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No. 9. 
Cedrela australis, F.v.M. 
The Red Cedar. 
(Natural Order MELIACEyE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Cedrela, Linn. 
Calyx. —Small, 5-cleft. 
Petals. —Five, imbricate Disk thick or raised. 
Stamens. —Four to six, inserted on the summit of the disk, alternating sometimes with as many 
staminodia, filaments subulate, anthers versatile. 
Ovary. —Five-celled, style filiform, with a diskdike stigma. 
Ovules. —Eight to twelve in each cell, in two rows. 
Capsule. —Membranous or coriaceous, five-celled, opening in five valves, leaving the dissepiments 
attached to the persistent axis. 
Seeds. —Flattened, winged ; albumen scanty ; cotyledons flat; radicle short, superior. 
Tall trees. With coloured wood ; leaves pinnate ; flowers small, in large panicles. 
Botanical description. —Species, C. australis, P.v.M.; Fragm. i, 4 . 
Leaves. —On rather long petioles, abruptly pinnate, in seven pairs, leaflets opposite, petiolate, 
somewhat obliquely oblong-ovate, the unequal base acute or the upper side rounded, the 
apex obliquely acute and pointed, glabrous on both sides. 
Panicle. —Terminal, as long as the foliage, glabrous, pyramidal-branched, the branches not 
dense. 
Flowers .—On rather long pedicels. 
Calyx .—Obtusely five-sepalous (consisting of five obtuse sepals), the sepals and petals glabrous, 
slightly ciliate. 
Column .—Hirsute. 
Stamens. —Glabrous. 
Ovarium. — Glabrous. 
Capsule. —Oblong, glabrous. 
Branchlets. —Glabrous, brownish, sparingly covered with lenticellae. 
Leaves. —Twenty-seven centimetres long, the leaflets membranous, somewhat transparent, not 
punctate, attaining 1 decimetre in length and 5 centimetres in breadth, secondary veins rather 
transversely spreading (patulo-adscendentibus), scarcely prominent underneath, about 
fourteen, the petiolate about 1 millimetre long. 
Rhachis .—With petiole, 27 centimetres long, terete, glabrous. 
Panicle-branches. —Pedunculate, with short branchlets, the lower ones 15 centimetres long. 
Petals. —Four millimetres long, membranous, obovato elliptical. 
Ovarium. —Cone-shaped. 
Capsule .—26-13 millimetres long. (Translation of original description in Fragm. i, 4.) 
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