286 
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY'. 
teriora elliptica, subacuta, aestivatione imbricata. Petala C, 
sepalis dimidio breviora, imo cuneata, rotundatim sub-3- 
loba, lobis lateralibus, involutis, stamina cingentia. Stamina 
6, libera, petalis opposita et aequilonga; filamenta teretia, 
apice incrassata ; anthera dorso introrsum affixae, subglobosae, 
sub-4-lob8e, 2-loculares, loculis sine connective collateralibus, 
rima transversa dehiscentibus. — Foim. nondum cogniti. Drupa 
(reliquis abortivis ?) solitaria, gibboso-ovata, exsicca ; putamen 
reniformi-subglobosum, paulo compressum, subosseum, 1- 
loculare, latere 'vea.ivsiW. condylo interno paulo intruso notatum. 
Semen nephroideum : embryo in albumine copioso cereaceo 
albido immersus, subincurvus, cotyledonibus ovatis, tener- 
rime foliaceis, incumbentibus, radicula brevi tereti supera 
ad stylum subbasalem spectante multo longioribus. 
Frutices Australasici volubiles ; folia elliptica, acuta, petiolata, 
3-5-nervia, crassiuscula, supra nitentia, subtus pubescentia : 
paniculae ^ axillares, solitarice vel gemince, folio breviores, pu- 
berulte ; flores parvi, pedicellati. 
1. Tristichocalyx pubescens, F. Mueller, Fragm. iv. 27; — Pachy- 
gone pubescens, Benth. FI. Austr. i. 58 ; — ramulis teretibus, 
striatis, pubescentibus ; foliis ellipticis aut late ovatis, imo vix 
acutis aut bisinuato-obtusis, apice breviter acuminatis, e basi 
5-nerviis, nervis extus ramosis, cum alteris lateralibus anasto- 
mosantibus, subcoriaceis, valde convexis, supra pallidis, opacis, 
glabris, Isevibus vel scabriusculis, nervis fere immersis, costa 
media puberula, subtus pallidioribus, pilis brevissimis tomen- 
toso-puberulis, nervis venisque reticulatis, prominulis, mar- 
ginibus cartilagineis subrevolutis ; petiolo subtenui, apice 
tumidulo et pubescente, limbo 5-plo breviore : paniculis ^ 
racemosis, axillaribus, 2-3, fasciculatis, folio brevioribus, pu- 
bescentibus, subspicatis; ramulis brevissimis, fere a basi alter- 
natim 2-4, fasciculatis, subapproximatis, bracteolatis ; sepalis 
glabris; petalis iis dimidio brevioribus, stamina amplecten- 
tibus. — In Australasia boreali-orientali : v. s. in herb. Hook., 
Quail Island (Flood). 
The axils are inch apart; the leaves are 4-4| inches 
long, 2^-2^ inches broad, on a petiole about 1 inch long; 
the racemiform panicle is about 2^ inches long, its fascicles 
2-3 lines apart, the pedicels about 1 line long, the expanded 
flower 1 line in diameter ; the putamen is 3 lines in diameter ; 
the septiform condyle intrudes scarcely more than half a line 
into the cavity of the cell; the seed and embryo, therefore, 
must be little curved. 
2. Tristichocalyx diffusus, nob.; — ramulis scandentibus, flexuosis. 
