994 LXXIX. APOCYNACEiB. [Wrightia. 



slightly exceeding the calyx and with a slight contraction at the throat ; lohes 

 ovate, 3 or 4 lines long. Corona of numerous filiform scales like that of a 

 Passion-flower and three-quarters the length of the corolla-lobes. Anthers white, 

 pubescent on the back, forming an elongated cone. Follicles lOin. long, and 

 very rough with tubercles, and showing several longitudinal lines. Seeds 

 angular, tapering towards each end, often exceeding fin. long, glabrous and 

 pale-coloured. Coma silky-white, exceeding 2in. in, length, and beautifully 

 curved. 



Hab.: Barron Eiver, E. Cowley, 



This species in many respects approaches W. tomentosa, differing in the want of indumentum 

 and form of corona, &c. The follicles closely resemble Wight's figures of W. coccinea, and the 

 corona that of IV. tinctoria. 



Wood of a yellowish colour, close-grained, soft, and bends well ; considered suitable for rum- 

 casks, &e. A useful timber for cabinet-work, carving, and joinery. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods 

 No. 284. 



3. W. Baccelliana (after Professor Baccelli), F. v. M. Vict. Nat. Mar. 1892. 

 Branches rather stout, somewhat loosely spreading, densely clothed with spreading 

 greyish hairs. Leaves of a firm texture, from subcordate to lanceolate-ovate, 

 seldom quite lanceolate, attaining Sin. in length and 2in. in breadth, above 

 scantily but beneath more copiously hairy; primary veins prominent on the 

 under side. Cymes axillary or terminal, the axillary ones usually in pairs, seldom 

 above lin. long, hairy. Bracteoles nariow and pointed. Flowers rather small. 

 Calyx-segments lanceolate, pointed, without conspicuous inner appendages, about 

 8 lines long. Corolla red, the tube pubescent outside, about the length of the 

 calyx, much narrowed downwards, and constricted at its termination ; lobes 

 amply overlapping each other, glabrous, about equal in length to the tube, 

 orbicular or cordate-rhomboid ; corona divided into numerous linear or spathula- 

 elliptie glabrous segments. Stamens fixed about the middle of the corolla-tube, 

 perfectly enclosed ; filaments very short. Anthers free, yellowish, glabrous, 

 gradually pointed, minutely 2-lobed at the base, a little over 1 line long. Style 

 glabrous ; stigma nearly as long as the style, ovate-conical, annular-turgid at the 

 base, bimueronulate at the apex. Fruit not yet collected. 



Hab.: Bussell Eiver, Stephen Johnson (F. v. M. I.e.) 



13. ICHNOCARPUS, R. Br. 



(From ichnos, a vestige, and karpos, a fruit ; in reference to the slender follicles.) 



Calyx without any or with very minute glands inside at the base. Corolla- 

 tube cylindrical, swollen round the anthers, the lobes spreading, contorted in the 

 bud, the throat without scales. Anthers enclosed in the tube. Hypogynous 

 scales 5, linear-clavate, as long as the ovary. Ovary of 2 distinct carpels united 

 by the style ; stigma thickened, acuminate ; ovules numerous, in 8 or 4 rows in 

 each carpel. Fruit of 2 long linear follicles. Seeds linear, with a long tuft of 

 hairs at the hilum, albuminous. — Tall woody climbers. Leaves opposite. 

 Flowers small, in compact cymes arranged in axillary and terminal thyrsoid 

 panicles. Bracts very small. 



A small genus, dispersed over tropical Asia and extending probably into Africa, the only 

 Queensland species being the commoneilt on the whole range. 



1. I. frutescens (shrubby), li. Br.; A. B.C. Prod. viii. 435; Benth. Fl: 

 Austr. iv. 315. A tall climber with a milky juice, the young parts and in- 

 florescence minutely rusty-pubescent, the adult leaves glabrous or more or less 

 pubescent underneath, especially the principal nerves. Leaves petiolate, ovate, 

 acuminate, rather thin, shining above, midrib at back of leaf clothed with white 

 hairs, the primary veins prominent underneath, the veinlets elegantly reticulate 



