66 XI. BIXINEJ;. [Cochlospermum. 



2. C. Gregorii (after Hon. A. C. Gregory, the explorer), F. o. M. Fragm 

 i. 71 ; Bnith. Fl. Amtr. i. 106. A small tree, quite glabrous except a very sligHt 

 glandular pubescence on the branches of the inflorescence and pedicels. J-'eaves 

 pedately divided to the base into about 7 narrow-lanceolate entire segments, the 

 central ones 2 to Sin. long, the common petiole 3 to 6in. Panicles apparently 

 short and not much divided, or reduced to a single raceme. Pedicels about ^m. 

 long. Sepals and petals as in the last species. Style fihform, shghtly thickened 

 towards the top. Outer stamens, as in all the other species, on longer filaments 

 than the inner ones, but the difference is rather more decided m this species. 

 Placentas 5. Fruit not seen, 



Hab.: Gilbert River. 



2. SCOLOPIA, Schreb. 



(Some species being very thorny.) 



(Phoberos, Lour.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Sepals 4 to 6, slightly imbricate when very young, 



but open long before flowering. Petals as many and nearly similar. Stamens 



indefinite, inserted on the thickened torus, with or without glands. Anthers 



short, the connective terminating in a thick process. Ovary with 3 or 4 placentas 



and few ovules. Style filiform, with an entire or lobed stigma. Fruit a berry. 



Seeds 2 to 4, with a hard testa. Cotyledons leafy. — Trees, often armed with 



axillary spines. Leaves simple, with pinnate veins, entire or toothed. Flowers 



small, in axillary racemes. 



The genus is dispersed over southern and eastern Africa and tropical Asia. The Australian 

 species is endemip. — Benth. 



1. S. Brovrnii (after E. Brown), F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 11 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 107. Perfectly glabrous in all its parts. Leaves from ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate, mostly acuminate, obtuse or almost acute, rarely rounded at the top, 

 1| to Sin. long, always narrowed into a petiole of 3 to 4 lines, entire or slightly 

 undulate-toothed, rather thick and smooth, obscurely triplinerved, but all the 

 veins less conspicuous than in most species, either without glands or with 2 or 3 

 marginal glands underneath. Racemes short and axillary or forming a terminal 

 panicle of 1 to 2in. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines. Calyx 4-cleft, smaller than in S. 

 crenata, apparently persistent. Petals 4, rather longer than the calyx, deciduous. 

 Stamens numerous, with slender filaments, surrounded by a ring of glands, 

 either distinct and shortly club-shaped or irregularly connate. Anthers small, 

 the process of the connective glabrous and usually as long as the cells. Placentas 

 3, with about 4 ovules to each. Stigma slightly 3-lobed. 



Hab.: Coast scrubs south and north. 



Wood pinkish, darkening towards the centres ; close-grained, tough. — Bailey^s Cat. Ql. 

 Woods No. 7a. 



This species has much the foliage of some forms of the Indian C. crenata, but is readily known 

 by the glands of the disk. — Benth. 



3. XYLOSMA, Forst. 

 (From Greek, on account of wood of one species being bitter.) 



Flowers dioecious. Sepals 4 or 5, small, imbricate. Petals none. Male 

 flowers : Stamens indefinite, often surrounded by a glandular disk ; anthers 

 short, without appendage. Female flowers : Ovary inserted on an annular disk, 

 with 2 or rarely more placentas, and 2 or few ovules to each ; style entire or 

 divided, with dilated stigmas, or rarely stigma sessile. Berry small, indebisc^iit, 



