AUtonia!\ Lxxv. apocyne^k. 315 



7, A. mollis, BeatJi, A shrub of about 10 ft., closely resembling J, 

 comtricta, and perhaps a variety^ but the brauchlets folinge and inflorescence 

 softly tomentose-pubescent, the leaves scarcely becoming glabrous on the 

 upper surface with age. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acute or acumi- 

 nate, with the venation of A. comtricLa, but larn^er, mostly 4 to 6 in. Ion"-. 

 X lowers nuraerouSj in shortly pedunculate terminal corymbose cymes, the 

 primary branches sometimes umbellate, of the size and structure of those of 

 A. comtrida. Fruits not seen. 



Qaeensland, Barcoo river, near Mount NorthaBipton, Mitchell- 



9. ICHNOCARPUS, E. Br. 



Calyx without any or with very minute glands inside at the base. Corolla- 

 tube cylindrical, sw^ollen round the anthers, the lobes spreading, contorted in 

 the bud, the throat without scales. Anthers enclosed in the tube. Hypogy- 

 nous scales 5, linear-clavatc, as long as the ovary. Ovary of 2 distinct car- 

 pels united by the style ; stigma thickened, acuminate ; ovules numerous, in 

 3 or 4 rows in each carpel. Fruit of 2 long linear follicles. Seeds linear, 

 ^ithalong tuft of haii-s at the hilum, albuminous. — Tall woody climbers. 

 Leaves opposite. Plowers small, in compact cymes arranged in axillary and 

 lermnial thyrsoid panicles. Bracts very small.*^ 



A small genus, dispersed over tropical Asia mid extending probably into Africa, the 

 only Australian species being the connrionest on the whole range. The delimitatiou of this 

 and other genera separated from Echites requires, however, much revision. 



frut 



A tall climber with 



a milky juice, the young parts and inflorescence minutely rusty-pubescent, 



™ adult leaves glabrous or more or less pubescent underneath, especially the 



pnucipal nerves. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate, rather thin, shiuing 



^^>ove, the primary veins prominent underneatb, the veinlets elegantly reticu- 



Aate but not prominent, 2 to 3 in. long. Cymes small and compact, often 



iiumerous, forming loose leafy panicles at tbe ends of the branches- Calyx- 

 spcrn^n.^. , . ,. , -^ i , . Corolla-tube U lines long, 



n 

 th 



-■^ai,. uvaries hirsute at the top. Follicles slenrter in Asianc specimens 

 Dot seen in the Australian ones.—/, leptodictyus, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 118. 



Queensland. Rocl<ina:ham Bay, Ballachj. Common in E. India and in the Archi- 

 neTlf^V '^^'^ ^"'^"*° specimens have usually rather narrower leaves, more hirsute uuder- 

 »"», bat some are quite similar to the Australian ones. 



10. WRIGHTIA, E. Br. 



(Balfouria, K. Br.) 



Calyx with 5 to 10 broad scales inside at the hase. Corolla-tube cjlin- 



"'ical, usually short; lobes spreading, contorted in the bud, the throat with 



corona of 5 or 10 erect scales, either distinct or united in a ring. Stamens 



iiserted in the throat ; filaments very short and broad ; anthers sagittate, 



*=^serted, united or connivcnt in a cone round the stigma. No hypogyrious 



