COMESPERMA ERICINUM 
DC. Prodr. i. 334 (1824) (ertcina); Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 146; Bailey, Queensland Flora, i. 82. 
[Plate 17.] 
Calyx 3-phyllus, deciduus: /olzo/a sordide purpurascentia, vix 
1 lin, ovata, concava, arcte adpressa, unicum superius inter basin peta- 
lorum; duo inferius sub basin petalorum. Covo//a subpapilionacea. 
Petala 2, ovato-oblonga, obtusiuscula, valde concava, patulo-erecta 
3-lin., rubro-purpurea, equalia. 
superne albidum, inferne lutescens, 1-phyllum, petalis paulo brevius, 
tripartitum. Lacinie laterales oblonge, pallide purpuree, apice albe, 
versus apicem sursum coarctate in apicem angustum, truncatum, album ; 
margines imbricato-convoluti quo cylindrus formatus. 
Nectarium rubro-purpureum, apice 
Lacinia tnter- 
media \atissima, subrotunda, intense rubro-purpurea, apice virescens, 
Oss. Laciniz laterales facile 
ab intermedia separentur, revera autem connate. /7damenta 2 plana, 
sursum oblique inflexa, alba, margini laciniarum laterali nectarii adnata 
lobos laterales amplectans, antice carinata. 
ubi illee junguntur lacinia intermedia. Axthere ad basin usque digitatz, 
lobis 4, oblongis, divaricatis, vel potius quatuor in singulo filamento, 
luteze, parvee, erecto-divaricate. Oss. Filamenta lobis corollz paulo 
Germen superum, obovatum, compressum, glabrum. Stylus 
I, compressus, secundum flexuram carinz nectarii adscendens, illiusque 
longitudine. Capsula obovata, 
pedicellata, subtruncata, seepe in medio et ad angulos subdentata, (unde 
subtridentata) bilocularis, bivalvis, 
valvis margine dehiscentibus, tandem hiantibus.  Semna solitaria, 
oblonga, nigra, villosa: villis longis. Totus frutex levis. Rav teretes. 
Folia brevissimis petiolis, sparsa, linearia, acuminata, margine parum 
revoluta. 
breviora. 
Stigma compressum, concavum. 
interdum rotundato-compressa, 
Oss. Fidamenta 8; 4 in singulo latere connato. 
Botany Bay ; Banks’s specimens not cited by Bentham. 
Portulacaceae 
COSMIA 
OUWUADIRIY AL VAS 
Britten in Journ. Bot. 1900, p. 77. 
CALANDRINIA QUADRIVALVIS F. Muell. Fragm. i. 176 (1859); Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 173. 
CLAYTONIA QUADRIVALVIS F. Muell. Census Austral. Pl. 27 (1882). 
[PLatTe 18.] 
Calyx diphyllus (biglumis) : fo/o/a ovata, acuta, concava, equalia, 
21-linearia, glabra, patula, persistentia. Peta/a octo, lanceolata, acuta, 
pallide-purpurea, calyce parum longiora, patula. /%/amenta 15-18, 
erecta, receptaculo inserta, subulata, plana, calyce duplo breviora, 
albida, erecta. 
superum, ovatum, 
Anthere ovate, parve, erecte, purpure. Germen 
obtusum. Sty quatuor, filiformes, erecti, albi, 
villosiusculi, altitudine filamentorum. Stigmata simplicia. Capsala 
ovata, calyce paulo brevior, obsolete quadrigona, — 1-locularis, 
4-valvis : valvulis reflexis. Semzna plura, reniformia, pulcherrime 
reticulato-punctata, elevatis, nigra, hilo albido notata, 
pedicellata; pedicellis e conceptaculo baseos erectis, longis, niveis. 
Radix annua. Folia radicalia \anceolato-spathulata, acuta, subsucculenta, 
punctis 
caulina alterna, similia, minora. 
Pediceli oblique axillares, 1-flori, solitarii, patuli, reflexi. 
in petiolum longum attenuata ; 
Endeavour’s River ; specimens not referred to by Bentham. Not recorded for 
Queensland by Bailey. 
Malvaceae 
mb TTEON 
INDICUM Sweer var. 
FUP RGAULILELIN S15, 
flochreutiner MS. 
A. invicum Benth. Fl. Austral. i. 202; Bailey, Queensland Flora, i. 118. 
[PLATE ry. ] 
Calyx monophyllus, majusculus, tres quartas partes uncize longus, 
persistens, villis tenuissimis tomentosis-holosericeus, infra medium 
quixquefidus. Zwdzs laxus, suburceolatus, pentagonus ; daczni@ ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, patulz, carinate. Petala quinque, cuneiformia, lata, 
subtruncata, calyce 4+ longiora, patula, lutea, basi mediantibus 
filamentis in tubum brevem urceolatum coalita ; szzzs margine villis 
albis hirti. F7Zamenta numerosissima, capillaria, aurea, petalis duplo 
breviora, lutea, basi connata in tubum conicum, extus  villosum. 
Anthere subrotunde, lute. Germen superum, subglobosum, hirsutum, 
Stylus unicus, glaber, levis, flavus, infra 
medium multipartitus: /acint@ filiformes, staminibus paulo longiores, 
superne truncato-concavum. 
apice divaricate. S¢zgmata capitata, lutea. Capsule circiter quatuor- 
decim, ovate, compressee, supra angulo exteriori elevatiori acute, 
truncate, intus rotundatze, pilosse, uniloculares, bivalves, apice et 
introrsum primum dehiscentes, sibi invicem adhzerentes, fructumque 
formantes subrotundum, supra concavo-truncatum, calyce vix breviorem. 
Frrutex totus tomento molli holosericeus, canescens. 
Bustard Bay, Bay of Inlets, Endeavour’s River. The Australian plant agrees 
exactly with specimens from New Caledonia (Forster), and differs from the type in 
the larger flowers and longer peduncles: Dr. Hochreutiner, who has seen Banks’s 
specimens which are not referred to by Bentham, proposes for it the name given above. 
It is a very distinct-looking and handsome form of the species. 
7 HIBISCUS RADIATUS 
Cav, Diss. iii. 150 2. 54. fig. 2 (1790); Benth. Fl. Austral. i, 212; Bailey, Queensland Flora, i. 126. 
[PLaTE 20.] 
Calyx exterior decaphyllus: fo/io/a subulata, radiatim patentia, 
unciam longa, pilis rigidis raris ciliata. 
quinque-partitus, exteriori + longior. 
angulis acutis, exstantibus, ciliatis. 
Calyx interior monophyllus, 
Tubus urceolatus, decagonus : 
Lacinie oblongo-lanceolate, 
subulate, carinatz : carina marginibus ciliatis. Capsaa ovata, acuminata, 
glabra, magnitudine cerasi minoris, 5-valvis. Sevina subreniformia, 
extus crassiuscula et gibba, intus attenuata. 
Palm Island: Endeavozr’s River. Banksian specimens not cited by Bentham, The 
type was raised by Cavanilles from seed sent to him by Banks (cfr. Cav. 2. ¢.). 
