106 XI. BixiNE.^. [Coc/iIosj)ermHm. 



Besides the four following species, peculiar to Australia, there is 1 kaowu from Southern 

 India, 2 from Africa, and about 5 from South America. ^ 



Calyx and inflorescence densely tomentosc . * 1. C. FraserL 



Calyx and inflorescence glabrous or slightly glandular-pubescent. 



Leaves tomentose, with short, rounded, obtuse lobes ..... 2. C. Jieteroneiirim, 



Leaves glabrous, "with deep ovate-lanceolate or oblong lobes . . . 3. (7. Glllivrcet, 

 Leaves glabrous, divided to the base into narrow-oblong, pedate 



segments 4. C. Gregorii. 



1. C. Fraseri, Plancln in Hook. Loud, Juurn. vi. 307. Branches gla- 

 brous. Leaves unknown. Plowers large, the raccnies short, iu a loose co- 

 rymbose panicle, the branches tomentosc. Pedicels about \ in. long, densely 

 tomentose-pubescent. Sepals broadly ovate, very obtuse, tomentose within 

 and without, unequal, the inner larger ones about f in. long. Anthers about 

 1;^ lines long. 



N. Australia. Melville Island, Fraser, 



In the absence of the leaves it would have been impossible to distinguish this species from 

 the East Indian C. gossT/pum, but that the anthers are considerably shorter, which may lead 

 one to suppose there may be other difFerences^ 



2. C. heteroneurum, F. MuelL Ilerh. Young branches pubescent. 

 Leaves nearly orbicular, cordate at the base, attaining i or 5 in. diameter, 

 shortly divided into 5 to 9 broad, rounded, very obtuse, and crenate lobes, 

 tomentose-pubescent when young, nearly glabrous except the principal 

 nerves when old, on petioles of 2 to 3 in. Panicle loose and many-flowered, 

 glabrous, except a slight glandular pubescence on the pedicels and at the base 

 of the calyx. Flowers not so large as iu C Fraseri, on pedicels not ex- 

 ceeding \ in., but lengthening to 1 in. after flowering. Sepals very unequal, 

 quite glabrous, except at the base, with very thin edges, the inner ones about 

 I in. long and very broad. Anthers as in G. Fraseri Ovules exceedingly 

 numerous, on 5 parietal placentas partially projecting into the cavity of the 

 ovary. Toung capsule slightly tomentose. 



N. Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller, WickJiam. 



3. C. Gillivraei, Benth. The specimens are perfectly glabrous, except 

 a very slight pubescence on the branches of the panicle and pedicels. 

 Leaves palmately divided to within \ or \ in. of ttte base, into 5 or 7 ovate- 

 lanceolate or oblong-acuminate slightly toothed lobes, of which the central 

 largest ones are usually 2 to 3 in. long, the 2 outermost short and very acumi- 

 nate. Panicles short and loose. Flowers as in C, heteroneurum^ or the se- 

 pals rather larger. Capsule obovoid-oblong, rarely 3 in. long, truncate at 

 the top, and very much depressed in the centre. Seeds enveloped in a very 

 deciduous wool. 



Queensland. Lizard Island, off the N.E. coast, MGillivvau; Burdclun river, -P. 

 Mueller ; Port Dcuison, P'dzalan. 



4. C. Gregorii, Z MmlL Fragm. i. 71. A small tree, quite glabrous, 

 except a very slight glandular pubescence on the branches of the inflorescence 

 and pedicels. Leaves pedatcly divided to the base into about 7 narrow-lan- 

 ceolate entire segments, the central ones 2 to 3 in. long, the common petiole 

 3 to 6 in. Panicles apparently short and not much dfvidcd, or reduced to a 

 single raceme. Pedicels abo\it \ in. long. Sepals and petals as in the last 



