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Polankia.'] - ix. capparide.e. 91 



N. Australia, Along the whole coast from westward of Victoria river to the limits of 

 Queensland, and abundant about the Gulf of Carpentaria, E. Brown, and othcrs.- 



Queensland. Moreton Bay, F. Mueller. 



N. S. "^Vales. Clarence river, Bccl'Icr, 

 . Var. (jraudiflora, Sli^^htly pubescent. Leaflets uaiTOW. Sepals about 4 lines, petals 

 nearly 1 in. long. Capsule above 4 in. long. N. W. coast, B^/noe ; Sweers Island, Senne. 



Some specimens from the gravelly bed of the Victoria river, F. Mueller, have shot out 

 from the flowering racemes, muuerous branches crowded with small leaves, and very small 

 axillary flowers ahnost without stamens, but producing small, slender capsules, the whole 

 plant assuming the appearance of the F. micrantha^ Boj., from Madagascar. Other speci- 

 mens from the same locality have all the leaves entire or 3-lobed, but these have no flowers 

 to determine the species with certainty. • 



The species is a common weed throughout India, extending into tropical Africa. 



3. GYNATSTDROPSIS, DC. 



(Rcrperia, F. 3luelL) 



Sepals and petals 4 each, as iu Cleome. Torus produced Into a long slen- 



dergyn 



^v.4 5jfiiujjiiuru, ueanufj ax lis sumrmt auuuu u sLaiuuiis wilu lununu iuauicuis. 



Ovary sessile or stalked within the stamens, with many ovules, the stigma 

 sessile or on a subulate style, and the capsule sessile or stalked and many- 

 seeded, as in Cleome. —'Revhs, with the habit of Cleome, from which the gcuus 

 only differs in the long stalk-like torus bearhig the stamens. Flowers in ter- 

 minal racemes. 



Gi/7iandropsiSy like the last two genera, is dispersed over the tropical regions, both of the 

 ■New and the Old World. The only Australian species is endemic, and remarkable for the 

 very large size of its flowers. 



. 1; G. IVIueUeri, Se7ith. An erect anmial, covered with a glandular 

 viscid pubescence. J^caflets 3 or 5, lanceolate or oblong-liuear, those of the 

 upper leaves | to I in. long on a long petiole. Flowers yellow, on short pe- 

 dicels in the upper axils, forming a teruilnal leafy raceme. Sepals \ to near 

 1 in. long, narrow, acuminate, unequal. Petals fully 3 in. long, oblong, nar- 

 rowed into a long claw. Stamens 5 to 7, the stipes or elongated torus often 

 H in. long. • Capsule linear, 2 to H in. long, not striate, but rough with 

 sliort glandular hairs, terminated by a slender style of nearly 1 va..—Rceperia 

 deomoides, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Joiu:n. ix. 15. 



.. W. Australia. N.W. coast, Bpioe. Righ, roplcy,- sandy table-lanJ at the sources of 

 the river Victoria, Hooker's Creek, and Start's Creek, F. Mueller. 



EMBLIIS^ 



form 



•".iuuu nuo » to lU lobes, 4 to U ol iiie ouier luuus ui =i.au.i— ... j,, 



Mesccnt, and without anthers, 4 or 5 on the inner side, veiy short, eacU 

 'f anng an ovoid 2-celled anther. Ovarv sessile within tlie stamens, ovoul, 

 shortly 2. winged at the top, with a divaricately 2-lobed stigma sessde between 



