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Sldu.] XXT, MALVACEiK, 197 



N. Australia. Port Essingion, Armstrong ; N. coast, Bynoe. 



Queensland. Peak Downs, ¥. Mueller. 



The species is very abundant in almost all tropical countries, and includes S. aUJueifoUa, 

 Lam., and several other supposed species. 



Var. (?) midica. Carpels without the awns which generally distinguish the species. 

 Ihe leaves are very soft and velvety, but small and narrow, the specimens have, however, 

 lost those of the primary branches.— :\Iacarihur river. Gulf of Carpentaria, P. Mueller. 



U. S. platycalyx, T. Mnell Herb. Shrubby and densely clothed with 

 a soft floccose or velvety stellate tomentum. Leaves ovate-cordate or nearly 

 orbicular, obtuse, crenate, 1 in. long or more, soft and thick. Pedicels as 

 long as the leaves, soft, articidate above tlie middle. Calyx broadly campa- 

 nulatCj about 5 Hues long, with a broadly obtuse ba^e, the lobes erect or 

 spreading, shorter than the tube, densely tomentose outside^ each sepal 

 iBarked with 3 promiuent ribs, with another almost equally prominent at the 

 junction of the sepals. Petals broad, shorter than tlie calyx. Stamens very 

 numerous, the staminal tiAe almost truncate at the top. Carpels about 24, 

 closely packed in a tomentose ring round the base of the styles, which are 

 iree almost to the base with small capitate stigmas. Fruit not seen. 



N, Australia, Sturt's Creek. F, Mueller, 



IB. S. inclusa, BentJi, A shrub, densely velvetv tomento?c or almost 

 noccose. Leaves ovate or orbicular, often cordate, obtuse, crcnate, mostly 

 above 1 in. long. Flowers not seen. Fruiting calyx on peduncles of about 

 - lu., membranous and iutlated, above 1 in. diameter, tomentose, marked 

 With numerous longitudinal veins or ribs, the short lobes counivent, so as 

 completely to enclose the fruit. Carpels numerous, stellate-hirsute, echiuate 

 With rather soft hirsute spines, forming a depressed orbicular fruit of nearly 

 1 in. diameter. 



N, Australia. Ilauuncrsley range, N.W, coast, F. Gregon/s Fd'pedition. This species 

 and S. platycalyx are distingnislicd in the genus by their many-ribbed calyx ; as the one is 

 «iny known in fruit, and the other in flower, or scarcely past, the distinction between the 

 two cannot be eatabli'shed vvith certainty, bnt *S'. platycalyx certainly shows no tendency io 

 t^e singnlar enhirgenient of the calyx oi S. inclnsa, 



16. S. Hookeriana, Miq. in FL Prem. i. 242. An erect or decum- 

 bent annual, 1 or rarely 2 ft. In"gh, ^^hibrous or with a few small scattered 

 hairs. Stipules nan-ow -lanceolate. Lccives on long petioles, nearly orbicuLar 

 in circumscription, but deeply divided into 3 or 5 ovate or cuneate deeply 

 toothed lobes. Flowers small, white, usually 2 to<>ether, one on a long pe- 

 dicel articulate near the top, the other nearly sessile. Calyx 5 -ribbed, gla- 



hro us or nearly so, 

 i'l fruit broadly spv 



«vate lobes, the ribs on reachinir the sinus dividiui^ into intramargitud veins 



, campnnulate when in fltv.ver and about i\ lines long ; when 

 preading, as in Amda, al)0ut \ in. diameter, with broadly 

 _bs on reaching the sinus dividiug into intramargitud veins 

 ^|ong each lobe. Petals about as long as the calyx. Staminal tube slender, 

 l^'imt depressed-orbicular, about 3 lines diameter, the centre not prominent, 

 glabrous and suTooth. Carpels about 10, not a^^•ned, with very thin sides, 

 leaving, when they fall, their dorsal tiliform nerves attached to the column.— 

 S^leiopldoia, Mlq' in VI Preiss. i. 241. 



W. Australia, King George's Sound, R. Brown; Swan River, Drummond ; Rottencst 

 i^slnnd and Wellington district, Preiss, «. I89i and 1S9C; Elackwoood find Vasse rivers. 



