FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS.
FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS:
A DESCRIPTION
OF THE
- PLANTS OF THE AUSTRALIAN TERRITORY.
BY
GEORGE BENTHAM, F.R.S.,
ASSISTED BY
BARON FERDINAND VON MUELLER, C.M.G., E.R.S.,
GOVERNMENT BOTANIST, MELBOURNE, VICTORIA.
VOL. VL
THYMELEZ TO DIOSCORIDEX.
PUBLISHED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE SEVERAL GOVERNMENTS
LONDON :
L. REEVE & CO., 5, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1873.
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CONTENTS.
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CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS CONTAINED IN
THE SIXTH VOLUME.
Crass I. DICOTYLEDONS.
SuBCcLAss III. MONOCHLAMYDELZE.
(Continued from Vol. V.)
an nd ^ € within the base of the perianth, 1- ierg defer with
gas. ù W. Style simple but not oblique. Flowers mostly ıphrodite.
Y A
CV. TnvwELEx. Ovule pendulous. Hairs silky or spreading. Bark stringy.
CVI. Evza EX. Ovule erect. Perianth contracted over the otherwise free ovary.
.. Indumentum scur
**** Flowers strictly unisexual, very rarely polygamous. Perianth present, at
least in one of the sexes es, usually small and sometimes double, Ovary superior.
-OVIL Nerenrnacex. Ovary 3- or 4-celled, with many ovules in each cell. Seed
. albuminous. Scandent shrubs. Leaves ricum E in pitchers.
pendulous ovules fien ach cell, and as many ug P or stigmatic M tendit as cells.
wee oven I-celled, with 1 ovule, and 1 or 2 oblique styles or uni- -
lateral Poe Albumen usually scanty. Stamens opposite the perianth lobes.
Á* Perianth none besides small bracts.
CX. CasuaARINEX. Bracts 2 or 4in decussate pairs. Tre ees or shrubs with jointed
. stems and br — bare Bol a whorl of teeth at each joint. Male flowers in
catkins, — in c
PERITÆ Bact 1 under each flower. Herbs, shrubs or trees, with articu-
esd branches and flat leaves. Flowers in spikes, racemes or heads, hermaphrodite or
. unisexual.
**Txx* Ra pano s
t CSIL Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth with an oblique or
. valvately lobed tea, Verre Pear ew base of the style. Ovary 3- or 6-celled, with
Several ovules in each cell. Herbs or climbers.
XIII LIFERE. Flowers miere Perianth small, various. Ovary 1- to
Trees o "hr vem 1 or 2 ovules in each cell. Nuts sated on or enclosed in an involucre
_ Trees or s
Btpens opposite the lobes. Ovary wiih pendulous ovules rarely
Spicnons till after fecundation. Drupe i in ehissent? Shrabe, pies oe a :
Fleshy scapigerous leafless root-p lowers uni-
sexual, small, in dense terminal heads or spikes. Perianth- 5 ee deo Stamens 3.
Ovary L of 2-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell.
vil CONSPECTUS OF THE ORDERS.
SuscLass IV. GYMNOSPERMJE.
Flowers strictly unisexual, without perianths. E : or more sessile on.
e-like connectives or scales of a catkin or cone. Ovules in the axils or Ec 4
scales of a cone or a fle shy cup or receptacle without any niei
CX VI. ME Branching trees or shrubs, with needle-like or i enti
leaves or scales. Stamens in catkins with scale-like connectives, bearing 2
anther-cells.
CXVII. Cycapx. Trunks woody, usually simple, with a palm-like crown of |
pinnate leaves. Anther-cells numerous on the concealed under side of the scale:
a large cone.
Crass II. MONOCOTYLEDONS.
Stem not van ba ev into pith, wood and bark, but when perennial, consisting
karera of = rregularly im mbedded in cellular — with a y sihi
tside. s with one cotyledon, the embryo undiv the iis ME deve
from a she RN like 6 cavity on one side, Leaves br ig or UR aud p rallel vi
nts pinnate and crowning the undivided stem
ry inferior
EU ^ MUN Aquatic plants with regular mostly —r flow
o al m
X. SorrAwIN Flowers irregular, one or M or all but one of the stan
d to pear steer or es Seeds album À
cHIDEÆ. Flowers irregular, only dé i oe f the stamens PC
inserted on the style. Seeds minute, with a ho omogeneous embryo. Inflo
cen
- Bunwarsisces. Flowers regular. Anthers nearly sessile, the cells sep
Seeds minute, with a homogeneous nsn Inflorescence centrifugal. Leav
flattened or pyle to scales.
CXXII. Imre. Flowers regular or nearly so. Anthers open ing ou
albuminous. Inflo sree aii ifu ngal al ‘Leaves € ally n or te:
CXXIII. AxARYLLID Flowers regular or nearly so. rs open
Placentas axile. Seeds albuininoea: ' Taboa ‘centripetal, bu chie:
veinlets when poe transverse.
C lowers regular or nearly s Anthers opening
Placentas parietal, “Seeds albuninous Inflorescence ciati (n "c
radical, large, often divi
din he Tow rs small, unisexual, regular. Anthers op
Seeds albuminous. Stems usay twining. Leaves alternate, veinlets
FLORA AUSTRALIENSIS.
Orpen CV. THYMELEA,
Flowers agree or rarely dicecious. Perianth simple, tubular
or campanulate, 4-lobed or in genera not Australian 5-lobed, usually
regular, the lobes imbricate in the bud, with the addition in man
genera not Australian of small Fera d alternating ` with the lobes at
their base. Stamens barmai 2 pene s many as the lobes of the
erianth or twice any; filamen iis: inserte d^ in the throat or
within the tube ; scthers a with 2 aralet cells opening longitudinally.
Ovary free within the base of the perianth, 1- or rarely 2-c elled, with 1
or rarely 2 or 3 pendulous vest ovules. Style simple, with a
. album mbryo Higit with a superior radicle.—Shrubs trees or
| rarel ‘tebe with a stringy M Leaves alternate or opposite, always
simple and entire. Flower in bis or axilary clusters cum
| A considerable Order, E distributed over r most parts of the globe.
= Stamens 2. Perianth-lobes 4 . 1. PIMELEA.
1 Stason 4, nem dh with the perianth- lobes. Densely tufted pro-
strate shrub . 2. DRAPETES.
Stamens ed as many as s perianth- lobes. Shrubs or small trees.
| d lled, with 1 ovule. PPS scales 4, free or united
in 3. WiksTRÜMIA.
Ovary "2-celled, with 1 ovale i in each cell. _ Hypogynous iles
ited in a short cu cup . 4. PHALERIA.
1. PIMELEA, Banks and Soland.
(Thecanthes, Wikstr.; UN RU aprire dmi ii and Calyptrostegia,
Perianth tubular, with a spreading or rarely erect 4-lobed limb, LI
_ out scales but often slightly thickened or folded round the throa
1 — 2 inserted in the throat appodita the 2 outer perianth-lobes,
1 d^.
*
2 CV. THYMELEJE. [ Pimelea. —
No hypogynous scales. Ovary l-celled, with 1 pendulous ovule. Style
Veg attached to one side of the ovary immediately below the 3
spe Fruit a small drupe, with a membranous or succulent epicarp, -
e Waddie nut-like, crustaceous, often hooked at the top. Seed pen- -
iius with a membranous testa; albumen scanty or copious ; = 1
white Er. or ! follows, often silky-villous.
The genus is limited to Australasia, comprising, besides the Australian species, one 1
of which is also from New Zealand, nine others confined to New Zealand. [
Glab: Uus
oe 1. Thecanthes. —Involucral — united into a 4-lobed cup. Perianth-tube 4
br.
Towlueil 1 lobes very broad, shorter than the entire part, usually
ith
forked veins 1. P. punicea.
Involucral inci reaching to about the middle, with the midrib
one prominen
lioli k lobes very broad. Filaments twice as long as ’
the perianth-lobes. Flowers white 2. P. concreta.
—€— : acute. Vim ens ood shorter than ‘the
pes . Flowe 3. P. cornucopia.
rre "e obes reaching ux to the base, several-nerved an
longe Filaments much s than the
ns iui x n Flowers red . 4. P. sanguinea.
Sect. 2. Empimelea.— Znvolucral bracts free, like the stem-leaves or rasia
oader. A ap epg silky-villous, not circumsciss.—.
t
y Oppos
Stem and leaves glabrous. Involucral bracts rather broader
than the stem-leaves.
Toutes under j in. long. Perianth- "pue 2 x s E o. . 5, P. alpina.
Leaves mostly above $in. Perianth-tube about 4 in 6. P. longifolia.
Stem and under-side of the leaves i upper side gla-
bro volucral bracts like the stem-leaves . P. cinerea.
Stem and [n on both sides pre's MET silky. Tavolueral
bracts like ps OPH 8. P. Milligan.
(43. P. leptost. the — circumscis: but ‘the
flowers in a M oet acis and the leaves asd rae )
Sect, 3. Heterolæna. ee bracts free, much broader than the lea
pote ihe not circumsciss —Shrubs. Leaves E job flat (not concave,
or with the margins recurved or Pu. Species ail West
Leaves oblong or lanceolate, acute or mucronate, d to above 1 in.
long. Perianth-tube above j in. long, with ng d
purs the upper part with short appressed ps .. 9. P. spectalilis.
Leaves of P. spectabilis but shorter and. less cute. Perianth-
M be with only a few scattered hairs above the pag babe on
nes 10. P. Lehmanniana.
Leaves Sister shorter broader Y more obtuse. Involucral
y bra with coloured margins. Perianth- tube 4 to 6
es E. 9354 hispida,
emm oblong linear or lanceolate, mostly, sents the margins
~ much recurved. Perianth-tu er $ in.:»lon . 12. P. rosea.
8 ovato or oblong, get rok: in. xmas the e margins
urved. Perianth-tübe under 4 in i pea Fori
- Pimelea.] CV. THYMELEX. 9.
Leaves narrow, 2 to 3 lines long, the margine maoh poa.
Perianth-tube 2 to 24 lines long . . 14. P. brachyphylla. —
. (16. P. brevifolie, with small concave one seems aes to ates
the perianth- -tube scarcely circumsciss. i:
1 Seer. 4. 4. Calyptrostegia.— Flowe rodite o r in some specimens female
| by abort ion. Perianth-tube yu fowering C bm in P: leptonit —
. above the ovary, leaving the lower portion only persistent round the fruit. Anther.
P. nma a narrow connective, the cells very distinct and after they open placed back to
- Sussecr. 1. Calyptridium.— Flower-heads terminal, with 4-6 broad — in-
p bracts.—Shrubs (or one species a. hard annual? ) with opposite leaves
.. _* Western species. nn gs flat or concave, ed as well as the Driade.
: Cotyledons Bé hh
Involucral bracts all gl febrotx i
. .— Perianth pede e. (txultaio adi unio eos cos 15. P. sylvestris.
Perianth m more o
per 16. P. brevifolia,
tenes narrow wid nA ateral veins, Hairs of the perianth
shes and Te. in the u pper ante with or without
4 preading ones lower down . 17, P. Maxwelli.
- Inneri ive oral bracts aniar d inside.
|. Leaves air " or lanceolate. rsistent portion of the
perianth very densis hispid JT portion villous
with a
Bracts scarcely Tutia, much shorter than the pirianth,
Leaves mostly linear 18. P. angustifolia.
B ind — umi j ` nearly as long as the. pe-
nate
Leaves mostly lanceolate . 19. P. nervosa,
Leaves os M oblong or broadly je: AP Flower-heads
nodding.
Perianth valky- villous throughout, hairs of the lower part
ovary often lon - but scarcely spreading.
hive ed acuminate . . . 20. P. sulphurea.
Bracts herbaceous, aback inate. ` Flower-heads la
priv gms portion of the perianth very densely
. P. floribunda.
Peria: ae with long spr reading hairs in the lower part. ‘Brac e^
large, obtuse, thin. and coloured, but not concealing the
. 22. P. suaveolens,
Peri int , glabrous i in the lower pert, the long narrow-linear
lobes hairy. Brac ling large, obtuse, colo edi com-
Lon west ae LN flowe ; . 23. P. physodes.
ern species.— CDM Seis «|i diode giro Uri) the stem.
lon usually broad.
glabrous at the base, bei sped. Hairs of
“the ETE verg long . . 24, P. glauca,
banat ae eto Hairs of the rece tacle. short,
MR very concave. Involucral bracts acu-
mi oil 25. P. colorans.
lacs mostly ing, obtuse. Bracts sca reely acumin
Leav or rominent marginal or submarginal "
Pad €—€— hg ower-heads erect. s age aer
with a pro rominent midri ib . 26. P. collina.
Leaves E eomm marginal veins. Bracts largo
and thin . | TE HT
z CV. THYMELER. [Pimelea. -
*** Eastern species.— Glabrous silky-hairy or tomentose. Leaves flat or with
margins more or less recurved. Cotyledons usually broad.
Brarches and leaves glabrous.
Leaves narrow, under 1 in. lon $ . 28. P. linifolia.
long or broad, above 1 n. lon P. ligustrina.
Branches silky-hairy. Leaves iia or r loosely silky-hairy BO. il
h d underside of the leaves silve P. sericea
Branches and underside of the leaves ees: jek wiles a o8. ee TARE
SussEcr. 2. Phyllolena. ose eus with numerous involucral bracts
ndo. than the leaves.— Western
poe mostly compe glabrous or Side iste e Pe-
f
anth-lobes s i i 33. P. imbricata.
iod mostly posl, ‘villous. Perianth very hispid, “the lobes
longer than the . 34. P. villifera.
Sussect. 3 pes tachys.—J lowers.in. clusters pre or racemes, without
volucres, or the bra rox broader ste the leaves and ver m ciducus. Leaves flat
with slightly Sd nh — Eastern or tropical spec |
Leaves
Flower sti cad axillary, small. Fruit re suc- r
culen I CBE drupacea. `
Flowe A arge, red, i in'a terminal dense s spi ike heematos
Flowers bad small, in terminal clusters or spikes. "Plant
abrou
Leaves mo mostly "Mead Flower-clusters lengthening into
37. P. spicata.
Lanes moais pent or ovaie-lanceclate, Flower-clusters
not len worm ing 88. P. filiformis.
Leaves mostly alternate, silky-villo
ppr as broad, 14-3 in. ads ‘Flowers tris “Ce
erianth 3—4 lines long ae 39. P. latifolia.
Leaves linear. Perianth not 2 lines Tong.”
Fruiting spike shortly capitate . . . a E E Qo
Fruiting spike long and rini qs
h-hairs silky a c
ri
Peri
— Aide glabrous or ehir ei skye Fruiting spike long
interrupted. ` Perianth small, not circumsci
are open poser età to rom guine boli iir after flower
circumsciss above the ovary, the ortion persistent round the somewhat suc
fruit and almost ndáits to it. s -silky-villous or hairy.— Western species
Flower-clusters all sessile and axi oie ene i. 44. P. argentea.
Flower-clusters terminal or on xi pud peduncles - We . P, clavata.
Secr. 6. Dithalamia.—F'lowers sient strictly — Male perianth
slender " anthers with a narrow v Ard Oe distinct, and after
are o back to back; or en en Fe p
ih
pen
wholly persistent with a ie. div ided to £^ e ovary, or
and tary circumsciss. Fruit not at all, or slightly succulent.
m iin all axillary
Lateral veins of the leere very diverging. Male perianth-
tube 1 to 14 lines long . 46.
teral veins nearly parallel to the midrib. Male ‘perianth-
tube 4 to 5 lines long . 47. P.
Pimelea.] CV, THYMELEJE. 5
Flower-clusters terminal, or in the forks.
Lea ra int lanceolate, x i to 1 in. ae,
more or less silky eos. . 48. P. microcephala.
icons quite glabrous. . . 49. P. pauciflora.
Leaves oblong, with recurved margins, 2 to 4 lines long . . 50. P. elachantha.
Leaves small, ovate, coriaceous, less conc
use or very much branched Ho. vlna gig y Rua.
SEP py
clustered, qui ie dla abrous as well as the leaves . 52. P. serpyllifolia.
Erect, shortly di aio shrubs. Flowers silky-villous.
mostly de use. Female perianth. tube not Minis
nie e ov ‘ . P. flava.
Leaves diy d iis; ` Female perianth-tube ' pro PE To
above the ovary esi sometimes tardily circumsciss. . 54. P. petrophila.
Src Epallage.—Flowers hermaphrodite or more or = diæcious. Perianth-
| tube easily circumsciss after flowering, leaving the lower portion persistent round the
m fruit. Anthers rather flat, with a broad dorsal connective, the cells closely par on
the inner face the whole anther usually rolled tee ii floweri ing. Flowers in clusters
or heads, rarely solitary, or in dense oblon
. Flowers strictly dicecious. Leaves alternate, ir silk dies.
Flowers solitary in the upper axils. Female periant pe A
silky-villous 5. P. Bowmanni.
ow usters. Femal ` perianth with the peii
portion clothed with very long s xmi hai
perianth shortly and equally — nd cant - 86. P. ammocharis.
Flowers herma ite, or on some speciniens
male.
Softly villous plants. Flowers small, eme 2 or rarely 4,
unequal and deciduous.
Hairs appressed. Leaves mostly oblong, rarely 4 in. long . 57. P. curviflora.
Hairs sean à Leaves _ — petiolate, un er
in. lon ; . 58. P. hirsuta, —
Hairs 2 ‘spre readi ing. R^ ovate or “oblong, à to 1
owers rather lar; . 59. P altior.
T y villons, or eb dm arl Eak plants, involucra bracts
ral, not much bra er than the le
Leaver flat, the midrib scarcely srona Eranti ' Bracts usually
nu
us.
Filaments shorter than the corolla. . . . . . . . 60. P. octophylla.
Slamonts pde than t Pe corolla 61. P. petrea.
aves erect, concave the midrib prominent "under-
th. Bracts stall about
Leaves small (under j in.) iR -— aise Mi. n P. phylicoides.
en ne 4 to near 4 in. long, narrow oblon, Sus . P. Eyre.
LM mos tly a about 4 in. long . 31 P. longiflora.
Stem and ALT glabrous, coded concave. Bracts (4 to 6)
much tirtadee rives the le
Leaves narrow, cor iacens, jan Perianth circumsciss !
above the o
Flow ats gone Rogers, Perianth equally "n :
vill . 65. P. stricta.
Flower-heads usually erect. ` Perianth with long more
spreading hairs in the low P. Preissii.
Leaves broad, 1 to 14 in. deed rest at length spicate, .
Bracts ve very deciduous. Perianth not circumsciss . . 67. P. Holroydi.
.. P. grandiflora, Don. Hort. Cantab., and P. prinifolia Nois, quoted in Steude’s
Honc are garden names which cannot now be identified.
6 ‘CV, THYMELEJE. | Pime
Sect. 1. TuEgcaANTHES.—Involueral braets united into a 4-lobed eU
ER hermaphrodite. Perianth glabrous, the aue not circumsciss
Glabrous ap with ue or alternate lea
1. P. punicea, R. Br. An erect rid slight
branched annual ol $ to 1 ft. repe eddy Mte lanceolate,
ute or mucronate, about 1 in. long. ower-heads on a rather ]
erect terminal peduncle le; thickened at he ji Involucre broadly
binate, 6 to 8. lines diameter, divided to below the middle into 4 b
obtuse lobes, marked with forked veins, the two outer ones often sligh
dilated pes overla ping the others at the base. Flowers red, m
exserted. isis on very short conical pedicels within the inv
luere at or near Pits base, the tube about 3.lines long, the lobes abo
l line. Filaments about half the length of the lobes; anthers oblo
with a narrow connective. Epicar AE Vi eM with a sci
albumen and broad cotyledons.—Meissn. in DC. . xiv. 407; E
"Ieonogr. t. ll. | Thecanthes punicea, Wikstr. i in nee R. Acad. Stock
mucronate and the Tu veins of the involucre are not so prominent as isi the bs
ar. bre pus Involucres $ in. diam., the flowers exceedingly n
— Sandstone fied Up Mond ge r an and. Hooker's and Sturt’s Creeks,
Mueller ; Purdie's Ponds, hia * Douall
P. concreta, F. Muell. Fragm. v.73. A glabrous Hints
m habit. ina foliage of P. punicea, but the peduncle in the onl;
seen shorter than the last leaves and the —— white. Inve iu
broad; divided to about the middle into 4 bt oad obtuse or sca
acuminate obes, veinless except t ichtly conspicuous.
erianths much exserted, the tub pea 3 lines long, the 1
and obtuse, scarcely ? line nd: NA s at least twice as. long à:
the lobes, with small oblong ant
N. Australia. Camden Harbour, N xc Coast (Herb. F. Mueller).
3. rnucopie, Vahl. Enum. i. 305. An erect glabrous
stiff annual of about 1 ft, Leaves alternate or the — — oppo
to ag = middle into broad acute lobes, with the midribs alone co
spicu Flowers numerous, usually whitish, on short lat
pedioels within the involucre at or near its base. Perianths scai
uding beyond the involucral lobes, the a: tube about 2
Durs circumsciss after flowering short rtly a e the ovary, the
small and obtuse. Filaments s very short ; arcc ovate, wi with |
connective. Epicarp oru Ped with a scan al
broad emer Br. Prod. 359; Meissn. in DC. in
! Thecanthes ucopie, Wikstr. in DA R. Acad. Stockh. 181
Calida o cornucopia, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. = 60.
Pimelea.] CV. THYMELEJE. 7
Endeavour river, Banks and Sola bee A, Cunningham ; P. rtis,
Key ppel EE p Shoalwater Bay, Broad Sound, Æ. Brown; Cape York, premna d Port
zala urdekin river, Bowman; AE a and Rockingham Bay,
Thozet and othe:
u
long, the lobes scarcely above 3 line and obtuse. Stamens shorter than
the lobes, with the short anthers of P. cornucopi.
Queens land. Upper Roper river, F. Mueller ; Cape river, Bowma
A specimen from — flats, Moant King, Glenelg district, Martin, referred by
Mueller, Fragm., o P. sanguinea, with the evidently red flowers of that
species, has the habit. and involures of P. cornucopie ; but it is insufficient to deter-
mine sakea its affiniti
EUPIMELEA.—[Involucral bracts free, like the stem leaves,
orra ther buie Flowers Agric ant the opa not cir--
wh
concave detti usually opposite
To this section belong the several New Zealand oae of Pimelea.
DC. Prod. xiv. 511, A low much-
or floral leaves rather broader than the qose Receptacle, shortly
villous. Flowers hermaphrodite, but in some measure dimorphous,
ilico back s back or ne
Victoria. ong mountains, Albert rt Range, mounts dne on mo Latrobe,
Bawbaw and Cobborne mountains at an elevation of 4000-6000 . Mue
6. P. longifolia, Banks and Sol.; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 516.
An erect much-branched shrub of 2 ft., glabrous except the inflorescence,
and often a minute tuft of hairs on the apex of each leaf. Leaves
opposite, sessile, crowded, lanceolate, flat or nearly so, green or ee
3 to l in. lo: mg in Moore's specimens; but often much larger in
Zealand o Flower-hea terminal, sessile gens a few fiel nud
8 CV. THYMELEJ. [ Pimelea:
a , but the
cotyledons broad.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 509; P. Gunnii, Hook. £c
Fl. Tasm. i. 339. | (
Tasmania. Mount Wellington (Table mountain), R. Brown, A. Cunningham,
Guhn ; South Port, C. Stuart. d
F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 8, unites this with P. drupacea, but the perianth is very
different. ' i
4
1 line long. Filaments short; anthers oblong, with a rather bi
connective, but the cells quite distinct, and at length placed bac
back. Fruit not seen. td
Tasmania. Mount Sorrell, at an elevation of 3000 ft., Milligan.
