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sions of the calyx separate from one another, but tlie receptacular sac 

 splits very regularly down the intervals between the rows of stamens ; 

 a phenomenon that we may compare with that observed in many 

 species of Tamhourism. The only species of this small group as 

 yet known is a shrub with the foliage and appearance of a Myrtle, 

 and with axillary cymes often reduced to a single flower. The two 

 sexes are on different plants. 



Under the name of WUkiea calyptroccdyx' has been described a 

 plant with the foliage, female flowers, and fruit of the American 

 Mollinedias and Kibaras ; but nir.n^...^- iir-i. ■ ^ 



' MoUmedia {Kibaropsis) macrophylla. 



its male flowers have at most 

 eleven stamens, according to 

 E. Mueller/' This plant is 

 a native of Australia,^ and, 

 like the last, may be con- 

 sidered a type of a distinct 

 section in the genus Molli- 

 nedia. It possesses one or two 

 sterile stamens. 



We have given the name 

 Kibaropsis* to a section of 

 this genus, of which the type is Mollincdia macropht/lla Tul.^ Its 

 vegetative organs and female flowers are those oi Mo/liriedia, Kibara, 

 Ephipjnandra and WUkiea. But its male flowers (figs. 331, 332) have 

 only six stamens, of which four alone are fertile. These are saddle- 

 shaped, and superposed to the sepals. The two outermost stamens 

 superposed to the outer divisions of the perianth are sterile, and re- 

 duced to little fleshy scales. M. macropkyUa is an Australian tree with 

 Holly-like leaves, and dioecious flowers in small axillary groups. 



Fig. 332. 



Male flower, trans- 

 verse section. 



Fig. 331. 

 Male flower (if). 



1 F. MuELL., Trans, of the Phil. Instit. of 

 Victor., ii. 64; Fragm., v. 3. A. UE Can- 

 DOLLE (Prodr., xvi., s. post., 669, n. 1) makes 

 this plant synonymous with MoUinedia macro- 

 phylla TuL., of which we shall speak a little later. 

 But these two species, as observed on the typical 

 specimens, seem quite distinct in their vegetative 

 organs. (See Adansonia, ix. 123.) 



^ " Stamina fertilia numeravi 11 v.^'iauciora." 

 (F. MaElL., loc. cit.) This, again, is a character 

 which decidedly separates this plant from 31. 

 macrophylla, which, as we shall see, has never 

 more than four fertile stamens. 



•* " Sylvas littoreas a fluvio Hastings River 

 usque ad sinum Rockingham Bay sequitur." (F. 

 MuELL., loe. cit.) 



■• Adannonia, ix. 124. 



■'' Ann. tSc. Nat., ser. 4, iii. 45, n. 16 ; Mon., 

 401, n. 23. — lledycarya iiiacrojihylla A. Cunn,, 

 Ann. of Nat. Mist., i. 215. — WUkiea macro- 

 phylla A. DC, Prodr., xvi. s. post., 609, n. 1. 

 A. DE Candolle, as we have stated above, men- 

 tions as synonymous with this plant WUkiea 

 calyptrocalyx F. Muele., whicli we regard as 

 distinct (see notes 1 and 2). 



