310 LII. SAMYDACEZ. [Homalium. 3 
Leaves and flower-spikes under 2 in. long. Calyx-segments usually 5. i 
Petals as many but larger. Stamens solitary opposite each petal . 2. H. brachybotrys. — 
1H Soc. iv. 36. A tree, glabrous 
except the infloreséence, or rarely a few appressed hairs on the under side of 
the leaves. Leaves broadly ovate, obtuse or very shortly and obtusely acu- 
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long, on petioles of from à to > in. or rarely longer. Flowers very nearly 
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Queensland. Rockhampton, Dallachy. Also in New Caledonia and the Fiji islands. — 
The leaves in the Australian specimens are rather larger and more coriaceous than in those — 
om the Fiji islands, but are precisely as in New Caledonian specimens collected by De 
planche and Vieillard under nos. 23 and 2076, and referred by them to H. tomentosum, 
Benth., from which they differ both in flowers and foliage. H. viti 
nearly allied to H. fætidum, Benth. : 
2. H. brachybotrys, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 127. Glabrous or nearly ` 
so, except the inflorescence. -Leaves oval-elliptical or obovate, obtuse, entire — 
or obscurely sinuate, rarely exceeding 2 in. and mostly about 1 in. long, nar- 
rowed into a petiole, drying of a paler colour than most of the genus. 
very small, sessile, in simple slender spikes of about 1 mm; 
cent as well as the flowers: Calyx-tube ovoid, about 4 line long; d 
(or 6 ?), narrow-linear, rather shorter than the tube. 
thulate, rather longer and much broader than the calyx-lobes. Stamens 80% ` 
tary opposite each petal. Styles and placentas 4 or 5.— Blackwellia ach: ` 
botrya, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. iii. 48. 
. Queensland. Granite rocks, sources of the Gilbert river, F. Mueller. 
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Opngn LIII. PASSIFLOREE. 
imbricate in the bud, often coloured inside. Petals as many as them 
inserted at their base and alternating with them, often persistent it 
nd much resem hem, sometimes small or wanting. base of 
usually as many as calyx-lobes, rarely twice as many, inserted wech" 
branches as there are placentas, with terminal stigmas. 
acentas. 
late; albumen fleshy. Embryo straight, with leafy cotyledons, bei? 
next the hilum.—Climbers, or rarely, in genera not Australas eg eg? 
shrubs. Leaves alternate, entire or divided, with stipules. Flowers WI 
