Monimiacece.] 
THE COLONY OE VICTORIA. 
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Endemic trees of New Zealand and Eastern and South-Eastern Australia, with smooth toothed 
opposite leaves, axillary corymbs or racemes of flowers, with a solitary narrow bracteole at the base of 
the pedicel and sessile or stalked carpels.— Lam. Encycl. t 827 ; Ach. Rich . Voy. d’Astrolabe, t. 33 ; 
Raoul, Ghoix des Plant Noav. Zel. t . 30; J. Hook. Flor. Nov . Zeel. i. 218. 
The genus Wilkiea (established in the Transact, of the Phil. Inst of Viet. vol. ii. 64) differs from 
Hedycarya in operculate female flowers, and comprises probably the Mollinedia macropliylla, Tul. 
(Hedycarya macropbylla, A. Gann.), and M. Huegeliana, Till., the only two Australian species referred 
by Tulasne provisionally to an American genus. 
Hedycarya Fseudomorus, F. 31. in Transact. Phil. Inst. ii. 63; H. dentata var. Australasica, 
Sond. in Linncea , xxviii. 228. 
Stigma depressed, minutely umbonate; carpels small sessile yellow , nearly globose ; endocarp outside 
densely foveolate. 
In moist forest vallies of the fern-tree country, from Cape Otway and Mount Disappointment, through 
the Western Port district and Gipps Land to Wilson’s Promontory. Probably also in the Blue Mountains 
and the Cumberland district of New South Wales, and possibly to be found yet in the islands of Bass’s Straits 
and in the northern yet imperfectly explored portion of Tasmania. 
A tall shrub, or more generally a small tree. Apex of branchlets and young leaves imperfectly silky- 
downy. Petioles from J inch to rather more than 1 inch long. Leaves thin-coriaceous or chartaceous, 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 2-6 inches long, g-2 inches broad, shining above, paler and almost 
opaque beneath, abundantly perforated by subtle minute dots, one-nerved, net-veined, smooth in age, with 
exception of the lower part obscurely or conspicuously serrate, their teeth with callous apex. Racemes or 
corymbs axillary, opposite, few-flowered, short-stalked, imperfectly silky. Pedicels 2-4 lines long, opposite 
or nearly so. Bracteoles 1-2 lines long, linear-canaliculate, acute, tardily chopping. Calyx without bracteoles, 
that of the male flowers with a disk about 2 lines in diameter, its teeth almost constantly 8, more or less 
lanceolate or deltoid, one-nerved, hardly more than 1 line long, the four outer partially overlapping the inner 
ones in prseflorescence. Calyx of female flower similar to the male one, unless rather smaller; its teeth 
persistent, shrunk in age. Anthers slightly downy, yellow; the outer ones nearly cordate, the inner ones 
more ovate, bursting laterally, line long. Pollen-grains pale yellow. Style none. Stigma oblique- 
terminal, centrally umbonate, dilated at the margin into a disk. Ovaries almost glabrous, frequently all fertile; 
their cicatrix surrounded by very short dense hair. Drupes scarcely longer than 1 line, nearly globose, 
densely crowded, thus forming a roundish fruit, which, according to the number of its carpels, measures J- J 
inch across. Pericarp fleshy; endocarp brown, through innumerable regular minute impressions densely 
reticulate, more or less globose or ovate, slightly pointed at the apex. Albumen soft. 
H. dentata, the typical New Zealandian species of this genus, differs, although similar in foliage and 
flowers to our plant, widely from it in large bright-red short-stalked drupes frilly J inch long, further in a 
much thicker and outside not reticulated endocaip. 
Having seen no specimens of H. Pseudomorus from New South Wales, I am left doubtful whether 
Hedycarya Cunninghami is identical with the species above described; more so, since, in the diagnosis 
offered from seemingly imperfect material in Tulasne’s excellent monograph of the order, the cardinal 
characters of the Australian plant are not expressed. The embryological notes of the genus are solely 
derived from H. dentata. The resemblance of the fruit with that of Moras has induced some settlers to 
name our tree the u Native Mulberry,” a name which I have employed in the specific discrimination of the 
species. 
Supplemental Plate II. 1 and 2, male flowers; 3 and 4, fruit-bearing female flowers; 5, anthers; 
6 , pollen-grains; 7, longitudinal, and 8, transverse section of fruit; 9, seeds enclosed in the putamen. 
