196 XXIX. KUTACE^. [Coma. 



1. C. speciosa (showy), Ait. E.i-pit. Hmt. Ki-w 866 ; Benih. Fl. Amtr. i. 354. 

 A shrub, variable in size and habit, usually rigid and low, and rarely exceeding 

 6 to 8ft., the stellate tomentum very variable, usually loose and abundant on the 

 branches or sometimes on the whole plant, dense and soft on the under side of 

 the leaves, disappearing on the upper surface or sometimes on the whole plant, 

 except the peduncles and flowers. Leaves very shortly petiolate, from broadly 

 ovate or cordate to narrow-oblong or lanceolate, obtuse or retuse, usually from f 

 to l^in. long, rarely all under lin., or the larger ones attaining 2in. Flowers 

 red, varying to white or yellowish-green, terminal, shortly pedicellate and 

 pendulous, or a few rarely erect, solitary or 2 or 3 together. Calyx hoary or 

 rusty-tomentose, truncate, with 4 minute teeth. Petals hoary-tomentose outside, 

 united the greater part of their length into a cylindrical or slightly campanulate 

 corolla of f to Ifin., with 4 spreading lobes. Stamens exserted, the filaments of 

 those opposite the petals more or less dilated below the middle. — DC. Prod. i. 

 719 ; F. V. M. PL Viet. i. 136. 



Hab.: Stanthorpe district, 



9. BOSISTOA, F. v. M. 



(After J. Bosisto.) 



Flowers hermaphrodite ? Calyx small, 5-toothed. Petals 6, valvate or slightly 

 imbricate, with inflexed tips. Disk thick. Stamens 10. Ovary of 5 distinct 

 carpels ; styles almost terminal, united upwards, but soon separating ; ovules 2 

 in efaeh carpel, superposed. Cocci distinct, large, coriaceous, 2-valved ; endocarp 

 cartilaginous, separating. Seeds solitary ; testa membranous ; albumen none ; 

 cotyledons thick and fleshy, radicle small. — A tree. Leaves opposite, pinnate. 

 Panicles terminal. 



The geijus is limited to Australia, and allied in some respects to Melicope and Evodia, but very 

 different in habit as well as in the seeds, which have the structure of Pilocarpus and some other 

 American genera. — Benth. , 



1. B. sapindiformis (Sapindum-like), F. v. M. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Austr. i. 

 859. " Towra," Nerang, Schneider. A tree with the habit of a Ciipania, the 

 young shoots, petioles and inflorescence minutely pubescent. Leaves pinnate ; 

 leaflets 3 to 11, opposite in pairs, the terminal odd one occasionally wanting, 

 oblong-lanceolate, 4 to Sin. long, more or less serrate- toothed, especially above 

 the middle, narrowed at the base and attaining a width of 4in., on a short 

 petiolule or nearly sessile. Panicles terminal, trichotomous, shorter than the 

 leaves. Buds globular. Calyx small, very shortly and unequally toothed. 

 Petals about 2 lines long. Filaments dilated at the base, attenuated upwards, 

 glabrous ; anthers large. Carpels very hirsute, on a raised disk. Styles short. 

 Cocci broadly and very obliquely ovate, about lin. long, hard, almost woody, 

 tomentose and rugose outside. — Evodia pentacocca, F. v. M. Fragm. iii. 41. 



Hab.: Nerang Creek, Bockhampton, Mt. Dryander, and other parts. 



Wood close in the grain, yellow ; very liable to split in drying. — Bailey^s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 39. 



Very hard timber used for handspikes and levers. — Schnieder. 



10. MELICOPE, Forst. 



(Referring to the glands of the flower being notched.) 



Flowers more or less unisexual. Sepals 4. Petals 4, valvate, or slightly 

 imbricate, with inflexed tips. Disk thick, entire or lobed. Stamens 8. 

 Ovary of 4 nearly distinct carpels ; styles inserted above the middle, united 

 immediately or at the summit into one, with a capitate 4-lobed stigma ; ovules 2 

 in each carpel, superposed or collateral. Cocci distinct, spreading, 2-valved ; 



