Seringia.] XXIII. STERCULlACE^. l49 



1. S. platyphylla (broad-leaved), ,/. Gay, In Mem. Mhs. Par. vii. 44S, t. 16, 

 17 ; Benth. Fl. Aiistr. i. 244. A tall shrub, with the habit nearly of Coinnier>:oiiia 

 Fraaei-i, the young branches loosely whitish or rusty-tomentose. Leaves ovate to 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, coarsely toothed, 3 to 4 or even 5in. long, often 

 oblique at the base, glabrous or sprinkled with minute stellate hairs, densely 

 tomentose underneath. Cymes rather dense and many-flowered, but much 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx angular in the bud, attaining, when fully out, 

 about 2 lines in length. Filaments and staminodia nearly similar, rather thick. 

 Anthers oblong. Carpels about as long as the calyx, densely pubescent, the short 

 broad vertical wing truncate at the top.^DC. Prod. i. 488 ; Steetz, in PI. Preiss. 

 ii. 349 ; Laslapetalvm arboivxcen.t, Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2 ii. 86. 



Hab.: South Queensland. 



14. KERAUDRENIA, J. Gay, 

 (After — Keraudren, a French nobleman.) 

 Calyx 5-lobed, enlarged and scarious or thin and coloured after flowering, the 

 midrib of each sepal usually thickened without lateral ribs. Petals none, or 

 minute and scale-like. Stamens 5, alternate with the sepals, free or shortly 

 united at the base, with or without intervening staminodia, anther-cells parallel, 

 opening by dorsal slits. Ovary 3 to 5-celled, with 3 or more ovules in each cell ; 

 styles cohering at the summit. Capsule membranoud, villous or shortly setose, 

 opening loculicidally, and usually separating into distinct carpels. Seeds 

 strophiolate, albuminous ; embryo straight or curved, with flat cotyledons. — 

 Shrubs more or less stellate-tomentose. Leaves entire or sinuate-lobed. Stipules 

 narrow, or small and deciduous. Cymes terminal or opposite the upper leaves, 

 few-flowered. Bracteoles none. 



Besides the Australian species, there is one other from Madagascar, which on a further 

 examination proves more nearly allied to K. Innceolata than had appeared to us when preparing 

 the "Genera Plan tarum." The genus has the anthers of Seringia and Hannafordia, wiih the 

 calyx nearly of Thomania, and must include species in which, as in the Madagascar one, the 

 carpels do not appear to separate, as well as those in which they are quite distinct. — Benth. 



Bracts narrow. Carpels several-seeded, not always separating, the seeds 

 nearly straight. Leaves mostly lanceolate, 1 to 3in. 

 Leaves quite glabrous and smooth above. Capsule scarcely septicidal. 

 Leaves broad-lanceolate. Carpels angular, villous and setose .... 1. if. laiwcolata. 

 Leaves narrow-lanceolate or linear. Carpels rounded on the back, very 



villous, but not setose .... . . . 2. 7v'. Hillii. 



Leaves very rugose and pubescent above . . 3. K. Hookeriana. 



Leaves ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, 2 to 4in. long. Seeds black 4. Ii. adenolasia. 



1. K. lanceolata (lanceolate), Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 245. A tall shrub, the 

 young branches rusty-tomentose. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 3 to 4in. long, rather thick, entire, glabrous above and smooth, or with the veins 

 slightly impressed, white-tomentose underneath. Cymes short, few-flowered, 

 very tomentose. Bracts narrow, deciduous. Calyx tomeiitose, spreading to 4 or 

 5 lines diameter, divided to about the middle, the midribs prominent and 

 pubescent inside, the lobes of the fruiting calyx attaining 8 or 4 lines or more. 

 Petals none. Filaments rather long, with slender staminodia; intervening.. 

 Anthers linear. Ovary 5-eelled, hirsute. Capsule truncate at the top, fully -^in. 

 diameter, scarcely septicidal, but distinctly furrowed between the carpels, each 

 carpfel Very angular on the edges, so as to make the capsule appear ahiiost 

 10-winged, but it is so hispid and beset with short, soft, hirsute setas a's almost to 

 disguise its form. Seeds several in each cell, obovoid ; embryo straight. — 

 Siirinffia lanceolata, Steetz, in PL Preiss. ii. 349. 



ffab.: Port Bowen, R- Brown, A. Cunningham ; also in LeicKhardt's collection. 

 It is this species which is closely allied to one from Madagascar, which I had formerly referred 

 to, Thomasia, on account of its capsule not separating into distfeict carpels. — Benth. 



