254 . xxiT. STERCULTACE^. [Thomasia, 



several-flowered. Bracteolcs linear or scarcely lanceolate, ratlier thick, rusty- 

 tomcntose or hirsute. Calyx expanding to | in. or rather more, divided to 

 below the middle, the midribs prominent. Petals usually but not always 

 present. Pilaments short. Ovary toinentose, usually 3-celled; style tomen- 

 tose at the base, glabrous upwards, the tomentose base often persisting on 

 the ripe capsule. — Stcctz, in PL Preiss. ii. 329 ; T. suhhastata, Steud. in PI, 

 Preiss. i. 233 ; Stcctz, 1. c. ii. 330. 



F 



MT. Australia. Sivaii Eivcr, Dmmmond, \st CoIL, Preiss, n. 1633, 1647; King 

 George's Sound, Jfarvey, 



T. paniculaia, Lindl., Swan Eiv. App. IS; Stcctz, in PI. Preiss. ii. 323, from S«an 

 Kiver, appears to be only a luxuriant Form of T. fmwifiora, with rather hirger flowers and 

 the glabrous part of the style rather longer. A still more luxuriant variety, with leaves 3 

 in, long, and the calyx 7 lines diuiiicter, was gathered by Maxwell in the moist valleys ot 

 Tranklin river. 



15. T. rhynchocarpa, Turcz, in Bull Mosc. 1852, ii. 142. Very 



near T. paKciJlora, with a similar foliage, but tlie indumentum more ferru- 

 ginoiis and denser, the bractcoles and flowers ratlier differently shaped. 

 Eacemes 2- or 3-flowered. Bracteoles oblong or broadly lanceohate, obtuse, 

 thick, and densely rusty-tomentose. Calyx opening to nearly 1 in. diameter, 

 scarcely divided to the middle, with broad obtuse lobes, much replicate op 

 the margins over the fruit, the midribs very prominent inside. Petals minute. 

 Filaments rather long. Ovaiy tomentose; style also tomentose, excepting 

 quite the extremity, and usually persistent. Pruitiug calyx closing over to 

 about i in. diameter. — F. MuelL Fra^-m. ii, 8. 



"W. Australia, I)rummo?id, 5/A Co/i. n, 261 ; Kojoncrup valley and Salt river, Mas;- 

 icelL 



16. T. grandiflora, Lindl. Swan Riv. Jpp. 18. A shrub or under- 

 shrub of 1 or 2 ft., with the habit and foliage of T. paiiciflora, but at once 

 known by the flowers. Leaves mostly ovate-lanceolate, or oblong, or the 

 lowest ovate, obtuse, \ to 1 in. long, entire, cordate or obscurely S-Iobed at 

 the base, glabrous or sprinkled with a few slelUxte hairs. Stipules oblique 

 or semihastate. Flowers large, in terminal racemes. Bracteoles broadly 

 lanceolate, thick, and tomeutose-hirsute. Calyx spreading to about 1 m- 

 diameter, not divided to the middle, the broiul thick centre of each sepal 

 hirsute-tomentosc outside and short-tomentose inside, the broad margins 

 thin, glabrous, and undulate. Petals none. Filauienis very short; anthers 

 acuminate. Ovary tomentose, 3-celled, with 8 to 20 or even more ovules in 

 each cell.— Steetz, in Pi. Preiss. ii. 324: T. cucnopotmnica and T, li(cid(h 

 Steud. in PI. Preiss. i. 231. 



W. Australia. Swan River, Dmmmond, \st Col/., Preiss, n, 1645 and iri67; J^^^" 

 chison nver and Chanijnou Eay, OldJlehL 



ognata 



A 



low shrub, very hispid with rigid stellate hairs. Leaves pctiolate, oblong or 

 lanceolate, obtuse, rarely exceeding 1 in., wrinkled, and very much crisped 

 on the margin, green and hispid on both sides. Stipules broadly semihastate. 

 Racemes slender, with small, nearly sessile flowers. Bracteoles linear-lan- 

 ceolate. Calyx hispid, opening to about \ in. diameter, the angles very pvo- 

 mincut, divided to about the middle into broad lobes not undidate on the 



