lUhhertia^^ ii. dilleniace^e. 31) 



notched. Stamens very numerous, with a few filiform staminodia outside. 

 Carpels 4 or 5, glabrous, 4-ovvxlate. 



. ^^' Australia- King George's SounJ, Meuzies ; and thence io Vasse and Swau 

 rivers, Drummoml, Prelss, n. 2129, OldfieM, and others. 



borne specimens have the auricles of the lower leaves more or less united, thus shearing 

 an approach to H. perfollata, aud Lave been described as species nndcr the names of II, 

 0U2jIeunfoUa,'LQ}uii. Nov. Hort. Hamb. and Linnjca, xxv. 307, and of//, disticka, I-ehm. 

 I.e. 30y. They may be readily distiuguishcd from S. ^erfoliaia^hy the thicker rigid 

 pedicels, larger broader sepals, etc. Ou the other haud^ narrow-leaved branches appear 

 almost to pass into H, Cnnninr/hamiL 



^59. H. Cunninghamii, EooJ^. BoL Mag, t, 3183. Perfectly glabrous, 

 with slender branches apparently tending to climb. Leaves linear, mostly 

 pomted, 1 to 1|- or rarely 2 in. long, the edges scarcely recurved, narrowed 

 below the middle, but expanded again into a stem-clasping or sagittate base- 

 Peduncles axillary, i to f in. long, with a few small leafy bracts at their base, 

 ^epals thin, about 3 lines long, broadly ovate, the outer ones more acute, 

 retals slightly notched. Stamens numerous, with numerous short filiform 

 staminodia outside. Cai-i^els 5, glabrous, 3- or 4 -ovulate,— Ca;2i/o/?^a Cun- 



Pi. Preiss. i. 267. 



lad lica^foUa 



S\'\' ^^stralia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, and others; Cape 

 i^iche, Harvei/ ; shady places, Sussex and Plantagenet districts, Preus, n. 2101 and 2173 ; 

 otirluig range, 3Iaxwdl ; Cape Naturaliste, OlJJiem. 



var. hadata. Leaves rather broader, the broadest nearly 3 hues, aud carpels, according 

 TO ^euafcl^ 2 only. I have oitly seen fragments. —IT. kastata. Stead, in PI. Preiss. i. 26G. 

 ^- VV. Australia, Preus, n. 2128, 



GO, H. glaberrima, F, MuelL Fragm. iii. 1. Perfectly glabrous, 

 ^^aves (the upper ones only known) oblong-lanceolate, obtuse with a short 

 glandular point, 1 to 1^- in. lon^, quite entire, tapering below the middle al- 



most inf^ Lri f ,, , . °' ^ -, -, ^ , 1 _i/» .1 aU« K»^,.«T, 



the branch. 

 Innermost sepals fully 6 



most into a petiole, and sliglitly expanded so as to half-clasj 

 i'eauncles axillary or terminal, about 1| in. long. Innermost ^ 

 w / Inies long, and very broad, the others gradually diminishing to the outer- 

 inost, wliich is lanceolate aud about 3 lines. Petals not much longer thau 

 the calyx. Stamens very numerous (200 to 300), with numerous (2 or 3 

 aozen) short clavate staminodia outside. Carpels 3, glabrous, with about 8 



ovules in Pnnl, 



ovules in each. 



S. Australia. 



of the leaf. 



stralia. la the iatcrior at Briukley's Bluff, near Macdonnell's Range, 

 Evidently ucaily allied to Zf. amjilexicaulis, but without the bas 



M'DonaJl 

 al auricles 



J>}- ^. Mylnei, BeHth. Eesembles.at first sight, some of the hairy varieties 



> ^i. monfana, but the flowers are dilTereut. Stems in our specimens short 



•r^ erect from a thick rhizome, hispid as well as the leaves with long spread- 



afe ?^'. ^.^fle^cd hairs. Leaves oblong, obtuse, or shortly pomted, mostly 



^"^t 1 ni. long, slightly contracted, aud half stem-clasping at the base, trie 

 ''■^'giiis searcelv rccui-ved. Flnwf.r, --losftlv ses?ile in a cluster of smaller 



- -^"imcus, wirii Slender nlaments ana snort iiiiiu>.'^j "-- "•"--- 

 Hliform or slightly clavate staminodia. Carpels 3, glabrous, 2-ovulate. 



