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Tkibe III. — HlbbertleSB. — Stamens with the filaments not at all or slightly dilated upwards. 

 Anthers often oblong, cells parallel, contiguous rarely a little divergent. Leaves small uninerved 

 or reticulately penniveined, som^tim^s absent. 



Perfect stamens free or nearly so, more than 10, or, if fewer, on one side of 

 the pistil 3. Hibbebtia. 



Perfect stamens 10 or fewer, in a complete ring round the pistil. No 

 staminodia within the perfect stamens 4. Ajdbastaa. 



1. TETRACERA, Linn. 

 (Supposed resemblanee of carpels to 4 horns.) 

 (Euryandra, Forst.) 

 Sepals 4 to 6, spreading. Petals just as many as sepals Or rarely fewer. 

 Stamens with the filaments dilated upwards. Anthers small, cells distant more 

 or less divergent. Carpels 3 to 5, acuminate, ovules many, biseriate, at maturity 

 coriaceous, shining, follioulate or dehiscing in two valves. Seeds 1 to 5, with a 

 fimbriated or toothed aril. Trees or climbing shrubs, Smooth scabrous, or pubes- 

 cent. Leaves with parallel lateral veins. Flowers in terminal or in the upper 

 axils, in loose panicles, hermaphrodite or partially unisexual. — B. & H. Gen. PI. 

 i. 12. 



Leaves pilose on the under, scabrous on the upper side, primary veins close 



margins dentate. Sepals 4 1. T. Nordtiana. 



Leaves glossy, scabrous on both sides, margins sharply dentate. Sepals 4 . 2. T. Cowleyana. 



Leaves glabrous except the midrib and primary veins, margins usually entire. 



Sepals 4 3. T. Wuthiana. 



Leaves glabrous, primary veins distant, margins entire. Sepals 5 . . . i. T. DcemeUana. 



1. T. Nordtiana (after a lady horticulturist), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 1. A tall 

 climbing evergreen shrub with a smooth bark and hard wood. Branchlets densely 

 clothed with stellate and scattered longer simple hairs. Leaves ovate, 3 to Sin. 

 long, 1| to about Sin. broad, the upper surface scabrous, the under clothed with 

 short stellate hairs giving a hoary appearance, the lateral nerves parallel and 

 rather close, often projecting beyond the margin and forming glandular teeth, 

 more or less decurrent upon the petiole, which latter is from ^in. to lin. long. 

 Panicles loose and straggling in the upper axils and terminal, flowers fragrant. 

 Bracts and bracteoles small, silky. Sepals 4, scabrous-pilose on the outside, 

 nerveles are of unequal size, the 2 outer ones subrotund, 1 to IJ lines long, the 

 2 inner ones rotund-ovate, 2 or 3 lines long. Petals 3, white, not much exceeding 

 the sepals, cuneate-obovate, emarginate, ciliolate, and soon deciduoUs. Stamens 

 numerous, glabrous, capillary, with a cuneate expanded apex, thus separating the 

 anther-cells, but less so than in other Australian species. Carpels 8, densely 

 hairy, styles very short, glabrous. Eipe carpels, obliquely ovate, about 3 lines 

 long. Seeds sub-globose, of a dark or chestnut brown. Arillus 1^ to 2 lines long, 

 fringed. 



Hab.: Eockingham Bay, J. Dallachy. 



2. T. Cowleyana (after B. Cowley), Bail. Bot. Bvll. v. Teeweeree, Barron 

 Eiver, Cowley. A coarse climber, the branches appearing angular from the bark 

 peeling and rolling back from longitudinal fissures, chestnut brown and scabrous, 

 leaves scabrous, ovate-lanceolate, often 6in. long and Bin. broad in the centre, 

 the apex sometimes sharply acuminate ; petiole lin. or more long, and often 

 slender, hispid with appressed hairs, with which the costa and primary nerves on 

 the under side are usually clothed ; the primary parallel nerves numerous, regular, 

 extending beyond the margin in the form of mueironate teeth. Panicle scabrous, 

 from 6 to 9in. long, bracts narrow linear-lanceolate, silky. Pedicles slender. 

 Sepals obtuse, velvety, with ciliate edges, the inner ones twice the size of the 



