256 XXXVI. CELASTRINE^. [Hedraianthera. 



top of the glandular disk, 2-celled, cells divaricate, slits veri,ical, 2-valved. Disk 

 annular, crenulate. Stigma orbicular, undivided, sessile. Ovary 5-celled, with 

 many adseendent ovules in each cell. Fruit bony, almost globose, perfectly 

 5-celled. Seeds adseendent. — F. v. M. Fragm. v. 59. 



1. H. porphyropetala (flowers rich purple), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 59. A 

 glabrous shrub with alternate foliage. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2J to 4in. long, 

 10 to 16 lines broad, slightly unequal-sided, quite entire or repandulous, the 

 lateral nerves and veinlets thin, upper side deep green and shining, under side 

 pale. Peduncle axillary and terminal, 2 or 3-flowered or corymbs of few flowers, 

 thin-filiform, from a few lines to about lin. long. Pedicels Jin. or less long, the 

 basal braeteoles lanceolate or linear- subulate, about 1 line long. Calyx f line 

 high; lobes semi-orbicular. Petals dark-purple, about IJ line long, cohering a 

 little at the base. Anthers didymous. Ovary attenuated to the stigma at the 

 apex. Fruit 5-valved, base thin, cells dehiscent. Seeds often 3, maturing in a 

 cell, superposed, angular-ovate, glabrous, 3 or 4 lines long. Testa brown. Arillus 

 ochroleucus. Albumen copious. Embryo straight. Cotyledons elliptic. Eadicle 

 inferior. 



Hab.: Bookingham Bay, J. Dallachy (F. v. M., I.e.) 



5. HYPSOPHILA, F. v. M. 

 (A lover of heights; found at a high elevation.) 

 Sepals 5, roundish, much overlapping in bud, persistent ; the 2 outer smaller 

 than the 3 inner. Petals 5, orbicular or ovate, entire, smooth or hairy, deciduous. 

 Stamens 5, opposite the sepals, very short, inserted towards the centre of the disk ; 

 filaments free, filiform ; anthers almost reniform, the cells divergent, dehiscent by 

 an external' slit. Disk depressed, crenulated. Style extremely short ; stigma 

 orbicular, convex, with a central cavity. Ovary immersed in the disk, 8-celled ; 

 ovules many, axillary, ascendant. Fruit almost ellipsoid, somewhat pointed ; 

 pericarp coriaceous, tardily ruptured into 3 valves ; septa membranous. Seeds 

 several in each cell, almost ovate, somewhat oblique, long-persistent on elongated 

 crisped funicles, and clasped at the base by an obconic-cupular arillus, Testa 

 thinly crustaceous. Raphe longitudinal, prominent. Albumen earnulent. 

 Embryo straight, somewhat shorter than the albumen. Cotyledons flat, about 

 twice as long as the cylindric inferior radicle — A tree, with scattered or opposite 

 coriaceous oval or lanceolate-elliptical entire leaves, with short axillary cymes of 

 small flowers and with rather large particularly elongated fruits. — F. v. M., 

 Vict. Nat., April 1887. 



Leaves scattered. Petals smooth 1. H. Halleyana. 



Leaves mostly opposite. Petals hairy . 2. H. oppositifolia. 



1. H. Halleyana (after the Rev. J. J. Halley, of Melbourne), F. v. M., 

 Vict. Nat., 1887. An evergreen glabrous tree attaining the height of about 40ft. 

 Branehlets togular, often flexuous. Leaves flat, rather blunt, attaining 4in. 

 in length and IJin. in breadth, on short petioles ; upper surface dark-green, lower 

 much paler ; not shining ; nerves faint, veins concealed. Cymes much shorter 

 than the leaves, at times reduced to 2 or 3 flowers. Bracts and braeteoles 

 minute, lanceolar-deltoid, the latter distant from the calyx. Petals about twice 

 as long as the inner sepals, duU-red according to the collector's notes, hardly 

 attaining above ^in. in length. Filaments not reaching beyond the disk, per- 

 sistent ; anther-cells ellipsoid, deciduous. Stigma not broader than the style. 

 Fruit 1 to l^in. long. Arillus of about Jin. in length, the funicle sometimes 

 quite as long. Seeds seldom exceeding Jin. in length ; testa brown, slightly 

 wrinkled, subtle-dotted. — F. v. M., I.e. " 



This nevf genus is readily separable from Euonymus on account of the scattered leaves, the 

 entire stigma, and the many-seeded not prominently angular fruit; from Lophopetaluvt iij deeper 



