LV. SAMYDACEiE. 
[lionudiuin. 
686 
lobes 8 to 10 (or rarely 6 or 7 ?), linear ; petals as many, scarcely more cuneate, 
giving the whole flower the appearance of a 16 to 20-lobed calyx, the enlarged 
calyx-lobes and petals after flowering about 14 line long and ciliate-hirsute. 
Stamens in pairs or 8 together opposite each petal. — H. alnifolium, F. v. M. 
Fragm. ii. 127. 
Hab.: Rockhampton, Dallachy. 
Also in New Caledonia and the Fiji Islands. 
The leaves in the Australian specimens are rather larger and more coriaceous than in those 
from the Fiji Islands, but are precisely as in New Caledonian specimens collected by Deplanche 
and Vieillard under Nos. 23 and 2070, and referred by them to H. tomentosum, Benth., from 
which they differ both in flowers and foliage. H. vitiense is much more nearly allied to H. 
fatidum. — Benth. 
Wood white, close in grain ; suitable for cabinet-work. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 232. 
2. H. circumpinnatum (flowers resembling a miniature shuttlecock), Bail. 
But. Bull. v. “ Darrinjar,” Cairns, E. Cowley. Shuttlecock Flower. A tall 
glabrous shrub, with the branchlets closely dotted with lenticels. Leaves 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 3 or 4in. long, f to lfin. wide in the centre, the 
margins often sharply toothed; petiole seldom over Jin. long; texture thin, 
coriaceous; primary nerves distant, reticulations fine and prominent. Racemes 
slender, terminal or in the upper axils, 3 or 4in. long, sometimes once forked 
near the end, but the branches closely appressed to each other. Peduncle, 
pedicel, and rhachis puberulous ; pedicels persistent, about 1 line long, subtended 
by a setaceous bract nearly as long. Flowers grey, hairy, about 3 lines diameter, 
tapering into a long calyx-tube ; calyx-lobes 5 or 6 linear. Petals 5 or 6, some- 
what spathulate ; stamens 2 or 3, opposite each petal ; filaments hairy in the 
lower half, the ovary not so densely. Styles 5. 
Hab.: Cairns, E. Cowley. 
This species differs from H. vitiense, Benth., in its smaller stature, less hairy pedicellate 
flowers, and smaller setaoeous bracts, and from H. brachybotrys, F. v. M., in its larger flowers 
and greater number of stamens. 
Wood of a yellow colour, close-grained, and hard. — Bailey’s Cat. Ql. Woods No. 231a. 
3. H. brachybotrys (bunches short), F. v. M. Fragm. ii. 127 ; Benth. FI. 
Austr. iii. 310. Glabrous or nearly so, except the inflorescence. Leaves oval- 
elliptical or obovate, obtuse, entire or obscurely sinuate, rarely exceeding 2in. 
and mostly about lin. long, narrowed into a petiole, drying of a paler colour than 
most of the genus. Flowers very small, sessile, in simple slender spikes of 
about lin., the rhachis pubescent as well as the flowers. Calyx-tube ovoid, about 
J line long ; lobes 6, narrow-linear, rather shorter than the tube. Petals 6, 
oblong or spathulate, rather longer and much broader than the calyx-lobes. 
Stamens solitary opposite each petal, alternating with small tufts of hairs ; 
filaments glabrous, about as long as the petals. Styles and placentas 4. Ovary 
woolly-hairy, conical. — Blackwellia brachyhotrya, F. v. M. in Trans. Viet. 
Inst. iii. 48. 
Hab : Granite rocks, sources of the Gilbert River, F. v. Mueller ; Walsh River, T. Barclay 
Millar. 
Order LVI. PASSIFLORE^E. 
Calyx-tube short or rarely elongated ; lobes 4 or 5, valvate or more or less 
imbricate in the bud, often coloured inside. Petals as many as calyx-lobes, 
inserted at their base and alternating with them, often persistent with them and 
much resembling them, sometimes small or rarely wanting. Stamens usually as 
many as calyx-lobes, rarely twice as many, inserted at the base of the calyx, but 
often connate with the ovary-stalk to near the top and appearing to be there 
inserted. Ovary usually stalked, 1-celled, with 3 or rarely 5 parietal placentas, 
