136 XXIII. STEKCULIACE*. [$terciiUa. 



Leaves greyish-white, entire or 3-lobed, nearly orbicular in outline. 



Flowers in short axillary racemes S. S. Garrawayx. 



Leaves green and softly tomentose or pubescent on both sides. 

 Leaves broad, entire, or obscurely 5 or 7-lobed. Calyx broadly cam- 



panulate i. S. ramiflora. 



The leafy parts and inflorescence clothed with loose short stellate 

 pubescence (tomentum). Leaves entire or shortly lobed, orbicular- 

 cordate. Inflorescence at the ends of the branohlets ... .5. S. vitifolia. 



Leaves 3-lobed. Calyx tubular-campanulate . 6, S. Bidtcilli. 



Leaves palmately 5 or 7-lobed 8. S. lurida. 



Leaves white underneath. 



Leaves angular or obscurely S or 7-lobed 7. S. discolor. 



Calyx-lobes strictly valvate. Outer coating of the seeds usually remaining 



adherent to the endooarp. Leaves glabrous. Flowers in short panicles. 



Calyx narrow, lobes lanceolate, shorter than the tube. Leaves palmately 



5 or 7-lobed ( Trichosiplwn, Schott) 9. S. Tricliosiphon. 



Calyx broadly campannlate, deeply lobed (Pacilodermis, Schott). 

 Leaves large, palmately 5 or 7-lobed. Flowers quite glabrous . . . .10. S. acerifolia. 

 Leaves entire, ovate or cordate, or 3-lobed, acuminate. Flowers tomen- 

 tose outside when young, glabrous inside. Follicles stipitate . . .11. S. diversifoUa. 

 Leaves cordate-acuminate, entire. Flowers tomentose outside, hirsute 



inside at the base. Follicles nearly sessile 12. iS. caudata. 



Leaves entire and lanceolate, or digitate. Flowers tomentose outside. 

 FoUioles long-stipitate 13. S. rupestris. 



1. S. quadrifida (alluding to the four division of flower), R. Br. in 

 Benn. PI. Jar. Bar. 233 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 227. " Ko-ral-ba," Cooktown, 

 Roth; " Convavola," N.Q., Thozet ; "Ku-man," Atherton, Roth. A tree of 

 medium size, with a somewhat smooth grayish bark, glabrous, except the 

 inflorescence. Leaves petiolate, ovate or cordate, obtuse or acuminate, mostly 8 

 to Sin. long. Eacemes several, crowded within the uppermost leaves, 1 to 2in. 

 long, clothed with a stellate tomentum. Bracts broad, acuminate, very deciduous. 

 Pedicels 2 to 4 lines. Calyx about 4 lines long, tomentose, cleft to the niiddle, 

 the lobes usually 4, lanceolate, connivent and cohering at the tips. Staminal 

 column short. Follicles sessile, ovoid, 2 to Sin. long, hard and almost woody, 

 minutely tomentose or glabrous. Seeds 2 to 4, ovoid, black, the radicle remote 

 from the hilum. 



Hab.: Islands of Torres Straits, delta of the Burdekin and Port Denison, Wide Bay, 

 Moreton Bay. 



The northern specimens have longer and more acute leaves, and rather smaller flowers on 

 longer pedicels than the eastern ones. — Benth. 



Wood of a light-grey, close-grained, light and easily worked. The bark yields a useful fibre"; 

 the seeds also are edible and of agreeable flavour. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 23. 

 Fibre from bark used for making kangaroo nets, &o. — Both. 



2. S. laurifolia (Laurel-leaved), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 172. A tree of about 

 60ft. Leaves simple, entire, glabrous, 8 to 6in. long, 1-| to 2in. broad, shortly 

 acuminate. Nerves and veins prominent, dotted on the upper side, and often 

 bearded at the axils of the primary nerves on the under side. Petioles slender, 

 somewhat terete, about 2in. Flowers numerous in panicles. Pedicels articulate 

 about the middle. Calyx-lobes 5, yellow, valvate in the bud, when expanded 

 about 8 lines long, narrow-lanceolate and velvety as well as the pedicels. 

 Staminal column 1^ line high, almost ovate, the head containing about 15 yellow 

 anthers scarcely J line long. Column almost 1^ line high. Disk annular, 

 tomentose. Female flowers and fruit unknown. 



Hab.: Rockingham Bay, J. Dallachy. 



3. S. Garravrayse (after Mrs. J. Garraway), Bail. Ql. Joum.ofAgri., June, 

 1899. " Morna," Palmer Eiver, Roth. A tiee attaining a height of 23ft., with 

 a rough bark. Branchlets and leaves clothed with a thin, hoary, stellate pubes- 

 cence. Leaves orbicular-cordate, entire or very bluntly 8 or 5-lobed, the middle 

 lobe the smallest when only 3-lobed, the entire ones about Ifin. diameter ; others 



