128 XII. PITTOSPOUE/E. \Cheiranilmu 



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times none of them exceeding 3 or 4 Hues, at others the iipper ones ahove 1 

 in. long. Flowers blue, smaller than in C linearis. Sepals linear or uarrow- 

 lanceolate, 1 to 2 lines long. Petals 5 to 6 lines. Anthers longer and nar- 

 rower than in C. linearis, usually twice as long as the filaments, and exceeding 

 the half and often reaching two-thirds of the petal.— ft torlilis, P. Muell. 

 Fragm. ii. 79. 



"W. Australia- S. coast?, Brnmmond, Coll. 1850, «. 94, OldJieJd ; river entering 

 Stokes Inlet, Maxwell. 



3. C. volubilis, Be}ilJu A slender glal)rons twiner. Leaves narrow- 

 linear, thick, with the margins invohite or terete, with a short recm'ved point, 

 mostly about ^ in. long. Peduncles slender, terminal, with a single drooping 

 flower. Sepals lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, about 2 lines long. Petals 

 about \ in. Anthers scarcely so long as the filaments, very obtuse, and not 

 reaching to the half of the petals. Ovary shorter than iu C. linearis, with a 

 long subulate style- Fruit not seen. 



S. Australia. Scrub in Kangaroo Island, Waierhouse, 



4. C. parviflora, Bmflt, Slender and g-lal)rou3 or slightly pubescent, 

 the branches either short and flexuose or elongated and tu'ining. Leaves 

 sessile or nearly so, from broadly oblong-lanceolate or almost ovate-lanceolate 

 and \\ in. long to linear and \ in. or less, usually obtuse and the margins 

 always revolnte, sometimes slightly hirsute on the upper side. Flowers as m 

 <7. volubilis, on long terminal simple filiform peduncles, but smaller. Sepals 

 seldom above 1 line, petals about 4 or 5 lines long. Anthers rather longer 

 than the slender filaments and reaching to about half the len^lh of the petals 

 Ovary glabrous, with a subidate style. 



'W, Australia^ Brummond, Coll. 1843, the specimens w. 34, very twining, \Yith larger 

 and broader leaves, and n. 80 less twining, with smaller narrower leaves. 



C. Prelssiaua, Putterl. PI. Preiss. i. 201, if a Cheiranihera at all, dilFers from the last 

 species in its hirsute branches and leaves, hut the flowers are unknown, and the iVagnieuts 1 

 have seen are ia leaf ouly, something like those of Blllardiera carufoUa or of Pronaya 

 eleyans. 



Order XTIT. TREMANDREJE. 



Flowers regular. Sepals 4 or 5, very rarely 3, free, valvate iu the bud. 

 Totals as^niany, hypogynous, spreading/indnpllcate-valvnte in the bud. Sta- 

 mens twice as many, hypogynous, free ; filaments short ; anthers oblong or 

 linear, 2- or 1-cclIed, opening in a siu^^le terminal pore. Torus small or 

 rarely expanded into a disk between the petals and stamens. Ovary sessile 

 or nearly so, usually 2-cclled; style filiform, deciduous, entire or miiintely 

 2-lobed. Ovules solitary in each cell, or 2, one above the other, or rarely an 

 additional small collateral one, pendulous, anatroi)ous, with a ventral raphe. 

 Capsule usually flattened, 2-celled, opening loculicidally at the edges. St-eds 

 pendulous, the raphe usually expanded at the chalazal extremity into a twisted 

 or strophiola-like appendage, rarely wanting; the testa crustaceous, glabrous 



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