Famarium.'] XLI. KOSACEiE. -^27 



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very villous, with a long style. Drupe oblong, veiy villous inside, 2-ce]le(l, 

 2-seeded. 



N.Australia. Port Essington, ^;7«s/;o«y; Quail Island, i^'/ooc?. 



The species extends over the Indian Archipelago to the Philippine Islands, for Orymama 

 ulieifoUa, Presl, Epimel. Bot. 193 (Cuming, n. 1057). appears to be the same species, 

 altiiough with rather narrower, more rigid leaves. 



2. STYLOBASIUM, Desf. 



(Macrostigma, Hook.) 



Calyx-lobes 5, imbricate. Petals none. Stamens 1 0, liypogynous ; fila- 

 ments short, persistent ; anthers large, linear, erect. Ovary of a smgle carpel, 

 sessile in the base of the calyx, 1-celled, with 2 erect ovules ; style from the 

 base of the ovary ; stigma large, peltate. Drupe nearly dry obovoid or glo- 

 bular, surrounded by the persistent calyx. Seed erect.-Unarmed shrubs 

 Leaves aUernate, entire. Stipules minute or none. Mowers solitary m the 

 axils of the leaves, on short pedicels, the upper ones fornung a tunimal la- 

 ceme, usually polygamous, the females with long filiform staminodia, the 

 males with a small abortive ovary. 



The genus is exclusively Australian. It differs from the whole Order 5";|^ ^yPogy^o'is 

 stameas, and is connected with the American genus Leiodemo^i alone, bj '^s lar.c an he s^ 

 l^ves euneate-obloug or obovate. Drupe twice as long as the calyx . 1. |. J^™'"'"- ■ 

 leaves linear. Drupe or nut scarcely exceeding the calyx 



1. S. spathulatum, Besf. in Mem. Mns. v. 37, t. 2. An erect b.^hy 

 sbrub of several feet, glabrous or the young shoots ^o^-^O-P^^^^^^'t; I.e^^^^^^^^ 

 inostly cuneate-oblono^r the lower ones obovate, very obtuse oi en a» Senate 

 i to II in. long, narrowed into a short petiole, rather_ t^^f and fle. y ^ n 

 less except the midrib. Pedicels short, with 1 or 2 ^nm e brae o s. Cal^x 

 ^lien in flower, about 3 lines long, rather narrow, ^e lobes obtu=c shoiter 

 tban the tube, the anthers shortly protruding, when m fruit verj open. Drupe 

 nearly globular, about ^ lines diameter. n^„«?;„'* 



W. Australia. Sharks Bay, Milne, and probably from the same locahty, Baud.n 

 ^Jiediiion; YVrndtrs Bay, Col/ic; PoTt Gregory, Oldjieia. 



, 2. S. lineare, Nees in FL Freiss. I 95. An e-ct bush)-^shrub g a- 

 rous and somewl^at glaucous or the young slioots shg^^tlv ^^o^iy.^^Le^^^ ^ 



»iarrow-linear, very obtuse, the lower ones 1 ^^ Ij ";.;"- ^^1 ^,,^ jj^tant. 

 f^ petiole, thick and fleshy, the upper ones ofte.i - y m^ ^^^ j^^^^ 



Calyx in the original form nearly as large as in ^•'•^''^^''":' /„ xceedin- the 

 longer than the tube, the anthe. s shortly protnidmg. ,,^ X« 

 ealyx-lobes, but much smaller and drier than m S. spalM'ium 



W. Australia. Abandoned fields, near Perth and lork, 1 >em, 

 limestone Range, N. of JIurchison river. OM/eld. __Macrosllpna austrah, 



^^^r. paivijlora. Branches slender. Calyx scarcely 2 hues long 

 look. Ic. Pi. t. 412._-VV. Australia, Druvtmond, n. lb. 



3. GETJM, Linn. 



(Sieversia, -R. Br) 



Caljx.tuW short. ope„; lol^cs 5, imbricate, usually «ith as ma„j small 



