106 XXI. #ERNSTR^MiACE^. 



1. SAURAUJA, WiUd. 



(After — Sauraujo, a Portuguese botanist.) 



Sepals 5, strongly imbricate. Petals 5, usually connate at the base. Stamens 

 numerous ; anthers dehiscing by pores. Ovary 8 to 5-celled ; styles as many, 

 distinct or connate ; ovules numerous. Fruit baccate, rarely dry and sub- 

 dehiscent. — Trees or shrubs. Branches usually brown, with whitish tubercular 

 dots, at first as well as the leaves more or less strigose, pilose, or scaly. Leaves 

 approximate at the ends of the branches, usually serra,te, with parallel veins 

 diverging from the midrib. Inflorescence lateral, often from the axils of fallen 

 leaves, cymose, subpaniculate, rarely few-flowered. Bracts usually small, remote 

 from the calyx. Flowers usually hermaphrodite. 



Met with in tropical and subtropical Asia and America. 



1. S. Andreana (after E. Andre), Oliver (iiieditedj, F. v. M. in letter. A 

 large spreading shrub, the branchlets, petioles, nerves on the under side of the 

 leaves and inflorescence, more or less thickly covered with ferruginous strigose 

 hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate attenuate-acuminate, 5 to 8|^in. long, 2 to Sin. 

 broad near the middle, the parallel nerves and cross veins prominent, margins 

 setose-denticulate ; petioles J to fin. long. Peduncles solitary, in the upper axils, 

 from as long to twice as long as the petioles, bearing near the end from 1 to 3 

 flower-buds with a pair of bracts near them. Bracts narrow-linear, 4 or 5 lines 

 long. Pedicels about 3 lines. Calyx densely-hairy, the sepals or calyx-lobes 

 with a broad glabrous margin, 4 lines long. Petals white, oblong, sometimes 

 twice as long as the sepals. Stamens numerous, filaments broad, frequently 

 connate ; anthers oblong opening in longitudinal slits. Styles 6 or fewer, 

 connate near the base. Ovary glabrous, 5-celled. Fruit not seen quite ripe, 

 oval, 6 or 6 lines long, seems to burst into valves near the top. Seeds very 

 numerous, brown and very prominently reticulate, — Dillenia Andreana, F. v. M. 

 Fragm. v. 175. 



Hab.: Freshwater Creek near Cairns and creeks about Bellenden Ker, from which specimens 

 I have drawn up the diagnosis here given. My specimens were identified as belonging to 

 Oliver's species by Baron von Mueller in 1889. 



Order XXII. MALYACE^. 



Flowers regular, usually hermaphrodite or rarely partially dioecious or poly- 

 gamous. Sepals 5, rarely 3 or 4, more or less united in a lobed or entire calyx, 

 the lobes valvate or very rarely slightly imbricate. Petals 5, hypogynous, usually 

 adnate at the base to the staminal column, contorted in the bud, rarely wanting. 

 Stamens indefinite, hypogynous, more or less united at the base, the column 

 divided into filaments at the top or bearing the filaments outside, below or up to 

 the top. Anthers from globose to linear, often reniform or variously waved, 

 1 -celled or spuriously divided into two cells by a thin and incomplete longitudinal 

 septum. Torus small or conical and protruding into the centre of the ovary, not 

 expanded into a disk. Ovary 2 or more-celled (very rarely reduced to a single 

 carpel), entire or lobed, the carpels verticillate round the axis or (in genera not 

 Australian) irregularly clustered. Style simple at the base, divided at the top 

 into as many or twice as many branches or stigmas as there are cells, or rarely 

 entire and clavate. Ovules 1 or more in each cell, ascending or horizontal, with 

 a ventral or superior raphe, or reversed and pendulous, with the raphe dorsal. 

 Fruit dry or rarely baccate, the carpels separating and indehiscent or 2-valved, or 

 united in a loculicidally dehiscent capsule. Seeds with the testa usually 

 cruslaceous, without or with very little albumen ; cotyledons usually folded and 



