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1 he female flowers are depicted at f in Plate 174, and may he described as 
follows :— 
Perianth segments. —As in the male flowers. 
Staminodia. —Shorter than the perianth. 
Ovary. —-Glabrous, or nearly so. 
Stigma slightly hooked. 
Botanical Name. — Litscea, already explained (see Part XLIY, p. 86) ; 
hexanthus, Latin, with six flowers. 
In “Loureiro’s” description of Hexanthus umbellatus, he writes : “Involucres 
containing six flowers,” and this, I think, is the origin of the word Hexanthus used 
by him. 
Vernacular Name. —“ White Sassafras ,” in the Bellinger ltiver District, 
according to Mr. E. II. E. Swain. 
Aboriginal Name. —“ Ugaulbie ” is the aboriginal name formerly in use in 
the Clarence and Richmond River District of New South Wales, according to the 
late Mr. Charles Moore. 
Synonyms. —I have followed Mueller ( Second Census ) in calling this plant 
Litscea hexanthus, hut I note Bentham’s warning (B.E1. v, 306). It seems very 
doubtful whether Hexanthus of Loureiro, from Cochin China, usually referred to 
T. ferruginea, is really that species. 
Neither one name nor the other is to be found in Hooker’s Flora of British. 
India, nor in Trimen’s Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon. 
All tlifit I can say is that our plant appears to be conspecific with Tetranlhera 
ferruginea, R.Br., which Mueller believes to be identical with Litscea hexanthus, 
and which Bentham doubts. The matter should engage the attention of a specialist 
who has access to Cochin China plants. 
Hexanthus umbellatus, Loureiro; Litscea hexanthus, Juss., var. ferruginea, 
E.v.M. ; Litscea ferruginea, E.v.M. ; Tetrantliera ferruginea, R.Br., var. 
lanceolatci, Meissn. (which is the name adopted by Bentham in B.E1. 
v, 306); T. nesogenct , E.v.M., from Eamily Island, Rockingham Bay ; 
Cylicodaphne Leefeana, E.v.M. ( Fragm . v, 1G9), the original of which 
was collected, like T. nesogenct, at Rockingham Bay, Queensland, by 
Dallachy. 
Leaves. —They vary a good deal in size, in shape, and in the tomentum, 
which is very ferruginous in Brown’s specimen, but the depth of the colour and the 
amount of the tomentum are somewhat diminished, and the texture of the leaves 
becomes thinner as the Bellinger River, New South Wales, is approached. 
