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No. 104. 
Cryptocarya microneura, Meissn. 
The Murrogun. 
(Family LAURACEME ) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Cryptocarya, R.Br Prodromus, 258. (See Part 
III, p. 72, of this work.) 
Botanical description. —Species, C. microneura, Meissn. in DC. Prod, xv, 73 
(1861). 
Following is a translation of the original description :— 
Leaves coriaceous with an attenuate base, elliptical-oblong, acuminate, and somewhat acute, with 
prominent primary veins on both sides, and minutely reticulate, glabrous, uniformly coloured 
on both sides. 
Panicles clustered, greyish silky-hairy, with nearly glabrous peduncles. 
South-eastern Australia (Fraser, A. Cunningham, Macarthur, Backhouse). A tree 15 
feet high, according to Cunningham, 30 feet according to Fraser, and 50 to 70 feet 
according to Macarthur. 
Branches slender, punctate with warts, the apex angular compressed and minutely hairy 
(puberulous), the bark somewhat bitter aromatic. 
Leaves somewhat shining above, 4 to 6 inches long, lj- inches broad, the petiole 3 to 5 lines long, 
flat above; veins immersed on the upper side, the primary veins half-spreading, the upper 
ones thin and becoming obsolete, curved and connected. 
Panicles axillary and terminal, 1 to 5 inches long, shortly pedunculate, surpassed by the leaves, 
branches compressed angular, the lowest 1 to 14 inches long, racemose, the short brancldets 
cymose, 3-to 5-flowered. 
Calyx longer than the pedicel, 1 4 inches long, the lobes ovate, spreading, slightly longer than the 
ovoid tube. 
Fruits not known. (Since discovered ; see below). 
I repeat the description of C. microneura given by Mr. Baker and myself in 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. W., 1895, p. 515. 
A tree over 60 feet high, glabrous except the inflorescence, which is always hoary-pubescent. 
Leaves broadly lanceolate, acuminate, obtuse, glabrous on both sides, a shade darker on the upper side, 
primary veins and reticulations equally distinct on both sides, reticulations fine hut more distinct than in 
C. glaucescens , 6 inches long and 1 broad; petiole short, less than | inch. Flowers very numerous, mostly 
terminating in a large irregular panicle, but sometimes axillary. Perianth under 1 line, hoary pubescent, 
the tube turbinate, about equal to the lobes. Glands stipitate at the mouth of the tube. Staminodia 
scarcely sessile as in C. glaucescens, and very much more acuminate. Fruiting perianth ovoid-oblong, 
6-8 lines long, dark, shining, faintly ribbed. 
