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No. 118. 
Cryptocarya patentinervis, F.v.M. 
(Family LAURACE^E.) 
Botanical description— Genus, Cryptocarya. (See Part III, p. 72.) 
Botanical description. —Species, C. patentinervis, F.v.M. in DC. Prod, xv (i), 
508. 
A small tree, the branches and inflorescence ferruginous or hoary with a close tomentum. 
Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 2 to 4 in. long, glabrous above, softly or minutely 
pubescent and more or less glaucous underneath, the primary veins prominent, the reticulate 
veinlets also somewhat conspicuous. 
Cymes sometimes solitary in the axils, more frequently several in short terminal thyrsoid panicles, 
the flowers not numerous, hoary-pubescent. 
Perianth 1 \ lines long, the tube turbinate, rather shorter than the lobes. 
Glands of the inner stamens shortly stipitate. 
Staminodia sessile, thick, acuminate. 
Fruiting perianth ellipsoid-oblong, nearly ^ in. long, the pericarp rather more distinct from it 
than in most species. (B.F1. v, 296.) 
Botanical Name. — Cryptocarya, already explained (see Part III, p. 73) ; 
patentinervis, from two words patens, patent, spreading, or spread out, and nervus, 
a nerve, or, in botany, “ a vein,” lienee with spreading venation. 
Vernacular name. —I know of none in regular use. I have, in one 
instance, heard the name “ Damson ” applied to this tree, because of the appear¬ 
ance of the fruit, but it is not specially appropriate as regards this species of 
Cryptocarya. 
Aboriginal Name. —I know of none. 
Synonym. — c. rigida, Meissn. in DC. Prod, xv (i), 508. 
Timber. — A pale-coloured timber, whose uses do not appear to have been 
yet ascertained. 
Size .—A small tree so far as known—under 50 feet in height, and up to 
about a foot in diameter. 
Habitat ,—It is found in brushes principally on the northern rivers of New 
South Wales, the Hastings River being its most southerly recorded locality so far. 
Thence it is found as far as the Queensland border, and the late Rev. B. Scortechini 
found it on the Queensland side, “ towards the Tweed River.” 
