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No. 37. 
Flindersia maculosa, F. v. M. 
The Leopard Wood. 
(Natural Order MELIACE/E.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Flindersia, lt.Br. 
Calyx. —Small 5-lobed. 
Petals. —Five, imbricate in the bud, spreading. 
Disc. —Broad, concave. 
Stamens. —Five, inserted on the outside of the disc, with as many or fewer staminodia alternating 
with them, sometimes wanting ; filaments subulate ; anther versatile. 
Ovary. —Five-celled, 5-lobed. 
Style. —Short, thick, inserted between the lobes. 
Stigma .—Capitate ; ovules 4 to 6 in each cell. 
Capsule .—Oblong, hard, tuberculate or muricate, opening septicidally in 5 boat-shaped valves or 
cocci, without any persistent axis. 
Seeds. —Flat, winged, two or three on each side of a flat placenta, which almost divides each cell 
into two ; albumen none ; cotyledons flat, radicle very short. 
Trees. 
Leaves. —Alternate or more frequently opposite, pinnate or rarely simple, marked with pellucid 
dots. 
Flowers. —In terminal panicles. 
Botanical description. —Species, F. maculosa , F.v.M., ex Benth. in B.F1. i, 388. 
A small tree, the trunk remarkably spotted by the falling off of the outer bark in patches. 
Leaves .—Opposite or nearly so, glabrous, coriaceous, the glandular dots often only visible on 
the young ones, in some specimens all simple, linear oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or emarginate 
and mucronate, 1 to 2 inches long, or rather more ; in other specimens a few of the leaves 
break out into two or three narrow continuous lobes ; in others, again, all are pinnate, with 
three or five leaflets, like the simple leaves, but smaller, and a winged common petiole. 
Panicles. —Terminal, rather dense, usually shorter than the leaves. 
Sepals .—Scarcely 1 line long. 
Petals .—About 2 lines long, glabrous. 
Capsule .—Oblong and muricate, like those of the other species, but much smaller, often not 
more than 1 inch long when fully ripe. 
Seeds .—Winged at both ends and along the back.—(B.F1. i, 388.) 
