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Cryptocarya glaucescens, R.Br. 
A Brown Beech. 
(Family LAURACEyE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Cryptocarya . (See Part III, p. 72.) 
Botanical description. —Species, glaucescens, R.Br. Prod., 402. 
A tree of 40 feet and upwards, the young branches and petioles minutely pubescent when young, 
but soon becoming glabrous, the inflorescence usually hoary-pubescent. 
Leaves. —Ovate elliptical or oblong, obtuse or shortly acuminate, shortly contracted at the base, 
flat, not usually so rigid as in C. obovata, penniveined and reticulate but the veins rather 
fine and the reticulations little conspicuous or in some varieties conspicuous or even prominent 
on both sides, both surfaces green or somewhat glaucous, rarely above 4 inches long in 
flowering specimens, but larger on luxuriant shoots. 
Flowers. —Numerous, shortly pedicellate, in thyrsoid panicles shorter or longer than the leaves, 
the upper ones often forming a large terminal panicle. 
Perianth. —1 to 1|- lines long, hoary-pubescent, the tube oblong when fully out, turbinate when 
young, the segments about as long as the tube or rather longer. 
Glands. —Stipitate, appearing to belong as much to the outer as to the inner filaments. 
Staminodia. —Acuminate. 
Fruiting perianth depressed-globular, l to nearly | inch diameter.—Meissn. in DC. 
Prod, xv, i, 72. (B.F1. v, 297.) 
Var. Cunninghamii. Scarcely distinguishable from the eastern form, except 
by rather larger flowers and the perianth-tube rather shorter.— C. Cunninghamii, 
Meissn. in DC. Prod, xv, i, 73. Hunter’s River, Brunswick Bay, N.W. coast, 
A . Cunningharn. 
C. hypoglauca, Meissn. l.c. from N.W. Australia, which I have not seen, but 
is supposed to he from A. Cunningham’s collection, is probably the same species. 
Var. coriacea. Leaves thick, rigid, and more prominently reticulate, often 
very glaucous underneath.-—Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
Var. nitida. Leaves coriaceous and shining, with fine veins, green on both 
sides, or scarcely glaucous.— C.'Moretoniana, Meissn. l.c. 74.—Moreton Bay, A. 
Cunningham, ; Archer’s Creek, Leichhardt. 
C. Bidwillii, Meissn. l.c. 74, of which the specimens from Wide Bay, Bidioill , 
are in young fruit only, and not satisfactory, may be the same variety. 
All the above varieties run much one into the other, and in view of the large 
number of specimens I have had before me, it seems impossible to consider any of 
them as species permanently distinct. (B.P1. v, 297.) 
It would be desirable to submit these varieties to rigid re-examination. 
