Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
Fragmenta phytographiæ Australiæ /contulit Ferdinandus Mueller.
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imperfecto scandens. Opilia amentácea nuperius allata est e silvis<br />
prope Rockingham's Bay, ubi arbores alte circurascandit. Fructus<br />
magnitudine ovi columbini. Pericarpiura album, carnosum, edule.<br />
Endocarpium tenui-crustaceum. Albumen album, forsan antiquiore<br />
statu indurato-farinosum, extus heve et fuscum.<br />
Pennantia Cunninghami altitudinem 80' attinet.<br />
SAXIFRAGES.<br />
Davidsoma.<br />
Calyx 4•5-fidus, aestivatione valvatus. Pétala nulla. Stamina<br />
8-10, hypogyna. Fi lamenta setacea, libera. Anthera? dorsifixa?,<br />
oblonga?, biloculat•, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Styli<br />
2, setaeei, liberi. Stigmata minutissima, terminalia. Fructus inde-<br />
hiscens, siccus, globoso-ovatus, biloculatus. Semina in loculis<br />
solitaria, exalbuminosa, pendentia, compressa, exalata. Cotyle-<br />
dones plano-convexa?, ovatae, rectas. Radícula brevissinia, supera.<br />
Arbor Australi• septentrionali-orientalis, hirsutie pruriginem<br />
concitante in modum Dysoxyli rufi induta, foliis spar sis impari-<br />
pinnatis stipulatis, floribus glomerato-spicatis et simul paniculatis<br />
uni- et bisexualibus, fructibus majusculis.<br />
Generi tara ad Spiraeopsidem quam ad Gumilleam accedenti<br />
assigno nomen praeclari cultivatoris Davidson, qui primus in loco<br />
detectionis plantationes sacchari extensas paravit.<br />
Davidsonia pruriens.<br />
In silvis irriguis ad sinum Rockingham's Bay. Dallachy.<br />
Arbor 30-40' alta. Rachis foliorum sesquipedalis v. brevior,<br />
aculeolato-aspera, áptera. Stipula? paucas v. plures lineas latae,<br />
herbácea;, induta;, cordato-renata?, denticulata?. Paria foliolorum<br />
s;epe 5-6. Folióla praeter impar basi decurrens brevissime petio-<br />
Inlata sive sessilia, inferiora magnitudine decrescentia, superiora<br />
ad pedem longa, ad 3" lata, omnia coriácea, ovato-lanceolata, acu-<br />
minata, argute irregulari-dentata, peuninervia, reticulari-venosa,<br />
supra glabrescentia, subtus simul cum rachi paniculis ramulisque<br />
pilis urenti-irritantibus vestita. Panícula? ex axibus foliorum su-<br />
periorum, confertae, longe pedunculata?. Bi-actea? et bracteola?<br />
parva?, lanceolato- v. lineari-subulata?. Calyx rubellus, ultra me-<br />
dium fissus, 2-3'" longus, extus intusque velutinus, inde etiam<br />
hispidulus ; lacinia? semilanceolato-deltoidea?. Filamenta \\-2'"<br />
longa, glabra. Styli circiter 2'" longi. Germen disco perangusto<br />
cilioso cinctum. Fructus junior ex inventoris notis ruber, senior<br />
eoerulescens, maturatus circiter uncialis. Pericarpium potius sub-<br />
erosum quam ligneum ; loculi intus hevissimi et rubelli, passim et<br />
t'orsan monströse locellati. Semina orbiculari-ovata, compressa,<br />
pa?ne semipollicaria, ad extremitatem radicularem brevissime acu-<br />
minata. Testa brunnea, la?vis, glabra.