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Endiandra Sieberi, Nees. 
A Cork Wood or Till. 
(Family LAURACEyE.) 
Botanical description.— Genus, Endiandra, B.Br., Prod. 402 (1810). 
Flowers hermaphrodite. 
Perianth-segments 6, equal or nearly £ 0 . 
Stamens of the outer series reduced to a thick prominent ring below the perianth-segments 
or entirely wanting, of the inner series 3, with extrorse or semi-extrorse anthers, alternating 
sometimes with 3 small staminodia which are ofcen deficient; glands either 6 at the base of 
the perfect stamens but free from them or none. 
Ovary not immersed. 
Berry free, resting on the wholly or partially persistent but not at all or scarcely enlarged 
perianth.—Trees. 
Leaves alternate. 
Flowers in axillary panicles, sometimes almost reduced to single cymes. 
Fruits oblong or globular. (B.F1. v, 300.) 
Botanical description —Species, E. Sieberi, Nees, Syst. Laurin., 191. 
A shrub or tree, glabrous except a minute pubescence scarcely perceptible on the inflorescence. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 2 to 3 inches long, contracted 
into a short petiole, rather thin, green on both sides, with the smaller reticulations as 
prominent as the rather numerous and fine primary veins. 
Panicles thyrsoid, shorter than the leaves. 
Perianth-tube very small, the limb very open. 
Stamens of the outer series entirely deficient, 3 of the inner series perfect with a gland on each 
side at the base, the intervening staminodia very small or obsolete. 
Young fruit globular, resting on the apex of the peduncle, the whole perianth deciduous. 
Pipe fruit not seen. * (B.F1. v, 301.) 
Botanical Name.— Endiandra, from two Greek words, Endon, within, and 
{aner') andros , a man (in botany stamen), in allusion to the fact that in this genus 
the inner row of anthers are- the fertile ones ; Sieberi, in honour of Franz Wilhelm 
Sieber, of Prague, Bohemia, who extensively collected in New South Wales between 
the years 1819 and 1823, and who sold sets of his specimens in Europe. 
Vernacular Name. —Universally known as “ Corkwood,” owing to the 
rugged, corky bark. As there are other Corkwoods, I have, by way of distinction, 
conjoined the aboriginal name “Till” with it in this case. 
Since described. See under “ Fruits, 
