Melodormi' .] iv. anonack.e. 53 



^pccies. Peduncles -i- to f in. long, rusty-tomentose. Fiowcrs iwiwly | in. 

 in diameter. Sepals 3 lines long, spreading. Outer petals about 6 lines, 

 slightly tomcntose, very obtuse, concave and connivent, inner ones thicker 

 and rather shorter. Stamens very numerous. Berries stipitatc, either de- 

 pressed-globose, 4 or 5 lines diameter and 1 -seeded, or some-what oblong, 

 '^-seeded with a sliglit transverse fuiTow between the seeds, or monilifonn, 

 consisting of 2 depressed-globose 1-seedcd or oblong 2-secded portions.— 

 t^^^om LeicUardtii, F. Mueil. Fragm. iii. 41. 



Queensland. Wide Bay, B'uhciU ; ^l^Xiiii Torauipa and woods at ]\rConnell's Bi'ush, 

 Uickhardt; near Ipswich, J, Vernet : Rockliamptou, Tkozei s Brisbane river, A. CHn- 

 ningham, F. Mueller. ' 



N. S. "Wales. Clarence river, BecMer. 



5. SACCOPETALITM, Benth. 



Sepals small. Petals 6, valvate in 3 rows, the outer ones small and resembling 

 the sepals, the inner large, erect, and very concave Stamens numerous but 

 loosely imbricate, showing the anther-cells on their back just below the short 

 ^^ps. Toms near 



%k, mid 6 01 ^ ^._ 



globular.— Trees or shrubs, with deciduous leaves. Flowers usually appear- 

 i*'g on tlie young shoots before or witli tlie young leaves. 



A small genus, dispersed over India and tlie Archipelago ; the Australian species endemic. 



1. S. Bidwilli, Btmlli, Apparently a shrub, with rather weak l)vanches, 



densely hirsute with short rusty hairs. Leaves very shortly stalked, oblong 

 or obo • ' ' ■■ J •. . 



early globular. Carpels several, with an ovoid or oblong thick 

 ' more ovules in each attached to the inner angle. Berries 



loiliT. 



oundcd 

 V or 2 

 2 lines 



""g- Outer petals similar, but twice as long. Inner petals wlieu fully de- 

 U^oped 11 in. loiio,^ „ot saccate at the base only, as in mod other species of 



, geuus, but lioUowed into a broad boat-shape all the wtiy up, with the 

 ^Pper end tiunied inwards, thin and verv hairy both inside and out. Stamens 



^ty hairs, coiitainin- 3 To 6 flattened seeds! 



Queensland, 



Wide Bay, BidwiU. 



Sepals f 



6. EUPOMATIA, E. Br 



f.li; ^ n-'''"^^ petals completely consolidated into one mass, the upper par 

 tip 1 ^ ^. '" '"^ ^""if^'^l l"l. leavin- the lower campanulatc tube (or eular-ed 

 F-auncle) tilled with the thick flat-topped torus. Stamens inserted on the 

 ohnv ? ^^^^ *"'''i^^ ^^c inner ones in many rows, converted uito petal-like 

 emJ 1 '*^^"i^"oJia, the outer ones in fewer rows, perfect, linear-hmceolate, 

 rin, '•"''^'' acuminate tips and lonmtiidinal dorsal anthcr-ceUs. Carpels 

 ov«rf' !'""^«rscd in the torus, appearing like the cells of a single inferior 

 ca,t?i' ^^ '^'Sraas ^Jiiate on the flat areolate suriiice; ovules several in each 

 m2' ""^ *^"- *^i-uit several-celled, formed of the enlarged pcnanth-tube 

 01- less enclosing the carpels, becoming turbinate or urceolalc and sue- 



more 



