PhUotlu'ca.] XXIX. RUTACEiE. 195 



slightly ciliate. Petals imbricate, sometimes \m. long, laneeolate-oblong. The 

 staminal tube with a ring of hairs a little above the base, free filaments villous. 

 Fertile anthers yellow, narrow oblong-linear, about 1 line long, slightly bearded 

 at the base. Style oapillaceous, glabrous, nearly lin. long. Stigma depressed- 

 globose, I line broad. Carpels 5, erect, sessile, blunt, glabrous. 

 Hab.: Gilbert River, sandstone tablelands, and Cave Creek, F. v. M. I.e. 



7. ASTEROLASIA, F. v. M, 

 (Stellate pubescence.) 

 Calyx often very minute or obsolete. Petals 5, tomentose outside, valvate and 

 usually induplicate in the bud. Disk none. , Stamens 10 or more, free, filaments 

 filiform, glabrous or very slightly ciliate, anthers not apiculate. Carpels 2 to 5, 

 united to the middle, or nearly to the top, into a single shortly-lobed or truncate 

 ovary of 2. to 5 cells. Style inserted between the lobes, filiform, with usually a 

 large reflexed peltate or deeply-lobed stigma. Cocci tardily separating, truncate, 

 and often beaked, 2-valved ; endocarp cartilaginous, separating elastically. — 

 Shrubs or undershrubs, more or less stellate-tomentose, or the tomentum united 

 into scurfy scales. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers sessile or pedicellate, 

 axillary or terminal, solitary or a few together. 

 The genus is limited to Australia. 



1. A., woombye (found at Woombye), Bail. A tall shrub, clothed in most 

 parts with an elseagnoid indumentum. Leaves membranous, upper face glabrous, 

 deep-green, the under side grey, with close, silvery, stellate scales, and scattered 

 brown ones, linear, almost linear-lanceolate, 1^ to 2fin. long, 3 or 4 lines broad, 

 apex obtuse ; petioles 2 or 3 lines, margins slightly repand, alternate, the two 

 last ones close under the flower-head, nearly opposite. Flowers 6 to 10 or more 

 in heads or clusters at the ends of the branchlets. Primary peduncle very short 

 or wanting, sometimes is seen a secondary peduncle bearing three flowers. 

 Pedicels 3 or 4 lines long. Calyx-teeth triangular, the points sometimes elongated 

 and recurved, ^ to f line long. Petals much imbricate in the lower part, valvate 

 at the top, white with brown stellate scales on the back, the face glabrous, about 

 2 lines long. Stamens 10, filaments white, longer than the petals, filiform, 

 glabrous or roughened by a few minute glands. Anthers oblong, yellow, f line 

 long. Style thicker and. shorter than the filaments, glabrous. Stigma scarcely 

 lobed. Ovary very scaly, showing 5 cocci in the flowers examined. 



Hab.: Woombye, North Coast Railway, W. French. 



8. CORREA, Sm. 



(After Correa de Serra.) 



(Didymeria, Lindl.) 



Calyx cup-shaped, truncate and 4 or 8-toothed, or 4-lobed. Petals 4, valvate, 

 connate in a cylindrical or campanulate tube, sometimes separating as the flower 

 expands, spreading at the top. Disk shortly lobed. Stamens 8, free ; anthers 

 without appendages. Ovary of 4 carpels nearly distinct from the base ; styles 

 inserted above the middle, and immediately united into one filiform style, with a 

 small often shortly 4-lobed stigma ; ovules 2 in each carpel, superposed. Cocci 4, 

 truncate, 2-valved, the endocarp cartilaginous and separating elastically. — Shrubs 

 or rarely small trees, stellate-tomentose or rarely glabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 petiolate, simple. Flowers rather large and showy, red, yellow, white or green, 

 usually pendulous, solitary or 2 or 3 together, axillary or terminal. Petals 

 usually mealy-tomentose outside. 

 Thegenus is limited to Australia, 



