JFeinmannia.'] xxii. SAXTFRAGEiB. 44S 



tropical S. America, S. Africa, and New Zealand. The ouly Australian species is endemic, 

 but as yet insufficiently known to be quite certain as to its genus. 



1. W"* rubifolia, F. MuelL {under Gelssois). A small tree, the young 

 brauclies inflorescence and veins of the leaflets more or less clothed with long 

 fine hairs. Leaflets 3 or 5, digitate, ovate-elliptical, acuminate, sharply ser- 

 rate, much narrowed into a pctiolule, rigid but not thick, the primary parallel 

 veins very prominent underneath, with transverse reticulations, the terminal 

 one usually 2 to 3 in. long,'or rarely more, the lateral ones smaller. Stipules 

 large, hairy, deciduous. Racemes axillary, usually several together on a very 

 short common peduncle, 1-j to 3 in. long when in fruit. Flowers not seen. 

 Pedicels very short or scarcely any. Sepals shorter than the fruit. Capsules 

 reflexed, 1\ to nearly 2 lines long, narrow, hairy, with 2, rarely 3, recurved 

 styles, the stigmas shortly decuiTcnt. Seeds 2 or 3 in each carpel, narrow- 

 oblong, the testa more or less extended into a loose wins at one or both ends, 



or 



in some seeds the nucleus appears to extend nearly the whole length. 

 Geimk rubifoUa, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 82. 



N. S. Wales. Cloud's Creek, a tributary of Clarence river, BecMer. The flowers 

 l>ein^ unknown, the genus is somewhat doubtful. The inflorescence and fruit are quite those 

 of Weinmannia, except that the capsules are more pendulous than is usual iu that genus. 

 The foliage and habit scarcely differ from those of a Feejee plant, which we take to be the 

 Weinmannia spiraoides, A. Gray, but of which the perfect flowers and fruit are unknown. 

 ^^e W, Tuhifolia is, however, certainly not a Gemois. 



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14. TETRACABP-EA, Hook. f. 



Sepals 4, quite free, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens 8, hypogy- 

 noiis, anthers oblong, erect. Carpels 4, distinct, narrowed at the base, with 

 numerous ovules in each ; styles short, each with an obtuse stigma. Fruit 

 carpels opening along the inner edge. Seeds numerous, obovold ; testa loose, 

 Jnerabranous; embryo minute in a fleshy albumen.— Shrub. Leaves scat- 

 tered. Flowers in terminal racemes. 



The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Australia. It had been referred by 

 i-ndlicher to BUteniacea on account of the hypogynous stamens and erect anthers, but the 

 foliage and habit, the seeds and several other characters, are entirely those of the Cunomea 

 «f woody Saxifrages, in other genera of which a gradual passage may be observed from 

 "Jpegynous stamens and a free apocarpous pistil to epigynous stamens, aud an inferior 



ovary. 



f. in Hook. Ic. PL t. 264, and Tl. Tarn. i. 15 



A small erect bushy shrub, usually about 1 ft. high, quite glabrous.^ . ™ 



obovate-oblong, obtuse, crenate, -J to 1 in. long, narrowed into a petiole, cori- 

 l^eous and shining, the midrib prominent underneath, the veins obscure or 

 ^conspicuous. Flowers rather small, white, in erect racemes of 1 to 2 in. 

 fracts small, narrow. Pedicels at first very short, 2 to 3 lines long when m 

 ^t- Petals nearly orbicular, about 1| lines diameter, on short slender 

 •^^s. Carpels narrow, erect, about 2 lines long. 



Tasmania. Common in subalpine situations. /. B. Hooker. 



15. GEISSOIS, Labillardiere. 



Calyx-tube very short, adnata to the broad base of the ovary ; segments 

 '» valvate, deciduous. Petals none. Stamens indefinite, usually 10 to 15, 



