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No. 134. 
Endiandra globosa, Maiden and Betehe. 
The Ball Fruit. 
(Family LAURACE^E.) 
Botanical description. —Genus, Endiandra. (See Part XXXY, p. 79.) 
Botanical description. —Species, E. globosa, Maiden and Betclie, in Proc. Linn. 
Soc., N.S.W., XXIV, 149 (1899). 
A tall straight-stemmed tree, glabrous in all its parts, except minute hairs on the infloresence. 
Leaves ovate elliptical, acuminate but obtuse, 5 to 5^ inches long and 2 to nearly 3 inches bread, 
finely reticulate and equally green on both sides, narrowed into a short petiole. 
Panicles in the few specimens seen much less than half as long as the leaves. 
Calyx• [or 'perianth-) tube small, the limb very open, consisting generally of six broad segments. 
Stamens: three fertile ones alternating with three short, thick rudimentary ones, and a large 
scale-like gland on each side of the fertile stamens. 
Pipe fruits perfectly globular, two inches in diameter, resting on a short, thick pedicel, with 
a thin pericarp and a hard woody endocarp. 
Near Murwillumbah, Tweed River, New .South Wales (Dr. J. A. Goldsmid, December, 1898). 
The large fruits, of the shape and size of a small billiard-ball, are frequently picked up in the 
dense brush forests of the Richmond and Tweed Rivers, and have been known to us for many 
years, but on account of the large size of the tree and the difficulty of collecting in dense 
brushes, we have not hitherto been able to procure correctly matched flowering specimens 
till we succeeded in interesting Dr. Goldsmid, a resident of Murwillumbah, in the subject. 
In affinity it is nearest to E. Sieberi, Nees, from which it is scarcely distinguished in the flowers; 
but its habit, foliage and fruit are so different that we cannot consider it a variety of that 
species.* (Op. cit.) 
Botanical Name. — Endiandra, already explained (see Part XXXY, p. 79); 
globosa, Latin, round, referring to the shape of the fruit. 
Yernacular Name. —Perhaps I may be permitted to invent the name “ Ball 
Eruit” for this tree, which has no name, vernacular or aboriginal, so far as I am 
aware. 
Similarity to certain Cryptocaryas. —The leaves of Cryptocarya 
Bancrofti, Bail., are so similar to those of Endiandra globosa that I cannot tell the 
difference. 
• Since this paper was in type we have been favoured by Mr. R. T. Raker with good flowering specimens collected 
by W. Baeuerlen, near Murwillumbah, in October, 1892. It is described as a “ Tree of 25 feet” on the label.—23 vi, 99. 
