Weinmannia.} XLV. SAXIFRAGES. 641 
several pendulous ovules in each cell ; styles distinct, each with a terminal or 
decurrent stigma. Capsule oblong or ovoid, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds oblong, 
reniform or nearly globular, usually (but not always) hairy ; embryo in the axis 
of a fleshy albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, or digitately 
or pinnately compound, with 3 or more leaflets. Flowers in simple racemes or 
racemose panicles, terminal or axillary, solitary or clustered. 
A genus widely distributed over the warmer regions of the globe, extending into extratropical 
South America, S. Africa, and New Zealand. — Benth. 
Leaves 3-foliolate. 
Stipules large, usually persistent. 
Leaflets 6 to lOin. long, often broad, ovate-lanceolate, repand-serrulate. 
Flowers yellow. Capsule ellipsoid-cylindrical, 8 to 9 lines long . . 1. IV. Benthami. 
Leaflets 3 to 7in. long, conspicuously petiolulate, distantly serrulate. 
Flowers yellow 2. IV. Biagiana. 
Leaflets 3 to 5-digitate, 2 to 3in. long. Stipules hairy. Petals as many 
as sepals. Anthers reddish. Capsule reflexed, 1J to 2 lines long, hairy 3. W.rubifolia. 
Stipules usually only found on the young growth. 
Leaflets nearly sessile, 2 to 6in. long, repand-serrulate. Capsule ovate, 
about 2 lines long 4. W. lachnocarpa. 
Leaflets sessile, about 3in. long. Flowers small, about 2 lines diameter. 
Stamens 12 5. W. apetala. 
1. W. Benthami (after George Bentham, probably the greatest botanist of 
the century), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 180. A tree said to attain over 100ft. in 
height, the branchlets glabrous. Stipules coriaceous, often measuring lin., 
orbicular or cultrate-rotund. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate ; leaflets petiolulate, 6 
to lOin. long, 3 to 5in. broad, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, repand-serrulate, 
glabrous, prominently penninerved and somewhat thinly reticulate veined. 
Flowers in spikes, dense when young. Bracteoles canaliculate, semilanceolate, 1 
line long, caducous. Fruiting racemes several inches long. Pedicels 1J to 2 
lines long, and with the rhachis thinly silky. Sepals 5, valvate, 1J to 
2 lines long, yellow. Petals none. Stamens 20 to 25, yellow, twice as long as 
the sepals ; filaments setaceous. Anthers didymo-rotund ; cells 2-ellipsoid, 
dehiscing laterally. Styles 2, glabrous, 1J line long. Stigmas minute, capitellate. 
Ovary imperfectly 2-celled, pyramidal-semiovate, silky. Disk annular, glabrous. 
Capsule ellipsoid-cylindrical, 8 to 9 lines long. — Geissois Benthami, F. v. M. 
Fragm. v. 180, and incidentally referred to by Bentham in FI. Austr. ii. 446 
under Geissois. 
Hab.: Scrubs towards the Tweed River. 
2. W. Biagiana (after G. Biagi), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 16, vii. 150. A tree 
of about 60 to 70ft. high ; bark smooth. Leaves of 3 leaflets, from 3 to 7in. or 
lft. long and 2 to 3 or 8in. broad, with prominent midribs, on petioles of about 
Jin., coriaceous, lanceolate-ovate, sharply acuminate, distantly toothed, glabrous. 
Primary peduncle almost glabrous ; secondary ones, pedicels, and calyxes with 
a very short silky pubescence ; racemose branches of panicles spike-like, 3 to 5in. 
long. Bracteoles falling before the expansion of the flowers. Pedicels about 1 
line long. Calyx yellow, 4 or 5-partite, 1 line long, valvate. Stamens 16 to 20. 
Filaments glabrous, sulphur-coloured, twice as long as the calyx. Anthers 
cordate-rotund, dorsifixed, longitudinally dehiscing on both sides. Styles capillary, 
glabrous, about 1 line long. Stigmas very minute, punctiform. 
Hab.: Tropical scrubs. 
3. W. rubifolia (leaves supposed to resemble some bramble), F. v. M. 
(under Geissois); Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 445. A small tree, the young branches 
inflorescence and veins of the leaflets more or less clothed with long fine hairs. 
Leaflets 3 or 5, digitate, ovate-elliptical, acuminate, sharply serrate, much 
narrowed into a petiolule, rigid but not thick, the primary parallel veins very 
