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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
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appressed hair, inside smooth, at the margin ciliate, terminated with a longer or shorter cuspis; the outer 
ones foliaceous. Petals about one-third longer than the calyx, bright-yellow, smooth, penninerved, veined. 
Stamens much shorter than the calyx. Filaments thickened at the summit. Anthers about J line long, 
yellow, opening with marginal dehiscence. Styles excelling a little the length of the stamens, setaceous 
glabrous, with minute depressed stigma. Carpels 2-3 lines long, inside and outside smooth. Seeds hardly 
longer than 1 line, shining, from dark-brown turning black, renate-globose, with a whitish or livid mem¬ 
branous more or less clammy aril. 
The species nearest related are H. grossularifolia and H. volubilis. The former is a smaller not climbing 
plant, restricted to South-West Australia, with almost orbicular leaves, and with 10-15 ovaries, which are 
hairy at the summit. H. volubilis, which may possibly occur in our eastern territory, differs in toothless 
lanceolate leaves tapering into the petiole, in larger sessile or short-stalked flowers, in longer acuminate out¬ 
side silky sepals, in larger linear anthers, which are about as long as the filaments, in 5-8 ovaries and styles, 
and in seeds deprived of an aril. 
DriMYS AK0MAT1CA — p. 20. 
On the alpine summits of the Baw Baw Banges, where this species as a small shrub very copiously 
occurs, tetrogynous flowers were not unfrequently noticed, developing all four carpels to maturity. 
Odder ANONACEiE. 
Juss. Gen . 283. 
Mowers bisexual, rarely unisexual. Sepals usually 3, and valvate in aestivation, 
or tlie calyx rarely valveless and circumcised. Petals 6 in two rows, valvate or less 
frequently imbricate in aestivation, sometimes 3, seldom wanting. Stamens almost 
constantly indefinite and multiseriate. Anthers two-celled, bursting with lateral or 
extioise dehiscence. Ovaries indefinite, rarely definite, free or coherent or concrete, 
with one or more ovules in each. Carpels sessile or stalked, free or into a many’ 
celled fruit united, dry or pulpose. Albumen large, ruminated. Embryo small, lodged 
at tlie base of the albumen. 
Aromatic trees or shrubs, not rarely scandent, rather frequent wit hin the tropical 
and subtropical zones of Asia, Africa and America, rare in Australia, rare also or 
absent in the temperate zone, entirely wanting in colder regions. Leaves alternate, 
entire. Stipules wanting . Arrangement of flowers various. Eilaments usually very 
short. Connective of anthers generally broad.— Diinal , Mbnogr . cles Anon. 1817; 
Alpli. de Cand. in Mem, Soc. JPhys. Genev. y. 177; JEndl. Gen . 830; J. Moot 8f Thorns. 
Flor . Indie . i. 86-91. 
Eupomatia is here admitted, not without reluctance, as a genus of Anonacese, 
accoiding to the views enunciated by It. Brown and supported by most pliytologists. 
Nevertheless the anomalies in the structure of the flowers and fruit of this plant arc 
so great, as to entitle it perhaps to ordinal distinction, and to a place in the vicinity 
of Laurinese. 
