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tlie length of the calyx to twice as long, very tomcntose, 5 -celled. Seeds 

 few, without partitions between them. 



N, Australia. Enderbj Island, N,W. coast, A. Cuiinmgham ; llearsou Island and 

 Nichol Bay, F. Gregory, 



Var. (?) 'parvifiora. Leaves smaller, often narrow, tomentuni closer, and flowers innch 

 smaller. N.W. coast, Bunoe ; Nichol Bay, F. Gregory. 



> ar. (?) densijiora. Foliage various, pedicels very short, flowers iutermedfate in size. 

 GuJf of Carpentari.'t, F. Mueller. The specimens are insuflicient for correctly estinjatiiig the 



constancy of these foriiis. 



5. ECHIWOCARPUS, Blume. 



Sepals 4, imbricate in two rows. Petals 4, broad, short, imbricate. 

 Stamens numerous, free, covering the broad, thick, pitted disk from the petals 

 to the ovary; anthers linear, the cells placed back to back and opening from 

 the top in a slit extending more or less down tlie sides. Ovary 3- or 4-celled, 

 with several ovules in each cell ; style subulate. Capsule thickly coriaceous 

 or woody, densely eehinatc or covered with setse, 3- or 4-celled or 1-celled by 

 abortion, opening in 3 or 4 valves. Seeds several or solitaiy and pendidous, 

 ovoid ; testa hard ; albumen fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flcit. — Trees. Leaves 

 entu'e or sinuate-toothed, with pinnate veins. Peduncles axillary, 1 -flowered, 

 solitary or clustered, rarely forming terminal racemes. 



A tropical Asiatic genus, represented in Australia by a single endemic species. 



1; E. australis, Benth. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. Suppl. 73. A tree, at- 

 tahiing 80 ft., glabrous in all its parts. Leaves obovate-oblong, | to 1 ft. 

 long, shortly acuminate, more or less sinuate-toothed, much narrowed to- 

 wards the base, but obtuse or slightly cordate at the petiole, coriaceous. 

 Flowers pendulous, on erect pedicels of 1 to 2 in., the upper ones fonning 

 terminal racemes shorter than the last leaves. Sepals ovate-oblong, about 4 

 lines long. Petals not seen. Anthers scarcely pointed. Capsule opening in 

 4 hard almost woody valves, about \ in. long, external setae short and ex- 

 ceedingly densely crowded. Fully expanded flowers and seeds not seen. 



Queensland. Scrub near Dunuduui, Moreton Bay, W. Hill, 



M. S. "Wales. Hastings river, Beckler (capsules only seen) ; Kiama, Harvey, 



6. ARISTOTELIA, L'Her. 



(Priesia, DC.) 



^ Sepals 4 or 5, valvate. Petals as many, imbricate, 3-lobed, toothed or entire, 

 inserted rotmd the base of the thickened toras. Stamens indefinite, inserted 

 on the torus, within a glandular ring ; anthers linear, the cells placed back to 

 l^ack and opening from the top in short confluent slits. Ovary 2- to 4-cened, 

 with 2 ovules in each cell; style subulate. Pruit a beiry. Seeds few, as- 

 cending or pendulous; testa *hard, often pulpv outside; albumen fleshy; 

 enibryo straiglit, with flat or undulate cotyledons.— Shrubs, Leaves mostly 

 opposite or nearly so, entire or toothed. Flowers axillary or lateral, in ra- 

 cemes, or in the Australian species solitary or 2 or 3 together, often polyga- 

 mous. 



Besides the 2 Australian species, which are endemic, the genus has 2 from New Zcoland 

 a^^d 1 from Chili. ^ 



