t 



TJiomasia.'] xxii. stercultack^. 253 



hispid racemes. Bracteoles linear-lanceolate, hispid. Calyx opening to 

 nearly 1 in. diameter, hispid at the base only, divided to about the middle 

 into broad lobes with thick midribs. Petals none. Filaments rather long; 

 anthers shortly and obtusely acuminate, staminodia often present. Ovary 

 tomcntose, 3-celIed.— DC. Prod. i. 489 ; Steetz, in PL Preiss. ii. 328 ; Im- 

 mpdalnm tripliyUum, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. i. 63, t. 88 ; Thomasia dlpulacea, 

 Lnull. Sv\^au Eiv. App. 18 ; T. glahrata, Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 234. 



W- Australia. Cape Lcciiwin, Labill ardiere ; Swan River, Brimmond^ \st ColLy 

 Preiss, n, 1635, 1G36, Oidfiefd, and others. 



T, Gilberdana, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1849, ii. 10, whicL I have not seen, would a2)pear 

 from his descriptiou to be the same as T. tripJiylia, ' 



12. T. purpurea, /. Gay, in Mem. Mus\ Par. vii. 452, t. 21. A small 

 shnib or undershrnb, the slender branches more or less tonientose or hirsute. 

 Leaves oblong or nearly linear, obtuse, \ to 1 in. long, entire, sprinkled with 

 stellate hairs above, more hirsute nnderncath, or rareh' nearly ghjbrous. 

 fetipides bi'oad and oblique, or almost reniform. Eaeemes longer than the 

 leaves. Flowers rather small, on very short pedieels. Bracteoles linear, 

 ^'alyx slightly tomentose, expanding to about -^ in. diameter, divided to about 

 tlie middle into ovate lobes. Petals small, oecasionally wanting. Pilaments 

 very short, anthers slightly acuminate. Ovary glabrous, 3- or 4 -colled with 

 2 ovules in each cell; style glabrous.— DC.' Prod, i. 489; Steetz, in TL 



jt'reiss. ii. 318 ; Lauopetalmn purpureum^ Ait, Hort. Kew. ed. 2, ii. 36 ; Bot. 

 Mag. t. 1755; Thomasia rupestris, Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 231. 



Sr^' Australia. King George's Sonml, ^. Brown; Eraser and others; Mount El- 

 phnistone, Preiss, «. 1648. 



^^^^ undulala. Larger iu all its parts and slightly hoary-tomentose. Leaves mostly I 



lo U in. loTig. Flowers larger, the raccuics more pednnculafe. Petals usually none. — T, 



mdniata, Steetz, ia PL Preiss. ii. 320. Swan River, Drummond, \st ColL and "Ind Coll. 

 ff. 58. 



Steetz describes the capsule of this and the following species as stipitate, but the stipes, if 

 fiTiy, IS so short as to be ecarccly perceptible. 



13. T. macrocalyx, Steud. in FL Preiss. i. 230; S/eelz, L c. ii. 319. 

 A sln-ub of 1^ to 2 ft., nearly allied to 1\ purpurea, bnt differing chiefly in 

 the large, inflated, fruiting calyx. Branches tonientose and hirsute with 

 stiff stellate hairs. Leaves petioiate, oblong-lanceohite, obtuse, 1 to 1^ in. 

 Jong, scabrous-pubescent above, tonientose or hirsute underaeath. Stipules 

 oblupic or seinicordate. Eaeemes long, several-flowered. Bracteoles linear- 

 lanceolate. Calyx expanding to nearly \ in. diameter, with broad short lobes, 



I'le midribs much thickened, when in fruit much inflated, depressed-globose, 

 somewhat 5-angled, fully \ in. diameter, although the lobes are closely con- 

 mvent. Filaments as long as the anthers, which are more obtuse than in 

 J. pnrpurea. Ovary and style glabrous as in T. purpurea, 



^7^' Australia. . Preston river, Wdlin-ton district, Preiss, «. 1C57; S. W. coast, 



U. T. pauciflora, LindL Swayi Riv. App. 18, Scabrous-tomentosc or 

 hirsute. Leaves lanceolate, often cordate, and sometimes hastately S-lobed 

 at the base, 1 to 3 in. long, green and sprinkled with short, rigid, stellate 

 **airs on both sides. Stipules broad, semihastate or reniform. Eaeemes 