Szcr.3. HETEROLXNA.—Involueral bracts b
free, much
than the stem-leaves. Flowers hermaphrodite, the perianth-ti
%
-. Pimelea.] CV. THYMELER. 9
i a uus albumen and narrow cotyledons.—Shrubs. Leaves
CREO glabrous, flat Cat concave) or with the margins recurved or
te
spectabilis, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 33. An erect gett
attaining sometimes 3 or labrous edt the flowers. Lea
mostly opposite, rather crowded, linear-oblong or ecm flat o or
the margins reste recurved, 2 3 to 14 in. long, the uppermost often
shorter and broader. Flower-heads usually large, globular, siivoja
by 4 to 6 ovate or ovate-lanceolate bracts, often coloured on the
: place B to back. Epicarp membranous. Seed with a copious
. albumen, the embryo ot Siar the cotyledons narrow, longer
than the radicle.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 504; Bot. Mag. t. 3950 ;
- Heterolana spectabilis, Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. x. 46;
| Morren in TR Soc i. Gand, iii. 584, t. 166 (Meis sn.). .
| W. Aus SES 3rd coll. n. 283, 20^ 5th coll. n. 425; Kalgan and
E Blackwood fer, ra Oldfield, Franklin river fer Brockman's Brook, Maxw vell.
3 Pert csi in distant pairs, less acute and p smaller.—King Senet s
3 mc Mc Lea
E 10. P. E R in Pl. Preiss. i. 603, ii. 270, and
- in DC. Prod. xiv. 504. A dd attaining $ or 3 ft., glabrous except
_ the flowers, closely resembling gome forms of P. spectabilis, but the
1 foror broader and shorter (4 to 3 in. long i rather rigid), the hairs
| of the lower portion of the perianth-tube more rigid and not so long,
1 hd the upper portion sprinkled only with a few often rather long rigid
| hairs, or glabrous, and not silky-villous; the flowers are also sai aid to
white, or of a yellowish tint and not pink. The perianth- -tube appears
: reak off sometimes above the long-haired portion (not circumsciss
above the iu ed z Calyptrostegia), and the anthers are much smaller
than in P. spec I have not succeeded in finding any s seeds
with a ney ped gaa en Lehmanniana, “En en. Pl,
AR iv. part 2, 61.
: ustralia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, Baxter, Drum-
mond, oe n. 1271, Oldfield, Maxwell, R. Mueller
ar.? ligustrinoides. se oblong, i s lin n, long; Flower-heads often nodding. with
very large involucral bracts.—Swan r, r Drum ond, 1st coll. This form closely
resembles - ligustrina in foliage, bot i R i tke latter species the hairs of the perianth are
much and very caducous, and the perianth-tube is decidedly circumsciss imme
: [diately above ie "m
| circumsciss. Anthers yim a narrow connective. Seeds where known -
- wit
. A. Mey. in Bull. gu. . Petrop. iv. (1845), 74; Pinelea Verschaffeltii,
i CY. THYMELEZ. | [Pimelea. -
11. P. hispida, R od. 860. An erect shrub, attaining 9 to 4' |
» inn apa sahti miee except the infloreseen ce. Leave ves. 3
i
g ovate un in
Uolo. and $ in. long or rather more, sso o or scarcely peti tolit
flat or the margins scarcely recurved. Flo eads terminal, globular.
ng p: are the middle and on
ces nearly as long as the Shee ots oblong with a narro
connective. The fruit seems to vary, short and Dese eie g a.
and stipitate within the perianth, the epicarp membra
t. um riena Pagus, (A. Mey. in Bull Abad eee
(1845) 73.
. King eid s Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, A.
bei areal EF. Mello E others
. lanata, R. Br. Prod. 360, Meissn. in Pl. mlana Y 604, and in DC. Prod. xi
Calyptrostegia lanata, Endl. Gen Pl. Suppl. iv iv. part 2, 61, appears to be a EG.
of P. hispida with the leaves usually but not always shorte Mar broader, and the smaller
perianth breaking off more readily above the middle of the
12. P. rosea, R. Br. Prod. 300. A much- Mitis shrub, clo
allied to P. ferruginea, to vidi F. Mueller reduces it as a vari etr. hs
is of taller growth and more slender. Leaves opposite, be or line
oblong, often above 4 in. long, with the recurved or revolute mar,
of P. ginea. Flowers larger than in that species, but of a nla
structure, pink or white. Involucral bracts 4, broad and membranous,
n f
reiss. i, 602, and i
Prod. xiv. 503; Bot. Mag. t. 1458, and possibly Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 88;
P. Hendersoni, Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 8721; Heterolena rosea, C. A. Mey. in
em Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 73 and H. Hendersoni j, C. A. Me m
4.
W. Australia. an River, Fraser, Drum mond, Tof Coll. we MODICUM
et 1276 ; King ite s Sound or adjoining Mm E Brown, , Fraser, D
(2nd “coll. 2) n. 110, 166, F. Mueller; Sabina ri
13. P. eric we men Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 10 As :
ovate or oblong, hen or ro ar mucronate, rath
quite glabrous, shorter than the flowers, wi M colat
like the stem-leaves. Perianth-tube about 4 lines lon not c
*
ae CV. THYMELER. 11
anthers oblong, with a narrow connective, the cells when open placed .
back to back. Fruit short within the per stint perianth, not acumi-
nate; epicarp membranous. Seed with copious albumen, the cotyledons
na cer than the radicle.— P. decussata, R. Br. Pro 360 ;
Meissn. in PI. Preiss, i. 602, ii. 270, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 502 ; Sweet,
Fl. Austral. t. Ll Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1283; Maund, Botanist, t 1965
P. diosmifolia, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1708; Heterolena decussata, C. A. Me ey.
in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 73
W. Australia. King George's Sound «i adjoining districts, R. Brown, A. Cun-
ningham, Drummond, 3rd coll. n. 286, Preiss, n. 1272 and many ‘others ; extending to
Cape Arid, Maxwell.
14. P. brach; phyla, 3 Benth. An erect much-branched shrub, "-
under 1 ft. to about 2 ft. high, dero, except the inflorescence . Leave
recurved ins, from un lines to about 3 lines ong -
heads small, globular, with an seg eh of 4 to 6 broadly ovate bracts,
shorter than the flowers, the inner ones slightly silky-hair e.
Receptacle hirsute. Flowers hermaphrodite o e specime
dite or in som
emale. Perianth-tube about 2 to 24 lines long in the hermaphrodite
flowers, shorter in the female, not circumsciss, more or r less hirsute with
- spreading hairs. Filaments in the hermaphrodite flowers nearly as long
—. as the lobes; anthers ovate, with a narrow connective, the cells when
open placed back to back; in the female flowers the filaments short
with small empty anthers and the style longer. Fruit small, ovoid, not
beaked. Seed not seen quite ripe.— P. brevifolia, Mein. in DC. Prod.
xiv. 497 not of R. Br.
W. Australia. King George's Sound. and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Drum-
mond, 5th coll. n. 429, F. F^ Mueller ; ; dense thickets N. of tetadlite Bay, Maxwell.
Secr. 4. CarvPTRosTEGIA.—Involucral bracts free, various in size
or number, sometimes very deciduous, purely entirely. deficient. Flowers
hermaphrodite or in some specimens female by abortion. Perianth-tube
- «after flowering circumsciss above the ovary, leaving the lower portion
onl persistent round the fruit. — with a narrow connective, the
cells when open placed back to bac
- ^ Supsecr. 1. Oa — i^o OE: terminal, with 4 to 6 broad. persistent
. involucral bracts. Leaves o
$ to 2 in. long, more or less concave. Flower-heads mos
involucel des 4 to 6, ovate-lanceolate, shorter than or as long as
Receptacle and very short pedicels adir "Perianth riy
“labial the rin slender, 3 to 4 lines long, circumsciss above the
‘ovary. Filaments as long as the lobes; anthers narrow-oblong, with a
19 CV. THYMELEEX. [ Pünelea.- 1
PME. connective. Epicarp membranous. Seed with a copious alb
the embryo nearly cylindrical, um narrow cotyledons.—Meissn.
PL et 605, and in DC. Pro d. xiv. 506; Bot t. Mag. t. 8276; Bot
Reg. t. 1582; Ladd. Bot. Cab. t. 1965; An cn ostegia sylvestris, t A.
Mey. in Bull: Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74; Pimelea graciliflora, Hoo
Bot. Mag. t. 3288 (with rather broader leaves), Meissn. ll. cc.; Ca
trostegia pl iflora, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. part 2, ie
a stralia. King George's Sound, R. S M Preiss, n 1270, Baxter ; S al
gon 1st coll., n. 551, Preiss, n. 1274; also in Town 2nd coll. 1
and jr voll & 289.
osa, F. Muell. Involucral bracts larger and more obtuse Ms the wh
plant dr pg j^ like the var. tinctoria of P. suaveolens. P. eruginosa, F.
agm. v
Ww. ia stralia. Drummond.
16. P. brevifolia, R. Br. Prod. 359, not of Meissn. A small branchi
shrub, apparently. 6 in. to 1 ft. high , glabrous except the flow Pine
opposite, sessile, elliptical oblong or lanceolate, somewhat con
under $ in. long, usually rather rigid and distinctly penniveined un
cr |
; in DC. cxt lyp
rom nm C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74, as to Bro
synon
t he SI gies King George's Sound, R. Brown, also in Drummond, 4th €
n.
Y mgustifolia. Leaves ` nint but broader than in P. Maxwelli, and di
aini —Cape Arid, Maxwell
Var. membranacea. Leaves and bracts much thinner, the latter orbicular —
nous vae ee —West reece Drummond (Herb. F. 1
seems doubtful whether the perianth-tube breaks off above
pe
after flowering the foliage and habit indicate ini lace of I b aoi in Calyp
rather than in Heterolen cath rown’s nb ne si escri m a single eee
smaller hee and d fo than in Drummond's plant, but it seems to
species, approaching oa to the var. angus tifo lia.
7. P. Maxwelli, F. a Herb. A shrub with erect :
branches from under 1 ft. ft. high, glabrous except the
rescence. Leaves opposite ieee or oblong- lanceolate, under
way a )
- and Bile baie the hairs of the lower Apen pot en
ing, on the upper portion shorter and more appressed M el
pu CV. THYMELER. 18
W. Austr en rdon and Kalgan r rivers, ouis id of King George's
Sound, Bazter ; at ‘Callam’s Inlet, Esper. e Bay, Jk mne ; also with the perianths
almost glabrous i in the upper portion, Gardiner river m Cape Arid, Maxwell.
Some specimens have female perianths only, with iiit preke and long styles;
in E" all the perianths are hermaphrodite, but both forms of flower appear to be
tile
tifolia, R. Br. Prod. 360. An erect fares slender
hairs not much afe in the persistent than in the dec iduo 8 portion,
the Lilo abet 1} lines long. Filamen én half a s Tig to nearly
as long as the lobes; anthers with a iatha broad arimak but the
. short, but not seen ripe.—Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 269, and in DC.
[ Pi. xiv. ET pave the vars. a and 3); Calyptrostegia angustifolia,
[ C. Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74.
E w. King George's Sound and 7 par - districts, R. Brown, F.
_ Bauer, Pastor. A. A ODIAN rummond, 3rd n. 287, and pe others ; ed
. between Moore and Murchison rivers, Vader 6th coll. n d
. in the Banksian herbarium has the lea perg Voge and the jenidtut p portion of the the
4 peo ths more densely and longer sky vilous t n the others. R. Brown's own speci-
. men is a poor one with smaller flowers than
E 1E osa, M: 1. Preiss. ii. 269, ei in DC. Prod.x
T 500. An po slightly branched shrub of 1 to 2 ft., glabrous pati
_ the a nce. Leaves ont linear-lanceolate, concave, j to
ut n
neath ion ry. irmte globular, usually larger than in P.
thers with a narrow connective. Fruit short, not acuminate, 5
with a copious albumen, and nearly terete Maher the cotyledons nar-
oC as long as the radicle.— Calyptrostegia nervosa, ae Ann
4.
(Q W. Aus ; Drummond; S. Coast i Renters Lake Sapphire, Harper ; perling
Range, pO Siva’ (with smaller ‘flowers) ; ; M'Callum's Inlet and eastward to Cape Le
14 CV. THYMELEZ.. [.Pimele
20. P. sulphurea, Meissn. in Bot. Zeit. t. 1848, 396, and in DC. Prod. xi
An erect slightly branched shrub of 1 to ? ft., gor except
ppo
y spreading,
narrow, above 1 line long. Filaments nearly as long as e lo h
when open. Fruit not s
. Austr river, abies nd, wt coll. n. 549, € n. 1278; Ve
and — pue Oldfield ; between Swan river and King George's Sou nd, Ha
Var hala. Leaves narrow, shined bay larger, the inner bracts above
long we esit puce ciliate.—Blackwood river, Oldfield. Perhaps referable rather
P. suaveolens.
n DC. Prod. xiv. 505. Erect, slig
long as the flowers, the inner ones SE inside; rec
lous. Flowers hermaphrodite. — M
i —
wr Peiwen MONA NEN riv petto coll. n. 214
dip — Oldfield, C. idi ii
ens, Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 603, and in DC. Prod.
1 ft., but attaining 2 or 8 ft. when more i
flowers. Leaves opposite, from ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lin
or less concave, mostly $ to 1 in. lo wer-head
tn bra '8, broad, often as lon the flowers, usual
Perianth yellow when fres i the tube slen 7
pe. P above the ovary after flowering, the persistent por
acuminate and loo LM when in fruit, the deci m)
clothed at dii base wit i
| Pimelea.] ‘CV, THYMELEX. 15
: laced
. back to . Fruit acuminate, rather long, the e ia membranous.
- suaveolens, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61; P. maer ocepha la, Hook. Bot.
i DN Pleur. t. 76; ; Meissn. bs DO. Pro
M an an river, bivina det. . 548, Preiss, n. 1268; Giogaplis
: Bay, Oldfield | King George’s Sound, ores Oldfield, Maxwell, also Drummond,
bth coll. n. fe
Lo. Var. tinctoria.. Leaves usuall jx shorter and broader turning bluish in
_ drying. "P. tinctoria, Meissn. in PI. Preiss. i. 603, an nd in DC. Prod. xiv. 501; Calyp-
- trostegia tinctoria, Endl. o Suppl. iv. att 2 61. Didi 4th coll. n. 249, 5th
- coll. n. 427, and Suppl. n. P. Menke Leh i e
- in DC. Prod. xiv. 503, or "loli tegia cr orc Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61
_ (Drummond, n. 421) ‘only differs from the ordinary var. tinctoria in the smaller flowers.
hysodes, Hook. eed ae t. 865. An erect shrub of about
the out
q often 2 in. ae term e villous. Perianth- tube about 5 oe
- linear lobes,which are about 4 lines long. Stamens much e i e
1 bec: at the irrg” of the tube, with a slightly prominent transvers
-. fold in the throat, starting from each side ofthe peed of each laments
anthers narrow, the cells when open placed back to back, Frui
' a
| r v
a Nat. Mose. 1852 , ii. 178.
7 LE Australi E Mount Barren, Maxwell, and probably the same locality, Drum-
d, 5th coll. n. 424, and Suppl. n. 84. Notwithstanding the ons rent (C of the
Besionth and the extraordinary development of the involucre, the to
parate this plant from the genus which as a whole is so very "ud
P. glauca, R. i Prod. 360. An erect much-branched shrub,
Eos i to 14 ft. high alag except the inflorescence. Leaves
almost linear, so
er $ in., sometimes r even longer, flat or con-
cave ic the midrib sed vad cet Flower-heads rit
involucral bracts usually 4, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, shorter than
, Sometimes not much, sometimes considerably broader than the
stem-leaves, the inner ones ciliate on the m margin and more or less silky-
hairy inside. Receptacle densely jp diy with long hairs, Perianth-
_ tube 4 to 5 lines long, circumsciss after flowering consiacephiy above
the ovary, the persistent portion thi pabitin or sprinkled only with
J
16 .CV. THYMELEJE.
hairs, the deciduous ve silky-villous, the lobes onthe 55 lines r
Filaments usually half the length of the lobes; anther
narrow connective. Fruit sessile or nearly so withi dito periawthi th
epicarp membranous. Seed not seen apes una bat v cotyled
ed to be rather broad.—Meissn
Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 286, t. 13; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. ;
Bot. Cab. t. 161 Hy d humilis, Lad. Bot. Reg. t. 1268 nt of
ns d. intermedia, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1439; Maund, Botan
t. 243; Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 501; Calyptrostegia fee
. 581, n i
Zeit. 1848, 394, id in DC. Prod. xiv. 500; Calyptrostegia
dahliana, Walp. "Ann. iii. 924; P. myrtifolia, Schlecht. Le. 589.
Queensland. Plains of the Condamine, Leichhardt Darling Downs, Law;
uu Bowman; Rockhampton, r, Hal
les. Port Jackson to the Blue Mococedis, f H. Brown and ———
warra, Bathurst, Liverpool Plains, A. Cunni "tSc New Engl and, C. gras
Port Phi illip, R. Brown; Murray and Ovens rivers, ;M
yim aa j Glenelg river and Wendu jore optan: j monili of the poesi ri
Alli
iii: eir lese R. Brown; common in light sandy soil, especially o
-— xs coast, J. D. Hook
ustralia. oniu Gulf, R. Brown, Warburton; Lofty Range, Guic
ir Samada n Mueller.
E
3H
8 sometimes vipat with the P. li inifolia, the most ready distin
is in the one ne base of the nth being nearly Lose but half concealed by
long hairs of the receptacle, e s“ dolvi a o usually concave when dry,
25. P. colorans, ; Meissh. i n DC. Prod. xiv. 499. An
shrub of 2 or 3 ft. " dc 8 spes the rsdlabeboonee Leaves oppos
petiolate, linear or lin ear-lanceolate, tapering at both nde, conca
Marie a que
N.S. wae oe river, it. Cunningham.
96. P. collina, R. Br. Prod. 359. An erect shrub, glabrous exci
the inflorescence, closely resembling P. linifolia, but the loiva
slightly concave with the parior veins more prominent undern
running into a marginal nerve when the leaves are nm:
- Pimelea.] CV. THYMELEX. P is
. :Meissn. Le.; P. colorans, Mitch. Pony Austr. 362 not of A. Cunn.;
P. Mitcheili, Meissn. in DC. Prod. x
SAL. en, R. Brown; pene river, Mitchell; dividing ranga
between Flinders and Burdekin rivers, Thoze
N. Wales. Wellington valley, A. Cunningham; ; New England, C. Stuart.
gn Ux es Leaves shorter and an er.
ales. Hastings river, Butle
Vies. Mount M'Ivor and Mount na F. Mueller ; luta Mes
; . glauca, and the hairs of the receptacle are short, and the bracts glabrous
_ inside and rather thin. In long series of specimens from various localities some may
. met with which seem ibl to connect P, Ylena , P. collina and P. linifolia.
ddi
the iero bracts ovate, obtuse or acute, often coloured, rri
1 E linjfolia.— P. cernua, R. Br. Prod. 359 ; Meissn. in D pics xiv. 497 ;
| Hoo
= Meissn. in Linnea, xxvi. 348, and in DC. Prod. xiv. pe
: dee Melted in DC. Brod. xiv. 499 (partly) ; Calyptrostegia idle
E irony diem Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 74. :
q Wales. Mount Caley, A. Cunningham; collected also by Mitchell in his
5 sedis of 1835.
1 asmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common in dry sandy tracts throughout
1 as y ve ne mse Hooker.
St. Vincent's Gulf, Blandowski.
28. P. linifolia, Sm. Bot. - Holl. 31, t. 11. An erect shrub,
- from under 1ft. to 2 or 3 ft. high , glabrous except the inflorescence,
the branches usually slender and virgate. Leaves opposite, on very
short petioles, linear or oblong, passing also into linear-spathulate or
linear-lanceolate, from under Tin. to about 1 in. long, nearly flat, the
margins in the dry state usually slightly recurved and rather convex
than concave. Flower-heads terminal, A n ren ar, erect ; iofra bracts
4
B
18 CV. THYMELEJE. [ Pimelea. |
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 884; Bonpl. Jard. Malm. t. 81; Bot. Mag. t. 891;
Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1668; P. filamentosa, Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 3
287, t. 14; 1h involuerata, Herb. Banks; Passerina egerat, Thunb.
Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 502; P. waa es a Cunn. in Field, N.S. 1
Wales, 326; Calyptrostegia linoides, Endl. Ped iv. part 2, 61;
T Lindieyana, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 499 ‘(aed y). :
Que Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham and many others; 1
Rockingham T Bay, Dallae WA 1
a obra Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, 2. Brown, Sieber, n. 200,
and Fi. Mix: 476; southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, and Twofold Bay, |
po eller ; fe bee, to Hastings, Macleay and Claredios ri rivers, Butler; New England, ~
rt. E
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; W. bank of the Tamar, C. Stuart; also
collected è by Gunn, n. 3, Milligan, n. 396, and Archer. 3
Var.? Andersoni, Meissn. Leaves flat orslightly concave. Involucral bracts some- 1
what silky-villous inside. Perianth much less hai cf t the base and the hairs of the -
involucre rather quart y rne connecting P. Y rinifolia with P. glauca. Blue ©
: : » ]
The linifolia dits the four preceding species are sometimes not very easy to -
distinguish, although in their ordinary forms they cane to be separated by well- marked 1
charac
29. P. ligustrina, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 9, t. 9. An erect shrub, | 1
attaining in the ordinary form 5 or 6 ft., dne except the inflo- -
rescence or the young shoots slightly silk -hairy. Leaves oppa :
om ovate to oblong or elliptical, rather thin, l-nerved and m 2
less distinctly penniveined, 1 to 13 in. long or on luxuriant i ahopts twice |
thatsize. Flower-heads cer large, globular ; pree bracts in the
Jie form 4 or rarely 5 or 6, very broad, as long as the perianth- -
tubes, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers hetunipheeiditers or (in some speci- -
mens female with shorter perianths, but in both cases aon tl be ,
ok. asm 39; Calyp-
trostegia ligustrina, C. A. Mey. be ll. Acad. Petrop. iv. (1845) 4;
P. elata, F. Muell. as dien Le 17; Meissn. in Linnea, xxvi. 949
and in DC. Prod. x
non si Wales. Bine Ad s, R. Cunningham, Woolls, Miss Atkinson.
ria. Wilson’ s Promontor Basin er Range, Cobb tains, F’. Mueller
Mount Baller, Soues ; mou d the pee Allitt : ee mamine T
asmania. Po u imple, R. Brown; common in dense humid aser chie
in -g northern parts of the island, i D. Hooker ; ‘King s Island, MeGow
: Australia. Rivoli Bay, F. Muel ler.
dee. CV. THYMELEJE. 19
ilky: 8
slender. e ipistrina, Bot. Reg. t. 1827; P. ae A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag t. 3330,
DC. Prod. xiv. fon Caly yptrostegia hypericina, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad.
