22 Dansk Botanisk Arkiv. Bd. 2. Nr. 8. 



triangularibus acutis; petala 2 — 2.5 cm longa, flava; stamina flava ; 

 fructus calyce dimidio vel subduplo longior, truncatus, 1.0 — 1.2 

 cm longus ; carpellæ 10, dense stellato-tomentosæ, apice contractæ, 

 rostro brevi divergenti instructæ; semina ca. 3 in carpella, sub- 

 reniformia, brunneo-purpurea, ca. 2 mm in diametro. 



Hab. Austr. occid. trop. ad Derby, W. Kimberley. 

 Ab Å.aurito (Wall.) Don præcipue differt: calyx, carpellæ et 

 folia dense stellato-tomentosa sine pilis simplicibns longioribus; 

 corolla calycem triplo superans; carpellæ 10, calyce subduplo longi- 



ores rostro brevi divergente instructæ; ab 

 A. indico (L.) Sweet: inflorescentia race- 

 mosa, foliis parvis instructa ; caulis, petioli 

 pedunculique præter tomentum pilis longi- 

 oribus simplicibus; foliorum margines 

 dense et regulariter crenato-serrati ; car- 

 pellæ ut supra descriptæ. 



Near the jetty at Derby I found 

 a yellow-flowered Abutilon (No. 1171, 7. 

 vum iiov. "p.° Part Nov. 1914) which does not agree with any 

 of a branch with species described, as far as I know. It 

 a "TNat.^e) rU1 comes nearest to A. indicum (L.) Sweet 

 (sens, lat., incl. var. australiense Hochr.) 

 and A. auritum (Wall.) Don, but the above given description 

 and the differences pointed out will show that it is quite distinct. 

 Also from the Australian A. Jongilobum F. v. Müll., A. otocar- 

 pum F. v. Müll, (with its var. broomensis Hochr. from Broome) 

 and A. oxycarpum F. v. Müll, it seems well separated, as far as 

 can be judged from descriptions without access to any authentical 

 specimens. 



Bombacaceæ. 



Adansonia Gregorii F. v. Müll., in Hooker, Kew misc. IX (1857) 

 14; Benth. Fl. Austr. I (1863) 223; W. V. Fitzgerald, in Journ. 

 Müll. Bot. Soc. Ill (1903) 5; A. Stanburyana Hochreutiner. in Ann. 

 Conserv. et Jard. botan. de Geneve, 11—12 Ann. (1908) 136, pi. I— II. 



Broome, a few trees seen (5. Nov. 1914). 



Derby, common in the savannah forest, with ripe fruits and 

 some trees with newly out-folded leaves , and in flower (No. 1175, 

 7. Nov. 1914). The flowers were white with a cream-coloured tinge. 



There is considerable variability in the characters of this 

 plant. This has induced B. P. G. Hochreutiner (1. c.) to create 

 a new species upon a specimen which grows at Broome near the 



