J 



Slirella.'] Lxxx. bohaginej:. ' 3S9 



ratlier shorter than the tube. Anthers wholly exserted. Ovaiy 2-celled, 

 with 2 ovules in each cellj style shortly or deeply forked. — DC. Prod. ix. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, jB. Brown, Bowman; Araucaria range, F. Mueller; 

 Roekhampton, Dalhchi/, O'Shanesi/ ; Suitor river aud Crocodile Creek, Bowmad. 



5. E, laevis, Roxb. FL Carom, i. 42. t. 56. A tall shrub or tree, quite 

 glabrous.^ Leaves ovate oval or elliptical, acutely acuminate or rarely obtuse, 

 quite entire, rounded or tapering at the base, shining above, mostly 3 to 5 

 M. long. Flowers small, in axillary, shortly pedunculate, dichotomous 

 cymes, much shorter than the leaves. Calyx-segmeuts narrow, under 1 line 

 ™g. Corolla-tube about as long as the calyx, the lobes twice as long, 

 spreading. Anthers exserted. Ovary 4-ceIled, with 1 ovule in each cell. 

 ?|ylemore or less forked. Drupe small, containing 4 1-seeded pyrenes.— 

 ^C. Prod. ix. 505 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1382. 



Queensland. Cape York, W. HilL The species is common in East India aud Cey- 

 p • J^^'iglit's figure represents well the Australian form, Eoiburgh's an equally common 

 ^ast Indian one with mere obtuse leaves. 



3. TOUENEFOETIA, Lin-n. 



I 



^alyx deeply (lividcd into 5 segments. Corolla-tube cylindrical ; lobes 

 5. spreading, imbricate or induplicate in tbe bud. Stamens inserted in the 

 tuf^e ; nnthers included. Ovary entire, 4-celled, with 1 pcndidons ovule lu 

 ^scli cell; style tenniual, entire, the stigmatic summit entire or notched, 

 ^"rrouiided by a prominent fleshy ring (except in T. sarmentom). Ti-uit a 

 Ofupe, with 4 1- '--^ '' -'" -i-'-*"-"*^ r.,- mr.vc^ or Ipss roliermff 



•1 pairs 01 



4 1-seeded pyrenes, either quite distinct or inon 

 quite united in a 4-celled piitamen. Seeds with 



e or less cohering 

 or without albu- 



»ien, the cotyledons not folded.— Trees shrubs or woody climbers, rarely (ni 

 species not Australian) almost herbaceous, tomeutose villous or rarely almost 

 »ous. Leaves undivided and entire. Flowers usually white or nearly 

 f' m unilateral spikes, arran-ed in dichotomous cymes, usually without 



*^'**^Cts. -Frnito ..v.in ° 



Fruits smalL 



Of th ^4^^ ^^ ^'^"^^^^y distributed over tbe tropical regions of t 

 IsknT I , Australian species, two are in the Indian Archi 



"lands of f?i^ A^_:_ _ /. .,' - .. ^ .1 T»_-:c„ J.V« +T 



the New and the Old World. 



hipelago, and extend from the 



t:t:' ^ ^n- j;: th^^Hf X S^uth i::^, \U t^ra ?; endemic The^ 

 chieflv V"''l"°'' distinguished from HelMropium by the drupaceous fruit, from Ehreba 

 i J V the style. The fleshy annulus round the summit, wh.ch Toi:rneforUa has n 

 7Z1 ^ ''•^ ^'^^^otropinm, aud which Freseuias (in Mart. Fl. Bras.) ^;?-^^^^'l?]^^^ ^^- 

 C ''''='^'' of the proposed Order of EeUotroj>iem, is, however, wanting m T. m> men- 



^Ti:'°'''' '°nger than the tube, imbricate in the bud. foliage and 



»a-loi)ea shorter than the tube, plicate and induplicate m the bud. 



Cnr°i/^f^ t'^ffleutose hirsute or uearly glabrous. 



™iia-lobes rather acute. Stigma suiTouuded by a fleshy nng. 



Brect tree or shrub . . . 2. 7. mollti. 



Ctt? of rV""" '■'^*"^^- Stigma not thickened. Branches ^^^^^,,,,. 



weaK or oliiubiug «* -«• 



l-T. 



/ 



A tall erect shrub, the 



ge, and inflorescence densely toraentose or villous with solt 



