, for changing a botanical name. (B.Fh, v. 283.) 
