444? 



XXII. SAXIFRAGE.E. {Jcrophylh 



Wi 



Westc 



N S. AVales. Moist shaded roclcs, Springwood, Blue Mouutains, rare, ^-^"^ ^• 

 Cunningham.' DoQ was in error iu supposing this to be the Calycomts mentioned by K. 

 Brown in the Appendix to Fiinders's Voyage; that was merely the orthography adopted by 

 E. Brown for the genus CaUicoma of Andrews. The plant described by A. Cunningham 

 las not been hitherto recognized, owing to De Candolle having misunderstood his expression 

 ** foliis ternatis/* and rendered it '* foliis trifoliolatis." 



12. ACKAMA, A. Cunn. 



Calvx-tube short, campanulate; lobes 5, valvate. Petals 5, Stamens 10, 

 inserted round a crenate disk ; anthers small, tipped by a minute gland-hke 

 appendajre to the connective. Ovary free, 2-celled, with several ovulee in 

 each ceU ; styles filiform, deciduous. Capsule smoll, turgid, septicidally de- 

 hisccnt. Seeds few, ovoid, hairy ; . embryo cylindrical in the axis of a fleshy 

 albumen.— Trees. Leaves opposite, pinnate. Flowers small, very numerous, 

 in compound panicles, in terminal pairs, becoming axillary by the elongation 

 of the central shoot. 



Besides the Austrahan species which is endemic, the genus comprises another from New 

 Zealand. The infloresceuce. which is uniformly racemose in JFeinmanma, being pan^™ 

 in both species of Ac/cama, gives them a habit so different from that of Wemrmnma ina 

 when coupled with the valvate calyx and the shape of the fruit, there seems to be q^^^^^^^ 

 ficient to maintain Ackama as a distinct genus rather than as a section of Weinmanma, ^ 

 proposed by A. Gray. 



. 1. A, MueUeri, Benth. A tree, glabrous or nearly so except the in- 

 florescence, ■ Leaflets usually 5, rarely 7 or 3, ovate-eUiptical or ^7^^^^ ^^^^^^J 

 late, acuminate, obtusely and very shortly serrate, usually 3 to 4 m. long 

 sometimes much larger, naiTowed at the base and more or less petiolu a , 

 somewhat coriaceous, penniveined, "with usually a minute tuft ot hairs i 

 axils of the principal primary veins underneath. Flowers very small ana n - 

 merous, clustered alon? the short ultimate branches of a very compound p 



Petals 



nicle, the branchlets all minutely pubescent. Calyx about i line long. ^^^^_ 

 slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes. Stamens exserted. Capsule^ovoici-g 

 lar, 1 to 1-| lines long. — Weinmannia paniculata^ F. MuelL -tr^g'^- 

 altered to W, paniculosa^ 1. c. 175. 



W- S. VTales- Hastings and Clarence rivers, BecMer. 



13. WEINMANNIA, Linn. 



Calyx divided almost to the base into 4 or 5 more or less i^^^^^^^^^^^^'^ 

 meuts. Petals as many as calyx-segments. Stamens twice as many as p^^^^^» 



inserted round the disk; anthers small. Ovary free, ,^" ^^' ^'"^r^'fj ^ ter- 

 with several pendulous ovules in each cell ; styles distinct, each wi ^^^^^^^ 

 minal or decurrent stigma. Capsule oblong or ovoid, septicidally ^^j^^j 

 Seeds oblong reniform or nearly globular, usually (but not alwa\s; '^.^^| 

 embrj^o in the axis of a fleshy albumen.— Trees or shrubs. ^^^^^ ^ilowers 

 simple, or digitately or pinnately compound, with 3 or more leanets. 

 in simple racemes, terminal or axillary, solitary or clustered. 



• J. /I ' {T into eitr*' 



A genus widely distributed over the warmer regions of the globe, extenauig 



