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6, CALLICOMA, Andr. 



(Calycomi^, 22. Jr.) 



Sepals 4 or 5, free, valvate or the margins slightly imbricate. Petals none. 

 Stamens twice as many as sepals, hypogynous ; anthers ovate, versatile. 

 Ovary 2-celled or rarely 3-celled, with several pendulous ovules in each; 

 styles distinct, filiforra, each with a miaute terminal stigma. Capsule small, 

 separating into distinct carpels opening along the inner edge. Seeds small, 

 ovoid-oblong, tuberculate ; embryo very small, in a somewhat fleshy albumen. 



Tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers small, in dense globu- 

 lar heads. 



The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. 



1. C. serratifolia. Amir. Boi. Hep, t 566. A tall shi-ub, growinginto 

 a tree of 30 to 40 ft., the young shoots often tomentose or villous, the 

 branches soon glabrous. Leaves from elliptical-oblong to ovate-lanceolate 



shortly acuminate, coarsely sermte, 2 to 4 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous ana 

 shining above, either white underneath with a minxtte tomeutum, or softly to- 

 mentose or villous and more rust-coloured, the parallel pinnate vems promi- 

 nent underneath. Stipules ovate, very deciduous. Flowers numerous, m 

 dense globular heads on peduncles of | to 1 in., of which 2 to 4 are usuaUv 

 on a short common peduncle in the upper axils, and several form a termma 

 cluster or short panicle. Sepals and capsules not above 1^ lines long, to^a- 

 tose or villous. Stamens more than twice as long. — DC. Prod. iv. 1] i^r 

 Mag. t. 1811 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1167. 



Queensland. Glasshouse Mountains, R Mueller (^) (specimens in leaf only). 

 N. S, Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountaius, R, Broim, Szeher, n. -^bJ, 

 others; New England, C. Stuart ; Hastings river, Beckler. „^ i^li 



C. ferruginea, D. Don, Cunon. 11, in Edinb. New PhiL Joum. Apr. to June, l»f"'J, 



coainion 



every gradation. 



7. ANODOPETALTJM, A, Cunn- 



Calyx divided nearly to the base into 4 or 5 valvate lobes, ^t^tab as many, 

 very small. Stamens twice as many, inserted round a prominent disk ; 

 thers small, the connective produced into a linear or conical ^PPf^ '^j! 

 Ovarj' superior, 2-lobed, 2-celled, with few pendulous ovules in each r 

 styles diverging. Truit oblong, fleshy, 1 -seeded, probably ^"^^*^^^^^"j{j(^ry 

 not seen ripe. — Tree or shrub. Leaves opposite, simple. Flowers so 

 or 2 together in the upper axils. 



The genus is liinitetl to a single species, endemic in Australia, ^ 



' TAB A fall 



1. A. biglandulosTim, A. Cmn. in Booh J. FL Tarn, i- l^^- ^^^^ 

 'bushy shrub, growing also into a tree of 50 to 60 ft., quite glabrous ; ^^^^^^^^^ 

 very tough ; branchlets angular. Leaves petiolate, narrow-oblong o ^^^^ 

 late, obtuse, with a few obtuse serratures, 1 to li in. long, c^^^'^^^^!; f^^^' and 

 with few veins. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, deciduous- |lo^^'^ ^^ ^^ils, 

 inconspicuous, nearly sessile or very shortly pedicellate in *"^ i^^?'^ j j^ witt 

 Calyx-segments rather broad, about 2 lines long, usually c^^^^^^Y^^arroW- 

 a minute but dense tomentum. Petals much shorter than the calyx, 



