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Flindersia , however, does not agree with the other genera of Cedrelece either in the insertion of its 
seeds or dehiscence of its capsule; and it appears to differ from them remarkably in its movable 
dissepiments; but these may be considered as the segments of a common placenta, having a peculiar form, 
indeed, but not being in other respects essentially different from that of Cedrelece. Flindersia is distinct 
also from the whole of the Order, in having its leaves dotted with pellucid glands, in which respect it 
seems to connect Cedrelece with Hesperideae ; and, notwithstanding the absence of albumen, even with 
Diosmese. ( Miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown, Yol. i, 72.) 
In the same work, he says £t Syst. Linn. Pentandria Monogynia, inter 
Cedrelam et Calodendrum.” Cedrela is, of course, the genus which contains our 
Red Cedar, C. australis (see figure and description in Part III), while C dodendron 
is that monotypic species C. capense, the <£ Cape Chestnut,” the beautiful tree 
known to many in New South Wales, and which belongs to the section Diosmete of 
the Rutaceae. 
Bentham (B.P1. i, 388) observes :— 
The genus, although allied to Cedrela , and therefore placed by common consent in Meliacece, is, 
nevertheless, as observed by R. Brown, very closely connected with Rutacece-Zanthoxylew, and might be 
very well placed there next to Geijera, with which it is connected, especially through F. macidosa. 
Attention has lately been drawn to the matter by Prof. Engler, who removes 
the genus Flindersia from M eliacese and places it, together with the Asiatic genus 
Choroxylon, in the sub-order Plindersiese of Rutaceae (Engler and Prantl. Nat. 
Planzenfam. iii, Tli. iv, Abtli. 170). 
There is no question that Flindersia is a connecting genus, and therefore 
different botanists will have different opinions as to its closest affinity. Meliaceae 
are strongly developed in this State, and I incline to the view that the genus, in a 
natural classification, comes closer to that Order than to the Rutaceae. 
Botanical description. —Species, F. australis , R.Br. in Fdnd. Voy., ii, 5^5, 
t. 1. A tree of moderate size, with a 1 'ugged hark.* 
Leaves. f—Alternate; leaflets generally 11 or 13 in number, or reduced to 3 to 6 leaflets under 
the inflorescence, usually broad-lanceolate, rather obtuse and scarcely oblique, 2 to 4 inches 
long, of a thin texture, so that the oil-glands are very conspicuous, paler underneath, 
especially on the young shoots where the leaflets are almost whitish underneath ; foot-stalks 
of the leaves angular. 
Bentham describes the leaves of F. australis as ££ alternate ,” in contra¬ 
distinction to all other New South Wales species of Elindersia. In the following 
specimens of F. australis from Acacia Creek, Macpherson Range, the leaves are all 
opposite, with three to five leaflets, and very pale, almost glaucous underneath; hut 
in the leaves, cut from the trees of F. australis grown in the Botanic Gardens, 
Sydney, the leaves are alternate, with eleven to thirteen leaflets and much less paler 
underneath. 
* The original description says “ fusco cinereo rugoso.” It can be best described, at all events as regards New 
South Wales trees, as dark brown and rough scaly. It is a large and not “ moderate sized” tree in its full development. 
+ The description of the leaves has been altered from Bentham’s description, which is incomplete. The matter has 
been dealt with in the remarks preceding the Key. 
