442 XLii. SAX1FRAGE.T5. [Aphauopetalum. 



W. Australia. Crevices of limestone rocks, Murchison river and Champion Bay, 

 Drummond, %th Coll. n. 94, Oldfield. 



9. CERATOPETALUM, Sm. 



Calyx-tube sliort, adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes 5, valvate, per- 

 sistent and enlarged after flowering. Petals small and lacmiate or none, aa- 

 mens 10, inserted on a perigynous disk; anthers small, the comiec ive pro- 

 duced into a recurved appendage. Ovary short, half-infenor, 2-celled, wi h 

 4 collateral ascending ovules in each cell, tapering into 2 more or less united 

 stvles, free and recurved at the top ; stigmas terminal. Fmit small hard ana 

 indehiscent, surrounded by the 5 wing-like horizontally spreading eularoea 

 calyx-lobes. Seed solitary, slightly curved; embryo green, curved, m tlie axis 

 of a fleshy albumen.— Trees or shrubs, glabrous and resmous. Leaves oppo- 

 site, with 1 or 3 digitate leaflets articulate on the petiole. Stipules very smau. 

 Flowers small, in terminal trichotomous cymes or corymbose panicles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 

 T fl ^ o T> 1 1 1 u J .I.e. gummiferim. 

 Leaflets 3. Petals lobed ^ Y, '^ ^,fjum. 



Leaflets usually solitary. Petals none I. • V 



1. C. summiferum, Sm. Bot. Nov. Roll. t. 3. A tree attaining 30 to 

 40 ft. Leaflets 3, lanceolate, in some specimens all under \2/'^-^°^°' 

 others mostlv twice that size, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, 'j'^t^^'eiy su _^ 



late, narrowed at the base, coriaceous, shhiing, pe"ni'*''<^"^^<5.!^"lf, I™p°3linvte: 



culate. 



or longer 



Cymes or panicles loosely trichotomous, the common peduncle snoi ^ 

 or longer than the leaves. Calyx-lobes in flower scarcely above i l^^ '''}°' 

 in fruit linear-oblong, fully \ in. long. Petals rather shorter than the ca J.^, 

 deeply cut into 3 to 5 very narrow lobes. Stamens as long as tne j^ 

 Fruit without the wingg above l^ lines diameter, the adnate caijx-i 

 strongly ribbed.— DC. Prod. iv. 13. ^^^ 



N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Steder, n. , 



others. 



r3. C. apetalum, D. Don, Canon. 11, in Mini. NewPM- '{''"'"; Z;^,^" 

 to June, 1830. A beautiful tree of 50 to GO ft., with a shinnig ^I'^er) '^^^^ 

 Leaflets usually solitary (occasionally 3 on luxuriant shoots^ or perliaps y^^^^^= 

 trees), from ovate-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, 3 to 5 in. long, ^^J^^g^ 

 twice that size on luxuriant barren branches, obtusely serrate, co c^ 



shining, narrowed at the base, articulate on a petiole ol 3 10 i » • ^^^ ^^^^ 

 numerous in rather dense corymbose cymes, usually shorter tn< 



numerous in rather dense corymbose cymes, usu.u.j ihie long 



leaves, sometimes slightly pubescent. Calyx-lobes acute, above ^^ ^^^ 

 in flower, scarcely above \ in. in fruit. Petals none. Appenua 

 connective of the anthers smaller and straighter than in C. gumwijeiu ^^^ ^^^^ 



N. S. Wales. Grose rirer, E. Brown ; Port Jackson aud especinlly m 

 Mountains, A. and R. Cunningham, and others ; lUawarra, Shepherd. ^^.j,ich do 



C. monlanam, D. Don, Cunon. 11, was established on narrow-leaved specimen 



not otherwise differ from the common form. 



10. SCHIZOMERIA, T). Don. ^ 



Calyx-tube short, adnate to the base of the ovary; l«^*^'^'.^„f„^,Ld out- 

 enlarged after flr,wering. Petals small, toothed. Stamens 10, inse. 



