Victorian Plants. 155 



TREIVIANDREAE. 



TETRATHSCA. 



750. Sepals appressed. 



Leaves from almost ovate-lanceolar to linear, often recurved 

 at the margin, occasionally diminutive or absent ; sepals 

 and petals generally four ; stamens usually eight ; fruit 

 from cuneate- to orbicular-obovate. T. ericifolia. 



Sepals soon reflexed. 



Leaves mostly from obovate- to orbicular-rhomboid, almost 

 flat ; sepals and petals generally four ; stamens usually 

 eight ; fruit obovate -orbicular. T. ciliata. 



TH.XACEAE. 

 EXiAEOCARFUS. 



751. Leaves closely beset with brownish hairlets beneath. 



A tall tree ; leaves short-stalked, from obovate- to elongate- 

 lanceolar, serrulated; flowers in racemes; petals undivided, 

 faintly denticulated at the summit, crimson towards the 

 base, otherwise white; stamens exceeding the petals twice 

 or three times in number. Figure 22. 



E. holopetalus. 



Leaves almost glabrous. 



A small tree, exceptionally tall ; leaves conspicuously stalked, 

 from elliptical- to narrow-lanceolar, serrulated, from pro- 

 minent venules reticulated ; flowers in racemes ; petals 

 fringed-lobed at and towards the summit, whitish ; sta- 

 mens exceeding the petals five or six times in number ; 

 fruit from roundish-ovate to globular, blue outside. 



E. reticulatus. 



STERCULIACEAE. 

 THOTOASXA. 



752. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolar, at the base connate. 



A rather small shrub, invested with starry hairlets ; leaves 

 of herbaceous texture, from ovate- to narrow-elliptical, 

 recurved at the margin ; stipules large, oblique, from 

 rhomboid- to dimidiate-cordate ; racemes few-flowered ; 

 bracts almost unilateral ; calyx somewhat lilac-colored ; 

 petals scale-like ; anthers narrow, dark, opening by short 

 slits at and near the summit ; fruit three-celled. 



T, petalocalyx. 



