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LXI. ARALIACEvE. 
[Astrotricha . 
4. A. lerlifolia (Ledum-leaved), PC. Mem. Omhell. 80 t. 6, and Prod. iv. 74 ; 
I ie/ith. PI. Aitxtr. iii. 880. A more slender shrub than A. floccasa , with virgate 
branches covered as well as the inflorescence and under side of the leaves with a 
close or iloccose tomentum. Leaves oblong-linear or narrow-linear, obtuse or 
rarely almost acute, 1 to Bin. long, glabrous above, the margins recurved or 
revolute. Panicle smaller and narrower than in A. iloccosa. Flowers and fruit 
the same as in that species. — Bolax ledifoliu *, Sieb. PI. Exs.; A. hoveoides, A. 
Cuun.; Benth. in Hueg. Enum. 55 (with short leaves) ; A. linearis, A. C'unn.; 
Benth. l.c. (with long narrow leaves) ; A. asperi folia, F. v. M.; Ivlatt in Linmea, 
xxix. 709 (with long leaves). 
Hab.: Southern localities. 
Var. glalniflora, F. v. M. Fragm. vii. 14S. Shrub 10ft. high. Leaves attaining the length o( 
bin. l’anicle elongate, glabrous. Hab.: Near Rockhampton, P. O'Shanesy (F. v. M.) 
5. A. Biddulphiana (after Mrs. H. Biddulph), F. v. M. Viet. Nat. Pec. 
1890. A shrub of about 6ft., branchlets terete, densely covered by a close light- 
brown stellate tomentum. Leaves somewhat crowded, narrow to broadish-linear, 
about 2in. long, sometimes scarcely over a line broad, glabrous on the upper, 
toinentose like the branchlets on the under surface, the midrib alone showing ; 
margins slightly recurved ; apex obtuse or very slightly apiculate ; petiole very 
short. Panicle 6 to 9in. long, glabrous. Umbels not very numerous ; peduncles 
very slender and rather long. Pedicels filiform, J to Jin. long ; involucral bracts 
very small, almost semi-lanceolate. Flowers purplish-black. Calyx-lobes minute 
deltoid; breadth of petals quite half their length; anthers greyish. Ripe fruit 
nearly Jin. long, about ovate-ellipsoid, contracted at the commissure, otherwise 
turgid, terminated by the denticulated short calyx-limb, the two fruitlets 
spontaneously seceding, on transverse section almost semi-cylindric, the com- 
missural side broad and nearly flat, between which and the seed- bearing cavity 
through intrusion of the endocarp 2 accessory small tubular cells formed either 
hollow or filled with substance similar to the albumen, but perfectly closed, 
although placed close to the commissure. Seed concave-convex, the sudden 
prominence along the inner side as extensive as the width of the seed ; albumen 
equable. — F. v. M. l.c. 
Hab.: Near Mount Playfair. Mrs. H. Biddulph. 
6. MOTHERWELLIA, F. v. M. 
(After Dr. -J. B. Motherwell.) 
Flowers polygamous. Calyx compressed-campanulate, repand quinque-crenate 
on the edge. Petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, the base truncate, distinctly imbricate 
before expansion, long cohering in a calyptra. Stamens 5, alternating with the 
petals, upright in the bud; filaments very short. Anthers dorsifixed, 2-celled. 
introrse, oblong-ovate. Styles united in a subulate-conical one. Fruit 2-eelled, 
2-seeded, broad rotund-compressed, not winged ; pericarp somewhat fleshy ; 
endocarp crustaceous-brown. Albumen not always uniform. Embryo minute, 
ovate, near the hilurn. — Woody climber, trifoliolate, or reduced to 1 leaflet. 
Leaflets entire. Umbels solitary. Pedicels articulate xvitb the calyx. 
1. IVT , haplosciadea (single- umbelled), F. r. M. Fragm. vii. 107. Plant 
glabrous. Branches striate. Petioles J to 2Jin. long, with stipular dilatations 
at the base. Leaflets on slender petiolules of about 8 lines, ovate or lanceolate- 
ovate, equilateral, chartaceous, entire, sometimes repand, 2 to4in. long, 1J to 2in. 
broad. Peduncles articulate near the upper end. Pedicels about 20 in the 
umbel, 3 to 8 lines long, thin-filiform, rigid. Calyx about H line long. Petals 
seceding, calyptra-like, scarcely 1J line long. Filaments short. Style persistent. 
