Briiguiera,'] XLVi. khizophoke.!:. 



495 



angles scarcely prominent or sometimes quite obscure, the lohes usually about 

 12, but variable in number. Petals sborter than the calyx, densely hairy at 

 the base, and the induplicate margins more or less hairy to the e*nd; setse 

 usually 1 in the notch and 3 or 4 at the end of each lobe. Anthers embraced 

 in pairs by the induplicate margins of the petals. Ovary very short and 

 wholly inferior.^ Fi-uit at first crowned by the calyx-limb, which often falls 

 off as the radicle protrudes, the latter assuming a narrow spindle-shaped 

 form, obscurely notched, with about 6 prominent angles.— Arn. in Ann. Nat, 

 Hist, i. 367 ; B. auslralis, A. Cunn. in Arn. 1. c. ; B. Rheedii and B. Rim- 

 i?/m,Blume, Mus. Bot. i. 138. 



N. Australia. Port EsBington, A, Cunningham (rather doubtful) j islands of the 

 Gulf of Carpentaria, Henne, 



Queensland. Shoal Eay passage, Jt. Brown ; along the coast, from Moreton Bay to 

 Tones Straits, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller, and others, 



Wight's figure of B. Rheedii, Ic. t. 239 A, as well as his specimens, differ in some slight 

 Inspects, and are considered hy Blume as constituting a distinct species. The setae of the 

 petals appear to be pretty constant in the Australian specimens, but it remains to be proved 

 flow far their presence and number are really good specific characters. • 



2. B. gynmorrhiza. Lam.; Blume, Mus. Bot, i. 136. An evergreen 

 tree, clofely resembling B, Rheedii, Leaves usually smaller. Flowers as 

 in that species, solitary on short recurved axillary peduncles, but smaller, 

 varying from f to nearly 1 in. in length. Calyx-tube marked with very pro- 

 minent acute angles; lobes usually 8 to 10. Petals shorter than the calyx, 

 hairy on the margins, the lobes obtuse, without setae, but a very short seta, 

 often, although not always, in the notch between them. 



W Australia. N.W, coast, A. Cunningham; N. coast, R, Brown; Roper river, F. 

 Smeller ; Port Essingtoii and Limnien ^x^imtx^Leichhardt, 

 Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown. 



4. CARALLIA, Eoxb. 



Calyx-tuhe adnate at the base, campanulate above the ovary, lined by the 

 tnin disk, with 5 to 8 very short lobes or teeth. Petals as many as calyx- 

 lo^es, clawed, orbicular, jagged or slightly toothed. Stamens twice as many 

 as petals, inserted with them at the base of the calyx-lobes round the undu- 

 lated margin of the disk. Ovary inferior or adnate as hii^h as the insertion of 

 the ovules, 4-celled or rarely 3- or 5-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each 

 jell. Pruit succulent, globular. Seed solitary, with a copious albumen ; em- 

 l^^yo curved, not growing before the seed falis.— Trees or shrubs. Flowers 

 ■small^ in axillaiy, pedunculate, usually trichotomous cymes. 



A small genus, extending over tropical Asia, the Australian species the commonest o%'er 



*^e whol 



e range of the genus. 



errxma 



^^.. , DC, Prod. iii. 33. Usually a tree, glabrous in all 



't^ parts. Leaves sessile, obovate, elliptical or oblong, in the -Australian spe- 

 ^^jens obtuse or obtusely acuminate, thinly coriaceous, 3 to 5 iru long, m 

 Asiatic ones very variable in breadth and consistence, and often very obtuse 

 ^^ much acuminate. Cymes axillarv or from old leafless nodes, on short- pe- 

 J^ncles, each short branch bearing 3 to 5 sessile flowers. Calyx shortly and 

 broadly campanulate, not 3 lines diameter. Fruit globular, about 3 hues 



