whitish, in oyoid globular or oblong heads, terminal or the axis very soon 
growing out into a leafy shoot. Calyx-tube ovoid-campanulate, about {-line long — 
or shorter and broader in the males, with yery short and broad lobes. Petals 
2 to 2 lines diameter. Staminal bundles 2 to nearly 3 lines long, the claws — 
exceeding the petals, each with 5 to 9 filaments at the end. Stigma dilated. — 
‘Fruiting calyxes trancate, in some specimens about 1} lines diameter, in not 
very compact globular heads ; in others 2 lines diameter, in very dense oblong — 
spikes; in others again still larger and only 2 or 3 together. Cotyledons very — 
broad and folded. JL. cupressina, F. y. M., Fragm., iii. 114.’ 
Hab.: Lake Dunn Station, Wiss C. 2. Crossman. Only a few small specimens received, — 
which seemed intermediate between I, thyoides:nd M. tamariseina, Hook. 
Order SAPOTACEZE. 
SIDEROXYLON, Linn. 
S. Dugulla, Fail. (n. sp.) (The aboriginal name at Barron River, Z. — 
Cowley.) ‘Tree of about 70 ft., trunk diameter 2 ft., bark grey with numerous — 
shallow longitudinal cracks. The young slightly hairy, leaves oblong- 
lanceolate, 3 to 4 in. long, and seldom exceeding 1 in. wide at the broadest part, 
tapering from above the middie to a petiole-like base; the apex usually very 
blunt, glabrous on both faces, the upper glossy, texture thin, Flowers nob 
seen. Fruit nearly sessile and almost globular, green, 1 in. or more in 
dhesirettse containing 5 seeds, embedded in a soft pulp. Seeds brown, glossy, — 
' $-in. long. 
Hab.: Barren River, 2. Cowley. Fruit eaten by natives. 
Order VERBENACEZL. 
CLERODENDRON, Linn. 
C. lanceolatum, Fv. Jf, Fragm. IIT. 145, Flor. Austr. vy. 63. A 
tall shrub or small tree, the foliage and inflorescence softly velvety, pubescent 
or glabrous. Leaves on rather long petioles, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 
acute or rather obtuse, 2103 in. long. Cymes in the upper axils several- 
flowered, shorter than the leaves, on short peduncles. Bracts narrow, acute, or — 
the outer ones more leafy. Calyx broadly campanulate, about 2} lines long when — 
in flower, divided to near the middle into obtuse lobes. Corolla usually pubescent — 
outside, the tube about? in. long, or rather more, the lobes scarcely 3 lines. 
Stamens rather long. Fruiting calyx enlarged, of a deep purple colour, very 
-open,.4 to 5 lines diameter, the lobes recurved. Drupe oblong, about 4 or 5 — 
lines long, near or quite black when ripe. 
Tiab.: Torrens, near White Mountains, R. C. Buiton. Coomooboolaroo, Mrs. G. 
Barnard. 
Order LAURINEA. 
ENDIANDRA, R.Br. 
_E. insignis, Bail. (Cryptocarya insignis, Bail. Bot. Bull. I. 15.) Flowers 
minute inslender trichotomus panicles under 2 in. long, pedicels slender longer — 
than the flowers. Flowers nearly globular in the bud, usually about a line 
long ; outer segments nearly rotund, inner ones somewhat apiculate, hairy on 
both sides. Stamens (in the flowers examined), the 3 inner ones alone fertile. 
_ Ovary and style more or less hairy. 
Hab.: Ranges about Cairns, L. J. Nugent. Flower specimens, In Bet. Bull. IT. this 
tree was placed in Cryptocarya, but no flowers had then been seen. 
