CORREAS. 71 
complex of leading characteristics forms the basis for classifi- 
cation. 
All Correas are geographically restricted to the South-eastern 
portion of the Australian continent and Tasmania, the genus 
counting but few species. The ordinary Correa, C. speciosa, 
varies with scarlet and green or sometimes yellowish flowers, the 
summit being always green. The flowers of the Sea-coast Correa, 
C. alba, are short and white and somewhat resemble those of a 
Styrax. The subalpine Correa, C. Lawrenciana, forms a large 
bush and constitutes particularly at elevations of 2,000 to 4,000 
feet on many places impenetrable jungles. Its lustrous foliage 
and tall stature render it the grandest of all species ; but as the 
flowers are usually greenish-yellow, it is not so superb a plant 
for horticulture as C. speciosa, unless the crimson-flowered 
variety, one of great rarity, is attainable. As illustrative of the 
genus and order the description is given of : 
Correa emula.—Leaves opposite, verging from an oval into a 
lanceolar, oval and frequently heartshaped form, from one to two 
and a half inches long, conspersed on both pages with stellate 
hair, dotted with pellucid glands and thus odorous like all other 
portions of the shrub. Flowerstalks very slender, with one to 
three pendent flowers. Bracteoles short, narrow and acute. Calyx 
cleft beyond the middle into four deltoid or semilanceolate long- | 
acuminated lobes. Petals four, connate into a tube, one to one 
and a half inches long, outside purplish-grey or yellowish-green 
and covered with minute downs, partially or totally separating 
in age; the summit valvular in bud. Stamens eight, short- 
exserted, the filaments of those opposite to the petals broadly 
dilated towards the base. Anthers almost ellipsoid, fixed above 
the base, without terminal appendage, opening on the inner side 
with two slits. Style smooth, threadlike. Stigma very minute, 
four-lobed. Disk around the ovary eight-ridged. Fruitlets four, 
oblique-ovate, cohering into one, bearded particularly at the 
summit, as long as the calyx, bivalved, one- to two-seeded ; the 
elastic inner covering of the husk (the endocarp) soon seceding, 
the round basal opening closed by a placental membrane. Seeds 
oblique-ellipsoid, about one-eighth of an inch long, shining. 
