188 THE FLOEA OF THE NORTHERN TEBRITOKY. 



7. CIENPUEGOSIA, Cav. 1787. 



{Fugosia, Juss.) 



Whole plant softly tomentose. 



Calyx-lobes linear or lanceolate. Bracteoles linear. — 1. C. australis. 

 Calyx truncate minutely 5-toothed. Bracteoles setaceous, minute. — 

 5. C. thespesioides. 

 Plant glabrous or very slightly hoary-tomentose. 

 Calyx deeply divided into lanceolate lobes. 



Leaves ovate or lanceolate, narrowed at the base, on very short 



petioles. — 4. C. punctata. 

 Leaves orbicular, 5-nerved, on petioles of 1 in. — 2. C. latifolia. 

 Calyx truncate, with small hnear lobes. Leaves on long petioles, 

 cordate, acuminate. — 3. C. populntfolia. 



1. C.australis, Benth. — (Gos'sypium australe, F.v.M. ; Fugosia australis, 

 Benih.). Haast's Bluff, Macdonnell Ranges, G. F. HiU (No. 180), 16/5/1911. 

 Alt. 3000 ft. and (No. 190), 18/5/1911. Alt. 4000 ft. 



Recorded. Barren plains, not rare, F. v. Mueller ; N.W. Coast, Bynoe, 

 Maitland River, F. Gregory's Expedition ; Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough. 



2. C. latifolia, Benth. — Careening Bay, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



3. C. populnifolia, Benth. — GreviUe Island, Montague Sound, Isles of 

 King George IV. 's Sound, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; N.W. Coast, Bynoe. 



4. C. punctata, Benth. — ^Port Essington, A. Cunningham. 



5. C. thespesioides, Benth. — N. Coast, without any precise locality in- 

 dicated, R. Brown. 



8. GOSSYPIUM, Linn. 1735. 



(Sturtia, R. Br., 1849 ; Thurberia, A. Gr., 1854 ; Xylon, Town, 1878). 



1. G. Sturtii, F. v. ilf.— Macdonnell Ranges, G. F. Hill (No. 170), 

 12/5/1911. Australian Cotton. 



Var. triloba.— 'North of 15 degrees W.S. Campbell (No. 3), 5/9/1911. 



G. Robinsoni, F. v. M. ; G. flaviflorum, F. v. M. ; recorded from North 

 Australia in Nat. Herb. Census. 



Vrena lobata, L. ; Urena Armitiana, F. v. M. ; recorded from North 

 Australia in Nat. Herb. Census. 



BOMBACACEffi. 



Calyx entire in the bud, afterwards 3 to 5-cleft, large woody, filled with 

 mealy pulp. Leaves digitate. — 1. Adansonia. 



Calyx truncate in the bud, afterwards 3 to 5-cleft. Capsule 5-valved, 

 densely woolly inside. Leaves digitate. — 2. Bombax. 



1. ADANSONIA, Linn. 



1. A. Gregorii, F. v. M.- — Sandy plains and low stony ridges, from the 

 Glenelg to the Western Shores of Arnhem's Land, and rarely 100 miles inland, 

 r. V. Mueller, G. Burnett, and others. 