Tempi iv. (1545) 74; D ans, F. Moore 1 Illustr. Hortcle viii. t. 295.
s. Has and Clarence rivers, C. ; Sydney woods, Paris
Eshiiion 18 1855, es "207, an Pg Illawarra, A. pee pei Shepherd ; Mittagong,
Victoria. tone nA impe: F. Mueller ; Upper Genoa river, Stevens
s oblong. oa TE than usual, nodding, with
r.? macroste
the pinid involucral Whictd s ds ng as the flowers. anth-hairs spreading, rigid and
exceedingly ORE ei leaving the sas base ante ga a Hs mA upper part often
| gl i i h
1 satisfactory s: ihia
| tralia. Sandy scrub, Kangaroo island, Waterhouse.
— 80. P. humilis, R. Br. Prod. 301. A small shrub, branching from
mæ the base, more or r less s silky-villous at least on the stems, the foliage
E often becom ming glabrous, from under Gin. to 1 or eve n 14 ft. high.
0
. Leaves opposite, rather crowded, sessile, oblong or Fer re nnd
, obtuse or rarely almost acute, 1 to near 3 in. long, flat or slightly con-
vex or concave, the midrib rominent underneath, and the lateral veins
. sometimes con Di cuous, Flow er-heads globular, the involucral bracts
7 silky-villous inside, either nearly as long as the perianth-
,, shorter. Perianths silky-villous, the tube 4 to 5 lines lon oit
_ after flowering considerably above the ovary, the dpa " out a. lines
long. Filaments usually about half as lon Td as the ovary; anthers
. oblong, with a narrow connective, the els when opened planed fait to
_ back. Fruit shortly stipitate within th rianth, but not seen ripe.—
l poe in DC. Prod. xiv. 502; Hook. f I. Tasm. i. 334.
3 Wimmera, Dallachy; Mount Ararat, Green ; Litt Hyer F. Mueller ;
3 Barra Bur Hinteracker ; nate vale, Robertson; Portland, A
4 a. Port Dal e, R. Brown; abundant on dry Mis ind pastures through-
Out kogy island, J. D. Hoo gga
- S. Australia. Mount Lofty range, F. Mueller; near Adelaide, F. Mueller,
3 ant
. 91. P. sericea, R. Br. Prod. 901. A bushy shrub of 1 to 2 ft.
. resem bling P. nivea, but readily known by the dense indumentum of the
[ branches and underside of the leaves" consisting of silvery-silky hairs.
- Leaves opposite, crowded, ovate or oblong, under jin. ODE» labrous
lower-
long, Lor above the ovary after flowering, the lobes at least
1$ fii Filaments rather longer than = ey connective
i388 P. lanata,
c2
Meisan. in DC. Prod. xiv. 509;
Hensl. in Maund, Botanist, ii. t. 61 peo of R. s
20 CV. THYMELEJE. [Pimelea,
Tasmania. Mount Welling! rss hat ar R. Brown; summits of all
ponens at an ect das , J. D. Hooker —hHenslow deseri ibes
8 as concave "d y may b Re pg ; in the dried state the margins
enis distinctly recu
. P. nivea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 10, t. 6. An erect e
a close dense more or less crisped tomentum, here sometin
by a few silky pi but never. densely silk ericea ave
opposite, o TAN orbicular, AEN REGNARE, d elliptical oblong, unde
j ed n
2
placed back to back; in some specimens the perianths are smaller w
abortive anthers, ut the flowers fertile in both form "ruit s
scarcely acuminate, hem ien arp membranous.— R. Br.
Meissn. in DC. Prod. . 509; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 332; Kr
and Weste. Fl. Cab. t sd P. incana LR. Br Eé ; t d
xiv. 509; Bot. Reg. 1838, t. 24: Maund, Botanist |
nivea and H. incana, C. A. "Me ey. in Bull. Acad. Péttópi iv. (1845) 73.
Tasman Port Dalrymple and Mount Wellington (Table Mountain), 2. Br
eter eh the island, ascending to the summits of the Western ounta
elevation of 3500 ft., J. D. Hooker
. Meyer “placed ne species in his Z erolena, characterized chiefly bg
perianth remaining entire when in fruit, but I ‘ind it always circumsciss in P
as the fruit ripens. I bare not been able to find any Bal eT ine! — 80
verify the embryonal character, which however certai bs Mois ;
in some species at least of the Chl yplri doin. section o Calyp
" SussEcT. 2. PRYLLOLÆNA.—Flower-heads terminal, with num
rous Suvolactel bracts not at all or m broader than the leaves.
. 88. P. imbricata, R. Br. Prod. 361. A small erect much-br
shrub, from under 6 in. to 13 ft. high, sometimes clothed fro
rous. Leaves usually crowded, either mony
oppone, from oisi esate and under
linear and above the upper ones almost alwa
hairs, all flat or s ightly concave. Flower-heads Tial 0
bracts 8 or more, were” roader than the stem-leaves and
shorter than the flow apran} with lo
| Pimelea.] CV. THYMELER. E
ustralia. King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, R. vbi hn and
. many ANE
A variable species of koe there are 3 principal form
axteri, Meissn. Dense ui branched with small glabrous leaves, flowers usually
a QR George’s Sound Brown, Baxter, Preiss, n. 1273, &c.; Fitzgerald and
c
Ba
axw
acillima, Meissn. Taller with slender branches, short narrow glabrous wet
smaller flower-heads and even the bracts sometimes nearly g labr dn — Festa
Meissn. 2 ix Preiss. 2: ver ot of R. Brown; dp» fay rie
. pilig Low or Lia À often i Tog, all or "veli clothed with
long diese “silky hairs. T lower-heads and flowers Fihof large, flowe ually white
pilibunda, A. Cunn. He na, Grah. in Edinb. Ne rn. xxix 74;
Bot. Mag. t. 3833; Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 606, ii. 272, and in Do Prod. xiv. 508 ;
| P. crinita, Ling) in Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 59; gen fake v. 507;
. trostegia nana, Endl. Gen. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61.
coll. n.
| po š Press, n. 1275, 1277; Port Gregory and Vases en Oldfield. Phillips river,
aawe
1 Bu erp 4th coll. n. 236, appears to be intermediate between the first and the
4 . villifera, Preiss. ii. 271, and i rod.
. xiv. 508. An erect sided coarse anch Wok m ith rather
. stiff hairs. Leaves mostly opposite, sessile, oblong-lanceolate, flat,
- thick but soft, 4 to 6 or 8 lus long. Flower-heads globular, densely
hirsute? [a volka bracts 8 or more, similar to the stem-leaves or E
. more lanceolate, obtuse, often as long as E pes does s hirsute
W. A ustralia, Brassil à, M T is certainly allied to P.
. imbrica some varieties have small bad at s, but the iyu is different,
Puls Ey in "P lira they are equally "hispid on fis "Lobes and the tu
Sussect. 3. Cuoristacuys.—Flowers in clusters spikes or racemes,
_.without involucres or the bracts not broader than the leaves and very
deciduous. Leaves flat or with slightly recurved margins. Flowers
small, except in P. ate ae Seeds, where known, with scanty
albumen and broad cotyledon
|. 85. P. drupacea, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i.10,t.7. A straggling shrub,
. attaining 6 to 8ft. but often much lower, the branches more or less silky-
hairy. Leaves all opposite, from ovate to oblong-elliptical or oblong-
22 CV. THYMELER. [Pimelea. —
anthers with a narrow connective, the cells when open placed back to 1
back. Fruit a eg e, enclosed in the membranous persistent base of the
xiv. 515; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 331; Sweet Fl. Austral. t. 52; Lodd.
Bot. Cab. t. 540; ^v dana drupacea, Fisch. et Mey. Ind. Sem. E
Petrop. x. (1845) 46 1
Victoria. Sealer’s EN F. Mueller 1
Tasmania. Derwent uk And Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; abundant in humidi 4
forests in ane soil, J. D. Hook E
P. umbratica, A. Cunn. Bai: ; Ma n DC. Prodr. xiv. 510, from Logan Vale, as
far as the specimens go, is u vndiitinguislable from P. drupacea, 'except in the rather
smaller flowers. The statio; ~ is however so far distant that more perfect specimens mayi 1
possibly show it to be distinc 1
. P. hematostachya, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 84. An erect perennial
of 1 to 2 ft. perfectly glabrous except the inflorescence, somewhat
glaucous, not much branched. Leaves Bpporite sessile or nearly 7
oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, mostly 1 to l4in. long. Flower-hez
pedunculate above the last stem- leaves, large and hirsute, at first
pirena, but soon Eae did into a dense spike of 2 to 4 in. Iwo Mi
, Very deciduous so as to be seen only on the very youn
head, linear, membranous iry. Flowers of a Yet EE a ur,
numerous and crowded. Perianth e Bie heirs, the slender tube
ov
Patty tbe Ne LSpictr membranous.
cotyled
Que Burdekin river and Peak Downs, F. Mueller; Dawson aw 1
Leich Andes por Ar nd Edgecombe Bays, Dallachy; Port Denison, Fitzalan; :
eo Creek ME Bowen river, ion: Suttor river, Sutherland ; Rockhampton
97. P. spicata, R. Br. Prod. 362. A small much-branched shrul
usually glabrous, with slender wiry branches. Leaves opposite, ve
shortly stolae, oblong-elliptical, "ris under 4 in. to nearly li:
lon s ve pes , in heads at first short and shortly pedunet
late above the last kis. but soon UE DEWAR out into more or le
interrupted spikes rather ra cemes, from r lin.to nearly ii
ong, without aata bracts, the slender ies te short pedicels : an
erianths all quite glabrous. Peria nth-tube slender, about 1j
ong, circumsciss about the middle after flowering, the lobes scarcel
as long. Filamen
oo
te
- Pimelea.] CV. THYMELEZ. 23
. Prod. xiv. 514; Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 288, t. 14, f. 2 ; Calyp-
ditis spicata, Endl. Gen. Pl. Suppl. iv. part 2, 61.
N. S. Wales. sho Jackson and neighbouring districts, R. Brown, A. & R.
Cunning and other
piculigera, F. Mid "n Herb. from near Lake Muir, in W. Aust ralia, J. R. Muir
| evi vide Aoi very nearly allied to P. spicata, but the specimen is wholly insufficient to
_ characterize it either as a variety or distinct species.
38. P. e qe Hook. f. i
| not lengthen into a din Perianths glabrous or sprinkled with a few
_ hairs, of the size of those of P. spicata, but the lobes longer in propor-
tion to the tube, and the filaments rather longer.— Meissn. in
xiv. 514.
i asmania Ap] arently rare, pape A found in abundance in one spot near Pen-
. guete, Launceston, Lawrence, Gunn, A rcher.
. 89. P. latifolia, R. Br. Prod. 362. A spreading silky-hairy shrub
. or undershrub of 1 to 2ft. Leaves alternate, elliptical or lanceolate
[oj dn. iem Perianth-tube about 2 lines long, circumsciss about t
. middle after flowering, leaving a bottle-sha sj fruit base as 4
P vid sposi; the lobes rather short and obtuse. Filaments short ; pend
1 deum oe Peery Vis R. Den: Port Dom, Fes ; Rock-
hampton poo Head of the Dee river, Bowman; Mount Elliott wi Mount
40. P. deu: F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 443. An erect slender
deciduous involucral bracts like the. stem-leaves but smaller, and
remaining dense and compact after flowering, the hirsute rhachis not
exceeding 2 lines. Flowers smaller than in P. trichostachya, the rianth-
hairs shorter and less s reading, the tube much shorter above the ovary,
but similarly bi circumsciss after flowering and the fruit the same.—
Meissn. in Linn vi. 350, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 511.
Messin ss ‘a Dallachy
S. Australia. Cudnaka and N. of Lake Gairdner, F, Mueller.
24 CV. THYMELEZ:
41. P. sericostachya, F. Muell. — iv. 162. cc rimi shrub
at the base, with erect branching stems, s, all under 1 ft. int
very eads compact when in very young bud, but soon lengthe
ing into recrapted spikes often several inches long, always
abov ast leaf, without involucral bracts. Perianth shortly silky:
onan Sellham riv owman
ME parvifolia. Leaves dus about : dine long.
. S. Wales. Lachlan river, Fraz
2. P. trichostachya, Lindl. : m. Trop. Austr. 355. An
slender branching annual of about 1 ft., glabrous wat spree exept
the inflorescence. Leaves ed linear, concave, 1 to long.
hie at first short, but soon Main, aue a slender inter-
bra
vety shortly n atime Perianth not rt onia 9 lines Hie y tu
On the Maranoa river, Mitchell; Bokhara Creek, Leichhardt; Dar-
Queensland.
ling Downs, Law. E
. S. Wales. Murray river near the junction with the Murrumbidgee, F-
T.
43. P. leptostachya, Benth. A slender undershrub (or annual
with s I base ?), much aud with erect or ascending stems Oi -
4 to 1 ft., glabrous or sprinkled with a few silky hairs ES on the
inflorescence and flowers: Leaves ternate, lanceolate o ng
linear, 4 to pax in. inn Flowers small, in "" deut apro
carp ibercular- Fife not
Queensland, Herbert's Creek id ete Bowman. The species
Pimelea. ] CV. THYMELEZX. 95
dently allied to P. trichostachya and P. sericostachya, but is ne early glabrous and differs
from the whole section in the persistent n" of the perianth, whilst other characters
prevent the placing it in Hupimelea, It is very different 1 in the shape of the perianth
as well as in the pane d from P. spicata, to which y is inadvertently ‘referre
by F. Mueller, Fragm. v
Sacr. 5. MALIsTACHYS, C. A. Mey.—Involucral bracts free, usually
small or little different from the stem-leaves. Flowe rs (small) Shoe
dicecious. Male perianth with a slender tube; Arn wi
connective, the cells vey distinct, and when open n placed back to [d
'o rtive. Female perianth-tube circumsciss anne the ovary
after flowering, the jae ha persistent round the somewhat suc-
. culent fruit and almost adnate to it. Leaves Bat TA or hair
P. argentea, R. Br. Prod. 362. An erect shrub with siio
irgate branches, attaining 5 or 6 ft., more or less clothed with soft
a hairs appressed or somewhat woolly on the branches, and when
roa nt giving the planta silvery-white appearance. Leaves oppo-
f mes or su AERA A alternate, sessile, those below the inflorescence
. oblong or lanceolate, flat or concave, often above 1 in. long, smaller on
side branche es; the floral ones usually shorter and broa ider, varying
however from ver like the stem-leaves and in distant pairs alon ng the
. long ieafy branches, to short an ig ovate closely approximate or
[ eee in leafy spik Flowers dicecious, very sma ft
©
c
B
often nearly sessile and s only one perfect, the connective
narrow. Female peri He usq para airy, the tube shorter than in
. the males but circumsciss above the ovary Std owering, the s
1 oe pe the anthers abortive or rudimentary. Style exserted, the
M p hispid with long hairs. Fruiting base of the perianth
pv, hisni bout 1 line long, the membranous or scarcely thickened
= epicarp coming off readily sid i it, but not connate with it as stated by
- C. A. Meyer, leaving the crustaceous endocarp (not the seed) minutely
1 p rugose. — Meissn. in Pl. Preiss. i. 607 ; P. argentea, P. vestita,
X P. Shuttlewor orthiana, and P. myriantha, Meissn. in DC. et d. xiv. 513;
Calypirostegia argentea, C. A. Mey. in Bull. Acad. Petrop. iv. veia 74,
Australia. Goose Island Bay, R. Brown; grum Island, S. Coa . €u
: ic ng pi tae river, «bem Leven, Gardner ey well ; N. of Stirling range,
F. Mueller; thence to Swan river, Drummond 1 a n. ^. 730 , 731, Preiss, n. 1264,
1265; northward 5 Man river and south- doo au rd to Vasse river, Olidfie ld.
ave been unable to sort into varieties ‘the si duel wit species distinguished by Meiss-
s ve riou other. n
stantly dicci The supposed “ filiform persistent base" of the male pera ap-
aei TS = ot in » fat the pedicel; the rudimentary ovary, when Basin is within the
ecid
45. P. clavata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl.i. 11. An erect- -growing shrub,
ranging from 6 or 8 ft. to twice that height, the foliage slightly silky- -
26 CV. THYMELEE.
ading hairs. Leaves o pictor nicole; acute tapering into
= penn, p or with recurved margins, mostly 3 to 1 in. long, bu
ng to 14 in., usually glabrous above, slightly silky-hair
he th blow ers small, strictly dicecious, in little terminal head:
with "p or three small very deciduous ves and the leaves of
short axillary flowering branches Mem o often few and deciduo
the inna when advanced, appear to be on petri leafless peduncl
Perianths more or less silky- -hairy, the males with a filiform tube 13 to,
üdáshy 2 lines long, the aig ovate and obtuse. Anthers about as long
as laments, ovate with a narrow connective. Female peria:
ms Sandy penicillate. iting base of the Ni (ee 2 lines
ong; acuminate, un epicarp thick and somewhat fleshy,
OEC erastaceous, bent nner than in most species
Meissn. in DC. Prd in 510; P. viridula, Lindb. in a. S "Vet. §
Forhandl. ix. 60 (F. Muell).
W. Australia. King George's Sound and on the coast to the eastward, R. Br
A. Cunningham, and many oes Fitzgerald river, Maxwell; Donnelly HY
Carey; Warren river, Walcot
Sect. 6. DrrHALAMIA.—Involucral bracts either none or few ant
not very different from the stem-leaves. Flowers (small) strictly
cecious. Male perianth with a slender tube; anthers with a ns
ggg. the TE very p distint and when open placed pee to b:
nd eid e males numerous t e females fase in the head.
anth glabrous or slightly silky-hairy, the male tube 1 to 14 lines |
the lobes t ter; anthers on very short filaments, with a na
connective, the cells when open Pre bug 2 back. Female peri
arcely projecting above the o hig SK ery short lobes, some
enlarge ed ro Meri say fruit which i is about 2 2 ya long; epicarp mem
—Mei n Linnea, xxvi, 945, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 514.
b n Wales. on river, C. Moore; Twofold Bay, F. Mueller; Cape -
alter. |
Victoria. Dandenong ranges, Ben Nevis, expe Macedon, F. Mueller. ——
Var.? alpina, F. Mueller. A low shrub wi ovate coriaceous
usually under 4 in. long. Mount Latrobe hee Mount b orae qi at an elevation
|
|
|
|
|
Pimelea.] CV. THYMELER. 27
— The aspect of these specimens is so totally different, that one would su vidi
pose t do belg to a distinct species, but some specimens from Mount Barelley, wit
the foliage nearly of P. drupacea, seem ‘to connect the two
.? P.leptospermoides, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 9. An erect shrub
of 1 to 3 ft., slightly silky-hairy, the foliage ot a Met almost glaucous hue.
Leaves mostly alternate, o PNE ,$ to 1j in labrous above, with
or 3 veins on each nds the midrib and node parallel to it promi-
nent underneath. Flowers in terminal and axillary sessile clusters,
o
wan sessile, the connective rather broad, but the cells quite distinct
and at le € e ree back to back. Ovary apparently abortive.
Quee Caw a, Thozet. aka "i fertile lowers have been observed, the
affinities r? dot Species must remain uncert:
48. P. microcephala, R. Br. Prod. 361, A much-branched spread-
ing shrub, usually quite glabrous except the flowers, the branches rigid
but slender. Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, mostly
to 1 in. long, or on some luxuriant shoots narrow and 14 in. long, flat
or concave. lo wer-heads small, rae er with 2 to 4 involucral racts
rather shorter and mer ke the stem-leaves but variable. Flowers
stri
ious. e per
very slender, fully 2 lines ants the lobes abont one-third as lo sells
cher nts very short; anthers with a narrow connective, the ce
C.
P. distinctissima, F. Muell. First e Rep. 17; Calgptrosiegia Mio eala,
Endl. Gen. PI. "Suppl. iv. part 2, 61.
rod Curriwillighie, Duis; Losi re Burkitt.
N. S. Wal Peel's range, 4. Cunningham ; Murray and Darling desert to the
Barrier range, m and other Expeditions.
Vict Avoca and Murray rivers, Æ. Mueller ; N.W. districts, L. Morton.
S tralia. y denies, Island and Petrel Bay, ’ R. Brown (the specimens very
imperfect, yh flowers fallen away); Murray desert, F. Mueller ; Lake Gillies, Burkitt ;
aps harbour, Forrest.
W. Australia. Mon ek Oldfield, and probably the same locality, Drum-
mond; Dick Hartog’s island, M
49. P. pauciflora, R. Br. Prod. 360. A much-branched glabrous
shrub, attaining sometimes 8 or 10 ft., but often much lower, iid
u
5
e usually more slender, with linear-lanceolate leaves. Flowers few.
the head, and the perianth gis receptacle quite glabrous, the male
mira not quite so slender as in P. mier ephea but the dicecious
character and the structure of tlie flowers and fruits quite the same.
The fruit is said to be red when ripe, but it does not appear to be at
28 CV. THYMELEZ. [Pimelea, —
P
all succulent. —Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 515; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. -
995 Hess i. Cab. t. 179.
Bosh viding range, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham; Mount Lindsay,
W. rs Warwick, Better Wide Bay, Bidwill.
es. N.E. of Lachlan Meier A. Cunningham; M‘Leay penig an
Richmond e siem C. Moore; M'Leay river, prs "New En gland, C. Les
ictori Avon river, Gipps' Land, F. Mueller ; Fitzroy river, Rob
Tasma - Port Da aliym ple, &. Brown; in Hol soil by the biski. n aed but
not common, aid . Hooker
Some of the specimens appear at first sight à enia the axillary iufloféecdiiód of P.
axiflora, but the short axillary flowering bran are more developed with larger
bracts, and the branches all end in flower-hea
syn. 1 Cunn.). A low shrub wit ver numerous slender an
tube. Filaments short; anthers wit co
when open placed back to back. Female perianth oblong, about
long at the time of flowering, ovoid an ine long w
Z Hewardiana, Meissn. in Linnæa, xxvi. 346, an
Prod. v. 511.
oria. Mount Arapiles, Wimmera, Dallachy, and Jjgdlisliy the same localit;
Mitchel, Bacchus Marsh, F. Mueller ; near Portland, Allitt.
TUN ew England Sel st referred here by F. Mueller appear to me to belong |
to P. curvifolia. P. um M A. Cunn., is either a form o PP drupacea or some
species uaii allied to
. 91. P. stet F. Muell. in Linnea, xxvi. 346. A dwarf prostrate
much-branched shrub, forming densely matted almost moss-like patches.
towards the ends of the upper leaves. Leaves mostly opposite, usually
crowded, ovate, coriaceous, concave, 1 to 14 or rarely ne les.
long. Flowers dicecious, solitary in the u per axils, usually with a
i i po th glabrous, tube of.
the males 1 to 13 lines long tapering at the base, the lobes under 1 line.
Anthers shorter than the filaments, with a narrow connective, the a
w placed back to back ; ovary present but abortive. Fem
pus scarcely 14 lines long, the tube ovoid, the lobes about
0 tube, divided to the ovary, persistent membr
nous. Seed with a scanty albumen, D p
Mesa broad.—Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 511; Hoo
mus! ia. Summits of the Western Mountains at an elevation of 4000 ft., un
er.—The flowers described by F. Mueller are the males, those described by J.
Hooks the females.
_ Pimelea.] CV. THYMELER. 29
. 89. P. serpyllifolia, R. Br. 360. A low rigid densely
- branched and leafy shrub, usually DR Leaves opposite or scat-
. tered, often crowded, ovate obovate or oblong, 2 to 3 lines long, coria-
| ceous and somewhat concave. Flowers yellowish, very small, dicecious,
. in terminal heads, sessile within the last leaves or involucral bracts not
ersistent. Fruit with the epicarp apparently — succulent.—
. Meissn. in rod. xiv. 511; M. eluytioides, Meissn. i . Preiss. ii.
