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glandular teeth, and large interpetiolar stipules, like those of Cunonia 

 and certain Weinmannias. 



The flowers of Gillbeea adenopetala 1 are hermaphrodite and irregu- 

 lar. The receptacle is very shallow, lined by a disk which forms a 

 circular glandular area. Outside it are inserted five valvate sepals, 2 

 and five alternate shorter petals truncate or emarginate at the apex, 

 which is bounded by two angles, each tipped by a little cupuliform 

 gland. The androceum consists of ten subperigynous stamens 

 superposed to the perianth-leaves. They have free filaments, and 

 subglobular introrse two-celled anthers of longitudinal dehiscence. 

 The gyna?ceum is free, inserted inside the area of the disk ; it con- 

 sists of a trigonous ovary surmounted by three recurved styles, stig- 

 matiferous at the somewhat dilated apex. To each angle of the 

 ovary corresponds a cell, in the ventral angle of which are inserted 

 from two to six descending anatropous ovules, with the micropyle 

 upwards and outwards. The fruit, at the base of which the recep- 

 tacle forms a little cupule, is dry, with three wings resulting from 

 the development of the angles of the ovary, and prolonged on to the 

 outer edge of the styles. In the central part are three narrow 

 elongated cells, of which one or two may be sterile. In the fertile 

 ones is a single suspended seed, with a fleshy albumen surrounding 

 a straight embryo, with the cotyledons longer than the radicle. The 

 only species of this genus is a tree from tropical East Australia; 

 all its parts bristle with hairs ; the leaves are oj)posite pinnate, some- 

 times unifoliolate f and its flowers form a large terminal raceme, 

 with opposite branches covered with cymes, possessing opposite and 

 alternate concave bracts and bractlets. 



Acropliylhim vem-snin? an Australian shrub with opposite or whorled 

 leaves, has flowers of from four to six parts, with narrow persistent 

 valvate sepals, imbricate petals, and a diplostemonous androceum. 

 The filaments are long and exserted, the anthers didymous. The 



1 F. Muell., Fragm.,v. 17, ISO; vi. 188. — Calycomis verticillata D. Don, in Fdinb. N.Phil. 

 B. H., Gen., 1004, n. 65 a. Journ., ix. 93 (nee R. Br.). — F. Mtjell., Fragm., 



2 Striate and tomentose. vi. 189. — Weinmannia venosa KKOWL.& Westc, 



3 " With caducous stipules." Fl. Cab., t. 65 (ex Walp., Rep., ii. 373).— JF. 



4 Benth., in Mound. Botan., ii. t. 95 ; Fl. australis A. Ctjnn., in Field N. S.- Wal., 353. — 

 Austral., ii. 413.— B. H., Gen., 652, n. 63.— X DC, Prodr., iv. 9. 



verticillatum Hook., in Bot. Mag., t. 4050. — 



