980 LXXiX. APOCYNACE^. [Alytda. 



2. A. ilicifolia (Holly-leaved), F. v. M. Fratrm. iv. 149, v. 212 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. iv. 308. Very near the broad-leaved form of A. rmcifolia, but the leaves 

 are larger (l^ to Sin. long), the veins more numerous, finer, and transverse, 

 and the recurved margins have occasionally a few small teeth or prickles. 

 Flowers rather larger. Corolla-tube slender, fully 4 lines long ; the lobes narrow, 

 nearly 3 lines. Articles of the fruit ovoid, about 4 lines long. 



Hab.: Eookingham Bay, Dallachy. 



3. A. Obtusifolia (leaves obtuse), R. Br. Prod. 470 ; Benth. Fl. Austr, iv, 

 308. A glabrous shrub. Leaves usually in whorls of 3, obovate or oblong, 

 very obtuse, narrowed into a very short petiole, smooth and shining above, the 

 margins slightly recurved, the veins parallel and fine, but very obscure and not 

 so numerous as in A. spicata, mostly 1 to 2in. long. Flowers 3 to 7 together, 

 in little axillary heads or cymes, the common peduncle slender, 2 to 4 lines long, 

 with 8 small bracts under the head, the flowers sessile or on short thick pedicels. 

 Calyx-segments ovate, obtuse, about f line long. Corolla-tube twice or three 

 times as long as the calyx, the lobes very broad, fully as long as the tube. 

 Anthers mucronate. Articles of the fruit nearly globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter. 

 —A. DO. Prod. Viii. 346. 



Hab.: Shoalwater Bay and Broadsound, iJ. JSroion ; Cape Cleveland and Endeavour Eiver, A. 

 Cunningham ; Curtis Island, Henne. 



4. A. spicata (flowers spicate), R. Br. Prod. 470; Benth. Fl. Austr. if. 

 308. A shrub, glabrous except the inflorescence, the branchlets angular. 

 Leaves in whorls of 3 or rarely 4, oval or elliptical, obtuse, narrowed into a 

 short petiole, smooth and shining above, the margins slightly recurved, the 

 veins numerous, almost parallel, visible especially on the under side, l-J to 2Jin. 

 long. Flowers small and singly sessile along the simple or rarely branched 

 rhachis of axillary shortly pedunculate spikes, scarcely above ^in. long, and 

 usually minutely pubescent. Calyx about 1 line long, divided to about the 

 middle. Corolla-tube very shortly exceeding the calyx, the lobes narrow, acute, 

 nearly as long as the tube. Anthers almost acute. Ovary pubescent. Fruit 

 exceeding 4 lines long, the articles usually solitary, varying from globular to 

 ovoid.— A. DC. Prod. viii. 346. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne ; Prince of Wales Islands, R. 

 Brown; Albany Island, Cape York, M'Gillivray; Boekingham Bay, Dallachy. 



5. A. thyrsiflora (flowers in a thyrsoid panicle), Benth. Fl. Au^tr. iv. 809. 

 A glabrous shrub. Leaves usually in whorls of 8, obovate or oblong, very 

 obtuse, narrowed into a petiole of 2 or 3 lines, the margins slightly recurved, 

 smooth and shining above, the veins parallel but very obscure and not so 

 numerous as in A. spicata. Flowers 8 to 7 together in little heads or clusters, 

 pedicellate or nearly sessile along the rhachis of small axillary thyrsoid or 

 spike-like panicles, the upper ones sometimes singly sessile, all rather smaller 

 than in A. obtusifolia. Calyx-segments narrow and acute. Corolla-tube slender, 

 2 or 3 times as long as the calyx, the lobes ovate, much shorter than the tube. 

 Ovary glabrous. Articles of the fruit 4 to 5 lines long. 



Hab.: Endeavour River, R. Braion, A. Cunningham; Albany Island, W. Hill; Burdekin 

 River and Port Denison, Fitzalan, Dallachy ; Lizard Island, A. Cunningham. 



6. A. Thozetii (after A. Thozet), F. v. M. Fragm. x. 103. A milky 

 glabrous shrub of a few feet, with a balsam scent. Leaves opposite, oblong 

 or lanceolate-linear, chartaceous, mostly from 2 to 8in. long, and 8 to 4 lines 

 broad, veins almost hidden ; petioles very short. Peduncles >xillary, about 

 6 lines long, bearing 8-flowered umbels ; pedicels 1 to \\ line long. Flowers 

 small, 4-merouS. Calyx about 1 line ; segments glabrous, acute. Corolla 2 to 3 