T 271, and in DC. Prod. xiv. 511; Calyptrostegia eluytivides, Walp. Ann.
E iii. Bos
1 "eri Mi ec dry: We desert and Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller ; Port
q Pili A Bobo ndu Vale, Robertson
4 Finders island, fij cog Finge island, M'Gow
3 Ss. Aaa ia. emo Port Lincel n, and St. Vincente! Gu |f, R. Brow
^ Tumby Bay, Wilhelmi; Eosdautet and Holdfast Bays, F. Mueller ; Spencer' 8 Gulf
Warburton
WV. Australia. Towards the Great Bight, Baxter, Maxwell.
> R. Br. Pro d. 861. An erect shrub, with opposite or
o
4
1 either rather longer or shorter tha n the flowers. Flowers white
yellowish, dicecious. Male perianth- tube about 1$ lines long, the lobes
: half as l
. 610; Hook. f. Fl. *
N. s. Wales. ji nd scrub, P Oun ingham.
ra and Murray rivers, Daliachy; re F. Mueller ; Skipton,
: mory Cove, R. Brown; Mung river k "St. Vincent’s Gulf,
LE Buel, sep | Fee roo island, Waterh
. Australia. Coast opposite Middle wlad, R. Brown.
ar. diosmifolia, Meissn. Branches rather ue “Hab; Pi leaves more ovate and
rigid, e" smaller. .P. diosmifolia, A. Cun chotoma, Schlecht. in
Linnea, aeii P ies arvifolia, Meissn, in liée a, xxvi. 345.— As observe by Meissner
. this is yir vts a form dependent on the — » calities, than a distinct variety it includes
. most of the above mentioned desert specim
30 CV. THYMELEJXE. [ Pimelea. [
54. P. petrophila, F. Muell. in Linnea, xxv. 442. A shrub of 1 to
2 ft., "with erect dichotomous slightly hairy branches, the foliage gl
brous. Leaves opposite, cite -lanceolate, from under 1 in. to near
3 in. long, flat or concave, the midrib prominent underneath a
the lateral veins often ride Flower-heads small, terminal or i
the forks, with 4 involucral bracts siniihié to the leaves or rat
broader. "Receptacle villous. Flowers dicecious, the perianths silky-
à
DC. Prod. xiv. 500.
S. Australia. Flinders range, F, Mueller.
SrcT. 7. EPALLAGE, C. rE .—Involucral bracts free, few or
numerous, like the stem- lia Dii ai road. Flowers hermaphrodite or
55.? P. Bowmanni, F. Muell. Herb. An erect shrub, softly sil
hairy all over. Leaves alternate, crowded, sessile, oblo: sanoan
r
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4
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im. ri
Queensland. Broad Sound, Bowman. Evidently a eee distinct a — e
quiring further éexamination of more advanced specim
ammocharis, F. Muell. in: Hook, Kem
crowded or imbricate, oblong or elliptical, 3 or 4 lin
numerous bracts not differing from the stem-leav
male flowers but often longer than the female. awed dicecious
Pimelea.] CV. THYMELEX. 31
the fruiting perianth, which is entirely nerveless, the lobes shorter
kir, 007 the males and the anthers abortive. —Meissn. in DC. Prod.
iv jd
lia. Upper Victoria river and Sturt's Oe F. Mueller ; twenty es
Th T Port Nichol, N.W. coast, Maitland. The latter specimens ed considere
var. Maitlandi, by F. Mueller, I can find n ens except the
larger. The pina from Roebue k Bay, Hartin, quoted by $e my are » doubtful,
rer pip in leaf on
long as the tu i the to ie ones sometimes Nem than the outer
ones, Fi angi ts very short; anthers with a very broad convex dorsal
connective, the cells dingy wate el on the inner face. Fruiting base
of the perianth somewhat curved and contracted into a neck, the fruit
iali shortl acuminate; reis analisiak, endocarp not con-
. 831; t liv. ; P.
. A. Cunn. Herb. non R. Cunn irs thymifolia, resl. Bot. Bem. vede
P. Muelleri, Meissn. in mt xxvi. , and in DC. Prod. xiv. 512
N. Poser Port Jackson to the guod eere R. Brown, Sieber, n. 205 ‘id
~ Fl Mixt.n ; Macquarrie and Lachlan a Cun ningham ; M udgee, Woolls ;
_ Wilson's Peak, Teichhee dt New England, pi "Stu t, C.M
ictoria. Port Phillip, Gunn; ; Portland, "Allitt - à tiri =e Robertson.
3 asmania. Port Daly rymple, A. Brown; common by the banks of streams, &c.,
E J. Ep p adeat ;
Australia. rut Bay, Lynedoch valley, F. Mueller, Behr.
Iky, the leaves often hairy on both sides. Flowers sometimes
rather larger, amr nee TN Myr er and all female on some „specimens es of this
and: the following variety. nn., Meissn. in T v. 012 ;
N. of roe vende A. Cunnin ham; ; New cope C. Stuart ; Mount M'Ivor Aes enn
F. M i
| som
| or eciam peduncles (or enis branches 4 to Li. in., ys rather
Queensland. Warwick, Bec i
32 CV. THYMELEJ. [Pi
Var. micrantha. Densely branched, aped vith shorter more paces -
Flowers v very small pe depen sterile n ^cimens examine
F.M e
uell. ; Meissn. in Linne i 7 . Prod. xiv. 512. Murray a
Darling Desert and se Vines Gulf, POM ler.
Var. alpina, F. Muell. Diffuse much aoa and less silky, with short broad le
often opposite. ent Saw, Cobberas and Munyong mountains at an clevation
0 ft., F. Mueller.
rsuta, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 518. A much-braneh
pote with silky but e or less spreadin s
MA gree or elliptical, ve shortly petiolate, 4
ned ogether, in terminal or apparently
e
tube slender, 1$ to 2 lines long, circumsciss above the
flowering, leaving a bottie-shaped persistent base as in P.
but quite straight; lobes rather narrow. Filaments very short; an
v a broad dorsal connective, the cells closely parallel on the
Fruit acuminate, the epicarp membranous, the e endocarp with
distinctly hooked MS as in P. latifolia.— P. congesta, R. Cunn. in sev
herb., not of A. Cunn.; P. villifera, A. Cun a He rb.
N. S. Wales. Blue Moni A.and R. aie Leichhardt, Miss Atki
P. ovalifolia, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xiv. 502, from Port Jackson (or Blue Mon
tains ?), Gandicha s , Which i have not seen, must, from the character given, be the
same as this speci
a Brisbane river, "usr pis F. Mueller ; Archer's Creek, .
f.
. S. Wales. Hastings pew Frazer, ©. Moore; Macleay and Clarence i
Beier, Tweed river, C. ; Richmond river, Henderson ; New England, C. St
Leichhardt's and Pre aca s specimens are remarkabl ly prio with lo: ham be
leaves, and appear at first d very different from the original odes of F. Mue
short almost or cmd leaves, but there are many frasi, ioa
» R. Br. Prod. 361. A low irae with e
- Pinelea.] CV. THYMELEJE. 33
Filament
dorsal connective, the cells closely paeéllet vi the i inner face. Fruit
. small, with a membranous epica r eed with a scanty albumen and
- broad cotyledons.—Meissn. in DC. . Prod. xiv. 508; P. Behrü an
- viminea, Schlecht. in Linnea, xx. 583.
| « Victoria. Port Philip R. B F. Mueller; Grampians, F, Mueller; Wim-
. mera, Dallachy; Portlan ' Roberton, Aliitt.
3 S. astrali "n Murray ri riv o St. Vincent's and Ee P F. Mueller,
3 Behr, here Aree and other: Kangaroo island,
1 specimen in Herb. F. Mullen po u orige
3 W. iiri m = set irat is not ‘sited, and there may be som
n Linnea, xxvi. 947, and in DC. Prod. xiv.
| on the Moe rue Style e lon
E Cudnaka
1 Bullivant take Gites, na
- F. Mueller, Fragm. vii. 6, unites this with P. octophylla, but the —— the long
1 filaments, the short bise besides the foliage, appear to be consta
62. P. PAIN. Meissn. in PI. ge ii. 271, and in DC. Prod. xiv.
5
p prominent un nderneath. Flower-heads very much smaller than in
phan the stem-leaves but shorter than the flow \ Perian th silky-
: ilaments short, anthers ovate, with a broad dorsal connective,
the cells closely parallel on the inner face. Ovary crowned by a few
per AT phylicoides, eg Ann. iii. 394.
Victoria. rray desert and Wimmera, Dallachy; Port Philip and Point Lons-
dale, F. jeg "Harvey; fosa. Allitt ; near bd pa nk, Robertson
© S. Australia. Arid stony places, St. Vincent's Gulf, M unt Torrens, F. Mueller;
Encounter Bay, Whittaker ; Cancarara, Aubin.
E VOL. VI. D
F. Mueller; near Salt Creek, Behr; Gawler men,
34 CV. THYMELEJE. [ Pei:
63. P. Eyrei, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 109. An erect slender shrub o!
2 to 4 ft., more or less silky-hairy and sometimes almost silvery. Lea
opposite, sessile, usually erect, oblong or oblong-linear, concave, 4
nearly 4 in. long. Flo wer-heads terminal, with 4 to 6 involucral bra
rather broader than the stem-leaves, but otherwise similar.
.. WV. Australia. Sandy plains, Eyre's Ranges, Phillips and Fitzgerald riy
Manoel; | wet places, Mount rker, Oldfield.
64. P. longiflora, R. Br. Prod. .961. An erect slender shrub,
glabrous. eaves most y alternate, linear, concave, from } to a
densel hispid with long hairs. Segre silky with iter
the tube 4 E 6 lines long, oa oy ircumsciss above the
iv. part ii
ia. King ihe 8 Sound and adjoining districts, e Brown, A.€
ningham, and many others; Cape Riche, Preiss, n. 1263, and other
Var. latifolia. Sami bling. mostly oom the Hiinal M almost o
lanceolate in some specimens, narrow in others.— Calyp trostegia villosa, Turcz. in B il
.. Boc. Tinp. Mosc. 1852, ii. adi I vibes, Melt: i in DC, Prod. xiv. 508.—
Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. a.
65. P. stricta . in Linnea, xxvi. 848 and in. DC. Prod. xiv. 50 ;
A loosely acd Sith slender shrub of 2 or 3 ft. , glabrous qup
inflore e. Leaves opposite, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, contrat
species. P
nn above the ovary after flowering, the lobes scarcely 14
tong. Anthers nearly’ sessile, broadly o oblong, with a broad. d
connective, the cells closely parallel on the inner face. Ais du t
within the base of the perianth, oblong, the epicarp mem ;
ne a ipee copious albumen, the cotyledons oblong, Wise broad
an
Victoria. Wimmera, GEN gk is Morton; Wendu Vale, Robertson.
Ein Swanport,
. S. Australia. Near Aie, F. Mueller; Salt Creek, Oswald;
island, Waterhouse.
- Pimelea.] CV. THYMELER. 35
|. This 8 species is eg closely allied to the Western P. Preissii, and may perhaps prove
| to be a variety on
P. cadi Meissn. in Pl. Preiss, i. 601, and in DO. Prod. xiv.
a n erect slender shrub of 1 to 2 ft., platoak except the in-
i Whilodhog: Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolate or oblong-linear, slightly
Pin lon E iia globular, involucral
eolate, often shortl
_ shorter than the flowers, the inner ones lightly ciliate and dykra ps
inside. Perianth silky cilik: with longer but scarcely spreading hairs
_ on the lower portion, the tube ^4 to 5 or rà rarely 6 lines ong, circumsciss
above the ovary after Hear: ing, ‘ie lo bes about 2 line
1 regen the fruit not seen Rp PON Nrjjer indi, Hortul. NE
. to Dene. Rev. Hortic. ser. 4, i. (1852) 80.
[ mM ustralia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 554 ; Preiss, n. 1266; Harvey
4 river, i
. P. Holroydi, F. Muell. Frage: vi. 159, t. 59. An erect
tostachya. Leaves opposite, sessile or in so, from almost
t in. long. Fl
Wi d
- parallel on the inner face, but more distinct than in most Epallages.
. Ovary tipped with a few long hairs. Fruit acuminate, the des ed
. lateral than in most species, the vm membranous. Seed w
1 yahe albumen and broad cotyledon
1 ustralia. Gorges of the apm Range, N. W. Coast, C. Harper.
3 (Harb. Fit AMueller.)—This is a remarkable species, approaching P. heematostachya i in
1 uie and inflorescence, but with the broad involucral bracts and persistent perianth of
3 eterolama and the anthers of Epallage.
9. DRAPETES, Lam.
(Kelleria, Endl. ; Daphnobryon, Meissn.)
... Perianth tubular or almost campanulate, the limb 4-lobed, more 4
. less spreading, with 1 or 2 scales opposite each lobe in the throa
Stamens 4, inserted in the throat, alternating with the lobes. No ay.
ous scales. Ovar ^ qeealled, with a pendulous ovule. St tyle
-æ
36 ‘CV. THYMELEÆ. [ Drapetes,
albumen ; cotyledons ovate, thick.—Small prostrate densely tufted
shrubs. Leaves alternate, small, imbricate, concave. Flowers in sm
Zealand, on , and from Antarctic America. Endlicher
have proposed limiting the genus to that species in which the perianth is circum
e ovary, leaving the ortion persistent round the fruit, as in the sec
1. D. tasmanica, Hook. f. in Hook. Kem Journ. v. 299, t. 7, 4
Fl. Tasm. i. 380. The prostrate intricately-branched tufts of this littl
e
Victoria. Munyong mountains and Mount Kosciusko, at an elevation of 60001
very rare, J’. Mueller.
Tasmania. Summits of the Western mountains, abundant, Gunn
3. WIKSTRGMIA, Endl.
Perianth tubular, with a spreading 4-lobed limb without scales in
throat. Stamens 8, the Moe sessile, those opposite the peria
lobes inserted in the throat, the alternate ones in the tube. Hypogy
nous scales 4, free or more or less united in pairs. Ovar with L
pendulous ovule; style beg short. Fruit a berry-like drupe, t
t i :
here and there alternate. Flowers in short terminal or axillary rac
spikes or heads, without involucral bracts.
The genus extends over a great part of tropical Asia and the islands of the A
pelago and the Pacific. The only Australian species. ide range over the
of the genus.
Wikstræmia.] CV. THYMELEÆ. 37
1. W. d C. A. Mey. in Bull, Acad. Sc. Petersb. i. (1843) 357.
shrub, sometimes low and spreading, sometimes almost arborescent,
glabrous or the lehdet branches slightl vei ond Leaves from
and obtuse to ovate-lanceolate dud. ucts e allong-lancenlt
Adi caring at both ends uae above e in. n long pos sometimes
1 i ogynous scales 4, small an ey tet abe d in opposite
Bode, Linn ii R. Br. Prod. 362 ; Hook. and Arn, Bot.
Beech. t. 15; ik Fragm. vii. 1; W. fatida, A. Gra ray in Seem.
Journ. Bot i. 302 ; Seem. Fl. Vit. 907 ; W. Shuttleworthii, Meissn. in
Denkschr. E eus b. Bot. So iii. 287 ; W. Shuttleworthiana, Meissn. in
DC. Prod. xiv. 544; W. nn Meissn. in Denkschr. Regensb,
Bot. Ges. iii. 286 and in DC. Prod. xiv. 546 ; "Benth. Fl. Hongk. 297.
. Australia. Arnhem N. bay, R. Mai j Cleveland Bay, N. W. coast, A.
Cunningham.
Queensland. Shoal Bay passage, R. Brown; Port De or F'itzalan ; noB
combe and Roc as Borsa Dallachy ; Rockham ton, Thozet; Logan river, A. `
Cunningham, Frazer; Burnett and Brisbane rivers, ueller.
N.S. 2 a icon to the Blue Mound R. Brown, A. & R. Cunning-
p. and others; northward to Hastings and es Pieds Beckler; New England,
C. ot
[ species appears to be also in the — rite re in S. C Iran and
r the rin of the N. and S. Pacific. It is, ever, n deus s easy to e the
- limits to be assigned to it. The character derived from t d perfect ari > yes Vidik
. in pairs of the Bypogynota scales appears to be of little or no er
4, PHALERIA, Jack.
My m mU. ; Leucosmia, Benth.)
without scales in e Stamens | as the cease
, in 2 ro hose pee the TRES inserted in px throat, the
Es ones in the tube, ere pex cies ina po sinuate
than
different individuals of the same 6 species.
38 CV, THYMELEJE. [Phat
The genus is dispersed over the Eastern TETEN Southern Asia, and the islands.
of the North Pet, South Pacific. The species are difficult to discriminate, E a 0
the few specimens in herbaria. Jack's name, published in the Malayan Miscellany, h
six years’ precedence over Reinwardt’s
- Flower-heads terminal. Perianth- tube glabrous. 5-6 lines long 1. P. Blumei.
Flower-heads terminal. Perianth-tube loosely pubescent, 7-8
i 2. P. Neumanni.
: ping st 2x5 wol
Flower-heads mostly axillary « or lateral. Perianth-tube glabrous,
14 in. long Chee EO PU ee Qu I Sos ee
umei, Benth. var. latifolia. A bushy eer shrub.
contracted at the base but the petiole distinct, mostly about Gi in. lon
i broader
to 4 lines = Flowers usually numerous. shine ft
Pie sober pe Cape York, M Gillivray, w. 5 id rim in Java
atra.
confusion between this and P. ( Drymisperm
wo specimens, cultivated at dii ferent times in re w Garden
. longifo
l'eysm., and is perhaps also ane with Decaisne’s Timor P. laurifolia olia. The A
lian specimens have the leav id broader and less tapering than is usual i
Javanese specimens of either ind
2. P. Neumanni, well. A bushy shrub, pe except |
5° Leaves hag alil shortly acuminate, tapering bel
the middle, much narrowed at the base and n ene i decurrent al
obtuse. wers numerous in the head. Perianth -pubes
outside, the tube 7 to : lines long ; lobes usually 5 but sometimes
on] p about 2 2 lines long, obtuse. Puit rather ir than'in P. Blur
Que Roc Miam Bay and Herbert river, Dallachy. Presses "e d
tinct from y pied P laurifol olia from Timor, of which, however, have Be
men for compari
S P.e oiai F. Muell. An arborescent shrub, scarcely :
high, C glabrous. Leaves elliptical-oblong, much acum
| niagis, gre from the Pine oni bá DA
TES EEE I a Oe EESTI E ag EUN ERE IT eee en SN TETTE DERE ER ERN
-. Phaleria.] CV. THYMELEJE. 39
tapering at the base but distinctly was 6 to 8 in. long. Floret
. heads axillary or lateral, nearly sessile. Perianth glabrous outside
tube 11 jin. 1 the
, the
u to l4 in. long, lobes usually slightly ee inside,
ispermum
about 3 lines long. Involucre geo ruits not seen.—
- elerod. — ny Muell. Fra agm
Queen: Rockingham is partes comes very near to D.
owers are still larger
Orpver CVI. ELH AGNACEA.
Flowers hermaphrodite or dicecious. Perianth tubular, ts but iter
. sistent at the base and contracted above the ovary, the up e eec
deciduous, 2- or 4-lobed, or in male flowers the perianth divide to the
: ‘
Stamens equal to and alternate with the Ras base a Tee
e pe-
lined by the thin pericarp. Seed wi membranous or rather
sta; album very thin; embryo straight, with a Een
inferior radicle.—Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbin e or les
covered wit urfy or silvery indumentum consisting of stellate or
Sa RN scales. Leaves alternate, entire. Flowers ee yellows or
2 Order, chiefl er i hikas an, with a very few American, subit: or.
aia species; the ant Australian genus has nearly the same area as he Order.
1. ELZEAGNUS, Linn.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth 4-lobed. Stamens 4, inserted at
the orifice of the tube. Style elongated, recurved at the top, with a
lateral stigma.
This, the principal genus of the Order, has several Asiatic or soe and one North
American species ; the only ares species is one widely distributed over Ceylon
E. India, and the Eastern Archipe
4, XXX. 47. |
metines erect and middle-sized or with weak straggling stems,
koaa except the upper surface of the leaves with the scurfy scales
tes sey ovate ovate-lanceolate or elliptical, usually
acuminate but sometimes obtuse, 2 to 4in. long or larger on
branches. Flowers meme together in axillary spikes or clusters often
. not exceeding the petioles, with the bracts all small and deciduous, but
sometimes longer with 1 or 2 of the lower bracts leafy and persistent.
Perianths shortly pedicellate, the lower persistent portion narrow at the
time of flowering, scarcel above 1 line long, closed at the top round
the style by a disk-like annular prominence, "the free part of the tube
40 | CVI. ELEAGNACER, [_Bleagnas,
much broader, ope no amet about 2 lines long, slightly con- |
tracted at the top, the lim riis to 3 or 34 lines diameter. Fila- !
ment very short. Ovary glabrous. Fruiting base of the men oa
im. long, cr: furrowed when dry. Seed about 4 in. l
ight, =e 1856
. Qu Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Pioneer river, Vernet.—' The e species |
is common in Ce a n and i im various parts of India and the Archi elago. It should in:
flowers also in a less degree. The Australian specimens agree perfectly with many of | 4
the Cingalese ones; I have observed no spines on any “of them. The fruit is said to be - :
edible. |
Orver CVII. NEPENTHACE E.
Flowers dicecious. Male oue of 4 rarely 3 sepal-like segments,
imbricate in the bud. Stamens4 to = oe filaments united in a central
column ; anthers united in a head, in 1 or 2 rows, 2-ce lled. the cells.
openin " outwards in longitudinal iia: Female e perianth as in the males,
or rarely the segments united at the base. Ovary 4- rarely 3-angled,
1 B
ments; stigma sessile, with as many lobes as ovary-cells, the lobes.
entire or bifid. Ovules very numerous in men cell, attached to a pla-
centa vui on the dissepiment, ascendin
anatropous. Capsules
coriac openin locnlicidally í in 4 rarely 3 valves. Seeds
air reds si d upwards; testa membranous, produced at each end
into a capillary point or t mbryo straight, in - axis of a flesh w
ing
ating ves. Leaves alternate, slong ated j
without stipules, the base or the winged ole mes the stem,
marked with a few nearly parallel ese eei s Aid numerous.
transverse vainlets, the mide usuall produced iiber into a tendril or |
into a pendulous pitcher provided cy o
of the orifice thickened into a peristome in ;
tern ae at the back. Flowers small, green, in terminal racemes a |
panicle *
The odii limited to the single genus Y neg is Vidi over Southern Asia ‘and
the pled of the Indian and South Pacific Oceans, but m t abundant in the Indian
elago. The only Australian qe deadtibed as á sadi is as yet too i:
fectly.l known for accurate determinat
1. NEPENTHES, Linn.
E and pact of the Order.
. N. Kennedyi, F. Muell.. Fragm.
tems or branches
nios stout, glabrous
154. Ste :
or ini young pibas with stellate hairs.
ENSURE ENT TTE]
EP PEE a A Oat dE E o
Tre 1. Euph
of a single stamen without any perianth, and one central female one, a sv
Pwtil without y ‘i
Nepenthes. | CVII; NEPENTHACE E. 41
posterior spur stout, the peristome narrow, with numerous transverse
veins; operculum elliptical, with numerous minute glands on the inner
surface. Flowers and fruits unknown.—Hook. f. in DC. Prod. xvii. 98.
etri Cape York, Jardine; Cape Sidmouth, C. Moore. The species may .
perhaps prove to be a variety only of the widely-spread N. phyllamphora, Willd., from
which it differs in the much more slender peristome of the pitcher.
