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EUPOMATIA. 
JR. JBr. in Hind. Voy. ii. 597. 
Calyx ovate or globose-ovate , valveless , circumcised near the base. Petals none. Stamens 
exterior, perigynous, bent outward. Filaments conspicuous, dilated towards the connate base. Anthers 
pointed. Staminodia petaloid, interior, numerous, imbricate, connivent. Ovary inferior , inordinate- 
and indefinite-manycelled, with several ovules inserted to the inner angle of each cell. Stigmas 
minute, sessile, very depressed. Fruit baccate, concrete with the calyx, flat and areolate at the 
summit, many-seeded. 
An arborescent shrub, ranging over extratropical and subtropical Eastern Australia, assigning to 
Anoneae its most southerly geographical extension. Leaves large, very shining. Peduncles axillary, 
one-flowered.— Endl. Gen. 834. 
Eupomatia laurina, JR. JBr. in JFlind. Voy. ii. 597, t. 2. 
In forest-glens along rivulets near the south-eastern boundary of Gipps Land. Thence extending to 
Moreton Bay. 
A large evergreen shrub or small tree, attaining' however in deep irrigated forest-ravines the height of 
40 feet, in all parts glabrous. Branchlets terete, striolate, more or less flexuose. Leaves chartaceous or thin- 
coriaceous, alternate, almost distichous, from 2-8 inches long*, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, more or less 
acuminate, flat, entire, shining on both pages with a beautiful lustre, occasionally particularly the young 
ones with a purplish shade, dark-green above, with a prominent midrib and thin-netted veins, secedent with 
the petiole, which is somewhat curved and only from to a few lines long. Flowers solitary, terminal in 
short axillary branchlets or on mere peduncles arising from the axis of the leaves. The proper peduncle but 
a few lines long, gradually upwards thickened. Flowers of a strong macis-scent and taste. Calyx pale- 
green, opaque, finally brownish, before dehiscence globose-ovate and about J inch long, circumcised below 
the middle; the opercular portion -without distinct sutures, but traversed by subtle nerves and veins. Fertile 
stamens inserted in several rows below the margin of the persistent part of the calyx, connate at the base. 
Filaments flat, broad, dilated towards the base, glabrous, li§-2 lines long. Anthers erect, linear, from 1J-2 
lines long; the connective protracted into a terminal cuspis; the cell bursting along the outer margin. 
Staminodia as well as the stamens connate at the base into a flat ring, which is adnate to the inner margin 
of the calyx-tube, from which this portion of the flow r er wholly and simultaneously secedes. Staminodia 
forming several rows, bent inward, petaloid, ovate; the outer ones from 2-3 lines long; the inner ones shorter; 
all glabrous, slightly cartilaginous at the margin, entire or faintly crenulated. Ovary turbinate, with several 
ovules affixed to the inner angle of the numerous and irregularly distributed cells. The vertex of the ovary 
flat, orbicular, with as many areoles as cells, each terminated with a small depressed stigma. Fruit baccate, 
often pruinose, turbinate- or urceolar-hemispherical, J-f inch long, green and soft when fresh and ripe, of 
strong aromatic odor and taste, edged around the summit by the narrow' slightly expanded margin. Seeds 
1 or 2 rarely 3 ripening* in many of the cells, surrounded by a slight quantity of tough pale pulp, more or less 
egg-shaped, about 2 lines long, by mutual pressure variously angulate, slightly wrinkled and foveolate. 
Chalaza terminal. Testa livid or pale-brow T n, shining*. Endopleura extremely thin. Albumen fleshy, deeply 
wrinkled, particularly a narrow fold penetrating’ into the albumen along the raphe. Embryo several times 
shorter than the albumen, lodged at its base. Cotyledons oval, flat, about as long as the cylindrical 
radicle. 
It remains as yet doubtful, whether E. Bennettii (F. M. Fragm. Phytogr. Austr. i. 45), on account of 
glandulous and tufted-downy staminodia and some other as yet imperfectly compared characters, can be 
distinguished from E. laurina. 
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