Fark oil Oe = Re ae eee ie acti or eit oe 
: of ita islands, by the naturalists of the “Beagle.” App- Le. Mr. 
BOT Awe: 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO QUEENSLAND FLORA. 
eo 6 eee ———— 
Order DILLENIACEA. 
Trise DELIME. 
TETRACERA, Linn. 
T. Cowleyana (n. sp.) (After E. Cowley.) A coarse climber, 
the branches appearing angular i 
rolling back from longitudinal fissures, chestnut-brown and scabrous. 
Leaves scabrous, ovate-lanceolate, often 6 in. long and 3 in. broad in 
the centre, the apex sometimes shar ly acuminate ; petiole 4 in. or 
more long, and often slender, hispid with appressed hairs, with 
which the coste and primary nerves on the under side are 
Pedicals slender. Sepals obtuse, velvety, with ciliate edges, the inner 
ones twice the size of the outer. Petals veined 3 lines long, obovate, 
velvety, with the margin ciliate like the sepals. Filaments much 
dilated, and more or less bifid at the apex. The 
being widely separated. Carpels usually 3, hirsute, 3} lines long; 
seeds black, glossy, enveloped in a fringed crimson arillus, which, when 
expanded, has a diameter of 4 or 5 lines. 
Hab.: Herbert River, H. G. Eaton ; Cairns, E. Cowley. 
Order ZYGOPHYLLEZ. 
TRIBULUS, Linn. 
e occidentalis, &. Br., in App. Sturt Exped. (So named 
; m being first found in Western Australia.) A diffuse or prostrate 
lant, the branches densely tomentose-hirsute or woolly. The upper 
c 
eav 
mallets, silky-hairy, the base oblique, the apex pointed, about 5 lines 
‘ ngand2 lines wide Pedicels slender, 14 to j-in. long. Sepals narrow, 
lines long. Petals of a deep-yellow, exceeding an in h in length, 
cineate, 6 lines broad at the upper end. Stamens 10, long 
2 pee anthers all perfect, oblong; ovary covered with long barbellate 
nstles ; style glabrous, together with the ovary equaling in length that 
ofthestamens. Cocci usually but 2 coming to maturity, each of which 
a 5 lines broad, and clothed by 4 dense 
Covering of soft white silky hairs, and numerous long hairy-subulate 
spines, thus the extreme diameter of fruit, including spine, will often 
Measure over 14 inches. The fruit examined not fully ripe. 
* Hab: Diamantina, Dr. Thos. L. Baneroft. The first specimens of ei _ 
Dr. Robt. Brow ‘ f Australia, or 
rown tells us, were gathered on the west coast © Goatham., Fl. Austr. 