Orper CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ.
Flowers always unisexual. Perianth either simple and cal x-like or
almost petal-like, usually small, or double with 4 or 5 petals alternating
Stamens various. Ovary superior, consisting of 3 or sometimes 2, or more
a single one, Styles as many as carpels, free or more or less united, entire
9r divided, the stigmatie surface usually lining their inner face. Ovules
l or 2 in each carpel, pendulous from the inner angle of the cells, the
Superior radicle, in a fleshy albumen, or ver bi the cotyledons
T ge i
ing m milky juice, exceedingly various in habit. Leaves alternate or
opposite, rarely divided or compound, usually with stipules. Inflorescence
very varied- Flowers usually small.
limited ding the Archipelago and some of the South Sea Islands; one
genus, Sebasti ,is a | American one, represented by a single species m i
Old World; and o Baloghia, is only known, out of Australia, in New Caledonia an
uphorbiese.— nvoluere calyz-like, including several "e fonet Mute
or rarely with a perianth; the whole flower-head resembling a single
N Embryo with broad cotyledons and a narrow radicle.
0 peri : ;
fers Ment - ovary, ies vemm yee em a: e
A9. ; CVIII. EUPHORBIACER.
— 4- or 6-lobed under the ovary. Shrubs with epe vir- E |
te branches, leafless at the time of flowering . » 2. CALYCOPEPLUS. |
M SA itis PEAL auia distinct, both sexes iib d or Embr
linear die cotyledons no scarcely broa oader than the radicle. Shrubs oft
heathlike, with entire seien anti ay Lani or rarely herbs with small membranous leav
(See the observations p. 54.)
Ovules 2 in each cell.
~ Anther-cells opening in terminal - Styles 2-fid. Cap-
sule depressed.globular. Flowers (white) in head- like
racemes forming terminal corymbs 3. PoRANTHERA.
Anther-cells opening longitudinally. Styles "usually 2.lobed. sil
Capsule depressed-globular. Flowers axillary . (Tribe PuyLLANTHER)
Anther-cells opening longitudinally. Ovary iad capsule £ E
lobed, the lobes ending in simple styles.
Stamens free or scarcely united at the base. Flower-
Mine: = "i
Capsule d. Leaves in alternate thre e e . 4 MICRANTHEUM.
Capedle teid hd 1-seeded. iei solitar ary Š . 5. PsEUDANTHUS.
Sta or at least to Aa ones, wii ina central ü
ek s rminal . >» . 6.STACHYSTEMON. |
Ovules 1 in e m
Stamens indefinite, usually numerous.
Stigma piis te, ‘entire or 3-lobed. Petals usually small. i
owers axillar . 7. BEYERIA.
jin 2-fid. A usually Jonger than the calyx. Flowers
ostly te . 8. RICINOCARPUS. |
Styles 2- to prr Calyx yx petal ‘like but no petals. Capsule
usually 1-celled, Flowers axillary 215279; Beara:
24. Croro Sag ow np the cotyledons, difore in the stamens
inflected, &c.
— definite, twice as many as petals or calyx-lobes or
guns present. dem — br chi Capsule without
ndages. Flower-cymes s 10. Monoraxis.
No petals. Style- Lose sb y; with 6 erect
d appendages. Flowers in dense Viene clusters
e axils or at leafless nodes. . 11. AMPEREA.
"du 5 ree ebria distinct, jo erem E! a perianth. Emtr
with broad cot arrow radicle. "Tree e peso es sma
Di -like teriam or racem vary aai el " : deo e
Stamens 2 to 5. Ovary 1-celled. Styles 3, small. Drupe 1-seeded 12. ANTIDESMA.
Tris 4. Phyllanthese.—F lowers distinct, both sexes ringia a perianth. ee
pics broad Sot iidonr and a narrow radice. Ovules 2 i cell. Flowers "
ary clusters or solitary.
Sal or rn lobes imbricate in the bud.
Petals present at least in the males, sometimes small and
glandlike.
Stamens alternating with the petals. ch ARR ad pistil
in the males. Her i or undershru ¿ds ÅNDRACHNE.
Stamens near the centre of a broad bio. disk round a &
ive pistil. pi r shrubs 14. ACTEPHILA.
-fid a
No distinct petals. Perianth of 4 to 6 calyx-like or petal- like
lobes or segments, “all similar or the inner ones rather
pide BL lege ONCE 18 2A ar SAEI ct ape SR Im eer 2-- ey Ame he A
a rge er.
tamens 4 or more, central, free, without any rudimentary
pistil. Styles eres undivided. Lea es opposite . . 15, DISSILIARIA.
Ed E E UM MEL PUES
CVIII. EUPHORBIACES.. 43
emen indefinite in a central column, without any rudi
entary pistil. Stigmas large flat, usually lobed. . . 16. PETALOSTIGMA.
BEAT 2 to D, central, free or united, wit ‘shout any rudimen- y
tary style. Styles linear or sho
dime lobes or segments erect or r spreading. Styles
o 17. PRYLLANTHUS.
hice turbinate, ‘the male ome 5 small orifice
obes, the female n, the lobes
minute or obsolete.. Styles usually en 18. BREYNIA.
Stamens 4 or 5, surrounding a 2-fid or 3- fà dro pistil;
Styles 2-fid . 19. SECURINEGA.
Stamens 5, 6 r more, ‘surrounding a broad central disk.
Ova ary Selle Styles 3, clavate or broad . . . . . 20. NEORŒPERA.
celled. Style 1, lat résitodid or orbicular . . 21. HEMICYCLIA.
à als present.
Uu
oO
c
me
B
=
p-a
©
—
led. Drupe with nes. i
einlets of the leaves cote between the primary veins 22. BRIEDELIA.
inet usually 3-celled. kas psule 3-dymons, separating into
val i. Veinl vont ide leaves reticulate between
the primary veins. . . oe $us . .. 23, CLEISTANTHUS. `
5. Crotonese.— 7] distinct, t, both seres with a perianth, sometimes minute
in the » halis. Embryo with broad cot radicle. Ovules 1 in each
dafs oe at facet the males, in po we racemes or yr panicles. Stamens usually in-
Caly x-lobes or segments valvate. Petals present.
Cap mtn inflect ai at the end in the bud. Anther-cells parallel,
Styles 2-fid or 4- . 24. Croton.
Anthers erect in the bud, the eels ‘parallel, adnate. "Styles
bifid. Flowers panic iculate 25. ALEURITES.
Cdyxlobes or segments (at least in the males) valvate. No
Anther-cells distinct, eat: straight and parallel. Styles lars eA 26. CLAOXYLON.
Anther-cells disti m dona wavy or tortuose. Styles divid
into capillary es 27. ACALYPHA.
ig ers bhi ‘hat cells adnate and xarallel. Styles 2-fid, ‘the
e fringed or with much-raised papilla 28. ADRIANA.
Anther-cells | parallel M iod above the base or the anthers
versati
Bi eius malls 8 or fewer. Styles entire or 2-fid, not
fringed. Trees or shrubs . . 29, ALCHORNEA.
Stamens few or ma any. Styles entire, ‘hot fringed. Twinefs
or (in species not A th . 80. Tracta.
Stamens usually numerous. Styles undivided, usually
r very papillose. i ot 31. MALLOTUS.
nged o
. Anthers 4-lobed, opening in 4 pedi or longitudinally in
ca Valves. Styles undivided, fringed or not. ‘Trees or Pisis 32. MACARANGA.
Calyx-lobes or segments imbricate. Petals present. Stamens
indefinite Sn pamai 6), central. Styles undivided. Leaves
enti
Anther-cells Sion ‘back to back, confluent at the Mes . . 98. CopLeuM.
Anthor ‘cells parallel and distinct, opening outwar 34. BALOGHIA.
Calyx s pi open i eset No petals. Samen) 2 to 6,
pane Sty es un
Salys x usually viding i kn P or 3 broad lobes. Seeds carun-
Ovary s odiol. MUR 6 or fewer. agnus undae
compressed, tardily dehiscent on the margin . 95. CARUMBIUM.
44 CVIII. EUPHORBIACE X.
e Stamens 3or2. Capsule fh into
3 2-valved c 36. SEBASTIANIA.
Calyx minute. tameii 3 or 2. Seeds without any carunculus 37. Excamcania.
TRIBE l. EUPHORBIEÆ.—Involucre B a calyx, toothed or
ished, including several male flowers, eac a single stamen ' witho
any perianth, and one central female Pier a single pedicellate pi
without any or rarely with a perianth, the whole flower-head resem |
a Ap flower. Embryo with broad cotyledons and a narrow ag $
1. EUPHORBIA, Linn.
ARRET eN Haw.)
A very la
A Anisbphiglin m.— Leaves all opposite with small interpetiolar stipules
al glands usually bordered iy : Ars appendage (except E. atoto and
pilulifera). Seeds without any carune
* Flower-heads in small distinct terminal cymes with the floral leaves or bracts
long as or longer than the involucres. Capsules and whole plant glabrous.
Seeds smooth. Appendages of the involucral glands —
conspicuous . . 1. E. atoto.
Seeds rugose. Appendages conspicuously petal- like, entire,
Leaves ovate-orbicular. Cymes rather dense. pe
out 1 line rin à 2. E. Sparmanni.
bao er leaves ova e, upper : ones lanceolate or linear Cyme e
loose with ‘fl tong eo Involucres } line long 3. E. Mitchelliana.
"pa e t€ de . Macgillivrayi, with much tices involucral
es.)
Sleeda i rugose. A ndidiges more or less lobed . . . . . . 12. E. myrtoides.
M ECCO T IR AEETI E SEEN UN XE USER CU TRES eR OT AE EN SR ARE DE TET ODER NE ETT RET E LAO Oe CENTS TES Tee ee ERL ee TA
»
Euphorbia. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACE E. 45
* Plower- heate solitary or two together, terminal or in the upper axils. Stems
hairy or ques
Stem an e scq ie or shortly hirsute.
viles 1 lines lon ng, the i ands with a gigs PON:
usually lobe pedis 5. E. Schultzii.
ime gres era with long spreading hairs. Involucres
e glands with a narrow entire white border . 6. Æ. Armstrongiana
*** Flower-heads solitary in the bee or in nearly all the axils or forks.
Stem and leaves pubescent or hirs
- Involucres va ines long, the ini with a broad palmately
dage
bed a 4. E. schizolepis.
Tnvolucres aboot P line long, ; the gland-appendages usually
much branched, need 6 in. to 1 ft. . . T. E. australis.
Inolcre ices 1 line ong, the gland- t'appendages entire. :
ant with pone 8 of 1— zm . 8. E. Muelleri.
Whole plant site glabrou
Involucres about 1 sine: log. Dwarf i agi bes "e. stems
of 1-2 in. . 8. E. Muelleri.
Involucres a Tin
Diffuse prostate “ranching stems forming at length a
Glan "febr s usually entire.
Stiles. ara poca at the end . Drummondii.
Styles slender bifid 0. E. alsineflora.
Annual, with erect and slender stems. est alias
- usually entire 11. E. Wheeleri.
Nus: diffuse and à much branched. ` Gland-appendages
usually lobed . 12. E. myrtoides.
*** Flower-heads numerous, in n dense or r rather loose ln ol axillary cymes
Ga ve AM sometimes the lowest pair, reduced to small bracts shorter than
involucr
Dwarf glabrous perennial Leaves ovate or gr sae Gland-
appendages large and very white . . . 13. .E. micradenia.
Pubescent perennial with erect or ascending Leave E ;
ovate or oblong. Gland-appendages large nd ges ve ch “white n. E. Macgillivrayi.
ual
` . 15. E. serrulata.
Pubescent perennial wit erect or ascending stems, the ultimat
branches filiform and cymes loose. Gland-appendages lange :
and very white 16. E. filipes.
Hirsute annual. Leaves ovate or lanceolate. Flower-heads mi-
nute, very num in dense ss adlike axillary qu Invo-
se lands best pesos. ko 4 QI . . 17. E. pilulifera.
2. Eremophila.— Leaves opposite or the lower ones and sometimes those of
lateral branches Me. Stipules very abs or none. Involucral glands without
appendages. Seeds carunculate.
bu erre p hotomons, Leaves n. luted genes second
‘ 18 4. eremophila.
he n Tithymalus, with 1 emare below the fope S binc alternate,
the Med e Ros di prales, Jus, the ary branches forming an umbel, the floral leaves
P owed deret stipules, and the a invelooral — without mts appendages,
has ee’ c re gee n in Australia; but o f the common gm weeds,
E i Prod. xv. ii. 141, p glabrous annual with t l
iss. in DC. mbe
usually of about 3 rays and the involucral glands crescent-shaped, the «ani o glabrors
LI
46 CVIII. EUPHORBIACE®, [ Euphorbia,
and smooth, the seeds pitted, is said to be now common in cultivated ground in Ne
uth Wales and West Australia, and probably in other colonies.
Euphorbia Brownii, Baill. Adans. vi. 290, was described from a specimen witho
flowers, believed to have been brought by Baudin's Expedition from the West coast
T nia. It remai e
Euphorbia at all, and the station, like others attached
n.
is ia to plants of the Baudin
Expedition, is very little to be relied upo 3
SECT. 1. ANIsopHyLLuM, Roxb.—Herbs, either annual or with a
perennial base, usually much branched and often prostrate. Leaves all
z
The species of this section run very much one into another, and are difficult to define.
It is possible, therefore, that some of the following, founded upon a small number ot
specimens may prove to be varieties only, "s
l. E. atoto, Forst. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 12, A glabrous.
diffuse or procumbent perennial of 1 to 1} ft., the primary stems thi
and hard, the branches more slender and sometimes dichotomo 4
Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, broadly oblong or rarely narrow,
obtuse or mucronulate, more or less cordate and usually unequally $0:
0
the glands sagas oblong, with very narrow scarcely distin
borders. Capsules glabrous. Seeds smooth.—Baill. Adans. vi. 282;
E. oraria, F. Muell. in Herb. Kew.; E. levis, Poir.; Boiss.in DC. Prod.
N. Australia. Water island, Montague Sound, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham;
Port Essington, Armstrong; La Grange Bay, Hughan; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 601; |
Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown.
ensland. Sandy Cape, R. Brown; Port Curtis, M‘Gillivray ; Isles off Ca
Flattery and Moreton island, F. Mueller; Sir C. Hardy’s island, Henne ; Rockingha
Bay, Dallachy.
dose plant, found also on the coasts of E. India, the Archipelago, and the Pacif
9.
Euphorbia. | CVII. EUPHORBIACEZ. 47
peur qwe between the angles.—Z. ramosissima, Boiss. in DC.
. ii. eg Baill. Adans. vi. 288, not of Hook. and Arn.
cur s. E.coast, R. Brown; Manly Beach, Woolls; also Sieber, n. 632
Bato E iie méé rat Lord Howe’s island, C. Moore, appears also to belong
E.
and th he dlighty rugose seeds. The true E. ramosis
on the Pacific islands, is Boissier’s Æ. Chamiss dito
3. E. Mitchelliana, Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 25. A perfectly
glabrous tege m: 1 to 14 ft., the rhizome at rin woody,
the stems erect or diffuse, slender dichotomous, the ultimate branches
small, the upper oblong or linear, entire, $ to lin. long, oblique or
unequally cordate at the base. Flower-heads very small, not numerous,
in loose terminal dichotomous cymes, the pedicels so ar the floral
leaves or bracts lin near, mostly as long as or longer than the flower-
heads, Involucre about 4 line long, the glands bordered by a petal-like
obovate or orbicular a endage, varying from } to } line in breadth.
Capsule glabrous. leis Y oru rugose.
N. Australia. Sweers island, Hen
i ensland. Port Bowen, Keppel ^pa ay, detnr islands, R. Brown;
Sandy Bea ch, aa island, A. Cun acd Port s, M'Gi illieray y; Port Deni-
nn, Fitzalan ; Rockingham Bay, Dallach y; idi sm Mitchell; Bowen river,
Bowm ; Sutton river, Thozet; Rockhampton, O’ Shanesy ; N. Kennedy district,
n..
Var. stenophyll he | s shorter and linear-
ylla. Leaves linear, 1-13 in. long or the lower one
lanceolate — Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 38, 505, 549 and 854
E. chizolepis, F. Muell. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 20.
Annual, but with hard, often POOR ooking stems of about 1 ft. high,
c ue
unequally cae at the base, 4 to lin. long, sprinkled on both
Pur with short hairs. Flower-heads shortly pedicellate in the upper
axils, Ein sometimes terminal leafy cymes.
ands peltate with a fioul spreading palmately lobed or
Ege a Ppeudage, not so white as in most species. Capsule and seeds
x. Upper Victoria river, F. Mueller.
us 2g labra ; perfectly glabrous, with 2 land- tx Aight. 8 much less lobed; per-
pe a distinct species.—Gulf of Carpentaria, 4’. Mueller.
5. E. Schultzii > Benth. sp. n. A slender annual of 6 in. to 1 ft.,
apparently erect hie young, but soon much-branched and diffuse, with
pu ON id r shortly hirsute stems and foliage. — — mey
48 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJ. — LEuphorbia. -
A Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 15, 237, 844 and 879.—A very poor spe- $.
cimen from Camden harbour, in Herb. F. Mueller; may belong to the same species. —
6. E. Armstrongiana, Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 47. An annual of P.
1 ft. or more, with long slender ascending loosely dichotomous branches, -
wit d
border. Capsule above 1 line long, glabrous. Seeds marked by deep -
transverse furrows. 1
7. E. australis, Boiss. Cent. Euph. 15 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 36,
small as in Æ. Drummondii, but more or less hirsute and the petal-like
eig cra of the glands more or less lobed, varying from white to
red.— l.c. 986.
Var. erythrantha. Appendages of the involucral glands very red. Æ, erythrantha, $
F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 152; Baill. Adans. vi. 284. To this variety belong more a
cially Beckler and Burkitt’s specimens from the desert interior, but in some others
glands assume a reddish tint.
ro
Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, rather crowded, ovate orbicular or the
upper ones is - rather thick, entire, 2 to 5 lines long, very oblique at
the base, and the lo
Euphorvia.| CVIII: EUPHORBIACER. 49
. in the upper ey forming almost a terminal leafy cyme. Involucre
about 1 line long, glabrous or pubescent. Capsule 14 lines long, gla-
brous or shortly ‘hairy. Styles short. Seeds irregularly rugose
N. Australia, P. Mueller; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 439, 485.
9. E. Drummondii, Boiss. Cent. Euph. 14 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii.
36. A prostrate or diffuse much- Mira plant, gee Bs ae sd
the European Æ. chamesgee, Linn., and when flowering t i ear
easily confounded with it, but ride s quite glabrous and Nan at
length a perennial thick or woody rhi opposite, os
ovate or oblong, obtuse or notched, entire or serrulate, oe
the base, 2 to 4 lines long, firmer than in ntire
See.
fringed or lobed. Flower-heads very small, es edice late in the
upper axils. Involucres about 4 line long, the glands with a narrow
white border entire or nearly so. Capsule under 1 ie ee s.
- Styles notched only, varying from almost none to near ya as in
_ E. chamesgee. Seeds rugose.— E. chamesgee, E. pedi E. Drummondi
and Z. cipe Baill. Adans. vi. 284 4, 285
N. aw stralia. begin a river, F. Mueller ; Gulf M qr mede Lanesborough.
Queensland. Bro d Sound and Thirsty Sound, R. Bro risbane river, F.
d. TETERA ere and gen, reei Da fig
ales. Port Jackson, E. achlan t, A. Cunnin ham; Dar-
| liùg Hrot Mitchell; and thence to the Barro ier ENT Vieira and other poo
— New En ngla nd, 0. Stu art.
. Victoria. Snowy river, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy.
ia. Swan port, Story.
alia. Spencer d oe E. Brown; Murray river aud mare F.
j e füpch. Wraith with the branches often Sr. Iuflorescence nin rs
and fruits as in the common Æ. Drummondii, except that id Laine are rather longer.
. Perhaps a distinct species.—Dirk Harlog's Island, A. Cunni
| . 10. E. alsinzeflora, Baill. Adans. vi. 288. A glabrous and glaucous
| perennial with a hard knotted base or rhizome, and much- ranchos
| voluere rather above j line long, the petal-like appendages of the glands
1 rather ipasi entire crenate orsinuate. Styles rather slender and bifid,
side] Mount King, Glenelg river, N. W. Coast, Martin.
xm ? A specimen from Warwick, Beckler, appears to be the same species.
Wheeleri, Baill. Adans. vi. 286. A perfectly glabrous plant,
aparently annual, branching from the base into erect or ascending
ender stems of 6 in. to 1 ft. Leaves o osite, in rather distant pairs,
oM entire or slightly serrulate, very oblique at the a rarely
VI.
* . 4
50 . VIII, EUPHORBIACEZ. — 4
Greville island, arn de river and Montague Sound, N. W. Ond
A: “Cunningham King’s Sound,
lia. Between Stokes” Raits and Cooper’s Creek, Wheeler.
m appears to be quite distinct from Æ. Drummondii in habit as well as in 4
cap nearly twice as large. It may, however, prove to be the first year’s e
E. al alsineflora. i
s, Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii 15. <A diffuse
woody at the base so as to appear perennial. Leaves opposite, shortly. :
sictinhunes; sey en ovate, Vies obtuse, entire or minutely denticulate, | 1
very un and often semicordate at the base, rather coriaceous but -
very Vlde ae of a Myrtle, fabely above 4 in. long. Stipules scarcely -
anges than elie involucres. Involucres smaller than in Æ. atoto, but con- -
siderably larger than in E. Drummondii, the glands with a narrow w petal- -
like border usually denticulate or lobed. Capsule about 1} lines long,
the cocci more distinct yon in the allied knee Lem edi keeled. | [
ier rugose.— E. Shark Adan :
Australia. N.W. SR qx pa i eres ; Despards | :
island, Bynoe.
W. Australia. Useless Harbour, Sharks’ Bay, R. Brown; Port Gregory, 4
Oldfield.
13. E micradenia Boiss. in DC. Prod. XV. ii. 27. ne peretie ]
differing from the former in its perfectly PAS ed and folia "
i and b
and in the involucral glands very small within e petal-like appen-
— le are about 1 line diameter. Stems in the specimens seen q
N. Merl Islands of i Gulf of Gaebler R. Brown; Port Darwin
Schultz, n. 545.
Queensland. Albany island, F. Mueller.
14. E. Mac viss, in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 90. A perennial
but often mere — Pra ear so as to appear annual, the rhizome
at length an mur i m
to above 1f t. hig wn mca or bn. pubesbent as well as the foliage or at —
sent easly 4 Leaves opposite, ian the lower aw
wi Biene
i _ Euphorbia.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACE X. D
oblong often above 1 in., obtuse, ines DM the base or semi-
. eor inged.
| ges varying from 1 to 11 n diameter.
Capsule fien. above lline long. Seeds rugose.
Queensland. Thirsty Sound, F, Brown; Port Molle and Gould island, M‘ Gil.
1 Tone Brisbane e river, F. Muelle er; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Rockhampto: n, Dallach:
l viet Walloon, Bowman ; Suttor river, T'ho zet.
. S Wal laii river, Beckler; New England, C. Stuart.
