Tab. 5413. 

 fugosia cuneiformis. 



Cuneate-leaved Fugosia. 



Nat. Ord. Malvaceae. — Monadelphia Polyandria. 



Gen. Char. Bracteolee 3-co, ssepius parvae v. deciduas, nunc dentiformes. 

 Calyx 5-fidus. Columna starninea, sub apice truncato dentato v. rarius antherifero, 

 Jilamenta co exserens. Ovarium 3-4-loculare, loculis 3-co-ovulatis ; stylus 

 apice clavatus, 3-4-sulcus v. in lobos 3-4 breves erectos clavato-stigmatosos sub- 

 divisus. Capsvla loculicide 3-4-valvis. Semina obovoideo-globosa, saepius pu- 

 bescentia v. lanata ; albumen membraniforme ; cotyledones 2-3-plicatae, auriculis 

 baseos radiculam rarius partita rectam involventibus. — Suffrutices/rw^'cestv, habitu 

 Hibisci. Folia Integra vel lobata, rarius partita. Flores saepius fiuvi. Calycem 

 sa?pe punctatum sed cotyledones semper impunctatas vidimus. Seminum integu- 

 mentum internum ad chalazam incrassatum et nigrum fere calypirceforme vidimus 

 in F. phlomidifolia et australi. Benth. et Hook. fit. 



Fugosia cuneiformis; fruticosa glabra, foliis cuneato-oblongis vel lato-linearibus 

 obtusis 1-2 uncias longis integerrimis crassis subcarnosisque, pedunculis 

 brevibus crassis, involucro parvo minuto 5-6-dentato paulo infra calycem 

 sito, calyce | ad unciam longo glabro v. minute tomentoso nunc glanduloso- 

 punctato, profunde in lobos lanceolatos uninervios diviso, petalis \\ un- 

 ciam longis sparse tomentosis, capsula 5-loculari ovoideo-oblonga acuminata 

 parce tomentosa, seminibus numerosis villoso-lanatis. Benth. 



Fugosia cuneiformis. Benth. M. Austral, v. I. p. 219. 



Hibiscus cuneiformis. Be Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 454. 



Lagunaria cuneiformis. Bon, Gen. Syst. Bot. v. 1. p. 485. 



Hibiscus capriodorus. A. Cunn. mss. in Herb. Hook. 



A rare and little-known West Australian species of Fugosia, 

 a genus, as observed by Bentham and Hooker fil., very nearly 

 allied on the one hand to Hibiscus, on the other to Gossypium ; 

 differing from the former chiefly in the style, from the latter in 

 the bracteoles. The present species seems to have been disco- 

 vered in Dirk Hartog's Island by Allan Cunningham, who gave 

 it a manuscript name implying that it had a goat-like odour. 

 Milne, during the voyage of Captain Denham in H.M.S. Herald, 

 found it in the same island, and remarks that it is a seashore 



NOVEMBER 1ST, 1863. 



