No. 77.* 
Flindersia Bennettiana, F.v.M. 
The Crow’s Ash or Bogum-Bogum. 
(Natural Order MELIACEyE.) 
Botanical description.—G-enus, Flindersia. (See p. 209, Part X.) 
Botanical description. —Species, F. Bennettiana, E. Muell. Herb. 
A large tree. 
Leaves. —Opposite, crowded under the panicles. 
Leaflets .—3 or 5 ; from ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, elliptical, obtuse or scarcely 
acuminate, 2 to 3 inches long in some specimens, 4 to 5 inches in others, glabrous, very 
coriaceous, not oblique, and scarcely petiolulate, the common petiole angular. 
Panicles. —Ample, sometimes short, sometimes exceeding the leaves, minutely stellate-pubescent. 
Petals .—About 3 lines long, rather broader than in F. Oxleyana , glabrous or nearly so. 
Fruit .—2 or 3 inches long, muricate.—(B.F1. i, p. 389.) 
Seeds. —Winged, f 
In a number of specimens I have seen the wing is all round the seed, as 
shown in the figure, Plate 78, figure E, and this appears to be the normal form. 
This species has from time to time been confused with F. australis, but I do 
not doubt that the plates will make the differences between the species quite clear. 
F. Bennettiana has the leaflets fewer, larger, and thicker; the fruits smaller, 
with less formidable points, and with the overlapping edges of the valves not rough 
as in F. australis. There are other differences that the reader is invited to note for 
himself, with the aid of the illustrations and of the text. 
Botanical Name. — Flindersia, already explained (see p. 210, Part X). 
Bennettiana, in honor of the late Hr. George Bennett, of Sydney, (1804-1893), 
author of “Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and 
China,” 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1834, and “ Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia,” 
• No. 76 is the last number of Part XIX. Part XX is a recapitulatory number—that is to say, no new trees were 
described in it, and therefore no new numbers are employed. 
t lientham says, “ at the upper end only, or some with a very small wing also at the lower end, but only seen in 
one capsule.” 
