LXXIV. JASMlNEiE, ^Ol 



5. CHIONANTHUS, Liiiu. 



(Linocieraj Swartz.) 



Calyx small, 4-lobed. Corolla of 4 narrow, small or elongated, petals, 

 quite distinct or slightly connected at the base, induplicate-valvate in the 



l)Ud. 



dnip 



Style short, Truit a 

 cotyledons thick and 



fleshy, sometimes slightly ruminate.— Trees or sLruLs. _ Leaves opposite, 

 entire. Plowers in axillary panicles rarely reduced to sessile clusters. 



The genus is dispersed over the warmer regions of both the New and the Old World. 

 Of the three Australian species, one appears to be the same as a common one m the Indian 

 Archipelago, the two others, closely allied to it, are endemic. 



Flowers more or less pedicellate in loose trichotomous panicles ... 1. C. ramiflora. 

 Rowers sessile or nearly so in clusters arranged in thyrsoid or trichoto- _ 



mous panicles . ! ' ' t r ^'%°fjr- 



Flowers sessile in a single sessile axillary cluster 6. i.. axuiaus. 



1. C. ramiflora, Roxb. M. hid. i. 107. A glabrous tree, attaining a 

 considerable size, but flowering wben still a shrub. Leaves broadly elUptieai- 

 oblong, shortly and obtusely acuminate, narrowed into the petiole, peuni- 

 veined and studded over with minute dots, 6 to 9 in. long or even more on 

 barren shoots. Panicles a.^illary or below the leaves, trichotomous much ami 

 divaricately branched but shorter than the leaves, the "Itii^^^te pec heels i lo 

 2 lines long and often clustered. Calyx about \ line long Petals oblong- 

 liuear, li lines long, connected in pairs by the stamens^ Print ovoul, oiten 

 }iii. long.— Wight, Ic. t. 734 ; Linociera ramiflora, DC. rrod.^ vui. ^Ji , 

 Chionantim effusiflora, ox Linociera effasijlora, P. Muell.Pragm. iv. »^. 



' Queensland. Cape York, M^GilUvrar,, W. HUl ; Rockingham Bay and ranges near 

 Rockhanipton, Balhchy ; Crocodile Cv^^kfuowman. The spec.es was fix. t described trom 

 the MoUuccas ; we have specimens from Tavoy, Tenasserim, and the rhilippmt^. 



A tree of con- 



^.derable height, quite glabrous. Leaves obovate-oblong ^1 iptical-oblong oi 

 broadly lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, narrowed into a rather l^n^ F^'^'fj 



3 to 6 in. long. Plowers sessile in almost globular clusters, fo™^! f / /f^^ 

 Pmncles shorter than the leaves, and the individual flowers rathei laigei than 

 m 0. ramijlora. Pruit ovoid-oblong, attaining 1 xn. m lengtti. 



Queensland. Rockhampton, T/wzeL 



3. C. axillaris, R. Br. Prod. 523. A glabrous t^ee. tbe In^-ches 

 ^vhitish. Leaves shortly petiolate, obbng-elliptical, shortly acum ate 3 to 



4 in. long, distantly penniveined. Plowers small in dense ses.de simple 



^^illary spikes not 'above - in. long, the rhachis P^l'-^^^/J, ^ If,! J 

 uunute broad ciliolatc bracts. Calyx-lobes mmute. F^tal. gUbioiis v y 

 narrow, about 1 line long. Pruit small, but not seen npe.--U«- t ron. ■ 



Qiieensland. Endeavour river, Buhls and Solander. 



POCYNE^ 



Flowers regular. Calyx free, divide<l nearly or quite to the base into 5 