15. E. serrulata, 7 ; Boiss. i — Prod. xv. ii. 25. A gla-
_ brous annual, the stems fioi hard at the ra erect or idy petiohatal
l Le
Y
r : Australia. Port fist cuit Armstrong; Port Darwin, iq n. 234; Escape
i Cliffs, ise =
. , Quee Keppel Bay and Thirsty Sound, R. Brown; Rockhampton,
[LO (red T latter specimen imperfect and "doubtfal).
- This species extends over the sea-coasts of the Archipelago, from Timor to S. China.
16. E. filipes, Benth. A perennial allied to E. Mitehelliana and
. loose irregular c cymes, ter l or in the upper axils, the common
[ grade as well as the gin filiform, ae lower pair of ‘floral leaves as
. lo
a
- appendages to the glands Vadis obovate or VUL E the involucre
. Sometimes hairy, the capsule glabrous rugose
_ , N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, did Fitzmaurice
river, F. r Mueller.
ilulifera, Linn.; Boiss. i n DC. Prod. xv. ii. 91. . A prostrate
or ascendin A pee. attaining 1 to 9 ft., ie branches hirsute
with spreading aist: ee aves pee shortly
inut :
e cymes on short pe icc) ewe in one axil of each pair of leaves or
terminating the branches. Involucre about j line long, vium
*
^
69 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Euphorbia.
species. Capsule 3 to ł line diameter, more or less hairy.
"
small and pum without the petal-like appendages of he ee 1
slightly halite 1
d. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; common about Rockhampton, Dallachy, —
EN "e others.—A common tropical weed of cultivation both in the New and the —
Old W 4
SECT. 2. EREMOPHILA, Boiss.—Herbs. Leaves opposite or the lower :
ones and sometimes those of luxuriant branches alternate. Stipules |
very minute or obsolete. Involucral glands Sihoni petal-like appen- —
dages. Seeds carunculate. :
8. E. eremophila, A. sw in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 348. An erect
quite wanting. Flower-heads solitary in one axil on he pair of -
leaves, on a short pedicel. Involucre ease 1 e As 2 glands -
(5 or 4) broad, reniform, aem es. Bracts within the
and sho about 2 2 lines long, glabrous and
e stipes father: long. See ne eut with a rat
aped caru ii
Euph. Ic. t. 49; E. deserticola, F. Muell. in Linnea, ah
tralia. M island, Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Bro ; Greville island,
Regent' s river N.W. Coast and Goulburn island, A. Cunni iim Victoria river, F.
Mueller Jis large br of alternate).
een Broad Sound and Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, mot
livray ; "Three ilon, Berie eef Passage, and islands of Moreton Bay, F.
Rockingham and E ache. uis Dallachy; Rockhampton, Bowman and others}
Warrego river, Mit VN
. S. Wales. ma and — rivers and thence to the Barrier Range, £*
Mueller, Victorian and other Expeditions ; Clarence river, Beckler; New England, 0.
` Victoria. Murray river, F. Muel ;
S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, LA^ ; Flinders' range, Cudnaka, Akaba, &¢y
F. Mueller; Mount Searle, Warburto fe ate) Be nge, Sullivan; Lake Gi llies, Bur.
kitt; Cooper's Creek, Howitt's Expedition (with thick succulent stems and ' small
. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 88; Dirk
Hartog’s island, A. Cunningham.
2. CALYCOPEPLUS, Planch. `
Flower-heads resembling single flowers. Involucre campanulate 0
n, 4-lobed, with o r without small glands between the lobes
E collected in 1 clusters of z or more — the involucre
opposite its lobes, each one subtended and more or less embraced bya
bract, the outer 1 or 2 much enlarged sand idit the cluster; each
or
tib
Calycopeplus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. x
cci. Seeds smooth, carunc culate, —Shrubs e mderdhrabo) with
me of floweri
Leaves opposite or winnie whorled, narrow, ettii, very deciduous.
Stipules very minute or obsolete. Flower- heads small, axillary or
The -a » limited m West Australia. It is united by Boissier with Eup
ut being confirmed by a second species showing the distinctive characters still more
i Pimat, 1 have followed Ba sip in retaining Z altho: igh not on the grounds
ides ced by him, for he appears to consider tbe flower-heads as single pe in
ui
"uid "Us te. d bes of the inputs and of the female perianth
wholly green or scarcely border 1. C. ephedroides.
Disashes “ha or angular. Lobos of the ' involucre and of the
. female perianth with broad white margin g . . 2. C. marginatus.
C. ephedroides, Planch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. viii. 31. Ane
glabrous shrub of several feet, with virgate Shed lito phe ncn
usually leafless at the tim e of flowerin ng. Leaves on the young shoots
. Opposite or in whorls of. 3 or 4, epe Linens or lanceolate, entire,
. 4 to ljin . long, leaving after tallin ersistent gland- like base y
described sometimes as an adnate sti dia lower-heads almost. sessile,
Por or 2 together in each axil of the pair or whorl of leaves, ` within
one very broad bract, all the other braets much wn Perini
- the female flowers very short, with 6 broad equal lobes. Styles free
. ülmost or quite from the base. Capsule glabrous.— Euphorbia paucifolia,
Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. i. 174; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 175, and
. Euph. Ie. t. 120; Calycopeplus paucifolius, Baill. Adans. vi. 319.
=- W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 669: Canning river, Preiss.
2. C. marginatus, Benth. Branches ji peste rigid, virgate and
almost leafless as in C. apis but either flattened or angular as in
Amperea spartioides. Leaves very fem. sm all linear ^ que deciduous
94 CVIH. EUPHORBIACEEX. [ Calycopeplus,
the other, Pedicel of the female flower short, the perianth deeply
divided into 4 broad white-bordered lobes like those of the in nvoluere |
but longer, nie as long as the ovary at the time of flowering, persist- -
it, und the edges usualy crenulate. Capsule ovoid,
gla abrous, NL 3 lines long. Styles united in a short slender column |
| spreading upwards, dt and entire. Seeds smooth,
oam ate i
. W. Australia. o Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 213.
iphedra arborea, F. Muell. Syst. Arr. Pl. Carpentaria, 14 (App. Journ. Lanes
. E aueh Hered), referred to pel doubtful species by Parlatore in, DC. Prod. xvi.
e from the foot of Newcastle Range iu North Australi ia, appears to me most likely to |
a third species sd EP es with the sessile flower- heads of C. ephedroides and
ie angular branc C. margina'us. in the specimens are, however, -
all so deformed by ya sa that Abou true structure cannot be ascertained.
M
RIBE 2, STENOLOBEJE.—Flowers distinct (not enclosed in a cal
involucre), both sexes with a perianth. Embryo linear,
cotyledons not at all or scarcely broader than the radicle. Shrubs
often heath-like, — syay coriaceous leaves or rarely herbs with
small membranous lea
The principal j
E ero Australian tribe, from the tribes of PAyllanthec end Crotonece afr
that deriv die posset is probably constant, although rarely to be ascertained in
confounded with Croton easily kno T eir stamens and s style. The other
genera have no SEARES of their habit either in Phyllanthece or Crotonee.
3. PORANTHERA, Rudge.
Flowers moneecious. Male fl.: Calyx ee van deeply Mies into
5 segments imbricate in the bud. Petals all or asion nally
oma with a small gland at the base of adi pow mens 5, , oppii
the calyx segments ; anther-cells completely divided, forming 4 distin
IM LT in terminal pores either Ups distinct or at length con-
ense
racemes almost contracted into heads, each one in the axil of a floral leaf
or bract, the head-like racemes solitary or more frequently several in à
termin leafy c
. The genus is limited to Australia,
Poranthera.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 55
- Leaves dimas, sessile or shortly contracted sa the base. Plants usually
e bas
Plant rarely above 6-8 in. high. Ts aves «i much revolute mar-
ins. Flower-he: ee soli itary or in close corymbs.
Stipules jagged or toothed. Eastern plant . . . . . . . 1. P. ericifolia.
Stipules entire. Western or 8. ee plant 2. P. ericoides.
more. af-margins less revolute.
Flower-heads Ia corymbose
m rather slender, rarely oct above 1 ft. cer seen
Aes C P s . P. Huegelii.
Plant 3 ft. high. Eastern specie mbosa.
Leaves a or linear-spathulate contracted into a long petiolo.
Diffuse slender annual with small flower. . . 5, P. microphylla.
oe Dior Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 302, t. 22. A small
a
FE
m
2E
TH
t
- half so long as the calyx. Female flowers fina pits the males, at the
- base of the race eme, the calyx and a similar but rather smaller.
1 Glpeulé about 1 line diameter.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 191.
LUN. ^x idees Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 118, Woolls, and others.
. 9. P. ericoides, Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii, 2382.. A small undershrub
d dk iie P. ericifolia, with the same heath-like crowded leaves,
3 compact inflorescence sometimes reduced to a single M -like
., raceme at the end of the branch, but the tipule appear to be constantly
quite entire. It is either quite glabrous or very slightly scabrous
E rdg .—Muell. po o eo Prod. xv. ii. 191; pice
| Pl. Preiss. ii. 232 Kl. 1.c. 231, Muell. Are l.c. 192 (with
- rather more pi evloped foresee) £P. arbuscula, Sond. in Linnea,
| xxviii. 567; catricosa, F. Muell. (ined. ?)
t
S. PRENNE Yoda do. F. Mueller.
W.A g George's Sound to Swan river, Baxter, Drummond, 1st
] veloped eie AER Lente v but many even ences these with the compact racem
messem or nea
to the smaller forms of e eastern P. corymbosa. Leaves more iuto
- than in P. ericoides, less crowded, and not so much revolute. Flowers
. in a looser less corymbose panicle, the lower or all the branches m
. longer than the subtending leaves. oft and fruits the same as 1
that species.—Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 192.
W. Australia, Drummond; King George's iot Preiss, n. 2047, F. Mueller,
} E
56 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJ. [ Poranthera, —
and others; Blackwood and Kalgan rivers, Oldfield; eastward along the coast from 3
Cape Arid to Cape Paisley, Maxwell. 4
Euph. t. 25, £. 1 to 9; P. arbuscula, Sieb. Pl. exs. (the young in-
florescence not yet fully developed); P. ericifolia, Hu B
Archiv. t. (raised from Port Jackson seeds and not the western
P. Huegelii).
. IN. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. Cunningham,
Sieber, n. 116, 117, and many others; Illawarra, A. mningham, Shepherd; neat
Mount Imlay, Twofold Bay, F. Mueller (smaller specimens coming very néar to P.
Huegelii). 3
hylla (p y B.
ow diffuse glabrous slender annual, sometimes becoming hard at the
base, the branches ascending to from 3 to 6 in. Leaves fr |
spathulate to obovate, obtuse, tapering into a rather long petiole, flat or
pete
s often much elongated.—Muell Arg. in DC. Pr
Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii. 230; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 343; P. Drummondi
Klotzsch, l.c. 231.
_. N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 54.
V febri Sandy Cape and Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Port Curtis, I‘ Gillivray,
eavour river, A, Cunningham ; Brisbane river, Prentice.
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R, Brown, A. & R. Cum
ningham, and others; Bathurst, A. Cunningham; New England, C. Stuart; Hastings
eckler. ie
ictoria. Melbourne, Adamson; Buffalo Range, F. Mueller; Wendu Vale,
Robertson ; Portland, Allitt ; Wimmera, Dal y. ES
Tasmania. A common weed from the sea-coast to the tops of the mountains, J. D.
Hooker.
S. Australia. Mount Gambier, St. Vincent's and Spencer's Gulfs, Torrens river,
F, Mueller, and others ;
W.A i ;
. Australia. King George's Sound, Preiss, n. 2045, F. Mueller ; Swan river,
Drummond, 1st. coll. n. 675, Preiss, n. 2048; eastward to Cape Arid, Maxwell.
— Micrantheum.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 57
4. MICRANTHEUM, Desf.
al Baill.)
r8o
2 parallel cells ook longitadios nally. Rudimentary ovary small and
lobed. Female 4. : Perianth of the males. Query ges and 3-celled,
together in the upper dili the males on short pedicels, the females
usually sessile.
. . The genus is limited to Australia.
ENNME o0, S 1.0 1-4 $0. x ION AC 1. M. ericoides.
| Stmensó . P A - 2s Are 2. M. hecandrim.
M. Mund i Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. iv. 253, t. 14. A heath-
| like shrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branches and sometimes the foliage hirsute,
about 3 or rarely 4 lines long, glabrous and smooth or scabrous-
pubescent. Flowers in the axils of oral leaves which are often
solitary or only 2 together, the males on pedicels shorter than the
leaves. Perianth-se dart ovate or oval-oblong, about iline long,
_ the inner ones flat, the outer concave and smaller. Rudimentary ovary
sg 3-lobed. Female flowers larger, the inner perianth-segments
E es long. xo gates about 3 lines long.—
F DC. "Prod. xv. ii. 195; M. boroniaceum, F. Muell. hin i. 32.
; Burnett river, F. Mue
EY ge Doe Ri pens 2d others ; fener | Creek, Leichhardt.
2. M. hexandrum, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 283, FI. T.
i 942. An erect shrub, attaining ie A of rivers 8 to 10 ft., gaiti
. glabrous or the UE ee scent. Leaves in threes, "linear
id en Los aprosding than in M. ericoides.
ts a
M. ericoides.— Caletia mierantheoides, Baill. Etud. Euph. 554, t. 26, f. 1 to
. 18, Adans. vi. 326 ; ri p eese Muell. Arg. in DC. Brod. xv. ii. 194.
58 © CVIII EUPHORBIACE Æ, [Mierantheum,
. S. Wales. Cox’s river, A. ad ; George river, Macarthur ; Camden 1
"e d Berrima, Woolls ; Pests Shepher 3
Victoria. Genoa river and Buffalo range F. Mueller "
asmania. Port Dalry Ms R. Brown; dist. shady ravines near Launceston,
Laurence, kir and vec : South Ek. river, Archer
This es has been very er f UE e arepe te as a genus from M. ericoides on
account of a supposed difference in the position of the sepia ovary in the E
owers, cedit à is P slightly affecte ed by the ifere rence in the number of stamens.
pue of the carpels of the female rds d to the peek A is the same in both | 1
Specie 1
5. PSEUDAN THUS, Sieb.
ne abortive. blong, 1-celled, 1-s
alves oblong, smooth, carunculate
ledons longer but megane conga than the coun
Leaves opposite or alte small, coriaceous, obtuse, with thick
margins ue ie Get ponent underneath. Stipules small, subulate
Plow ers small, sessile or shortly punc] »
e upper er one mal ape several together, the females more
sessile, solitary and aliens. or with one or m les.
us is endemic in Australia. It is ge — "ag: dia as having the st
united in a central column without any rudimentary o have only found ta to
by its bud leaves, and by the cred constantly l-celled and 1-seeded by aborti
e stamens vary in number in both ge
Stamens 6. Eastern
Male perianth- vitiis om linea ar, 5-6 line 1. P. pimeleoides.
— — xr segments ovate or dioe: Mashti c “line
ong o
Leaves ar ovate, 1-2 sen mg Perianth 1 line long,
ner stamens near "M
Stamen N E E E te jy ben dicte
Stamens 3 . . P. micranthus.
Leaves abel ovate. or orbicular, xs id lines long. Fd
line on a still shorter emp E nensi very short . 4, P. divaricatissimus.
+ Leaves mostly oblong-lin a 2-4 lines long. Peri anth
4 line on a je longer ie itself, " Stamens rins . 5. P. orientalis.
Stame ens 9-20. stern speci
. Male perianth pedisdieie the : segments n o al — and
ut j line long. Branches minutely pube 6. P. virgatus.
Male perianth sessile, 5 of the se india i def iong, th the sixth
filiform, red and 2-3 lines. Plant glabro . 7. P. nematophorus.
Pseudanthus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE, 59
1. P. pimeleoides, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. Cur. Post. 95. An erect
much-branched glabrous shrub 1 to 2 ft. high. tears alternate,
ines
s clustered at the ends of the casas shortly.
. —Muell. "Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 196; Endl. Atakta, H, t. 11, the
p analysis copied in Flora, 1839, ii. t. 4; Baill. Etud. Euph. t. t. 95 5,£ 16.
retis ei cay Burdekin Expedition ; Whitsuiday island, C. Moore ; pilis Bay,
uH egit
i . S. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 292 and Fl. Mixt.
n. 528, ien verme Shoalhaven, C. Moore; lllawarra, Shepher erd.
mde gt Muell. in Trans. we Inst. Vict. ii. 60. A
ncave or E eomp icate TA often recurved at e
icellate in the upper axils; Pa white, the
ai not very eia, about 1 line long. Stamens 6 round
| ‘with white margins. Ovary narrow. Fruit not seen.— Caletia ovali [;folia,
| Muell. Arg. in suite. xxxiv. 55 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 194; Baill.
Lets vi. 327.
3 Victoria. Monnt Zero, Grampians, Wilhelmi.
— Tasmania. Flinders Islan d, Milligan.
_ _3. P. micranthus, Benth. A small rigid much-branched glabrous
- shrub, Tos nig HS scarcely angular. Leaves very shortly
60 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. [Pseudanthus, —
flowers examined, nearly 1 line long when full-grown. Ovary narrow, 4
2-celled or nearly 3-celled, tapering into as many long etel styles
or re ni lobes. Capsule obliquely ovoid, about 2 lines long, with | |
a single s :
|. S. Au bini Near serene Whittaker.
scattered, mostly ornate, ova or Fides i a lto 2 fios longi 1
rved at the
recurved at end but scarcely concave. Flowers very small in the -
e ils, the males on pedicels not longer than the perianth.
erianth-segments ovate, a about 4 line long, the inner one
rather larger than the « Stamens 6, all ete the inner filamen
Wales. King's Tableland, ing pe ara at an elevation of 3000 ft, 4.
Piedad Blue Mountains, R. Ounnin P
Var. orbiculare. Leaves oiu trey f rie diameter. T
Victoria. Summits of the ro cky mountains on the M‘Alister river, Mount Macedon —
and granite rocks on the Yowaka river, F. Mueller 3
orientalis, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 14. A Sie dicun branched. 1
glabrous "init: Leaves wine xabeldy alternate, often crowded, 3
abortion.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 197 ; Caletia orientalis, br
Adans. vi. 827; C. linearis, Muell. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxii. 79 a
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 194; Baill. Adans. vi. 327.
N. S. Wales. Sandhills near Port Jackson and Botany Bay, A. and R. Cu
ham, Mossman, F. Mueller ; Tweed river, C. Moore; also in Leichhardt’s vcllectid
6. P. virgatus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 56 and in DC. Prod. XY 3
ii. "uf A low Seelen the branches sometimes diffuse or straggling and —
" Sometimes more erect and shorter, more or less
} line long. Stamens varying from about 8 to 15, or lire aps more,
clustered but always with a small rudiment of the ovary in the centre,
- Pseudanthus.| | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEX., 61
the inner ones or nearly all as pone as the perianth, and all free or very
shortly connate at the dnd Female flowers sessile and solitary, alone
. or with the males. Gods ovoid, 1-seeded, pud y ex long when
X ripe.— Chrysostemon virgatus, Klotzsch in Pl. Pre . 939; Pseudan-
- thus occidentalis, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 107; Chorizot ai micrantheoides,
iem i —— n Linnen, : p 76.
[ lia. Drummond, ist coll. n. 725 ; 5th coll. n. 222; near Bakewell,
1 Pres n "1230; Kalgan irte Oldfield, F. Mueller ; ; Fitzgerald and Gardner rivers,
Maxwe
n erb.
1 DC., Nos to be from ‘kine George’ s Sound, Cumming Meses for A. y; rl
_ as Cumming never was there) is unknown — on agrees | with P.
. thec uster; perianth-segments narrow, acute, usually 4 ary
q ed. Capsule Mert rather acute, about 2 lines up "a Pulse
d
ustralia. Murti river, r, Oldfield, Dino, 6th ~*~ n. 89.
6. STACHYSTEMON, Planch.
_ Flowers monecious. Male fl.: Perianth rather rigid, of 6. s pipar
. nearly equal and entire. rie indefinite, united in a central colum
_ the anthers sessile on irregul rotuberances or borne on distinct fila:
. ments, each with 2 ees distinct parallel cells, opening outwards in
2 valves. No rudimentary ovary. Female fl: Perianth-segments
broader and pea aisig than in the males and — fringed. Ovary - or
. rarely 3-lobed, with thick diverging sti c lobes, 9- or rarely 3-celled
[ nate, small ; coriaceous, obtuse with the midrib or keel prominent under-
. neath. Stipules very small Flowers sessile or shortly pedicellate,
. clustered at the ends of the brauches, usually several males with 1 to 3
62 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Stachystemon.
females. Staminal pu sometimes very long and “cylindrical, and
always exceeding the peria
us is endemic in vnnd and closely allied to kt praet ot only -
in the stamens (hited in n a column without any central rudiment of the o
Stamens 10-25, the sang filaments almost free from the column,
the inner or upper ones very short . 1. 8. polyandrus.
Stamens very fe calle ‘all sessile on a long cylindrical column. ;
Leaves oblong, under } in. long. Anthers pros packed on a :
column of less than 4 in 2. S. brachyphyllus.
Leaves linear, py i in. dong. Anthers not dense, on a column :
more 3. S. vermicularis.
1. S.p olyandrus, Benth. rd glabrous E the stems in all the
together from oc ck. Leaves very ghees enoli or almost
sessile, riom or ian Fra or slightly wd concave and eeled,
rarely above 4 in. long and pper ones tein wers in termin
clusters, sessile arly so iei o 8 e with 1, 2 or more
males ale perianth ** yellow" about 1 line long. Andreecium from
a little longer than, to twice as long as the perianth, consisting of from
o 25 stamens, of whic e outer ones have their ene free
re to the base, the inner ones more or less united in a column, and
es 2 or 3 anthers sessile or nearly so " the top of the column. :
uL páxitath about 2 line long, the segments broad thin and fringed
on the margin. Ovary 2-celled. Capsule not seen.—Pseudanthus
polyandrus, F. Muell. Fragm. ii.: 153; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. it
196; P. ehryseus, Muell. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 48 and in DO. ies le.
ustrali on 5th coll. n. 221; ‘Oldfield river, Maz E
aperin connects in some measure Stachystemon with Pse udanthus, but T! find the |
ns always really united, without ag trace of the rudimentary ovary, and have .
ean transferred it to Stach, ystemo E
hyphyllus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. 76, and in DC. 1
4 lin
per having the a appearance of er l-celled anthers. Female |
perianth-segments fully 1 vn , broad, acute or acuminate, much |
imbricate with fringed margins. Ova with: 2 long "abr stigmatic d
lobes. oe ovoid, rr nearly 8 iwi long, with a single seed.
W. Australia. Disecnid, 4th coll. n. 95.—This species had we. ud distin-
Sed is the Hookerian poa bas by Planchon, with the manuscript name of ©
brevifolius, which Mueller Arg. in common fairness ought to have adopte
. 8. S. vermicularis, P pss in Hook, Lond. Journ. iv. 471, t. 15. An
erect, glabrous shrub, writ virgate stems of about 1 ft. Leaves linear,
acute or obtuse, not so thick as in the preceding species and 4 to 8 lines
hi
Stachystemon. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 63
f long. Inflorescence * S. d "e vam males nd more
f males
bro th
. ones sometimes reduced to s ander fila ments. den deeply di divided
apsule not
Seen. iMi ell. Arg. in DO. Prod. x
W. Australia.. Swan river, Dakai. p doll. n. 234, Clarke.
7. BEYERIA, Miq.
(Calyptrostigma, Klotzsch ; Beyeriopsis, Muell. Arg.)
d or aer n: Male fl.: Calyx of 5
1 pe » enlarging after flowering. Ovar ry 9-celled, entire, with 1 ovule
ri cell; stigma sessile, broad, entire or 3- lobe , peltate eT flat
or um or less caly triform and almost conical, more rarely iw ly
he radicle.—
n more or less glutinous, with alternate leaves, usually
| ith recurved or revolute margins, white undernea ha
¢ Mose islas pubescence Flowers small, axillary, the males solitary
or in clusters of 2 or 3, rarely racemose, the females solitary.
