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The Lord Howe Island tree is Dysoxylon pacliyphyllum, Hemsley, 
(aild not I). Fraserannm, Beil til.) —The very same day (16tli August, 190G) 
Mr. Hemsley addressed me a second letter :— 
I have now no doubt that the Lord Howe Island Dysoxylon is a distinct species,—qum a speciebus 
hujus affinitatis foliolis crassis coriaceis obovato-obiongis apice obtusis—simis vel rotundatis, Horibus, 
minoribus, staminum tubo ultra medium partito et stigmate late peltate differt. I have named it 
D. pachyphyllum, and a description will appear in the next part of the Kew Bulletin. 
The official description is not available at the time of our going to press 
(May, 1907). When it comes it will he published in a subsequent Part. 
So that another difficulty which had gathered around D. Fraseranum has 
been cleared up. The Lord Howe Island tree hitherto referred to that species is a 
new one (Z). pachyphyllum, Hemsley), while J). Fraseranum is confined to the 
mainland. 
Mueller, under F>. Fraseranum, wrote thus of the Lord Howe Island tree:— 
.“ et in insula Lord Howe’s Island (Fullagar) crescit. Foliola pallide viridia; terminale 
sa;pe absens. Panicula fere racemosa. Tubus staminum extus pilosulus. Fructus circiter uncialis, 
passim sesquiuncialis, globosus vel fere pyriformis, pame glaber, tardissime deliiscens. Pericarpium 
crustaceum, baud lignescens. Semina usque I maturantia, trigono-ovata, longa, ample arillata.”— 
( Fragm. ix, 61.) 
The reference to D. Fraseranum being found in Lord Howe Island is repeated 
by Mueller in Fragm. ix, 77. 
Then Hemsley ( Annals of Botany, x, 234,1896) accepted Mueller’s statement. 
After my visit to the Island, I wrote the following note under D. Fraseranum :— 
“Apple-tree” rather plentiful, but does not come below 1,000 feet, and hence is not used. Its 
diameter is from 1 foot to 2 ft. 6 in .—(Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. IP, 1898, p. 124.) 
My own observations, made a year ago, on the differences between (1) the 
Lord Howe Island plant, the type of J). pacliyphyllum, and (2) Eraser’s plant, the 
type of D. Fraseranum, are very trifling as regards the flowers:— 
(a) Petals only hairy at the tips in (2), hairy from the base ih (1). 
(b) Anthers at least as long as the teeth of the staminal-tubc in (2), and 
some of the teeth are distinctly bifid, while in (1) the anthers are 
shorter than the teeth of the staminal-tube. 
( c ) The stigma is smaller in (2) than in (1). 
We will now leave D. pachyphyllum, and renew consideration of 
T>. Fraseranum. 
Botanical Name. — Dysoxylon, already explained (see Part XXIII, p. 30) ; 
Fraseranum, already explained. 
