No. 93. 
Dysoxylon Becklerianum, C.DC. 
The Hairy Dysoxylon. 
(Family MELIACEvE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Dysoxylon. (See Part XXIII, p. 27.) 
Botanical description. —Species, T>. Bccklericmum, Oasimir De Candolle in Suites 
au Prodromus, i, 509 (1878). 
Following is a translation of the original: — 
Leaves a little petiolate, abruptly pinnate, 4-5 jugate. 
Leaflets opposite, very shortly petiolulate, oblong lanceolate, symmetrical at the base and cuneate 
acute, the apex very shortly obtusely cuspidate, hairy above at the midrib and underneath 
at the veins ; the panicles pedunculate, elongate, shortly branched, downy. 
Flowers nearly sessile. 
Calyx cupuliform, 4-lobed, downy outside ; the petals scarcely downy. 
Staminal lube cylindrical, glabrous, lacinulate, with the teeth bifid. 
Tubular disc glabrous. 
Ovarium hirsute. 
The young branches slightly velvety, greenish. 
Leaves about 16 cm. long. 
Leaflets membraneous, opaque, faintly dotted, the upper ones a little larger than the rest, 8| cm. 
long and 28 mm. broad; the secondary veins vrry faint, a little broad, about 14 on both 
sides. Rhachis with a petiole 4| cm. long, terete densely villous, slightly ribbed. 
Panicle scarcely exceeding half the leaf, the inferior branches about 15 mm. long, the cymes 
pedicellate, 3-1 flowered. 
Flowers very caducous. Lobes of the calyx rounded. 
Petals 4, scarcely 5 mm. long, laciniate, the apex acutely acuminate. 
Staminal tube connate with the petals for a third of its height. 
Anthers 8, elliptical, not mucronate, 1 mm. long. 
Ovarium cells with two ovules, the ovules superposed. 
(Clarence River, Beckler, in Herb. Kew.) 
Botanical Name. — Dysoxylon, already explained (see Part XXIII, p. 30); 
Becklerianum, in memory of Dr. Hermann Beckler, who collected it. Dr. Beckler 
was Medical Officer and “ Botanical Observer” to the Burke and Wills’ Expedition, 
nis botanical instructions will he found in Trans. Boy. Soc. Vic., 1860, p. lxxii. 
He left the party owing to some dispute. 
He collected botanical specimens at Moreton Bay, the Hastings, Macleay, 
Clarence, and Richmond Rivers, also between the Darling and the Barrier Range in 
the Burke and Wills’ Expedition. 
