78 BARON FERDINAND VON MUELLER. RECORD OF 



Commelin. Indie. 34 ; Clarke, Commelinac, Bengal. 35, t. 23 ; 

 Clarke in De Cand. monogr. phanerog. III., 216. A. pauci- 

 Jlorum, Dalzell in Hook. Kew Miscell. III., 136. 



Slender ; leaves broad-linear, nearly Hat, gradually pointed ; 

 flowers small, three or two together or singly terminating the 

 stem or the branches, conspicuously stalked ; bracts rather 

 elongated but narrow, longitudinally incurved ; sepals as well as 

 stalklets beset with very short spreading hairlets ; petals blue ; 

 two of the stamens fertile ; filaments bearing crisped hairlets j 

 style glabrous ; cells of the ovulary uniovulate ; fruit trigonous- 

 globular, shining; seeds plano-convex, ovate-roundish, nearly black 

 outside and rugular, without any lustre. 



Not previously found in Australia, one plant so far as hitherto 

 observed being the dwarf unbranched form. 



Sida Holtzei. 



Copiously beset with spreading bristlets ; leaves rather large, 

 paler green beneath, the upper forming from near their base 

 usually five lobes, these from lanceolar- to broad-linear, bluntly 

 serrated, the middle lobe longest, the next two also elongated, the 

 lowest variously abbreviated, not revergent ; stipules compara- 

 tively long, linear-filiform ; flowers almost or quite sessile, singly 

 axillary, but some crowded at the end of the branches between 

 diminutive leaves; calyx very small, somewhat beyond the middle 

 five-cleft, partly whitish, its lobes equal, semilanceolar, thinly 

 carinulated and margined, imperfectly ciliolated ; petals thrice as 

 long as the calyx, white, bearing outside minute hairlets; anthers 

 pale, on extremely short filaments at the staminal column ; styles 

 slightly exserted ; stigmas labellate ; ovularies 5, glabrous ; fruit 

 quite small, depressed-globular ; f ruitlets 5, separate, blunt, 

 reticular-venulated, towards the base attenuated ; seed brownish, 

 narrowed downward. 



The aspect of this remarkable plant is more that of some species 

 of Hibiscus (particularly from the sections Lagunea, Furcaria 

 and Abelmoschus), than that of a Sida. Vestiture pale-yellowish. 

 Stipules attaining a length of f inch. Lower leaves not obtained ; 

 upper to five inches long, their denticulation short. Calyx at 

 flowering time about ^ inch long, terminated by elongated hairlets. 

 Length of corolla hardly above ^ inch. Lower portion of staminal 

 column devoid of anthers. Fruit \ — |- inch broad ; pericarp of 

 iruitlets membranous, seemingly indehiscent. Seed at the hilum 

 beset with minute hairlets. 



Tylophora Leibiana. 



Quite upright, unbranched, glabrous in all its parts except the 

 ■corolla ; root fascicularly fibrillous ; leaves narrow-linear, revolute 



