213 XXI. MALYACE.i-:. [IliUsa/s 



N. Australia. IMonnt Deiiisoiij M'Do?iaU Stuart, 



"W. Australia. Sharks Bay, Gaudichaud; between Moore and Murchisou rivers, 

 Lrmnmond, hth Coll. n. 104. The flowers in Gaudichaud's specimens are larger tlian in the 



others. 



9. H. radiatus, Cao. Diss. 150, /. 54,/ 2. An erect ammal (or 

 i-arely perhaps perennial) of 2 to 3 ft., glabrous or hispid in the lower part 

 with a few rigid haii's, and often hearing also small conical prickles. Lower 

 leaves broad and shortly lobed, upper ones deeply 3- to 5-lobed or the up- 

 permost undivided, the lobes narrow, toothed and unequal, the central one 

 often 2 to 3 in. long. Mowers white or pink with a dark centre, on axilhiry 

 pedicels usually very short, rarely attaining 1 in. Bracteoles about 10, nar- 

 row-linear, often spreading or reflexed, and ciliate with a feAv rigid hairs. 

 Calyx about f in. long, deeply divided into lanceolate acuminate lobes, of a 

 thin texture, but marked with a prominent midrib and thickened marginal 

 nerves, more or less rigidly ciliate. Petals 1 to 1-g- in. long. Capsule glo- 

 bose, glabrous in the Australian specimens. Seeds few, glabrous. — DC. Prod. 

 i. 449; Bot. Mag. t. 1911 ; F. MueU. Pragm. ii. 117, 



M. Australia. Ariihcm's Land, islands of Carpentaria Bay, etc., M. Brown; Victoria 

 and Fitzmanriee rivers. Macadam range, etc., F. Mueller. 



Queensland, Percy Islands and other points of theN.E. coast, A. Cunningham ; V^m 

 Islands ancl Curtis Island, Ilenne, 



The species extends over E. India and tropical Africa, hut the extra-Australian specimens 

 1 have seen have always hirsute and less obtuse capsules. J7. Lindlei/i, "Wall. PI As- ^f* 

 i 4, t. 4, is prohably a purple-flowered vanety. H, cannahinns, Linn., cultivated in Asia 

 and Africa for its fibre, differs from //. radiatus only in the glands ou the cnlyx. 



10. H- divaricatus, GraJu in Edinb. FJiil Joimu JuL-OcL 1830. A 



tall, erect, glabrous shrub, with the foliage of some varieties of //. Jtetero- 

 pliyllns and the flowers of //. radiatus, tlie branches often beset with small 

 conical prickles. Leaves on short petioles, entire or deeply 3-lobed, from 

 round-cordate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, often fully 4 in. long, more or 

 less tootlied. Flowers large, yellow with a crimson eye, on short pedicels m 

 the axils of the upper reduced leaves. Bracteoles 10 to 12, linear, rigid, 

 ciliate. Calyx deeply divided into lanceolate lobes, with prominent midribs 

 and margins as in //. radiatus, rigidly ciliate or rarely minutely tomentose. 

 Petals 2 to 2 1 in. long. Capsule ovoid-globose, densely silky-hairy. — ^^^^' 



ii. 118. 



Ui 



Queensland, Shoalwater Boy, R.Brown; "N.E. coast. A, CunningJiam ; Newcastle 

 range, Mackenzie and Dawson rivers, F. Mueller. 



One of F. Mueller's specimens, with the ralyx not ciliate but minutely tomentose, seems 

 to connect this species with some forms of II. hderophgllus, 



11. H. heterophyllua, Vent. ITort. Malm, t, 103. A tall slirub, gla- 

 brous, except a stellate tomentuin ou the inflorescence and very young slioots, 

 the branches often bearing small conical prickles. Leaves entire or deeply 

 3-Iobcd, linear, lanceolate or elliptical-oblong, often 5 to 6 in. long, usually 

 serrulate or crenulate, in some specimens white underneath, l^lowers large, 

 white with a purple centre, on short pedicels in the upper axils. Bracteoles 

 about 10, linear, rigid, not ciliate. Calyx often above 1 in. long, deeply di- 

 vided into lanceolate lobes, densely covered with a stellate tomentum oftci^ 



