

AnodopelalunL'] XLir. saxifrages. 4il 



Stamens almost as long as tlie calyx, the appeadnge of the connective almost 

 as long as the anther. Young fruit about 5 lines long, oblong, fleshy, with a 

 single pendulous seed. 



Tasmania, Subalpine districts, often forming a dense and ahnost impenetrable scrub, 

 /. B. Rooker, 



8. APHANOPETALUM, Endl. 



(Platyptelea, /. Hrvmm) 



Calyx-tube veiy sliort, adnate to the broad base of the ovary ; lobes 4, 

 slightly imbricate, 2 opposite ones ratlier larger than the other 2, persistent 

 and enlarged after flowering. Petals none or very minute. Stamens 8 ; fila- 

 ments short, anthers oblong, 2-lobed at the base. Ovary 4-furrowed,_ 4- 

 celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell, tapering into 4 more or less united 

 %les, shortly divergent at the top; stigmas terminal. Fruit hard, small, 

 indehiscent, surrounded at the base by the horizontally spreadmg wnig-Iike en- 

 larged calyx-segments. Seed solitaiy, reniform or horse-shoe-shaped, rugose. 

 Embryo curved, in the axis of the fleshy albumen.— Shrubs or trees with 

 weak or twining branches, quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, simple, btipules 

 toinute or none. Flowers few in short cymes or leaty pamcles, or solitary in 

 the axils of the leaves. 



The genus is limited to Australia. It is nearly allied to Ceratopetalum in character, and 

 especially Iq the fruit, but with a very different habit. 



W r''-^^S.f "'^^'^ °' ^"'P^^'^^ ^^''*'^™ 'P'™'^ \ A. "SdeZe. 



mves Imear (Western species) «. ^. wt-f 



1. A. 



resmosum 



"y some to be a tree of 30 to 40 ft., by others ciescrioeu as, <i .rtii=w<.^^^..6 ^^ 

 climbing shrub, quite glabrous, the smaller branches scabrous with raised dots 

 sai'l to be resinous. Leaves ovate lanceolate or elliptical, obtuse or scarce y 

 acuminate, obtusely serrate. U to 3 in. long, acute at the base, on a petiole 

 °n to 3 lines, thinly coriaceous, smooth and shimng. P^f °f ^^^'J' 

 sometimes 3 -flowered; the central pedicel without bracteoles. the 2 Iat<3ral ones 

 tracteolate, or all bracteolate and an additional pair lower down, or the in- 

 florescence further developed into a short dense more or less lea^ pamcle 

 Calyx-lobes at first small, but soon enlarging, and under the i^^efrmto^^^^^^^^^^^ 

 '^-^ceolate. obtuse, about \ in. long. Petals, when presen , ^^^^^'^'^^^ 

 W without the wings scarcely U lines diameter.-F. Muell.Fragm i. 228. 



Q-ee„,u,d. Moreton Bay, l! Mueller, IF. Hill ^fj^X^^^r^^^^^^^^^ 

 , N. S. Wales. Hunter's river, R Brown; Hastings and Macleay nver , 



Illawarra, A . Cunnir,gham, Ralston ; Twofold Bay. F. Mueller. . , , ^ 



A shrub, with slender 



Jining branches w'es linear, entire. 1 to 2 in. l««f J-^« ^ ,^"^^^^^^^^^^ 

 ^'^^.tnidrib prominent underneath, tiarrowed into a shor petioW « 

 f «'le. Peduncles filiform, usually 1-flowered, with a p nr ^l^^^f/^l 

 '^« middle, occasionally 3.flowered. Flowers rather ^.^^^^ *^^^^^^^^^^ 

 «''*«'«. the calyx-lobes more obtuse. Petals none, /t^les^e^^^^^^^^^ 

 ^-er than i„ 'j. resinosum. Fruit nearly the same. U.e p^adi^^^^ b^ « 



*• -Urunnn. and llarv. in Hook. Kew Journ. vu. 5o. 



TUiyptdea ckmaiidea^ 



