246 XXII. STERCULIACE.E. ' [Keraudrenia. 



carpel very angular on the edges, so as to make the capsule appear almost 

 10-wiuged, hut it is so hispid and beset with short, soft, hirsute set^ as 

 almost to disguise its form. Seeds, several in each cell, obovoid; embryo 

 straight. — Serlnfjia lanceolata^ Steetz, iu PL Preiss. ii. 34!9, 



Queensland. Port Bovven, It, Brown, A. Cun tiingli am, ^ho in LcichharJt's collection. 

 It is this species wliich is closely nllied to one from Madagascar, which I had formerly re- 

 ferred to Thomasiitj on account of its capsule not separating into distinct carpels, 



2. K, Hillii, F. Muell Herb, Very near to K, lanceolata, with the 

 same iniioresceuce and flowers. Leaves much narrower, linear-lanceolate or 

 linear, \\ to 3 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous without impressed veins above, 

 wbite-tomentose, and often sprinkled with rusty stellate hairs underneath. 

 Anther-bearing filaments scarcely dilated. Ovary of K, layiceolata. Capsule 

 not so large, veiy hirsute, but vvithout prominent setse, furrowed between the 

 carpels, which are rounded on the back, and not angular. Seeds of K. Ian- 

 ceolata^ 



Queensland. Glasshouses, Moreton Bay, F 



N. S, %Vales- Port Mucquarie and Port Stephens, Fraser, 



3. K. Hookeriana, Tfalp, Ann. ii. 164. Branches rusty-tomeutose 

 or hirsute. Leaves mostly oblong-lanceolate, 1^ to 3 in. long, entire, green, 

 vei-y rugose and velvety-pubescent above, densely white-touientose imdcr- 

 neath; the lower leaves or those of some branches often broader and shorter, 

 almost ovate. Cymes or racemes 2- to 4-flo\vered, terminal or opposite the 

 upper leaves, on very short pedxmcles. Bracts narrow, deciduous. Calyx 

 divided nearly to the base into acute lobes, 3 or 4 lines long when in llower, 

 5 or 6 when in frnit. Petals small and scale-like or none, filaments short, 

 ulteniating with subulate staminodia. Anthers linear, much incurved. Ovary 

 5-celled, tomentose. Capsule very hii'sute, 4 to 5 lines diameter, the carpels 

 distinct and separating, each opening in 2 valves. Seeds several in each cell, 

 obovoid; embryo straight. — Serhujia corollata, Steetz, in PI. Preiss. ii- 330; 

 Keraudrenia integrifolia. Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 341, not Steud. ; 

 K. Iloohri, P. Muell. Fragra. i. 28, 242. 



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W, Australia. Arnhem's South Bay, R, Brown; Nicholson river, F, MueUer. 



Queensland. Keppel \l;\y, R. Brown; Viator, Burnett, Upper Pine, and Brisbane 

 rivers, F. Mueller, On the Maiauoa, and southward to Lindley's range, Mitchell; Kohiu- 

 sou's range, LdchhardL 



The petals are eertainly present in those Carpentaria specimens vhich I have e.xauiiucu, 

 and as certainly wanting in the tlowcrs I opened of the more southern specimens, and the 

 two arc disliiiguidhed uudcr different names iu II. Brown's herbarium and notes, hut I can 

 discover no other character whatever, 



4. K. nephrosperma, J3enlh, A shmh, with the branches very 

 densely clothed with a soft, velvety, sometimes aluiost floccosc tomeutnnu 

 Leaves ovate or oblong, very obtuse, 1 to 2 in, luuij, entire, sinunte or ahuost 

 lobed at the base, often slightly cordate, green, and minutely tomentose above, 

 densely white or rusty-tomentose nuderneath. Cymes veiy short, several- 

 liowered. Bracts ovate, membranous, veiy deciduous. Calyx tomentose, 

 the lobes very broad and obtuse, attaining about 3 lines, very thiu and 

 coloured. Filaments as long as the ovary, with subulate staminodia inter- 

 vening; anthers oblong. Ovary 5-ccllcd.* Fruit cai-pels separating, nearly 



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