82 XIV. POLYGALE^. [Cuinesperma. 



Tasm. i. 82 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. i. 190 ; C. coridifoUum, A. Cunn. in Field. N. 8. 

 Wales, 337 ; C. latifolium, Steetz, in PL Preiss. ii. 295 ; C. acutifolium,, Steetz, 

 I.e. 296; C. UnaricBfoliun, , A. Cunn. in Steetz, I.e. 297. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay, Glasshouses and Burnett Ranges. 



Var. patentifolimn. Leaves very spreading, often pungent, very broad at the base. — Burnett 

 ranges in the interior of N. S. Wales, F. v. Mueller. G. patentifolium, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 48. (See 

 F. v. M. PI. Viet. i. 190.) 



Var. oblcmgatum, B. Br. Leaves oblong-linear, obtuse and muoronate, longer and with less 

 revolute margins than usual. — East eoast, R. Brown, 



8. C. defoliatum (few leaves), F. c. M. PI. Vict. i. 189 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 i. 148. Allied in habit to C. nudiusculum with the flowers of C. calyrtuga. 

 Rhizome woody, with rigid and rush-like but slender and sometimes almost 

 filiform stems, 1 to 2ft. high and glabrous. Leaves very few and distant, small, 

 narrow-linear or sometimes all reduced to small linear scales. Racemes slender, 

 1 to 2in. long. Flowers rather larger than in C. calymega. Outer sepals all free, 

 oblong, nearly as long as the inner ones. Capsule 3 or 4 lines long, contracted 

 into a long narrow stipes. Seeds comose, without any terminal appendage. — C, 

 ■)vudiuscidum, Steetz, in PL Preiss. ii. 308, not DC. 



Hab. : Islands of Moreton Bay. 



4. XANTHOPHYLLUM, Eoxb. 



(Leaves of some species yellowish.) 



Sepals 5, nearly equal. Petals 5 or 4, nearly equal, the inferior keel-shaped, 

 not crested. Stamens 8, distinct, 2 hypogynous, 6 attached to the base of the 

 petals. Ovary stipitate, 1 -celled ; style curved; ovules various in number and 

 insertion. Fruit 1 -celled, indehiscent, 1 -seeded. Seeds exalbuminous extro- 

 phiolate. — Timber trees. Leaves large, coriaceous, generally of a yellowish-green. 



Abundant in the Malay Archipelago and Malacca, a few also in continental India. Only the 

 one here mentioned in Australia. 



1. X. miacintyrii (after D. Macintyre), F. v. M. Fraym. v. 8 and 57. 

 Usually forming a small erect tree about 30 or 40ft. high, with a whitish bark 

 on the trunk, reddish upon the branehlets. Leaves alternate, ovate or lanceolate, 

 entire, 2 to 4in. long, f to 2in. broEtd, glabrous and shiny on both sides, with 

 often 1 or 2 glands on the under side, obtuse, penninerved, and reticulate veined ; 

 petioles short, eglandulose. Racemes axillary or terminal, the peduncle rhachis 

 and pedicels shortly pubescent. Bracteoles 3, almost ovate, about 3 or 4 lines 

 long, , soon falling. Outside of sepals puberulous, about If line long, ovate- 

 orbicular. Petals 3 or 4 lines long, oblong-cuneate, lanuginoso-pubescent at the 

 base. Stamens 8, filaments linear-setaceous If to 2^ lines long", the lower part 

 broad and ciliolate ; anther yellow. Style scarcely 2 lines long, glabrous in the 

 upper part. Stigma 2-lobed. Disk annular, glabrous. Ovary stipitate, hoary- 

 tomentose. Fruit globose. — Macintyria octandra, F. v. M. Fragm. v. 8. 



Hab.: Common in the tropical scrubs. 



Wood of a greyish colour, soft and easy to work, very light ; useful for cigar boxes, lining, &c. 



■The fruit is sometimes infested with the fungus Glceosporium carpophyllum, Mass.; 



