474 Lsxxiii. sciioPHULAUiNE^. [Biiboma. 



curved, tlie albumen not copious. — Small glabrous tree. Leaves alternate, 

 entii'e. Flowers small, in terminal centrifugal panicles. 



The genus is, as far as known, limited to a single species extending from E. Australia to 

 Kew Caledonia, but it is not improvable that Authocercis LelchJiardiiU of. wbich the fruit 

 is unknown, may prove to be a second Duboisia* 



1. D. myoporoides^ R. Br, Prod. 448. A tall sbrub or small tree, 

 quite glabi-ous. Leaves alternate, from obovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 

 obtuse or rarely acute, entire, contracted into a petiole, 2 to 4 in. long, pa- 

 nicles terminal, sometimes leafy at tlic base, usually much branched, broadly 

 pyramidal or corj^mbose. Bracts minute. Calyx broadly campanulate, with 

 broad obtuse teeth. Corolla about 2 lines long, white or pale lilac, the lobes 

 rather short and obtuse. Stamens included in the tube. Berry sniall, 

 nearly globular.— Endl. Iconogr. t. 77 ; Benth. in DC. Prod. x. 191 ', Miers, 



Ni 



MueUer 



Queensland, Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Fmser, F. 

 I) all achy. 



N. S, VlTales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, U. Brown, Sieher, n. 259, and 

 many others; Sydney woods, Paris Exhibition, 1857, M' Arthur, n. 81; Hastings aim 

 Clarence rivers, ^^cter ; Port iVTacquarric, Fraser ; Richmond river, Henderson i soum- 

 ward to lUawarra, A. Cunningham^ Ralston. 



The species is also in New Caledonia. 



2. ANTHOCERCIS, Labill. 



(Cyphanthcra, lliers j Eadesia, F. MuelL) 



Calyx 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Corolla-tube campanulate, shortly contracted 

 at the base; lobes 5, spreading, nearly equal or the 2 upper rather shoi'Jjr 

 or longer than the others, all induplicate in the bnd and the 2 upper slightly 

 overlapping the lateral ones. Stamens 4, didvnaraous, included in the tube, 

 with occasionally a small rudiment of the uppermost fifth one. Anthers i- 

 or 2-celled, turned outwards in the bud. Stigmatic lobes very short, rat her 

 broad. Capsule oblong ovoid or globular, opening in 3 entire or bina 

 valves. Seeds usually somewhat cuiTed, with a reticulate crustaceous test.. 

 Embryo straight or slightly curved, in a copious albumen.— Shrubs, some- 

 times almost arborescent, glabrous glandular-pubescent or hoaiy with a ste 

 Jate tomentum. Leaves entire or rarely toothed, often rather thick. /^ 

 duncles 1- to 3-flowered, irregularly arranged in terminal racemes or panieie 

 often leafy. Bracts very smaU or none. Corolla white or yellow, the tuoe 

 usually streaked inside with purple or green. 



The genus is limited to Australia. As a whole it is a very natural one, immediately eon- 

 ?wa!? 7- "™' "'"I'^ Duboisia, from vshich it differs solely in the capsular f[^f J.^, 

 oLTi^ i-r- r,^r"''"y distinguished by a eonstant and absolute character but arF^ 

 to be too art.fie.al to be conveniently adopted as genera as proposed by Miers. The anthers 

 m the one are those of Petunia, in the other 1-celled as mBuboina. 



LrfTo'r fwT*^?"'"""-^'^^^'^'-* 2-..?/.^, the celh not consent. Plants gh- 



Irous or fflandular-j^ubescent, mthout stellate hairs. 

 Plant quite glabrous (often viscid). 



Leaves oboyate, eonspicuonsly glandular-dotted. Corolla large, 



white . \. A. vtscosa. 



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