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No. 150. 
Endiandra Virens, F.v.M. 
A White Apple. 
(Family LAURACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Endiandra.. (See Part XXXV, p. 79.) 
Botanical description.— Species, E. Virens, F. Muell., in Fragm. ii, 90 (1860); 
Meissn. in DC. Prod, xv (1), 509. 
A tall shrub or a tree attaining a considerable height, glabrous in all its parts. 
Leaves oblong, usually narrow, rarely broader and elliptical, obtuse, contracted at the base, 2 to 
3 inches long in some specimens, twice that size in others, not thick, green and reticulate on 
both sides, somewhat shining above, a few of the primary veins more prominent than the 
others. 
Panicles slender, glabrous, much shorter than the leaves. 
Pedicels rather long. 
Flowers small. 
Perianth-tube very thick, broadly turbinate, nearly one line in diameter, forming a thick projecting 
ring round the base of the lobes which are shorter than the tube, broad and connivent, the 
three inner ones rather smaller than and quite enclosed in the outer ones. 
Stamens of the outer row entirely deficient, of the inner row three, without glands at their base, 
but alternating with sessile staminodia. 
Fruit globular, | to f inch* diameter, resting on thickened pedicels of 4 inch or more. (B.F1. v, 
302.) 
Botanical Name. — Endiandra , already explained (see Part XXXV, p. 79); 
virens, Latin, youthful and green, hence a bright clear green, referring to the 
leaves. 
Vernacular Name. —Ml*. A. H. Lawrence, Forest Guard, Coif’s Harbour, 
who put himself to much trouble to obtain suitable specimens for figuring, informs 
me that this tree is locally called “"White Apple,” because of the fruit, which, 
however, turns yellowish when fully ripe. 
The late Mr. Charles Moore collected specimens, of this tree for the London 
International Exhibition of 1862, under the number, in the New South AVales 
Catalogue, Northern Woods, of XI-III. It was given the provisional name (after¬ 
wards confirmed) of Endiandra virens, and Mr. Moore called it “ Bat and Ball, 
Native Orange? Native Pomegranate.”. 
It will be seen that the fruit figured is much larger, viz., 2| inches in diameter. 
