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Stenocarpus soli gnus, R.Br. 
A Beef-Wood. 
(Natural Order PROTEACEvE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Stenocarpus, R.Br. Prod. 
Flowers. —Hermaphrodite. 
Perianth .—Slightly irregular, the tube opening along the lower side, the limb nearly globular 
and recurved, the segments at length separating. 
Anthers. —Broad, sessile within the concave laminae, the connective not produced beyond the cells. 
ffyjjogynons glands .—United in a short semi-annular disc or cup or almost obsolete. 
Ovary. —Stipitate, tapering into a long style dilated at the top into a flat oblique disc, stigmatic 
in the centre. 
Ovules. —Several, laterally attached at or near the top, imbricate downwards in two rows. 
Fruit .—A follicle, usually narrow coriaceous. 
Seeds .—Produced at the lower end into a membranous wing Trees. 
Leaves .—Alternate or scattered, entire or deeply pinnatifid with few lobes. 
Peduncles .—-Terminal or in the upper axils, sometimes several in an umbel or short raceme, each 
bearing an umbel of pedicellate red or yellow flowers. 
Bracts. —None, or falling off" at a very early stage. (B.F1. v, 539.) 
Botanical description.— Species, S. salignus, R.Br., in Trans. Linn. Soc. X, 202, 
Prod. 391. 
A moderate-sized tree, glabrous or the inflorescence minutely pubescent. 
Leaves .—In the typical form, ovate-lanceolate or elliptical; acute acuminate or rarely obtuse, 
tapering into a short petiole, 2 to 4 in. long, varying from penniveined or triplinerved (the 
lower primary veins scarcely longer or much longer and thicker than the others); but the 
veins usually indistinct, slightly prominent or almost immersed ; a few leaves on young trees 
or barren branches larger and pinnatifid. 
Peduncles. —Slender, terminal or in the upper axils, usually’ shorter than the leaves, bearing a 
single umbel of ten to twenty flowers, or, in luxuriant specimens, as many as thirty flowers. 
Pedicels .—j to | in. long, irregularly crowded on the summit of the peduncles. 
Perianth .—Usually under t in. long. 
Ovary .—Slightly silky-pubescent or nearly glabrous. 
Ovules .—Six to eight, not so closely imbricate or not so narrow and compressed as in S. sinuatus, 
(B.F1. v, 539). 
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