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STERCULIACE^. 



415. Stercidia quadriflda R.. Br. 

 Artesian and Edkins Ranges (W.V.F.)- 



A deciduous tree, 30-40ft. in height ; trunJc to 15ft. ; bark 

 greyish, smooth, rather thick ; timber whitish, soft ; 

 follicles orange-red ; seeds black and shining. 



On sandstone and quartzite elevations. 



416. S. incana Benth. 



Cambridge Gulf (A. C'unn.). Near Wyndham ; Dillen's Springs 

 (AV.V.F.). 



A deciduous tree, 20-30ft. high ; trunk 5-1 Oft. ; diameter 

 1ft. ; bark dark-grey, roughish ; timber pale, soft and 

 fibrous ; leaves glabrous above when full grown ; flowers 

 in lateral clusters ; calyx broadly campanulate, 1-lJin. 

 long, scarlet, hairy within and without ; lobes indupKcate, 

 much shorter than the tube, rounded and spreading, the 

 inner base of the tube bearing a ring of many inflected 

 hairy scales ; staminal coluxnn rather short and very 

 hirsute, stigmas linear, and ranch recurved ; follicles 

 shortly stipitate, ovate-oblong, about 3Jin. long, ter- 

 minating in a short straight beak ; seeds greyish-yeUow, 

 smooth. In sandstone and quartzite country. 



417. S. viscidula W.V.F. n. sp. \y 

 A deciduous tree, the branchlets and leaves densely stellate- 

 pubescent : leaves petiolate, broadly ovate, cordate, 

 shortly acuminate, entire, or obscurely trilobed, soft ; 

 flowers large, scarlet, numerous, pedicellate and forming 

 dense short viscid-tomentose cluster-like panicles on the 

 old wood ; calyx broadly campanulate, viscid, stellate 

 pubescent without, simple stellate hairy within, the lobes 

 spreading, broad, obtuse, much shorter than the tube, 

 trinerved, with broad induplicate margins, inner base of 

 the tube thickened into a plate which terminates in a 

 prominent ring of scales, the whole densely hirsute ; 

 staminal column rather long, hirsute, thickened at the 

 base, attenuated upwards ; ovary pubescent, follicles 

 shortly stipulate, obliquely oblong, slightly falcate, ter- 

 minating in a straight or curved beak, hard and almost 

 woody, densely invested with a yellowish very viscid stel- 

 late pubescence, villous within ; seeds numerous, yellowish, 

 smooth. 



N"ear Trig Station, H. 72, Lennard River, and from thence 

 east to the Harm River and north to Calder River (W.V.F.) 



Height 15-50ft. ; trunk, 5-lOft. ; diameter to 1ft. Bark 

 dark-coloured and rather rough. Timber pinkish, soft, 

 and fibrous. Leaves 5-7in. long ; petioles lin.. Pedicels 

 2-3 Hues. Calyx IJin. long. FoEicles 2^3in. long, 

 beak |in. long. 



