Serinpa.] ' xxii. STEKcuuACKyK. 245 



Cymes rather dense and many-flowered, but niucli shorter than the leaves.' 

 Calyx angnlar in the bud, attaining, when fully out, about 2 lines in length. 

 Filaments and staminodia nearly similar, rather thick. Anthers oblong. 

 Carpels about as long as t!ie calyx, densely pubescent, the short broad verti- 

 cal wing truncate at the top.— DC, Prod. i. 488; Steetz, in PI. Preiss. ii. 

 349; Lcmojjetalum arloresceus, Ait. Ilort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 36. 



N, S. "Wales- Port Jacl<soii, U, Bro2cm j Bhie MounlainSj Mhs Atkinson; Hastings 

 nver, Beckler, 



14. KEEAUDRENIA, J. Gay. 



Calyx 5-lobed, enlarged and scarions or tliin and coloured after flowering, 

 the midiib of each sepal usually thickened without lateral ribs. Petals none, 

 or minut(i and scale-like. Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals, free or 

 shortly united at the base, witli or without intervening staminodia, anthcr- 

 tiells parallel, opening by dorsal slits. Ovary 3- to 5-cellecl, with 3 or more 

 ovules in each cell; styles cohering at the summit. Capsule membranous, 

 ^'iUous or shortly setose, opening loculici dally, and usually separating into 

 distinct carpels. Seeds stropliiolate, albuminous ; embryo straight or curvetl, 

 >vith flat cotyledons. — Shrubs more or less stellate-lonientose. Leaves entire 

 or sn)uate-lobed. Stipules naiTow, or small and deciduous. Cymes terminal 

 or opposite the upper leaves, few-flowered. Eracteolcs none. 



Bpsicks the Australian species, there is one other from Madagascar, which ou a further 

 examination proves more nearly allied to K, lanecolata than had appeared to ns when pre- 

 paring the ' Genera Plautaruni.' The ^enus has the anthers of Sennyla and TLxnnafonlia, 

 ^vith the calyx nearly of Thomasia, and mustinchide species, in whicli as in the Madagascar 

 oiie, the carpels do not appear to separate, as well as those in which they are quite distinct. 



J^raets narrow. Carpels several-seeded, not always separating, the 

 seeds nearly straight. Leaves mostly lanceolate, 1 to 3 in. 

 Leaves quite gluhrous and smooth above. Capsule scarcely septicidal. 



Leaves broad-lanceolate. Carpels angular, villous and setose , 1. ^. ianceohita. 

 Leaves uarrow-lanccolate or luicar. Carpels rounded on the 



back, very villous, hut not setose 2. if. HiHii. 



Leaves very rugose and pubescent above 3. ^. Hookenaua, 



l-ower bracts broad searious and coloured, very deciduous. Carpels 

 1-2-seeded, the seeds reniforni. Leaves ovate or oblong. 

 Leaves thick and soft, very rugose, tomcntosc above, mostly 1 to 



2 in. lono- 4. JT. nepkrosjierma. 



Leaves siuoolb or slightly rugose, mostly under 1 in. 



Leaves uudulnte, crenate or crisped ^- K^hermamicrfolia. 



Leaves quite entire , , , . . 6. A', iniegrifolia. 



1< K. lanceolata, Bmth. A tall shnib, the young branches rusty- 

 jouieiitose. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 4 in. long, rather 

 ^">ck, entire, glabrous above and smooth, or with the veins slightly impressed, 

 ^hite^onicntose underneath. Cymes short, few-Howercd, very tomentose, 

 ■oracts narroAv, deciduous. Calyx tonieutose, spreading to -i or 5 lines dia- 

 ^eter, divided to about the middle, the midribs prounnent and pubescent m- 

 ^i^Je, the lobes of the truiting calyx attaining 3 or 4 lines or more. Petals 

 [!oiie. Pilaments rather long, with slender staminodia intervening. Anthers 

 linear. Qvaiy 5.ceUed, hirsute. Capsule truncate at the top, fully \ uu 

 fhanieter, scarcely septicidal, but distinctly fturowed between the carpels, each 



