456 XXXVIII. SAPiNDACEiE, [Diplopdlis. 



Capsule membranous, loculicidally 3-Talved, Leaves linear or cuneate^ 



entire or 3-lobed . , .' *.'...• S. JD, SiuartiL 



1. D. petiolaris, F. MuelL Herb. Nearly allied to D. Ilnegelii, of 

 wliich F. Mueller thinks it may be a variety. Branches, pauiclcs, and both 

 sides of the leaves very glandular, and apparently viscid. Leaves crowded^ 



petioles 



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smaller flowers. Cocci separating, and similar to those of D. Iluegelii, 

 except that they are much more glandular and less hairy, 



"WT- Australia. Murcliison river, Oldfield, 



2. D. Huegelii, Eudl, in Hueg. Emtm. 13. A shrub of 2 or 3 ft., 

 but flowering also as an underslirub of 1 to 1^ ft., the branches and foliage 

 hoary with a minute tomentum, or softly pubescent or hirsute. Leaves either 

 undivided and from oblong-li'ncar to broadly' cuneate, entire or coarsely 

 toothed, or more or less deeply pinnatifid, with short, oblong or cuneate, 

 entire or 2- or 3-toothed lobes or segments, always narrowed at the base but 

 scarcely pctiolate. Flowers racemose along tlie simple branches of a terminal 

 panicle, with a few glandular-tipped hairs on the branches and sometimes on 

 the sepals and ovary ; the males and females usually in the same raceme. 

 Sepals broadly ovate, about 1 line long. Petals spreading, on short slender 

 claws, the lamina orbicular^ about 3 lines broad, those next the vacancy often 

 smaller than the others. Ovary hirsute with simple and glandular hairs. 

 Fruit separating into 3 rather hard ovoid cocci, about 2 lines long, rugose, 

 usually indehisccnt,— Lindl. Bot. Eeg, 1839, t. G9 ; F. MuelL Fragm. iiL 13, 

 Lehm. in PL Preiss. ii. 235; D, Freissii, Miq. in PL Preiss. i. 223 (with 

 pinnatifid leaves) ; D. LehmaTini, Miq. 1. c. i. 221 (with entire leaves). 



W. Australia. Swan River, Brummond, Isl ColL, Vreiss, a. 12S1 and 12S2, ami 

 others, and thence to Murchison river, Lrummond, n, 95, Oldfield. I have seen no speci- 

 mens from King George's Sound or any of tlie southern districts. The foliage is very 

 variable, and the disk also appears to vary in shape; the inner margin or lobe is, however, 

 generally shorter than the enter one. 



Var. \^) eriocarpa. Apparently dilTuse, softly pubescent or hirsute. Leaves deeply pin- 

 natifid with several cuneate, entire or toothed segments. Ovary very hirsute. The young 

 fmit also vei^ hirsute, and^ apparently longer, more lobed and more membranous than in the 

 ordinary form, but not seen full-grown. 



N. Australia. Nichol Bay, N.W. coast, F, Gregory, 



3. D. Stuartii, F. Mmll. Fragm. ill 12. A shrub apparently diffuse, 

 the branches pubescent and glandular. Leaves linear or cuneate, entire or 

 3-lobed at^ the end, I to | in. long, nearly glabrous above, hirsute luidcnicalh. 

 Pacemcs simple in one spechuen, divided into two in the other (both mere^feg- 

 inents), glandular-pubescent and hirsute. Flowers rather smaller than in D- 

 Hnegelii, Margins or lobes of the disk nearly equal. Ovary very hirsute. 

 Capsule 4 or 5 lines long (3-lobed?), membranous, opening loculicidally m 

 3 valves. 



N. Australia. Between Jlount Morphett and Ronnv river, M'Douall Stuart {Herb. 

 F, MuelL) ■ . . . 



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