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(3.) Oreo daphne a ustralis, Walp. Ann. Hot. Sysf., i, 576. Placing the 
supposed Capo of Good Hope plant referred to under (1) under Oreoclaphne, Nees 
ah. Fsenbeck. 
(4.) Caryodaphne australis, A. Braun, in Meissner (DC. Prod, xv, i, 77), 
where the synonymy is recapitulated. 
Bark— 
“The hark lias a persistently hitter taste, due to the presence of an alkaloid which crystallises 
from its solution in stellate masses of acicular crystals. When administered to warm-blooded animals, the 
alkaloid produced difficulty of respiration, ending in asphyxial difficulty and death.”—(Dr. T. L. Bancroft, 
in Prnc. Roy. Soc. Queensland, iv, 1887.) 
Fruit .—The fruiting perianths I have seen are more spherical than obovoid, 
and of a bright scarlet colour. 
Timber. —-Light, easily wrought, and useful when not exposed to the 
weather. Owing to its smell, insects do not like it. It is a timber of which but 
little is known, being cut up and mixed with other brush timbers. 
Size.— Hei ght up to 100 feet, and with a diameter of 1 or 2 feet. 
Habitat—l his is a New South Wales and Queensland tree, found in brushes. 
Its range does not appear to have been extended since the publication of the “ Flora 
Australiensis.” 
Its most southerly recorded limit is the Clarence River, New South Wales, 
and its most northerly, Rockingham Bay, Queensland. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE 118. 
a. Flowering branch. 
B. Bud. 
c. Flower, opened out, showing— 
(a) Calyx (perianth segment). 
(b) Stamens, outer row. 
( r,) ,, inner row. 
(d) Staminodia, outer row. 
(e) ,, inner row. 
(/) Stigma. 
D. Anthers, back and front. 
e. Staminode, outer row. 
f. Staminodes, inner row. 
g. Pistil. 
H. Fruiting branch. 
k. Fruit, showing persistent calyx. 
l. Fruit opened, showing endocarp. 
