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No. 122. 
Cryptocarya triplinervis, R.Br. 
The Three-veined. Cryptocarya. 
(Family LAURACEyE.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Cryptocarya. (See Part III, p. 72.) 
Botanical description. —Species, C. triplinervis, R.Br., Prod. (1810 ) 
A tall tree. 
Leaves ovate-elliptical or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous above, more or less pubescent 
underneath, rarely above 4 inches long, triplinerved or more or less irregularly penniveined 
with 2 to 5 primary veins on each side of the midrib, sometimes very prominent underneath 
sometimes fine, the reticulations not very conspicuous. 
Panicles, dense, short, and thyrsoid in the axils, or the upper ones much branched, forming a 
terminal panicle with numerous flowers, hoary-pubescent with appressed hairs or more 
frequently hirsute with spreading hairs. 
Flowers nearly sessile. 
Perianth-tube, cylindrical, about 1 line long, the segments narrow and nearly as long. 
Stamens, nearly as long as the perianth, the glands stipitate, as near to the outer as to the inner 
stamens; staminodia rather narrow, acuminate. 
Fruiting perianth ovoid, about | inch long. (B.F1. v, 297.) 
BotailiCcll Name. — Cryptocarya, already explained (see Part III, p. 73); 
triplinervis, from the Latin adjective triplex, icis, triple ; nervus, a nerve or sinew, 
in botany a vein. Hence three-veined, in allusion to the three prominent veins 
which spring from the base of the leaf. 
Vernacular Name. — I know no vernacular name for this species in use on 
the mainland. “ Blackbutt ” is the name by which it is known on Lord Howe 
Island, but it must not be confused with the Blackbutt of New South Wales 
(.Eucalyptus pilularis). 
Synonym.— Caryodaphne Broivniana, Nees, Syst. Laurin, 230 ; Meissner in 
DC. Proi. xv (1) 78. This species (?) Broivniana, comes from “ Tropical New 
Holland,” and the variety (?) ferruginea, “ sub-tropical east coast to Moreton Bay 
and Brisbane River.” 
