Ceratopetalum
(from keras, a horn, and petalon, a petal; the petals are jagged so as to resemble a stag's horn). ORD. Saxifraeoe. A genus containing a couple of species of greenhouse trees, limited to New South Wales. Flowers small, in terminal trichotomous cymes or corymbose panicles. They have opposite leaves, with one to three digitate leaflets, articulate on the petiole; stipules very small, caducous. For culture, see Callicoma.
C. apetalum (without petals). fl. greenish-yellow. l., leaflets usually solitary (occasionally three on luxuriant shoots or young trees). h. 50ft. to 60ft.
C. gummiferum (gum-bearing). fl. yellow, in terminal panicles. June. l. ternate; leaflets three, lanceolate, serrated, coriaceous, and smooth. h. 30ft. to 40ft. 1823.