Stercutia.] XXIII. STEROULIACE/E. 137 



Sin. long, 4in. broad. Nerves 5 — 7, palmate, prominent, as are the transverse 

 veins ; margins entire. Petioles slender, 1 to Sin. long, strongly striate. Flowers 

 in short, few-flowered, axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate, about 9 lines long, 

 dull red, cleft for about a-quarter down, lobes rounded, the margins induplicate ; 

 inside the tube, above the base, is a ring of broad, divided, tomentose reflexed 

 scales. Staminal column densely clothed with rather large stellate hairs for half 

 its length from the base, the filaments thence free and glabreseent to the head of 

 anthers. No abortive ovary. Female flowers in appearance like the male ; stipes 

 of ovary with a dense ring of sessile sterile anthers at the top. 0\'ary consisting 

 of 6 connate carpels ; styles almost straight and free to the stigmas, densely 

 stellate tomentose throughout. Stigmas recurved. Follicles on stipes of about 

 8 lines besides the 2-lines original stipes of the ovary, 2^in. long, fin. broad in 

 the centre, rostrate at the end, sparsely stellate tomentose outside, densely villous 

 inside, as well as the loose integument of the seeds. Seeds yellow, closely packed, 

 about 12 or IS in each follicle. 



Hab.: Palmer River, Mrs. J. Ganaway, who also forwarded some excellent sketches of the 

 present and several other Palmer River plants. In flower about March. In many respects the 

 present species approaches S. ramiAora, Benth. The leaves, however, are never angular or 

 acuminate, and the flowers are pedicellate (not nearly sessile as given in the Fl. Austr. i. 217 

 for S. raviijlora). 



Fruit eaten raw, Palmer River. — Roth. 



4. S. ramiflora (flowers on the branches), y5'c«t/i.i'7.^Mst/-.i. 227. "An-gi-ur," 

 Princess Charlotte Bay, Roth. A shrub or small tree, clothed with a soft stellate 

 tomentum or pubescence, which rarely disappears on the upper surface of the 

 older leaves. Leaves on long petioles, broadly ovate-cordate or nearly orbicular, 

 mostly acuminate, entire, angular or obscurely 3 or 5-lobed, often attaining 6 

 or Bin. Flowers few, large, red, nearly sessile, and clustered in the axils of the 

 upper leaves. Calyx broadly campanulate, 1 to l^in. long, the lobes shorter 

 than the tube, spreading, obtuse, 3-nerved in the centre, with broad induplicate 

 margins ; inside the tube at the base are 5 small, inflexed, and very villous 

 double scales. Staminal column slender, hirsute at the base. Ovary pubescent ; 

 stigmas recurved. Follicles shortly stipitate, 3 to 4in. long, glabrous outside, 

 villous inside, stipitate (according to E. Brown), with very numerous seeds ; I 

 have not seen them perfect. — Brachychiton paradoxum, Schott, Meletem. 34 ; 

 Braehycliiton ramiflorum, R. Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 284. 



Hab.: Tropical parts. 



Seeds roasted and eaten. — Both. 



5. Sa vitifolia (Vine-leaved), Bail. A small tree, the branchlets, foliage, 

 and inflorescence densely clothed with a loose, short, stellate, light-brown 

 pubescence ; branchlets rather slender, reddish-brown beneath the pubescence, 

 somewhat terete, internodes often long. Leaves orbicular-cordate, 3 to 6in. 

 diameter, entire or more or less 3-lobed, the lobes short and very obtuse, very 

 rugose on the upper, prominently and closely reticulate on the under side, both 

 surfaces clothed with a short, close, stellate pubescence ; petioles rather slender, 

 from 2 to nearly 5in. long. Flowers few, in pedunculate cymes at the ends of 

 the branchlets ; buds cylindrical-conic, about 8 lines long, S lines broad ; lobes 

 induplicate ; expanded flower 8 to 9 lines diameter, seems to be of a purplish-red 

 inside, densely stellate, hairy outside ; inside of tube and lobes nearly glabrous. 

 Staminal column glabrous under the head of anthers, hairy towards the base. 

 Follicles rostrate-cymbiform, without the stipites 2jin. long, densely villous 

 inside. Stipites rather long. Seeds about 6, villous. 



Hab.: Fairview Telegraph Station ; Laura, T. Barclay -Millar. 



6. S. Bidwilli (after J. C. Bidwill), Hook. Herb.: Benth. Fl. Aititr: i. 228. 

 A shrub or tree, softly pubescent or tomentose in all its parts, closely allied to 

 8. ramifioin, but differing in the leaves almost always deeply 8-lobed with 



