376 Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cyphanthera. 



its capsule is not long, rostrated, 2-valved and septicidal, as in 

 Anthocercis, but oval, more or less 4-valved and septifragal, with 

 a lunated free dissepiment ; it is intermediate with Anthocercis 

 and Anthotroche. The observations made upon Anthotroche, 

 which for the most part apply to this genus, need not be re- 

 peated here. The species of Anthocercis are glabrous or viscous, 

 and are all found on the western coast of the Australian conti- 

 nent ; in this genus, on the contrary, the species are all more or 

 less tomentose, and, with one exception, found on the eastern 

 side, or in Van Diemen's Land. Its generic name, like that of 

 Anthotroche, is derived from the peculiar form of the anther, 

 KV(f)6(;, incurvits ; avdTjpb^;, anthera, and its character may be thus 

 detined : — 



Cyphanthera, gen. nov. — Calyx poculiformis, submembraua- 

 ceus, 5-dentatus, persistens. Corolla tubuloso-campanulata, 

 imo coarctata, hinc ampliata, limbi laciniis 5, subsequalibus, 

 oblongis, interdum liueari-angustatis, patentibus, aestivatione 

 (ut in Anthocercide) applicativa. Stamina 4, inclusa, didy- 

 nama, cum quinto postico inter 2 longiora rudimentario, vel 

 deficiente ; filamenta glabra, imo complanata, et in coarcta- 

 tionem tubi geniculatim inserta, superne magis attenuata, 

 apice reflexa ; anthera extrorsse, rotundato-i'eniformes, hippo- 

 crepicse, 1-loculares, extus rima cu'culari margine parallela 2- 

 valvatim hiantes, tunc peltatse, receptaculo pollinis in medio 

 globoso. Ovarium oblongum, basi induvio coroUse circum- 

 scissse circumdatum, et disco sublibero sublobato obsessum, 2- 

 loculare ; ovula plurima adscendentia, placentis imo dissepi- 

 menti superne fissi utrinque adnatis affixa. Stylus fihformis, 

 longitudine staminum. Stigma emarginato-pulvinatum. Cap- 

 sula subglobosa, calyce vestita, septifrage 4-valvis, valvis sub- 

 coriaceis, dissepimento incrassato, libero, lunato, medio utrin- 

 que seminifero. Semina plurima, et embryo ut in Anthocercide. 

 — Fruticuli in Australasia orientali et Insula Diemen crescentes, 

 pube brachiato tomentosi ; folia integra, sessilia, plus minusve 

 tomentosa ; inflorescentia breviter pseudo-racemosa, pedicelli e 

 glandis stipitatis glabris cupuliformibus solitarii, corolla flava 

 vel ochroleuca, lineis parallelis striata. 



1. Cyphanthera frondosa, n. sp. ; — fx'uticosa, valde ramosa, ramis 

 cortice rimoso in lineis interruptis elevato-striatis ; foliis spa- 

 thulato-oblongis, in petiolum brevissimum attenuatis, coria- 

 ceis, margine cartilagineo subrevolutis, supra glabris, subtus 

 ferrugineis, subglabris, vel sub lente sparse glanduloso-pubes- 

 centibus, nervis breviter transversalibus (utrinque circiter 8) 

 intra marginem arcuatim confluentibus ; paniculis paucifloris, 



