(^reu'ia.] XXIV. TILIACE^. 153 



7-nei-ved. Stipules narrow, deciduous. Flowers usually yellow, the umbel-like 

 cymes axillary or terminal. In the Australian species (except (J. brevifora) the 

 ovary is 2-celled, but each cell is subdivided by a vertical, nearly complete parti- 

 tion, so as to appear 4-celled, with two or rarely more superposed ovules in each 

 half-cell, each half-cell forming in the fruit a separate nut, with 1 or rarely more 

 superposed seeds in each. 



The genus is a large one, widely spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old 

 World. 



Leaves glabrous or nearly so, 3-nerved at the base. Flowers hermaphrodite. 

 Sepals 7 to 9 lines. Petals small, the foveola very large. Torus elon- 

 gated. Fruit depressed-globose, not lobed, Jin. diameter or more . . . 1. G. orientalis. 

 Sepals about 4 lines. Petals very small, the foveola large. Torus short, 



fruit small, 2-lobed (unless reduced to 1 carpel) 2. (?. muUiflorn. 



Leaves softly velvety-tomentose underneath, 3 or 5-nerved. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite. Petals small, foveola large 3. G. latifolia. 



Leaves white-tomentose underneath or scabrous, 3 or 5-nerved. Flowers 

 polygamo dioecious. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong to lanceolate. Foveolate base of the petals broader 



than the lamina i, G. polygavia. 



Leaves small, ovate-obtuse. Stamens in the female flowers 1 or 2 



apparently perfect, without staminodia. Buds not striate . . . . 5. G. xcahrella.. 

 Leaves large cordate-ovate. Buds of male flowers globose, in the female 



oblong. Corolla purple 6. G. pleiostigma. 



1. Gr. orientalis (Oriental), Linn.; W. ami Am. Frod. 76; Benth. Fl. Auntr. 

 i. 270. A tall, rather weak shrub, glabrous, except a minute tomentum on the 

 young shoots, or sparingly sprinkled on the under side of the leaves and more 

 abundant on the inflorescence. Leaves shortly petiolate, from oval-oblong to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate,' 3 to 4in. long, minutely crenulate, 3-nerved at the 

 base. Peduncles 1 or 2-flowered, axillary or the upper ones forming a short 

 terminal panicle. Sepals rusty-iomentose, 7 to 9 lines long. Petals not half so 

 long, the foveolate base broader than and almost as long as the lamina, pubescent 

 round the edge. Torus elongated. Stamens very nmnerous. Drupe depressed- 

 globular, I to fin. diameter, flat-topped, slightly furrowed but not lobed, minutely 

 tomentose with a few short straight hairs intermixed, containing usually 4 nuts, 

 each with 2 or 3 horizontal, superposed seeds, separated by transverse partitions. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Gulf of Carpentaria, N.E. coast, Northumberland Islands. 



The species is not uncommon in Ceylon and a part of the Indian Peninsular. 



Var. latifolia. Leaves ovate-cordate, crenate, fruit more densely pubescent. Port Denison, 

 ^itzalan. 



2. G. multiflora (numerous flowers), Juss. in Ann. Mux. Par. iv. 89, t. 47, 

 /. 1 ; Benth. Fl, Austr. i. 270. A shrub or tree, with rather slender branches, 

 glabrous or sprinkled with a few appressed simple or stellate hairs. Leaves from 

 ovate-acuminate to elliptical-oblong or almost lanceolate, 8 or -lin. long or some- 

 times more, serrate, 8-nerved at the base. Peduncles axillary, usually 2 or 3 

 together, 2 to 5-flowered. Sepals lanceolate, about 4 lines long, minutely 

 tomentose. Petals very short, the broad foveolate base villous round the edge, 

 not longer than the short torus, the lamina still smaller. Stamens niumerous. 

 Ovary hirsute, with 2 superposed ovules in each half-cell. Drupe small, sprinkled 

 with a few rigid hairs, deeply 2-lobed or entire by the abortion of one carpel, with 

 2 nuts in each carpel, each containing a single seed. — DC. Prod. i. 508. 



Hab.: Percy Islands, A. Cunningham. 



The species was originally described from Philippine Island specimens ; our Australian ones 

 agree well with Jussieu's figure, as well as with Cuming's specimens, n. 461, 701, and 1515. 

 The common East Indian G. sepiaria, Eoxb., as well as G. prunifolia, A. Gray, Bot. Amer. 

 Explor. Exp. i. 77, said to be a common shrub on the leeward coast of the Fiji Islands, appear 

 from our specimens to be the same species, which we have also from Java and Singapore, 

 although not included in Miguel's Flora. It is, however, frequently confounded with G. leevigata, 

 Vahl., which differs in longer flowers, a more raised torus, and several other points. — Benth. 



