46 11. DiLLEXiACE.E. [_CandoUea. 



long, forming a kind of leafy raceme. Sepals about 2 lines long, obtuse, or j 

 the outer ones acute, glabrous, membranous on the edge. Petals clawed^ 

 obovate-oblong, entire. Stamens in 3 or 4 bundles of 3 or 4, with 2 or 1 

 single. Carpels 3 or 4, glabrous, 1-ovulate.- — C, 7*acemosa, Endl. in Hueg. 

 Enum. 2; C, tridentata, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 140; C. assimills, 

 Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 273 ; C. parvlfiora, Steud. 1. c. i. 276 ; Hihhertia sub- 

 excisa^ Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 269. 



^V. Australia. King Georg.e's Sonnd, Jl. Sropm and others; Swan River, -Dr«;«- 

 moyid, Wi Coll. n. 288, Oldjleld; sands near Ptii'tli, Preiss, n, 2133 5, 2146, and 21502 

 and northwards to Murchison river, Oldfield, 



14. C. exasperata, 8teud. in PI, Preiss. i, 276. Eigid, much branched 

 and glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, thick and rigid, pointed and almost 

 pungent, about ^ in. long, slightly hoary or scabrous, but glabrous, the re- 

 curved margins slightly indicated by two striae underneath. Peduncles T to 

 2 lines long, erect, with small lyacts at their base, and a large sepal-like one 

 under the calyx. Sepals broad, obtuse, stiff, and dry, the inner ones nearly 4 

 lines, the outer shorter and often slightly hoary on the bud. Petals obovate, 

 rather narrow, notched. Stamens scarcely united above the middle in 5 bun- 

 dles of 3 or sometimes 3 each, without single ones. Carpels 5, glabrous, 2- 

 ovulatc. — Uibbertia squamosa^ Turcz. in Bull. Mose. 1849, ii. 9. 



"W. Australia. Swan River, Drummoyid, 4^1 h Coil, n, 122 ; Roe; gravelly places, 

 Quanyen Plains, Victoria district, Preiss, «, 2175. The foliage is nearly that of Hlbberila 

 mucronata, 



15. C. uncinata^ Benth. Higid, much branched and glabrous. Leaves 

 narroAV-linear, rigid, recurved upwards and obtuse, or with a minute roflcxed 

 point, 2 to 4 lines long, tlie margins closely revolute, smooth or marked with 

 sliglit asperities. Pedicels 1 to 3 lines long, with a few nan-ow pointed bracts 

 at their base, but none under the flower. Sepals broad, concave, very obtuse, 

 glabrous, about 2 lines long. Petals broadly obovate, retuse. Stamens in 5 

 bundles of usually 3 each, without any free ones. Cai'pels 5, glabrous, 2- 

 ovulate. 



V/. Australia. Brummond. The foliage resembles that of Ilibhertia recurvifolid ^^^ | 



H, rostellata. 



C. Ci^gnorum, Steud, in PI. Preiss. i. 275, is unhno^vn to me. It is described as having 

 leafM)pposed peduncles, bracteate in the middle, which is so unlike the inflorescence of any 

 Dilleniacca, that I cannot but suspect it is some very different plant incorrectly described. 



4. ADRAST^A, DC. 



Sepals 5. Petals 5, Stamens 10, or occasionally fewer, in a single series, 

 filaments dilated and regularly cohering in a short tube round the pistil- 



Carpels and fruit of Uibbertia. 



The genus consists of only one species, witli tbe habit of a JUhbertta or CandoUca. 



A 



Branches rather slender^ np- 



parently erect, the young ones silky-hairy. Leaves linear or lincar-oblongi 

 mostly with a minute fine point, f to 1^- in. long, often bordered by a few 

 remote and minute callous teeth, glabrous above when old, uiore or less silky 

 underneath, ilowers small, sessile in clusters of small leaves in the older 

 axils. Sepals lanceolate, very acute, nearly 3 lines lon^-. Petals scarcely 



