Biltardiera.] Xll. PITT08POREJ2. 75 



short petiole. Flowers from greenish or pale yellow to violet or purple, pendulous 

 on slender terminal pedicels varying from a line or two to above ^in., solitary or 

 very rarely 2 together. Sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-subulate. Petals spread- 

 ing from above the middle, so as to form a narrow-campanulate corolla, 8 to 10 

 lines or rarely lin. long. Ovary glabrous or pubescent, 2-celled, with a very 

 short style and broad hollow stigma. Berries cylindrical or ovoid-oblong, 2-celled, 

 glabrous or downy. Seeds numerous, in a close double row in each cell and 

 embedded in pulp. — DC. Prod. i. 345 ; Bot. Mag. ,t. 801 ; Sweet, PI. Austral, 

 t. 54 ; F. V. M. PI. Viet. i. 79 ; B. latifolia, Putterl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 47, but not 

 of Klatt, Linntea, xxviii. 570 ; B. f/randiflnra, Putterl I.e. 48 (all the above refer- 

 ring to specimens with pubescent ovaries and fruits) ; B. mutahilu, Salisb. Parad. 

 Lond. t. 48 ; Bot. Mag. t. 1313 ; DC. Prod. i. 845 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 87 

 (with glabrous ovaries and fruits) ; B. angustifolia, DC. Prod. i. 345 ; B. 

 canariensis, Wendl. Hort. Herrenh. t. 15. 



Hab.: Sandy coast lands in the south of the colony. 



7. CHEIRANTHERA, A. Cunn. 

 (Supposed resemblance of anthers to fingers of the hand.) 



Petals spreading from nearly the base,- obovate-oblong. Anthers longer than 

 the filaments, all turned towards one side, opening by two pores at the top. 

 Ovary 2-eelled with a subulate style. Capsule oblong, hard, opening loculicidally 

 in 2 valves, the valves also splitting septicidally. Seeds nearly globular. — 

 Branches fiexuose or twining. Leaves narrow. Flowers in terminal corymbs or 

 cymes, or drooping from terminal solitary pedicels. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. C> linearis (linear leaves), A. Cunn. in Bot. Reg. under t. 1719 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Amtr. i. 127. A low glabrous shrub or undershrub, with erect twiggy 

 branches of 6in. to 1ft., or rarely longer. Leaves linear, acute or rather obtuse, 

 f to l^in. or rarely 2in. long, entire or minutely toothed, flat, and f to 1 line 

 broad, or the margins incurved, so as to be almost terete, with smaller leaves 

 often clustered in the axils. Flowers blue and showy. Sepals lanceolate, 2 to 

 2^ lines long. Petals 8 to 10 lines. Filaments short. Anthers rather longer, 

 but not reaching to the middle, and often not one-third of the length of the 

 petals. Capsule very like those of Mariantlvus pictios and* lineatus (two W. Aust. 

 plants), oblong, much flattened, hard, but dehiscent when ripe. — Hook. Ic. PI. t. 

 47 ; Fl. des Serres viii.t. 856 ; F. v. M. Fragm. i. 76 ; C. cyanea, Brongn. Voy. 

 Coq. t. 77. 



Hab.: Stanthorpe (in flower in Aug.) 



Order XIII. TREMANDRE^. 



Flowers regular. Sepals 4 or 5, very rarely 8, free, valvate in the bud. Petals 

 as many, hypogynous, spreading, induplicate-valvate in the bud. Stamens twice 

 as many, hypogynous, free ; filaments short ; anthers oblong or linear, 2 or 4- 

 celled, opening in a single terminal pore. Torus small or rarely expanded into a 

 disk between the petals and stamens. Ovary sessile or nearly so, usually 

 2-celled ; style filiform, deciduous, entire or minutely 2-lobed. Ovules solitary 

 in each cell, or 2, one above the other, or rarely an additional small collateral 

 one, pendulous, anatropous, with a ventral raphe. Capsule usually flattened, 

 2-celled, opening loculicidally at the edges. Seeds pendulous, the raphe usually 

 expanded at the chalazal extremity into a twisted or strophiola-like appendage, rarely 



