SpiplocOS,] LXXIII. STYRACACE.E, 293 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachj. 

 N. S. Wales. RichuiouJ river, C. Moore. 



The species is widely spread over E. India and the Indian Archi|)elago, where the hcrry 

 IS usually quite globular. The southern form, with the lon.Erer berry contracted at the top, 

 15 precisely the same as that found in the Fiji islands and the New Hebrides. There is^ as 

 far as I can perceive, no other difference between the two forms. • ■ 



2. S. Tiiwaitesii, P. MnelL Fragm. iii. 22. v. 211. A shrub or tree, 

 attaining sometimes a considerable size, quite glabrous, closely resembling S. 

 spicaia in habit and characters, but the leaves are usually firmer and more 

 shining, and the flowers considerably larger and more distinctly pedicellate, 

 forming simple or branched racemes, the pedicels however rarely exceed 1 

 line. Calyx-lobes broad and obtuse, the innermost much larger than the 

 outer ones. Petals nearly 3 lines long. Fruit when young oblong, con- 

 tracted at the top, but not seen ripe. 



Queensland. Rockingham Bay, DallacTiy, 



«. S. Wales, Backhouse. Woods of the Paris Exhibition, 1855, n. 51, Macarthur ; 

 Hastings river, Beckler ; Richmond, Bellioger, and Maclcay rivers, a Moore. 



The species is very closely allied to 5. grandiflora, Wall., from Silhet, but the leaves are 

 »iore rigid, less acuminate, and the pedicels shorter. 



Order LXXIV. JASMINES. 



Rowers regular. Calyx-free, usually small, the limb of 4 or 5 or rarely 

 ^oi-e teeth or lobes or rarely truncate and entire. Corolla with a long or 

 snort tube, and 4 or 5 or rarely more lobes, or divided to the base into 4 

 petals or rarely, in genera not Australian, 2-petaled or wanting. Stamens 2, 

 adhermg to the base of the corolla, on opposite sides of the ovary, the fila- 

 Ejents usually short ; anthers 2-celled, the cells opening in longitudinal slits. 

 Ovary 2-celled, with 2 or rarely 1 or 3 ovules in each cell, laterally attached 

 in the young state but becoming pendulous or ascending according to the 

 growth of the ovary. Fruil succulent or capsular, entire or 2-lobed, 2-celled 

 or reduced to a single cell and seed. Seeds with or without albumen 

 J^mbryo straight.— Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing, very rarely reduced 

 |o herbs. Leaves opposite or very rarely alternate, entire or pnmate. 

 ^^owers in axillary or terminal panicles, sometimes reduced to short simple 

 racemes or sessile clusters. 



rini '""l^ '^'^^'^ dispersed over the greater part of the warmer or temperate regions of the 

 Sr; °? ^^^ fi^"« Australian genera, four have a very wide range, two m_ the Old ^\orld 

 «aij two in hoth the New and the Old, the fifth is endemic. The Order is often limited 

 L .f ™"'' J'^'^inum and Menodora with more than 4 corolla-lohes and the seed ascend- 

 «g ; the others forming the Order Oleinea, with a more constantly 4-merons corolla and 

 Cj7"5 seeds ; but the two Orders, or suborders, are intimately connected into a well- 

 " group by the position of the stamens, exceptional among Gamopetala . 



,,f,^'^°^^ER I. S^smxr^^^.—CoroUa-hhes 5 or more. Ovules (often solitary) and 



^"^^cending or erect. No albumen. 



'^it succulent, indehiscent 1- Jasminum. 



^ Suborder II. OUln^^.-Corolla-loles or petals 4. Ovules and seeds pendulous. 



T'^. ^'ti a short tube and 4 lobes. Seed albuminous, 

 ^rmt a drupe. Panicles axillary or rarely terminal 2. OhEA, 



