150 XXlII. S'TERCULIACEitl. [Kernudrenia. 



2. K. Hillii (after Walter Hill), F. ,. M. Herb.: Benth. Fl. Amtr. i. 246. 

 Very near to K. lanceolata, with the same inflorescence and flowers. Leaves 

 much narrower, linear-lanceolate or linear, If to Bin. long, coriaceous, glabrous 

 without impressed veins above, white-tomentose, and often sprinkled with rusty 

 stellate hairs underneath. Anther-bearing filaments scarcely dilated. Ovary of 

 K. lanceolata. Capsule not so large, very hirsute, but without prominent setse, 

 furrowed between the carpels, which are rounded on the back, and not angular. 

 Seeds of K. lanceolata. 



Hab.: Southern Queensland, about the Brisbane River. 



3. K. Hookeriana (after Dr. Hooker), Walp. Ann. ii. 164 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Aiistr. i. 246. Blanches rusty-tomentose or hirsute. Leaves mostly oblong- 

 lauceolate, 1-| to Sin. long, entire, green, very rugose and velvety-pubescent 

 above, densely white-tomentose underneath ; the lower leaves or those of some 

 branches often broader and shorter, almost ovate. Cymes or racemes 2 to 4- 

 flowered, terminal or opposite the upper leaves, on very short peduncles. Bracts 

 narrow, deciduous. Calyx divided nearly to the base into acute lobes, 3 or 4 

 lines long when in flower, 5 or 6 when in fruit. Petals small and scale-like or 

 none. Filaments short, alternating with subulate staminodia. Anthers linear, 

 much incurved. Ovary 5-celled, tomentose. Capsule very hirsute, 4 to 5 lines 

 diameter, the carpels distinct and separating, each opening in 2 valves. Seeds 

 several in each, cell obovoid ; embryo straight. — fieringia corollata, Steetz, in PI. 

 Preiss. ii. 330 ; Keraudrenia integrifolia, Hook, in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 341, not 

 Steud.; E. Hookeri, F. v. M. Fragm. i. 28, 242. 



Hab.: Keppel Bay ; Suttor, Burnett, Upper Pine, and Brisbane rivers ; on the Maranoa and 

 southward to Lindley's Eange ; Robinson's Eange. 



The petals are certainly present in those Carpentaria specimens which I have examined, and 

 as certainly wanting in the flowers I opened of the more southern specimens, and the two are 

 distinguished under different names in E. Brown's herbarium and notes, but I can discover no 

 other character whatever. — Benth. 



4. K. adenolasia (hairs glandular), F. v. M. Fragm. x. 96. Plant glandular- 

 hirsute. Leaves herbaceous, ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, the margins 

 irregularly crenate-denticulate, 2 to 4in. long, 8 to 20 lines Ijroad, rugose. 

 Stipules 2 or 3 lines long, not membranous, rhomboid or ovate-lanceolate. 

 Peduncles bearing few flowers. Bracts small, linear-lanceolate. Calyx bluish, 

 angular-plicate before expansion, fin. broad when expanded ; lobes acuminate. 

 Petals very minute, rhomboid-orbicular. Anthers yellow, bent like a horseshoe, 

 2-lobed at the base. Filaments very short, turgid downwards. Staminodia 5, 

 linear-setaceous. Capsule stellate-hirsute and setulose. Seeds black, 1 line long, 

 with a minute strophiole. 



Hab.: Eobinson Eiver, W. E. Armit. 



15. HANNAFORDIA, F. v. Muell. 

 (After James Hannaford.) 

 Calyx 5-lobed, somewhat enlarged after flowering, with prominent raised ribs, 

 8 to each sepal, besides those connecting the sepals. Petals 5, lanceolate, slightly 

 concave, shorter than the calyx. Stamens 5, opposite the petals ; staminodia 3 

 or fewer between each 2 stamens, linear-subulate, all slightly connected in a ring 

 at the base ; anther-cells parallel, opening by dorsal slits. Ovary 3 or 4-celled, 

 with 3 or 4 ovules in each cell. Style simple. Capsule hard, almost woody, 

 opening loculicidally in 8 or 4 valves. Seeds strophiolate, albuminous ; embryo 

 straight, with flat cotyledons. — Shrub, with the habit of a Thomasia, but without 

 stipules. Bracteoles 8, persistent. 



The genus is limited to a few species. It has the anthers of Keraudrenia and Seringiu , mih 

 the calyx nearly of Guichenotia. — Benth. 



