timonius.] LXlV. RtJfilACEilE. 76i 



in several irregular rows. Style divided into about 5 to 10 linear lobes. Fruit 

 a drupe, with exceedingly numerous oblong-linear 1 -seeded pyrenes, closely 

 packed and diverging into many rows from the axis. Seeds of Ouittarda. — Trees 

 or shrubs. Stipules membranous, so deciduous as to be rarely seen. Flowers 

 polygamo-dioecious, on axillary peduncles, the females (with small or imperfect 

 stamens) usually solitary, the males (with an abortive ovary) 3 or more together, 

 sessile in the forks or along the branches of pedunculate cymes. 



The genus consists of a few species, dispersed over the Archipelago and islands of the South 

 Pacific, the Australian species extending to Sumatra and Amboyna. 



1. T. Rumphii (after G. E. Rumph), DC. Prod. iv. 461 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 iii. 417. " Pun-oi," Eraser's Island, Mitchell. A tall shrub or small tree, either 

 glabrous except the inflorescence, or the young shoots silky-hairy, and the 

 older leaves sprinkled with long soft hairs. Leaves from ovate-elliptical to 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into a petiole, mostly 3 to 5in. long. 

 Male floweifs several in a forked cyme. Calyx-limb tubular, 2 to nearly 3 

 lines long, truncate or irregularly toothed, the ovary quite abortive. Corolla 

 tomentose, the tube about 4 lines long ; lobes 4 to 10, oblong-linear, rather 

 more than half as long as the tube. Style rudimentary. Female flowers 

 solitary, resembling the males, except that the stamens are small and the 

 ovary perfect, the 1-ovulate cells exceedingly numerous. Style with about 

 5 to 10 linear unequal lobes. Fruit globular, about ^in. diameter, crowned 

 by the calyx-limb. — Polyphragmon sericeum, Desf. in Mem. Mus. vi. 6 t. 2 ; DC. 

 Prod. iv. 445 ; Guettarda polyphragmoides, F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 134. 



Hab.: Sweers Island, Henne ; Upper Lynd Eiver, Leichhardt ; Cape York, M'Gillivray; Percy 

 Islands, A. Cunningham ; Bockingham Bay, W. Hill; Eockhampton, Dallachy and others. Or 

 from Moreton Bay to Cape York. 



The species is also in Timor, Amboyna, Sumatra, and probably in other islands of the 

 Archipelago. — Benth. 



Wood light in colour and close in grain, suitable for lining-boards ; is easily worked, resem- 

 bling somewhat the English Sycamore. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods No. 245. 



19. KNOXIA, Linn. 



(After Eobert Knox.) 



Calyx-limb of 4 minute persistent teeth. Corolla-tube slender ; lobes 4, valvate 

 in the bud. Anthers scarcely exserted. Ovary 2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule 

 in each cell; style with 2 short stigmatic lobes. Fruit small and dry, the 2 

 carpels either separating from the base upwards or falling off together, leaving a 

 persistent filiform axis. — Herbs or undershrubs. Stipules 1 on each side, usually 

 fringed with bristle-like teeth. Flowers in terminal cymes or corymbs, the 

 branches often lengthened into one-sided spikes. 



A small genus, extending over tropical Asia and Africa, the only Australian species being the 

 most common one in Asia. — Benth. 



1. K. COrymbOSa (flowers in corymbs), Willd.; W. and Am. Prod. i. 439; 

 Benth. Fl. A ustr. iii. 438. A perennial, usually erect, 1 to 2ft. high, often almost 

 woody at the base, more or less pubescent and but little branched. Leaves 

 oblong lanceolate or rarely nearly ovate, 2 to Sin. long. Flowers 1 to 1^ line 

 long, numerous, in loose terminal cymes, white or purplish. Capsule ovoid, 

 about 1 line long, usually falling off entire from the filiform persistent axis. — 

 Wight, Illustr. t. 128. 



Hab.: Common from Brisbane to far into the tropics. 



Common in tropical Asia, from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago. 



