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Emmenosperma,'] 



XXXVI. KHAMNE^- 



415 



or alternate, penninerved. Cymes or panicles trichotoinous, many-flowered 

 Seeds often persisting on tlie torus after the pericarp lias fallen off. 



The genus is endemic in Australia, It is closely allied in technical characters to the S 

 African Noltia, but with a different habit. 



Leaves opposite or nearly so 

 leaves alternate . . . 



1. E, a?j)Ju(onioides. 



2. E. CimningJiamii, 



^ 1. E. alphitonioides, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 63. A tall hard-wooded 

 timber-tree, quite glaLrous. Leaves opposite or nearly so, petiolate, ovate, 

 acuminate, 2 to 3 in. long, entire, coriaceous, shining above, green on both 

 sides. Flowers nnmerous, in little dense umbel-like cymes, arranged in tri- 

 chotomous cymes* or corymbose panicles in the upper axils or terminal. 

 Calyx-lobes almost petal-like, near-ly 1 line long. Fruits apparently about 3 

 lines long, but either unripe or already open in our specimen. Seeds persis- 

 tent, like those of Alphitonia^ but without the peculiar arillus of that species. 



Queensland. Brush of Brisbane river, HP Arthur; Peri creek, Lelclihardt. 

 M. S. ^JVales. Clarence river, C. Moore, Wilcox ; lUawarra, known under the name 

 of '' Dogwood," WArtlmVy Backhouse, Ralsto?i, 



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3. £• (?) Cunninghamii, Benth, Leaves alternate, similar to those of 

 E, alpJiitonioides, except that the petioles are longer. Flowers not seen. 

 Umbel-like cymes apparently not numerous, in a terminal corymbose panicle. 

 Fniits rather larger than in E, alpjutonioides^ 3- or 4-celled ; epicarp scarcely 

 any ; cocci 2-valvcd. Seeds red and shining as in that species, but not per- 

 sistent on the torus, and the funicle very small- 



. ^. Australia. Port WiUTeuJer, N.W. coast, A, Cunmngliam, The specimens arc very 

 imperfect ; they were referred to Croton by Cunningham, but the seeds arc erect and pre- 

 sent all the characters of Rhamnea, as already observed by Plauclion iu Herb. Hook. 



7. POMADERBIS, LabilL 



Calyx-tube entirely adnate to the ovary, the limb divided to the base into 

 5 lobes, usually deciduous or reflexed. Petals either concave or nearly flat, 

 not enclosing the anthers, or none. Stamens 5, the fdaments long and usually 

 suddenly inflected and attenuate near the top ; anthers oblong or ovoid. 

 Disk annular, surrounding the ovary at the base of the calyx-lobes, often 

 scarcely conspicuous, and never very prominent. Ovary hatf-inferior or rarely 

 almost entirely inferior. Style 3 -cleft, or rarely almost entire. Capsule pro- 

 truding above the border of the calyx-tube, septicidally 3-valved, the endo- 

 carp separating into 3 crustaceous or membranous cocci, opening by a broad 

 operculum at the base of the inner face, or by the separation of the whole 

 inner face, or rarely by a longitudinal slit. Seed inserted on a short, thick- 

 ^^ed, turbinate or cup-shaped funiculus. — Shrubs, with the young branches 

 f^nd under side of the leaves white, hoary or rusty with a close stellate to- 

 ^entum, often mixed with or concealed by longer, simple, soft, often silky 

 hairs. Leaves alternate, penninerved. Stipules brown and scarious, usually 

 jery deciduous. Flowers pedicellate, in small umbel-like cymes, usually 

 forming terminal panicles or coryonbs, or rarely solitary in the axils of the 

 leaves. Bracts brown and scarious, but so deciduous as to be seldom visible 

 ^t the time of flowerinjr. 