The geuus is Binited to Kostfulli:
4 Sec ubeyeria.—Anthers twice as long as broad, adnate to an entire or
areal lob ied connective. Stigma entire or scarcely lobed. — Éastern species (one species
Leaves slong lanceolate or broadly linear, flat or with recurved
mar n
Tiniis san stly 1 1-2 in. long. C labrus . . . . . l. B. viscosa.
Leaves mostly 1-2 in. long. Capsule hairy . . 2. B. lasiocarpa.
Leaves under 1 in., gier narrow. Capsule glabrous . - « « 8. B. opaca,
aves narrow-linear almost terete with a hooke pont . . . 4. B. uncinata.
Beyeriopsis.—Anthers short, the cells quite distinct, either adnate to
thenly lobed connective or orant ater with the connective more entire. Stigma
aves ovate or lanceolate, rdate at the base. Petals
glabrous or seb: Ps to — insid
ves broadly ov: rg in Mai — pa A pu-
bunt, iaai ihin the perian setis .
5. B. latifolia.
64 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER,
Leave sorata not giesediog HH in. Male pedicels ry short
thick and hirsu
Leaves mostly lan eola ate, the argins ‘much revolute. Male
Is hoidet iboi vine than the perianth
2
a
Ei
n
Fy
o
e
=
a
o
Z
c
et
o
e
Qo -a
narrow, sessile or tapering into a short. petiole. "Petals
usually hirsute inside, at least at the
rid oblong, with D E prd “Peta broad, rather
"S
£,
a
ES
g
=
=
2
©
un
Petals articular, Capsule oblique, 1-seeded.
sule 2-horned o ins fertile side .
Ovary and epsule withont a ipid ages
m small and irregular, often xdg: Capsule equally
eeded . 12
.
[n
—
Secr. 3. Oxygyne SR ew ce si Dereipin Stigma deeply 3-lobed. Male flower
in a loose raceme.— Tropical s
Leaves ovate or lanceolate, ae at the base, 1-14 in. long . 13. B. tristigma,
. Szcr. 1. EuBEYERIA.—ÀAnthers twice as long as broad, adnate to an
entire or scarcely lobed connective. Species all aren Eastern ex
the common B. viscosa, which extends also into W. Australia
‘he differences in the anthers of the two sections, although as RAT by Bail
not marked eorn to ju gre stify the maintenance of distinct genera, when some spe
such as B. visco mmon e otherwise so nearly allied, is yet v
easily observed wii det two are compar usd,
1 iscosa, Mig. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 950, t. 15.
shrub or tree, the flowering and fruiting branch usually vis
alyx-segments ” broad, cela oured,
Anthers (about 3 line long) es as ades) as broad, the cells who.
adnate to the entire connective. . Female calyx smaller than the
tbe thickened pedicel appe to form part of it, the segments na
with frequently smali glands b aaiae with them, Ovary nearly ¢
bular, the large calyptriform sessile stigma closely appressed
young, raised and flat or concave when fully out. Capsule o
Ave K about 4 lines long, hard and glutinous, 3-celled and
à . Prod. xv. ii. 202; Croton viscosum, Labill. Pl.
Holl. ii. 72, t. 222; Uy aeo de viscosum and C, ob inp, Klo
in Pl. Preise i 176; eyeria oblongifolia, Hook, f£ FLT i. 939.
Siler son Mount iio and Cape | jones 8, 4. Cunningham ; Moi
F. Mueller ; sources of Cape dep eot E Mount. Wheeler, ‘Sutherland.
ales. Blue puit s, B, Cunnin ngham ; Liverpool plains, A.
Rap ed ne = Mi — u; pm "England, 6: Stuart ; between the Lachis
Busen Hem mà
abil illa lardior ; Port Dalrymple and Derwent river, R. rtm
det a m places sapada on the.rocky banks of rivers, J. D. Hooke
Beyeria.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACES. 65;
|. W. Australia. | goes Net, Drímmond, Harvey; Rottenest island, Preiss, m.
2387 ; Sharks ety
e E
broader than T the Eastern ones in those í ni Tot mania and from the Blue Moun-
tains they are large and long, and the owes prr niii in the interior of N. 8.’
Wales and in d both nd and flowers are smaller
2. B. lasiocarpa, F. Muell; Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 59, a
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 201. A tall almost plewirooh shrub, closely erede
_ the larger broader-leaved forms of B. viscosa and r ecently re by
F. Mueller as a variety only, but ocigindily distinguishe im a
pP N. s. w "ON T wofold ‘a j^ Mueller ;
. intermediate in several respects between the (rios B. viscosa and the
X fro C. Stuart, Leich astings river, Beckler; but the vpédimehé
. are scarcely sufficient to determine whether the two should be retained as ep or
varieties.
3. B. opaca, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 16, and in Hook,
viii. 210. rect shrub of 1 to 2 ft, “ase allied to
BB. viscosa, of which F. Mueller Sonst it a variety, "with more slender
stems and smaller leaves and flowers. Leaves rarely above 1 in. long
and mostly 4 to , oblong or iier: linear MENT. ovate, very obtuse,
with dh margins or nearly flat, pale or very white underneath.
w
. Hook. f. FI. Tam. i. 339; m mma? Leschena i, DC. Bet Veg i i
= 444; B. Leschenaultii, Baill. natem vi. 307. y
4 N. S. Wales. Euryalean scrub, Fras
E. sterio, Sea-coast, fu Fairy, Dess; 7 Cos Otway, F. Mueller; Murray river,
; Faora. Islands of Bass's Straits, R. Brown, Gunn, Backhouse, Milligan,
M: Gow.,
* S. Au: mory Cove, Port Lincoln and Kangaroo island, R. Brown;
: sors river to aes pele spi: Miet Point Nepean ae and Guichen Bay, F. Mueller ;
. Rivoli Bay, aP bert. rt Linco i i
... Var. linea peki narrow- vanis A ode or Marco 1-14 in. long, with revo-
: lute AQ ates on the Macalister, F. Mueller; nempe Blandowski.
|. 4, B. uncinata, F. Mucil.; Baill. Adans. vi. 306, An erect viscid
sh rub, with slender slightly paroent i scan Leaves almost sen.
ale flowers unknown. Female flowers like those of B. opaca, but
. much iia Baillon further distinguishes it by the thinner calyx-
Segments, more free from the ovary, a and by the very caducous stigma,
| distinctions however scarcely warranted by the specimens.
S. Australia? Murray desert, F. Mueller.
VOL. VI. . F
66 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. | Beyeria. j
` SECT. 9. BEYERIOPsIs:.—Anthers short, the cells quite distinct, 4
either sinite to a deeply 2-lobed connective, or partially free with the 1
ective more entire. ij ies all Western. 1
5. B. latifolia, Baill. Adans. vi. 304. A more or less viscid shrub
owers moncecious, both sexes solitary in our specimens, on slender
pedicels of 3 in. or more. Calyx-segments about j line long, road,
eg "
tinct, attached by the centre, with minute appendages at-the end.
* Beyeriopsis seared, Muell. Ar rg. i n DC. Prod. xv. ii. 200.
6. B. cygnorum, Baill. Adans. vi. 309. A much-branched more
less pubescent shrub. . pom ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rounded
ors pmi cordate at the tA the margins rrr revo olu te, 3 to 6 lines
the males, the calyx quite glabrous. Petals small. Ovary than ths at
the top, the peltate dee not very large. ip^ oett is cygnorum, Muell.
rod. xv. ii. 199.
W. Australia. CAM a Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 86.
n — Baill. Adans. vi. 909. A much-branched erect shrub,
more or less scab desir nce or shortly hispid and possibly glutinous.
Leaves lanceolate or Neto e ate, with the
revolute as to appear linear, rather acu cute, rounded or almost cordate at
he base, 3 to 5 lines long, on i petioles of about 1 line. Flowers in the
wai ih seen all males, solitary or 2 or 3 together on filiform dicels
rather longer than the petioles. Calyx-segments Niet g po
about 2 line long, each with a very prominent dor
berance near the base. Petals rather shorter than th e calyx, orici
labrous. Stamens numerous, anthers short, the cells distinct, i^
with E appendages, those of 3 central stamens vr md la ipd diee
i —B sis cinerea, Muell. Arg. in DC. Pro
lia. Swan river, Vbi 1st coll. n. Khir Emis species at first
c M oci spice B. cygnorum, but the flowers are differe
yanescens, Benth, Branches short, rM grey but
Oa o crowded, broadly ovate or ‘ovate-lanceolate ;
EE
Beyeria.| CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, 67
margins much revolute, } in. long, stellate-pubescent when young but
becoming glabrous above, white-tomentose underneath. Pedicels of the
male flowers slender, Petals zigi id, geared inside,—Beyeriopsis cyaneseens,
Mue o run n DC. Prod. x
ustralia. “Iles nae PN a Arpipslago Herb. Mus. P,
wi. ge: m E have not seen this plant, and am not sure which of the islands off the
south or west coast were provisionally designated under the no name, which a ppear:
never to have been publi lished,
. B. lepidopetala, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 990. A viscid shrub of
several feet, the branches sprinkled with a scabrous stellate pubescence.
eaves on very short petioles, oblong or linear, 3 to 1 in. long, rather
‘thick, obtuse with revolute margins, glabrous ‘above, white-tomentose
species thickening upwards after lowering. Malec i po Sra e d
orbicular, about 2 line pagpasa, much imbricate. Petals short, broad,
hairy inside, alternating with 5 prominent disk-glands. Stamens
numerous ; anther- cells short, distinet, each with à small terminal
0 d
‘than in the ihn a paai larger an nd op but yet peri than the
XV.
J Danei, Murchison river, ari
similis, Baill. Adans. vi. 309. An erect zr with mme
Leaves sessile or nearly 80, inear, obtuse, with revolut ute magina, mos
axils on pedicels of ed 11 e, the females solitary on pedicels a at
first very short but gre Me under the fruit to 5 or 6 lines. Male
. calyx-segments orbicular, very concave, dt Es dosi line
long. tals shorter, with a short tuft of hairs inside at the base.
Aather-cll adnate to a connective deeply lobed in the outer ones, less
_ 80 in the inner ones. Female calyx-segments thicker than in the males,
| the etals small and irregular. Ovary with 2 ovate or horn-like ap-
| ges on we si o, moih enlarges ane after flowering, throwin
the rather s abate ne to the other side.
Capsule “hod pie 21 to eir lines vni usually 1-seeded on ‘the horned
Side, the other cells remaining unenlarged. bos d opsis similis, Muell.
Arg. i n "DC. Prod. xv. ii. 200.
W. Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 86.
B. brevifolia, Baill. Adans. vi. 309. A branching heath-like
2c glabrous but apparently viscid. Leaves linear, obtuse, with
revolute margins, tapering into a short petiole, } to 4 in. or rarel
longer. Flowers moncecious, both males and females on slender glabrous
pedicels, often j in. long in the females, shorter in the 8. owers
of B. similis although in one of the two males examined D ould not
68 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, ( Beyeria.
find the petals, the ovary and capsule similarly oblique and one-seeded —
by abortion, but without the two horns or appendages of that species, -
and the stigma larger T AUS conical.— Beyeriopsis brevifolia, -
Arg. in DG. xp xv. ii. 201.
W. Australia. aa Cape Riche, ideni = coll. n. 215.—The species
very closely bin t both B. similis and B. D
12. B.
rod. xv. ii. 201. ah erect aie slightly viscid ri of 2 2 to 3 fey
he fruit to 2
peo egmen " eie a i only 4, 1 to 14 lines long. Petals v
small and KA. isk continuous, irregularly
= ein ied 5th se n. 214, 220, aa ja ?) n. 13; Middl
Moost Barren and Fitzgerald river, Maxwell.
Sect. 3. Oxyayne. F. Muell.—Anthers of Beyeriopis. ER deep!
divided. into 3 narrow lobes. Male flowers in a loose racem
18. B. tristigma, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 181. A small di shru
quite distinct. Female flowers on a pedicel of lin. o
when in fruit, either solitary at the end of the branches or 1 or 2 at th
‘base of the male raceme, smaller than the males at the time of flowe ^
ing, but the caly x-segments enlarging under the fruit to nearly 1 line.
Ovary capsule and seed of the genus, but one roms divided to the
or nearly so into 3 narrow flat recurved lo
land. nchinbrook island, Rocki pd: i ay, Dallachy. The racem
male flowers, the pni much longer than the calyx, and the divided. stigma or st
bring this species near to Ricinocarpus, but the stamens are entirely those o
et - M AR lobes are closely recurved as in that m to which on the who
the nearest related.
8. RICINOCARPUS, Desf.
Reeperia, Spreng.)
Flowers moncecious. Male fl.: Calyx deeply divided into t to,
usually 5 lobes or segments. Petals as many as calyx-lobes and u:
dari
E Ber: plant with lanceolate leaves. ` Glands stipitate, adnate
Male Siva several in a
= Ricinocarpus.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 69
on purely deficient. Glands as niay as petals and alternating with
numerous, unite a central column without an
ag ; filaments shor dy free; anthers reflexed, with
ean ary ;
iai de eao opening moms longitodin ally in 2 valves. Female f. :
2-valved. cocci. Seeds ee sony arunculate. Em ryo (where
ores solitary or d or the males rarel racemose, terminal or
rely apparently axillary from Ms. ries of the lowering branch,
the emales either alone or surrou or by the side of "the male
cluster or raceme. Pedicels ds e sd by small scale-like
bracts, and often bearing a pair of bracteoles.
The genus is limited to Australia.
A: plants t: linear leaves. Flowers T or clus-
— Species all Western except 2. pi pee à
Stiles deciduous or none, Male calyx, vided scarcely
below the middle.
Female ES deciduous Capsule more or less tuberculate
or ech
Capsule obtu use, as broad as long, densely muricate
tyle-branches nearly terete, "o" or recurved. WES
erred: spec es i iid lin 1. R. pinifolius.
y meatag nearly "twice as ong "as broad, s E
tuberculate. Styles of R. pinifolius.— Western species 2. R. tuberculatus.
Capsule bac yey weal tuberculate. Sii
flatte ed . . 8. R. cyanescens.
. R. psilocladus.
»
Female pae Serb and much enlar ged
Br racteoles airs Male calyx d divided p to the base,
Capsule quite
5. R. glaucus.
to the calyx segments.—Doubtful Tasmanian specie . R. major.
Branches and calyx tomentose. Flowers solitary or clustered.
m
Leaves linear, the mar siewen given iners 1 in. long. ;
Petals longer than the calyx. Ovary m 7. R. Bowmanni.
Leaves Baies the eig revolute, : e o» i que Petals R. ledif bd:
e
| Leaves linear the margins has Sicut 1} to 3i in. long. B us
Pe uch werni than the calyx. Ovary tomentose . 9. R. rosmarinifolius.
Leaves eshe drag flat, hoary on poh sides, M w 3: in. long.
Petals much shorter than i ihe os yx. Ovary tomentose . 1
yg ne E TAE 2 to ar in. ong, the "TT ORIS
volute . 11. R. speciosus.
e
R. marginatus.
race
Branches and inflorescence yanheatube: Petals longer than
the calyx. Ovary densely hirsute
Branches and inflorescence glabrous, glutinous. | Petals none.
Ovary glabro rous.
. 12. R. trichophorus.
Styles shortly 2 . 13. R. muricatus.
70 CVIIT. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ ieinoearpus.
. R. pinifolius, Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. iii. 459, t. 22. An erect
ea shrub of 2to 3 ft. Leaves rather crowded, linear, mucronate 0
most obtuse, with the margins revolute to the midrib, 3 to 14 in. lon
ntraeted into a short petiole. Flowers in a terminal Cluster, usuall
r female tom 3 to 6 males, but denen m" the or th
147; Echi inospheera rosmarinoides, Sieb. Pl. Exs.; Hicinocarpus sideformis,
F. Muell in several Herb., quoted by Baill Etud. Euph. 344
R. sidefo lius
warra iM BA.
ctoria, Port P and Melbourne, Gunn, Adamson, F. Mueller, and oie
Wilson’ s Promontory per Hin ton to Cape Howe, F. Nn and others.
i. smania. Abundant on sandhills near the sea on the north coast, Gunn an
others.
2. R. éileledlatos, Muell. Arq. in Linned, xxxiv. 60, an
Australia. Lacky Bay, R Brown, kaha 4th dt n. 84.
3. R. cyane scens, Muell Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 60, and in DC.
Prod. xv. ii. 205. An erect glabrous much-branched shrub of 4 to 10 ft.
the foliage assuming often- a bluish tint in the dried state. Leave
Ren rom under 1 t to near 1 in. long, rather terrd more spreading an
the margins much less revolute than in R. plausus
Flowers often solitary, the malés sofoétiioó 2 to 41 together; pedic
rather longer than the leaves, without ‘bracteoles at the time of flower
ing. Calyx emite 13 lines long, divided to about the middle. Petal:
nearly 4 in. , Villous inside at the base. Glands glabrous, Female
esl rather hace than the male and more deeply divided, falling away
MFR
‘Petals twice as lone.
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-Ricinocarpus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. "1
very early. Ovary contracted at the top into a very short neck,
crowned by the deeply divided styles, which are somewhat flattened
spreading from the base and then incurved. Capsule j in. long an
nearly as broad, acuminate, tuberculate.
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. 86 in part, and Suppl. n. 15; sandy places
along the coast from Esperance Bay to Cape Paisley and Port Malcolm, Maxwell.
This species is united with R, glaucus by Baillon, Adans. vi. 295; but besides the
different foliage and the absence of peiri Ai the calyx and above all the ovary styles
and capsule are very different. ;
4. R. psilocladus, Benth. A glabrous or scabrous shrub, resembling -
some forms of R. glaucus, but more rigid, the branches somewhat
flexuose. Leaves linear, with much revolute margins, $ to
Female flower not seen, but t
fruiting calyx evidently enlarged with coriaceous lobes nearly 4 lines
long. Capsule not seen except the persistent axis which is about the
length of the calyx.—Bertya gummifera B psiloclada, Muell. Arg. in
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 210, quoted by Baillon Adans: vi. 299, as Bertya
psiloclada,
W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd or 3rd coll. n.153. Mueller Arg. must have de-
termined this originally from a very bad specimen, for the one in the Hookerian herba-
rium, which he has himself identified, although not good, is yet sufficient to show that it
18 a Licinocarpus, and not a Bertya. :
. ,9. R. glaucus, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 18. An erect hare shrub
of 1 to 2ft. Leaves very shortly petiolate, linear, with the margins
revolute to the midrib, thicker than in A. pinifolius and usually shorter
(4 to Lin. long) but very much like those of a few forms of that species.
Flowers often solitary, but usually 2 to 4 males together, with or with-
: out a female, on pedicels of 4 to lin., each subtended by a concave
‘bract and bearing below the middle a pair of scale-like lanceolate
‘bracteoles, which are often above 1 line long and usually persistent at
the time of flowering. Male calyx about 1} lines long, divided nearly
to the base into rather acute segments, ciliate inside. Petals white,
‘smooth, obtuse, about 4 lines long and nearly as broad, surrounded by
the persistent but scarcely enlarged calyx.—Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii.
229 ;. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 205; R. undulatus, Lehm. in Pl.
Preiss. ii. 370.
i i rummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2016, 2017, 2031,
ere Bay Cid m King pog Sound, R. Brown, Huegel eie
ore ; towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 220; Cape Riche an
* . -r
"2 j CVIII. EUPHORBIACE®. [Rieinoearpus.
56s Te marii, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 59, and in DC. Prod.
ii. 204. A glabrous shrub. Leaves almost sessile, linear- EVER M
„lanceolate, the von slightly recurved, obtuse or apiculate, contracted |
at the base, above 1 n. long and 3 to 4 lines i those of the lateral -
M
.branches smaller. ale flowers unknown. Female flowers on very |
short pedicels. Calyx nearly 3 lines long, persistent. Petals about as —
Jong, acute. ands stipitate, adhering to the calyx-segments. Ovary
glabrous and smooth; styles shortly united at tle base in a narrow
colum
ee Verreaux in herb. DC. Ihave not i this plant, which must be
very o any other Ricinocarpus in foliage, and the male flowers being unknown, |
the genus must be very uncertain. Perhaps aie the metis may be e 2 d for 13
am not aware that Verreaux visited any bat well known parts of Tasmani
R. Bowmanni, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 181. An erect ene me 1
usually small, the ‘a Oe and torean tomentose. Leaves almost .
sessile, linear, the margins usually recurved to the midrib, Sagas E a
scabrous-tuberculat, from under 4 in. M nearly lin. long. E
flowers *' pink,” in terminal clusters of 3 to 6, the pedicels about as -
long as the leaves. Calyx densely tomentose, the segments obtuse, .
about 2 lines lon e Af not twice long. Glands flat, mostly |.
2-lobed and hairy emale flowers solitary, alone t ale —
cluster. Capsule 4 to 5 lines long, hirsute with rather long baire which |
E length wear off. Styles co to the base.—Mue DC 3
v..11.. 906 R, us, Baill. a Euph. m name only, 3
puberu T
faktoid by Muell. Arg. oM doubt to R. Bowmanni, but described —
by Baill. Adans. vi. 295, from a spodimán with male flowers only, a8
doubtfully distinct
Gmensland. Up er Maranoa river, Mitchell. i
ales. Lower Macquarrie river, Bow ; desert north of Arbuthnot | A
ids VE iis ningham, UA al also in Leichhardt's doliidtlon with remarkably tuber- |
culate, almost muricate lea a
8. R. ledifolius, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 76. A shrub attaining 8 to —
10 ft., the branches and i c Becas dta tomentose eave wes 3
petiolate, oblong-linear or "wp with eoad margins, white-
. tomentose underneath, 1 to 2in. long. Male flowers in ter oa
ave in 2 “goer ring. Female flowers solitary, alone or with the
ather r longe r and stouter pedicel, and rather larger
petia Be stn 2 lines long, densely ge tomentose.—Muell. Arg. |
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 2005 Baill. Adans. v
Queensland. in ri F. Mueller ; pes Downs, Dallachy ; Rock |
Code O Basé]; Herbert's Gre. Bowman 1
_ 9, R. rosmarinifolius, Benth. A slender twiggy shrub, b 3
branches inlorasenni and underside of the leaves ho oary with a minute
tomentum. Leaves narrow-linear, the margins much revolute, 1j 1
_ Ricinocarpus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 73
m ng, m
an in R. ledifolius. Ovary tomentose, tapering
' into 3 bifid styles. Fruit not seen.— Croton rosmarinifolium, A. Cunn.
. Herb. [
N. Australia. Montague and York Sounds, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham.
. 10. R. marginatus, Benth. A tall shrub, the branches inflorescence
and both sides of the leaves hoary with a very short and close but soft
_tomentum. Leaves very shortly petiolate, lanceolate, rather obtuse,
quite flat, but the margins slightly thickened and nerve-like, the
primary veins very divergent from the midrib and prominent under-
. Female calyx rather larger. Ovary tomentose,
g into 3 shortly bifid styles. Fruit not seen.— Croton mar-
um, A, Cunn. Herb.
