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16. BAUERA, Banks. 
(In honour of Francis and Ferdinand Bauer, botanical painters.) 
Calyx divided nearly to the base into 6 to 10, rarely 4 or 5, spreading segments, 
often toothed, valvate or slightly imbricate. Petals as many as calyx-segments. 
Stamens indefinite, few or numerous, inserted round a narrow disk ; anthers 
short. Ovary wholly or partially free, 2-celled, with 2 or more ovules in each 
cell ; styles distinct, recurved. Capsule superior or half-inferior, broad, truncate, 
opening loculicidally in 2 valves, or in 4 from the septicidal splitting of the 
valves. Seeds obovate with a granulate testa ; embryo nearly terete, in a fleshy 
albumen. — Shrubs. Leaves opposite, each with 8 leaflets without any common 
petiole, so as to have the appearance of a whorl of 6 leaves. Stipules none. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, but sometimes the pairs crowded in a terminal leafy 
head. 
The genus is limited to Australia. By a mistake of Salisbury’s, copied by subsequent authors, 
the name of the genus has been attributed to Kennedy. In Andrews’ “ Botanical Repository,” 
where it was first published, it is expressly stated that it was named by Banks, without any 
allusion to Kennedy. — Benth. 
Flowers pedicellate. Ovary superior. Ovules several. Leaves mostly serrate 1. B. rubioides. 
Flowers sessile. Ovary superior. Ovules several, ascending. Leaves mostly 
3-toothed 2. B. capitata. 
1. 23 . rubioides (resembling a Rubia), Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 198 ; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. ii. 447. An elegant shrub, sometimes small, slender and prostrate, 
sometimes erect and bushy, attaining 5 or 6ft. or even more ; branches terete, 
glabrous or more frequently pubescent or hirsute with long fine hairs. Leaflets 
oblong or lanceolate, rather acute, rarely exceeding fin. and sometimes not fin. 
long, evergreen and often shining, marked by a few serratures, sometimes deep, 
sometimes obscure, or almost disappearing. Flowers pink or white, on slender 
pedicels, sometimes shorter, but more frequently longer than the leaves. Calyx- 
segments and petals rarely fewer than 6, and often 8 or 9. Petals longer than 
the calyx, often twice as long, spreading to a diameter of from £ to fin. 
Capsule shorter than the persistent calyx, very broad, wholly superior although 
attached by a broad base, several-seeded. — Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 96 ; Bot. Mag. t. 
715; DC. Prod. iv. 13; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. i. 149, t. 31; B. rubiezfolia , 
Salisb. in Ann. Bot. i. 514, t. 10 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1313 ; F. v. M. 
Fragm. iv. 23; B. humilis, Sweet; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1197; DC. Prod. iv. 
13 ; B. Billardieri, D. Don, Cunon. 13, in Edinb. New Phil. Journ. Apr. to 
June, 1830. 
Hab.: Many localities in southern Queensland. 
2. 23 . capitata (flowers in heads), Ser. in DC. Prod. iv. 13; Bentli. FI. 
Austr. ii. 447. A small shrub, either diffuse or with a woody stock and numerous 
slender stems of fft., slightly pubescent. Leaflets narrow, scarcely above fin. 
long, obtuse, usually with one prominent lobe or tooth on each side. Flowers 
almost sessile, solitary in each axil, but several pairs close together at the ends of 
the branches, forming little leafy heads. Calyx-segments 4 to 6, usually 5, about 
2 lines long, more distinctly 3-fid than the leaves. Stamens not numerous, 
anthers small. Ovary free but attached by a broad base ; ovules several in each 
cell, ascending from near the base of the partition. Capsule loculicidal but 
scarcely septicidal. Seeds rather large, pubescent, rugose, with a prominent 
raphe. — F. v. M. Fragm. iv. 24. 
Hab.: Logan River, Rev. B. Scortecldni ; Fraser’s Island, Hon. Miss Lovell. 
