Gmna.] XXIV. TILIACE^. 15S 



with small sharp teeth ; quintuplinerved, penninened, and transverse reticula- 

 tions ; under side thinly tomentose, upper with sparsely scattered stellate hairs. 

 Petioles from 1 to l-|in. long. Stipules very soon deciduous, deltoid or lanceolate- 

 ovate, about 2 lines long, entire. Flowers in axillary cymes, common peduncle 1 

 to 2in., each cyme often 6in. diameter. Flowers in twos or threes at the ends of 

 the branchlets of the cyme, shortly pedicellate and surrounded by a more or less 

 complete whorl of short, thick bracteoles. Buds before opening globose, or 

 oblong. Sepals 5, mealy on the outside,' hoary, frosted inside, about 8 lines long, 

 lanceolate, valvate. Corolla of 5 petals, which are imbricate at the top and 

 scarcely exceeding 2 lines long, rich-purple, glabrous except for a ring of hairs. 

 The female flowers oblong in the bud, ovary globose, 4 or 5-celled, hirsute with 

 white hairs and surrounded with staminodia. Stigma 3, once or twice forked. 

 Male flowers on separate trees ; buds globose. Stamens numerous, free, sur- 

 rounding a small, silky, abortive ovary, crowned by a 3 or 4-branched style. 



Hab.: Mulgrave River. 



The above description is from these specimens, collected in 1889, and referred to in Report 

 on the Botany of the Bellenden Ker Expedition, with the following remarks upon the wood : — 

 "The wood of this tree, on account of its elasticity and toughness, may in a few years be in 

 demand for the manufacture of oars, shafts, and for other purposes where strength and elasticity 

 are required, for which other species of this genus are found valuable in India." Baron 

 Mueller named and first described the species from specimens collected at Rockingham Bay by 

 J. Dallaohy. 



3. TRIUMFETTA, Linn. 



(After G. B. Triumfetti.) 



Sepals 5, distinct, usually concave, or with a dorsal point or appendage at the 

 top. Petals 5, thickened arid globular, or foveolate at the base, inserted round 

 the base of the torus, rarely wanting. Stamens indefinite, or rarely reduced to 5 

 or 10, free, inserted on the raised torus ; anther-cells opening longitudinally. 

 Ovary 2 to 5-celled, with 2 collateral ovules in each cell ; style filiform, stigma 

 minutely 2 to 5-toothed. Fruit globular or nearly so, echinate or bristly, inde- 

 hiscent or (in species not Australian) separating into cocci. Seeds in each coccus 

 or cell solitary, or, if 2, separated by vertical dissepiments, pendulous, 

 albuminous; embryo straight; cotyledons flat, » leafy. — Herbs, undershrubs, or 

 shrubs, with the hairs or tomentum stellate. Leaves serrate, entire, or 3 or 

 5-lobed. Flowers yellow, in little pedunculate or almost sessile cymes or clusters, 

 either leaf-opposed or lateral, rarely strictly axillary. Petals usually narrow and 

 not exceeding the calyx, especially in the Old World species. 



A considerable genus, widely spread over the tropical regions of both the New and the Old 

 World. Of the Australian species, one, a maritime plant, extends to several of the South Paoifio 

 islands, the others are all endemic. 



Ovary 3 to 5-celled. Fruit 3 to 8-celled, with 1 seed in each cell. 

 Leaves round-dordate, entire or lobed. Fruit rather large, with 2 cells 

 and seeds to each carpel. 

 Stems prostrate. Leaves mostly lobed. Sepals 4 to 5 lines with minute 



pointed appendages 1- ^^ prociimbens. 



Shrubby. Leaves roundish, hairy on both sides, with crisp margins. 



Sepals narrow, with a minute terminal appendage at the back . . 2. T. Winneckeana. 

 Shrub, sometimes tall. Leaves polymorphous, often rhomboidal. 



Sepals oblong-apioulate 3. T. rhomboidea. 



Undershrub of a few feet, lower leaves lobed, upper ones ovate- 

 lanceolate. Fruit 5-valved ■ 4. T. pilosa. 



Fruit beset with long bristles, very dark coloured 4-celled 5. T. mgncann. 



1. T. procumbens (procumbent), Forst.; DC. I'rod. i. 508 ; Bentli. Fl. Au.^tr. 

 i 273. Stems procumbent or prostrate and rooting at the joints, often attaining 

 several feet, the branches shortly ascending, tomentose. Leaves petiolate, broadly 

 ovate-cordate or orbicular, obtuse, 1 to 2in. long, entire, crenate, or more or less 



