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Cocltlo8perrmm:\ xi. bixine^. 107 



2 species. Style filiform, slightly thickened towards the top. Outer sta^ 

 ineus, as in all the other species, on longer filaments than the inner ones, hut 

 the difterence is rather more decided in this species. Placentas 5. Fruit 



not seen. 



W. Australia, llocky barren hills in the S.E. part of Arnhem's Land, F. Mueller. 

 J he fruit described by F. Mueller from Burdekiu specimens appears to beloug to the C. GiU 

 hvnn, which has a very diii'ircat foliage. 



3. SCOLOPIA, Schreb. 



(Pliubcros, Lour.) 



Plowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 4 to 6, slightly imbricate when very 

 youngs but open long before floweiing. Petals as many and nearly similar. 

 Stamens indefinite, inserted on the thickened torus, with or -without glands. 

 Anthers short, the connective terminating in a thick process. Ovary with 3 

 or 4 placentas and i^v{ ovules. Style filiform, with an entii-eor lobed stigma. 

 Fruit a bcny. Seeds 3 to 4, with a liard testa. Cotyledons leafv. — Trees 

 often armed with axillary spines. Leaves simple, with pinnate veins, entire 

 or toothed. Tlowers small, in axillary racemes. . 



The genus is dispersed over southeru and casteru Africa and tropical Asia. The Austra- 

 lian sx)ecics is endemic. 



1. S. Browuii, F. Maell, Fragm. iii. 11. Perfectly glabrous in all its 

 parts. Leaves from ovate to oblong-lanceolate, mostly acuminate, obtuse or 



almo 

 into 



3t acute, rarely roimdcd at the top, \\ to 3 in. long, always narrowed 

 a petiole of 3 to J- lines, entire or slightly undulate-toothed, rather thick 



and smooth 



^iost species 

 neatlh 



th, obscurely triplinerved, but all the veins less conspicuous than in 

 ics, either without glands or witli 3 or 3 marginal glands under- 



Racemes sliort and axillary or forming a terminal panicle of 1 to 3 

 ill. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines. Calyx 4-cleft, smaller than in S. crenata, appa- 

 rently persistent. Petals 4, rather longer than the calyx, deciduous. Sta- 



raens numerous, ^vith slender filaments, sun'ounded by a ring of ghands, either 

 '^-'' ' .,,--. . . , , . Anthers small, the 



Pla. 



distinct and shortly club-shaped or irregularly connate. Anthers sm^ 

 process of the connective glabrous and usually as long as the cells, 

 centas 3, with about 4 ovules to each. Stigma slightly 3-lobcd. 



Cape York^ HVGillivraij. 

 ■ Hunter's River, ^.7r.&^//; Clareace river, Wilcox; Ilia war a, //tv^. 

 lu'iier. 



This species has much the foliage of some forms of the Indian C. crenata, hut is readily 

 Known by the glands of the disk. 



Queensland- 

 N. S. Wales 



MneUer, 



XYIiOSMA 



titled, with dilated stigmas, or rarely stigma sessile. BciTy small nnlehis- 

 ^ent. Seeds 2 to 8, with a smooth crustaceous testa. Cotyledons broad.— 

 Trees, often thorny. Leaves toothed or rarely quite entu-e. Flowers small, 

 axillary, clustered, or shortly racemose. 



