^'^da.l xxr. malvace^. 193 



times very short, llowers and fruits rather small. S.fihuUfem, Liudl. in Mitch. Three 

 Expcd. u. 45 ; S.Jiliformis, A. Cunn. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 361.— N. Australia (including 

 a var. with very short pedicels), Queeusland, N. S. ^Yales, Victoria, and S. Australia. 

 S.pedunciilaia, A. Cunn. ms., from Peel's range, ig a remarkable form, densely tomeutose, 

 "With the lower leaves 2 in. long, and the lower peduncles elongated, hearing a le'afless raceme 

 of several flowers, with rigid stipulary bracts ; the inflorescence in the upper part quite 

 formal. S, nemaiopoda, F. Muell. in Linmra, xxv. 382, has sninller and less wrinkled 

 fruits, although still much more so than in S. inirkata, and the foliaee is quite that of the 

 present variety. 



c. angustifoHa, Stems slender, often nearly glabrous as well as the leaves. Leaves 

 cordate-lanceolate, deejjly toothed. Flowers and fruits small. Extends over the whole 

 range of the species, and the only form hitherto found in W. Australia.— «. himiUma, 

 ^' Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 12, is a small hoary form, with larger leaves, approach- 

 ing sometimes the first variety. Some specimens of A. Cunningham's from Dirk Hartog's 

 island have the leaves more densely white-tomentose. 



»• Mchaj)oda, Like the last, but the lanceolate or oblong-linear leaves are never cordate 

 at the base, and the skutler pedicels mostly exceed the leaves. — S, inchopoda^ F. Muell. in 

 ■Lmna^a, xxv. 384. On nearly the whole range of the species, excepting W. Australia. 



<?. ffomocurpa, F. Miiell. Foliage of the last var., but the fruit larger, the angles of 

 e<ich carpel bordered by vertical wings, forming on the fruit as many very prominent angles 

 as there are carpels. Naugavera in N. S. Wales, Victorian Exjiedition. 



2. S, intricata, Z Muell in Trans, PhlL Soc. Fid. i. 19, and in IFook, 

 Km Joiim, viii. 9. This form also is now reduced by F. Mueller (PL Yict. 

 L 163) to the S, corrugata. I am inclined ]»owever to keep it distinct, as 

 the characters appear on the dried specimens to he tolerahly constant. It 

 is a small or slender, very nnieh branched tomentose undershrub, resembling 

 the var. ovata of S, corrugata in general characters, but with mncli smaller 

 leaves and very much smaller flowers, on short slender pedicels, the fruits not 

 nbove 2 lines diameter, consisting of 5 to 8 tomentose carpels, not furrowed 

 at their points, and smooth or only very sb'ghtly wrinkled on the back. 



W. Australia. Stony ridges of the Upper Victoria river, T, Mueller. 

 ^ N. S. "Wales. Prom Molle's Plains, A, Cumunnham, to the Darliug and ^furray 

 rivers, F. Mueller. 



S, Australia. In the interJor near Mount Hope, F, Mueller, 

 >V. Australia, Drummoud, hih Coll. tu 105, 



3. S. macropoda, F.'MudL Herb, An erect> branching shrub, densely 

 clothed with a stellate tomentum, thick and often yelloAvish on the branches, 

 nlniost velvety on the leaves. Leaves ovate-cordate, obtuse, 1 to 2 in. 

 Jong, crenate,\hick and soft, deeply urinkled above, prominently veined un- 

 derneath. Pedicels filiform, sometimes exceeding the leaves. Calyx-lobes 

 ftcnminate or acnte, closed over the fruit or spreading. Petals yellow, only 

 shortly exceeding the calyx. Fruit 3 or 4 lines diameter, witli the radiating 



tlie back as in S. corragota, 



■3 

 J 



^ina? m the centre and the carpels wrinkled on i 

 'fom which this species differs in stature, foliage, ; 



and the acute calyx-lobes. 



N.Australia, Summits of Sea nuv^e. head of Hooker's Creek, Arnhem's Land and 

 ^liltof Carpentaria, F. Mueller. A speciufeii oi LeichhardCs, from the Brigalow scrub on 

 *>|^nara Creek, appears to be (he same species. 



^ar. (?) cardtophylla^ P. Muell Toiiieutuia n^orc dense, l)ut closer; leaves shorter, and 



yearly orbiculaj- ; pedicels shorter.— Start's Creek, F, Mueller, This may possibly be a 



distinct species, but the specimens are not safficieiitly advanced to determine. In other 



"peciineTis in young bad only, these buds are sessile or nearly so ; the pedicel probably grows 



rapidly before the flower expands, and may sometimes remain very short, 



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