_ N. Australia. York Sound, N W. coast, A. Cunningham.
ll. R. speciosus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 204, "This
ped
small tomentose bract, without bracteoles. Calyx about 3 lines long,
eeply divided into lanceolate acuminate
W. Australia. Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 219.
13. R. muricatus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 61, and in DC.
rod, xv. ii. 207, An erect shrub, glabrous except the underside of
- ; 3
íà2 : = - E Sr E
74 ViTi. EUPHORBIACEJ. [ Ricinocarpus
the sabes; but glutinous. Leaves — ef linear, the margins
closely revolute, $ to 1j in. long. Flowers small, "the males rati nu-
merous in a raceme of about” lin. or ‘father onger. Pedicels f V
ww. DIDI gers oF tu fens PARONS 5th coll. n. 218 and &
n. 85.
9. BERTYA, Planch.
Flowers moncecious. Male fl.: Perianth (calyx 2) deep a
sometimes ick enlarged round the fruit. Ovary 3
3, free or shortl united at the base, each one more or gm
bortion.
oblon , smooth, KOMORAN. ryo (where weis ucro i
rubso
The genus is limited to Australia.
Leaves with revolute or recurved margins. Flowers sessile or
on very short ch. Bracts 5 to 8, persistent.
Leaves narrow, revolute to the midrib. Ovary glabrous,
tapering at the top
Fruiting perianth much enlarged.
oung shoots densely hirsute . . . . . aliatu M. Di
e plant Haud OF nearly bo s. on m uus
uiting perianth not enlarged. Plant owes :9. H.
Leaves -— revolute to the midri vary de ensely villous,
ing at the top. Fruiting perianth scarcely enlarg ed,
1 shorter than the capsule.
Flowers pediclate the dip -segments scarcely above n
lline . 4. B. rosmann
it Flowers pane or nearly so s0, the he perianth-segments nearly
^ 2 lin . 5. B. Mitehdli..
I | Leaves with the margins less revolute slowing the underside.
E. Ovary obtuse.
Leaves narrow, 1 to 2 in. long. Fruiting perianth much
enlarged. Ovary densely villous. . . . . . . .
aves ovate-or orbicular, 2 to 4 lines long, almost bullate.
Fruiting perianth slightly enlarged. Ovary stellate- :
7 tose . . . "voa ovv. Mud ponte, a Sole MAD
. Leaves flat or with recurved margins. Flowers pedicellate.
j Bracts usually few, very deciduous or none,
Leaves narrow, 1 to 2 in. long. Pedicels 2 to 3 lines. Ovary
6. B. oleæfolia.
: villous Ww x . W Tis c. EE . NO AAT * due WAT NS "
_ Leaves ovate or oblong, about 4 in. long. Pedicels slender, :
4 to 8lineslong. Ovary glabrous s... 5 «9. B. pomaderroides.
ifera, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ, iv. 473, An erect
than in B. oleefolia. Female perianth much enlarged after flowering,
3 . ales. Hunter's river and perhaps Croker’s Range, A. Cunningham ; but
there is some confusion in his labels of this and of B. rosmarinifolia which he had
_ regarded as one species, .
long. Ovary quite glabrous, tapering into a neck or united base of the
styles of nearly 1 line, the styles divided to below the middle usually
ise glabrous. Leaves narrow-linear, with much revolute margins,
ostly about 4 in. long, tapering at the base. Flowers small, solitary,
n pedicels varying from 4 to 1 line. Bracts small, thick, narrow, M
equal, at or near the top of the pedicel. Perianth-segments broad,
- Bertya.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, 75
+
76 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. [ Bertya, .
the top. Styles very shortly united or almost free, deeply divided into
2 or 8 branches. Fruiting perianth not enlarged. Capsule ovoid-oblong,
2 = 2 lines long.—Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 211.
Wales. Lachlan river, and frequent in the N. W. interior, A. Cunningham;
New iani, C. Stuart
Wictoria. Snowy river, F. Mueller.
4. B. rosmarinifolia, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 473. A
andsome bushy heath-like keit itas 6 to 8 ft., "he young |
branches and 1 foliige clothed with a short close stellate tomentum wear-
ing off with age. Leaves sessile or nearly so, linear, with AB margins
much r fasii most tly about 3 in. and rarely nearly 1 i in. long. Flo Me
nches.
usually at least half as ong sistas as the ernie X
Arg. im DC. Prod. xv. ii. 210; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 339; Croto
vénnarisifilun, A. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 355; Ricinocarpus
tasmanicus, Sond. in Linnea, xxviii. 562; Bertya tasmanica, Muell. Arg.
in Linne, xxxiv. 63, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 211.
ales. Cox's river, A, Ghaiagla ) head of Macleay river, C. Moors;
New ‘England, C. Stua ;
asmania. Abund ri on Nile rivulet and: South Esk river, Gunn; Great 8
NI. pmi —I can see no difference between the Tasmanian and the N.S. Wales
plan
5. B. Mitohelli, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 63, and in DC. pe
xv. ii. 210. An erect shrub of several feet, the young age hes and
Dia gigeely stellate-tomentose, becoming at length glabrous, nearly
lied to B outer and more rigid. Leav s linear,
soe styles of B. rosmarinifolia, ich this may sofla to be a varietj.
icinocarpus Mitehelli, So a in penis xxviii. 563.
N. S. W Castlereagh river, C. Moore; Darling river, Herb. F. Mueller
Murray river, Mitta-Mitta, Lake Koorong, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy. i
6. leæfolia, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 473. An erect
shrub a 3 to 4 ft., the bra nches densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves
with bi to 8 unequal bracts, the inner ones nearly 2 lines long.
perianth with 5 jak pps lobes 24 to 3 lines long, contracted into 8 a
xim CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. e os
. very short tarbinate A tt ecd n bracts. enis perianth-lobes
narrower and more acute than males. Ovary obtuse, densely
hirsute. Styles Bie from the ifta Mid divided back to the "bas ase into
. 9 or 4 branches. Capsule enclosed in the enlarged perianth but not
seen ripe.— Muell. "i in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 209.
| Se ora. Shattered gullies, Mantuan Downs, Mitchell.
. Wales. Wellington valley, A. Cunnin ingham.
. 7..B. rotundifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 94. A rigid reba
_ probably low shrub, the branches densely stellate- nome Leav
shortly petiolate, orate or orhionlan coriaceous, conv and alm ar
. bullate, 2 to 4 lines long, becoming glabro us above, whites tomen
í underneath. ale flowers not sii emale flowers nearly me:
_ surrounded x a few minute tomentose | beset Fruiting calyx about ,
. lines Ing wit oblong segments. Capsule
: S. A Kan ngaro diii Waterhouse ; ies a in leaf only, except
. one fre a Au attached opal: in Herb. F. Muell
‘glabrous ur white-tomentose underneath, i to 2 or evan MGR i long.
flowers solitary or 2 or 3 ether on a short common peduncle,
the lower bracts closely complicate, ovate-lanceolate, kesr a to
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petal-like eet: 2 lines long, the staminal column and anthers
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others.—Baill. Adans. vi. 298.
Queensland, Rockhampton, Thozet.
9. B. pomaderroid Muell. Fragm. iv 34. A much more
slender spreadin diui: hg any other of the genus, the branches
78 €VIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Bertya.
column rather longer. Female perianth-segments subulate-acuminate, -
M
ase, each one 2- or 3-branched. Capsule (not yet ripe) narrow, acute, -
i —hMuell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 209; Baill -
Adans. vi. 298; B. oblongifolia, Muell. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 471, andin |
v. 1i. 209. i
. N. S. Wales.. In the interior, C. Stuart; Bents Basin, near Port Jackson, |
Woolls. 4
10. MONOTAXIS, Brongn. |
(Hippocrepandra, Muell. Arg.) E
dymous, without appendages, separating into 9 Z-valved cocci. :
obl culate. Embryo linear, straight 0t.
ade
n
the radicle.—Herbs or undershrubs, usually small and glabrous
”
4 . , E
Rape in the forks or at the ends of the branches between the last
eaves, the flowers more or less pedicellate within the cymes, the males |
usually numerous, the females single in the centre or few. racts -
usually several, small and scalelike, subtending the pedicels or the
outer ones empty. E
The genus is endemic in Australia.
vostly 4-merous, calyx-segments almost valvatt.
* Secr. 1. E taxis.— Flow
Petals shorter than the calyx.
ies. — Flower heads pedunculate. Calyx-segments
y acute.
Erect annual, slightly branched. Leaves 1 to 2 in. long. Female - >
i wd o oro E A PE
Stems numerous from a thick perennial stock. Leaves under toe
in. Female flowers solitary in each head. . . . . . 2. M. linifolia.
Western species.—Flower-heads sessile. Calyx segments acu- A
i pga xvi Pus Z7 S M. ccnl
Scr. 9. Hippocrepandra.— Flowers usually 5-merous ; calyx segments dist!
imbricate. Petals longer than the calya.—All Western species MA pedes do
‘Leaves lanceolate, sessile
Stems thick, rigid, about 1 ft. high. Leaves$tolin.. . . 4. M.lurida.
Stems slender, about 4 ft, high, Leaves under fin, . . . 5, M, megacarpo-
- Monotazis.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 79
| Leaves linear-lanceolate, not above À in., tapering into a short
slender
tiole. Stems 6. M. gracilis.
Leaves narrow-linear, the mar gins ‘closely revolute, not above
fin. Stems slender. Stipules subulate, persistent . . 7. M. grandifiora.
Sect. 1. Eumonoraxis.— Flowers mostly 4-merous, Calyx-seg-
- ments almost valvate. Petals shorter than the c calyx.
. 1. M. macrophylla, Benth. An erect glabrous Slightly branched
annual of about 1 ft. Leaves opposite or alternate, jon
Dux dn. a or ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, thin did flat, 1 to 2 in.
. long r-heads (or dense cymes) rather larger. pani in M. tinifolia
- shortly puli eiat above the last leaves, containing several female
_ flowers intermixed with or surrounded by numerous males. Male calyx
- of 4 very sightly imbricate petal-like segments of about 2 line. Petals
. minute. Stamens 7 or 8. by vary of the females only seen in very young
bud, the SR da short and involute, and of the capsules the
the coc! only show the persistent axis, about 1 line long, from which
the cocci hg wen way.
. Queensland (or S. Wales ?). Summit of Mount Danger near Moreton Bay,
a Cunningham “ithe ‘plant has prs of the aspect of some forms of Euphorbia
2. M. linifolia, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. l, xxix. 987 an
4
ial
‘pedicel of 4 to $ line ome. a jaw ser estilo female. Bracts
ate. Stamens nearly as long as the calyx, usually |
8 but sometimes 7 only. Female flower rather larger than the males.
"Styles 3, divided to the base into a fringed branches. Capsule glabrous,
E i DC. Prod. xv. ii. 212;
Baill. Adans, vi. 291; M. irg Endl A Atakta, 8, t. 8.
- N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. and R. Cunningham, F. Mueller,
and many others.
" Desarionally, when He head hes no female flower the rhachis grows out forming a
Short irre The arrangement of the flowers in this species shows an.
y psi to that of oU orbia.
3. occidentalis, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 10. An undershrub with
the habit sometimes nearly of M. linifolia, but usually smaller, more
80 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEE. [ Monotaxis,
branched, - sometimes appearing annual (flowering the first year!?).
Leaves ovate oblong or linear-cuneate, acute or almost obtuse, entire, 1 to
4 lines long, tapering into a short petiole. Flower-heads or cymes sessi
` in the fork
scarcely imbricate, but always acuminate. Female flowers and fruits |
M. linifolia.—Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii. 229; M. cuneifolia, Klotzsch 1.
i. 176 ;. M. aha var. occidentalis, Muell. Arg. i in Linnea, xxxiv. 63 and
in DC. Prod. li. st ; Ba ill. Adans. vi. 292; M. porantheroides,
F. Toya in sever Her
Kin. sg parng and adjoining districts, Huegel, Oldfield,
F. prm s, river, itk
Sacr. 2. HiPPocnEPANDRA.—Flowers usually pentamerous. Calyx
magnate tater imbricate. Petals longer than the calyx.
4, M. lurida, Benth. Stems, from a thick woody base or rhizome
erect, npe or T branched below the inflorescence and the
often almost umbel igi i i
4 to 1 in. lon r-heads
forks or within the last 4 uU Male calyx-segments
long, imbrieate. Petals unguiculate, with a broadly
lamina at least 1 line long. Stamens 10 or 9, on slender filamen
Female calyx-segments obtuse. Pn rather smaller than in the mal
contracted at the base but not unguiculate. Styles deeply divided i
2 fringed lobes. Eu globular, about 2 lines long. —Hippocrepandra
lurida, Muell. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxiv. 61 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 207
(erroneously referred by Baillon to M. megacarpa) ; M. Oldfieldi, Baill.
Adans. v i. 993.
WV. A Ache Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 31.— The plant
_ has something of the aspect of some forms of Euphorbia eremophila
5. M. megacarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 143. aped from a
rennial base, erect or scsi simple or slightly branched belo
inflorescence, and there sometimes umbellate as in M. lu
linear, with recurved m s, under lin. long. Flower-heads ord clus-
ters closely sessile, an as qs i i
males, all on slender pedicels Dates than in M. lurida, but the wh
structure and e peculiar form of the p Lies as in n that s speci
of which this may possibly prove a variety, h Pet its a
—Baill. nes vi. 293, but not the syno a
wW. Aus Murchison river, Oldfield, and dai cimen from Drum
in Herb. F. prier Boxvale, 50 miles E: from Yor k, Miss —
M. gracilis, Baill. Adans. vi. 293. An erect branching slende
undershrub of to 1 ft. tiiv linear-lance olate, racted into
"very short petiole, the margins more or less recurved, uty above i |
- Monotacis.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ, 81
- long. Flower-heads or clusters sessile within the last leaves, con-
. sisting of 1 to 3 females and about twice as ma les, on short fili-
sc
the males. eus less — ARM "Ceu — oe
in
W. terit pempig 3rd peek n. 18.
E. M. grandiflora, Endl. in Hueg. Enum, 19. A RES undershrub,
| with a Miis base, P doses erect or mov inen slender w
v
I. with or vritholit^à fow ies Males on slender dine” Calyx-
segments 5, acute, nearly 1 line long. Petals about half as long again,
shortly unguiculate and foe above the claw. Female flowers
on short thick dinate alyx-segments acuminate. Petals narrower
than in the males, almost acute, tapering at the base, but without any
distinct claw. — Klotzsch i in Pl. Preiss. ii. 230; M. ericoides, Klotzsch in
PI. Preiss. i. 177; Hi prone ericoides, ’ Muell. Arg. in Linnea
E xxriv. e and in DC. Prod, x ii. 208.
w. Et ond, 1st coll. and 3rd coll. n. 19, Preiss,
n. 1218 ; gs district, garg * 2142; N. of Stirling Range, F. Mueller.
| M. bra iei Nees in PI. Preiss. ii. nig (Hippocrepandra pini Muell. Arg. in
Linnea xx . 62, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 208, Monotaxis Neesia a, Baill. Adans, vi
| 293), is undid di bad specimens of this plan nt from near r York, Preiss, n. 1219, with
3 shorter leaves than usual, but ru belonging to lateral branches, ‘the longer ones of the
E stems having all fallen a
11. AMPEREA, A. Juss.
4 wers moncecious or dicecious. Male fl.: Perianth campanulate,
somewhat petal-like, 3- to 5-lobed, without inner i
twi any as AEn ANG or fewer, the filaments free or shortly
ovoid, parallel, o undici longitu tàdin ally in 2 valves, the el croi
"usually tipped with a small gland. «Female fl.: Pe rianth more ES
divide males into 5 rarely 4 rather rigid lobes, persistent
enlar, ^p under the fruit. Ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovii in each
tyles 3, more or less deeply divided into 2 branches. Capsule
ps crowned by a ring of 6 erect tooth-like —" — on the
: L. VI.
82 i CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ.
back of onè of the valves, mcer, n into 3 2-valved cocci.
00
where known, li
r quite Le when present alternate, linear, either en
with closely revolute marg eras or flat and the etim t
Stipules small brown and scari Flowers very small in small axil
closely sessile tufts, surrounde d: $ scarious bracts, the ‘males us
numerous, the females = or solitary, all on very short pedicels ¢
` almost sessile. Cannons
The genus is endemic in pee jid the species all Western except A. spartioi
Male flowers 3-merous.
Stems slender, diffuse. we ~~ oe nmt = A, pro
tene raning almost leafles: wr Ag Polubili.
Male merous.
née b dian with revolute margins.
Stems terete. I owers very numerous, in dense tufts with deeply
dins
Leaves po, Stems slender but gid 3.
Leaves crowded, rigid. Ste did thiols ascending Stipules and
Stems leafless or nearly 80 LI in flower, erect, rigid compressed 5 EPA
or 3. angle ^ . 6. A. spartic
A. subnuda, Nes j in p. Preiss. i ii. 299, i is hide broclgeligins F. Muell.
v. 146.
3: rotensa, Nees in Pl. Preiss, ii. 229. Stems, from a perenni
base, n Psp slender, diffuse, somewhat com naid but sca
engiler, Gin. to 1 ft. lo ong. Leaves oblong-lanceo T Rees contra
into a eet "flt or nearly so, mostly about long. Stipul
‘broad, deeply frin nged. Male perianths pedicellate, pA 3 line lon
divided to about the middle into 3 almost valvate lo bes. Sta
usually 1 in the cluster surrounde a few males. Perianth di
bon; base into 5 segments. Styles divided to the base but all co
ted by a ring or falling off together. Rene about 1 line long,
paar teeth or protuberances less promine nt than in other species
very obtuse.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 213.
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 85 ; ^ Md River, Preiss, n. 1214
A. volubilis, F. Muell. Herb. Stems elongated, twining,
or ps so, leafless or nearly so at the time of flowering. Leaves
few on some of the young shoots, linear, rigid, with much re
smal s, } to jin. long, but often abortive from the first.
small orate or lanceolate, mostly entire. Male flowers in dense cl
racts ovate mostly entire, the inner ones very
oa grs 3-lobed. Stamens 6 o r fewer, the outer ones
but not hairs with l-celled anthers.’ Female flowers ese,
- Amperea.| CVIII. EUPHORBIACEE. 83
| E imen. Perianth deeply 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes rigid and acute.
apsule about 1 line long, the tooth-like appendages mee ene acute.
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 87 and 5th coll. Suppl. n.
rg rantha, Benth. Stems from a jours d several,
1 ?
1 rigid DER or nearly so. -Leav ves linear, with revolute mar ins, about
] 3rd. coll. n Herb. F. Muell. unnumbered
B or me 2s, bu but Ay t that number of other ik racio where it is given to Phyllan-
er;
p 4 A.c OmU Benth. peer. from a woody base, apparently de-
. cumbent, thick and hard, 8 to lO in. long in our specimens.
Leaves crowded and mr in Mgr axils, lhea with revolute margins,
coriaceous, nort iin. long or rather more. Stipules broad, brown,
- fringe wers all female in our specimens, sessile and most con-
. cealed in dation tufts of brown scarious setaceously fringed bracts.
. Calyx or perianth deeply divided into 4 or er unequal fiis mucro-
hate or aristate segments, y 6 long acute dorsal
‘appendages. Styles 3, very gat rali united. at the base, curved reflexed
and protuding between the a pendages, shortly bifid at the end. Cap-
sule scarcely more or" 1 line long, the erect appendages nearly as
long as the capsule itsel
= W. Australia, ANNS n. 29.
5. A. ericoides, A. Juss. Tent. Euph. 112, t. 10, according to Muell.
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 214. Stems, from a "hard often n woody base or
ndin
ther more than 1 mud lon the dba eget short broad and
. Styles deeply divided. —A. rosmarinifolia, Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss.
at ‘Masia, King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, 2. B
i a Preiss, n. 1225, 3nd coll. n. 2 233, and 3rd coll. n. 206, 200, ind
G2
84 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [Amperea,
i A. t
À "pct in rts at
or r appendages es. Styles rather short, more or less bifid.—Muell. Arg.
C. i9 : à
Prod. xv. ii.
Eee in Spreng. Met Cur. Post. 1
S. Wales. rt Jackson or Blue ge NR R. Bitin AS n. 135, and
FL fit. n. 524, "b many others ; Uer England, C. "Stu
Victoria. Gip pps’ Land, J
- Tasmania. Abundant in poor "icdr soil, J. .D. Hooker.
S. Australia. Rivoli Bay, F. Mueller ; ' Corner Inlet, Wilhelmi.
E 3. ANTIDESME X. — Flowers distinet, both sexes with a y
wi
perianth
This tri jbo, if it includes the small and scarcely sufficiently known Madagascar r genus
is chiefly distinguished from Phyllanthee by habit and inflorescence, and
therefore dri ueller Arg. to a subtribe of that tribe; on the other hand
-celled (1-carpellary) ovary with 3 styles, had gre it it formerly to be considered à
— rming the distinct Order of Antidesmee or Stilagine
12. ANTIDESMA, Linn.
Flowers dicecious, Wes mue: in dr or interrupted s one or i
the females in spikes Male fl. iw e »iPorianth B
3 to 5 segments, slightly. an in the
opposite the Epis nes round a acera rs seat ovary.
Anthers 2-cel
eee EE Nn eee ee EN RENE REESE S UT
g A 7
Le CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE 85
wn
species are distinguished in this difficult genus are as yet very uncertain and for the.
most part mi
n the e females, pubese ent or hirsute. Spikes paniculate. tj
gems tilde, iie and muse ovary in the males, ovary
Een
sessile. Perianth- segments ovate memi
cere rounded a t the nd - A, Ghesembilla s
Female flowers podióellitié Perianth- -segments very hdi"
and obtuse. Leaves often obtusely acumi be Foie Dallachyanum. :
Flowers in the interior perfectly glabrous.
Spikes or racemes mostly pa Flowers nearly gom 3. A. Bunius.
Spikes or racemes mostly simple. Female flowers pe
av in.
Perianth-segments broad. Fruit small 4. A. parvifolium.
geom Pis or elliptical, 1 to 2 inches long. inside”
i eolate. Fruit me . 5. A. Schultzii.
aiias mres lanceolate or elliptical 2to 4in ju
perianth shortly and broadly 4lobed. Fruit uel black 6. A. erostre.
Leaves oblong or elliptical, ae sinuate, 2 to 4 in. lon
Female — — and peers 4-lobed. Fruit rather
large . A, sinuatum.
mbilla, Gertn. Fruct. i. 189, t. 39. A shrub or small
1. A. Ghzese
tree, the young branches foliage and inflorescence more or less pu-
4 sr or bg] the full-grown leaves often glabrous. Leaves
ly orbicular, tay
ofte
ik
Indian specimens less so in the Australian ones, 1 to 2 in. long, the
- females shorter and looser, both solitary or more frequently several in a
l le fow
terminal panicle. Male flowers sessile or nearly so ; perianth deeply
at | :
yles short, iait at the base, spreading upwards, shortly
- 9.lob Drupes “purple,” not above 3 lines long , usually obli did ege ely
ovoid and 1-seeded, but said to m occasionally didymous and 2-seede
Muell. Arg. in DG. Prod. xv. ii. 251; A. pan idle Roxb.; Wight
Ie. t. 820, and pm synonyms diät by Muell. Arg. l.c.
N. Australia eening Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunn mani, Point Je Nee Vic-
toria and Fitzmaurice pem rs, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, EX vultz, n. 694, —This
Gina is widely diffused over Bast Tudia and the Archi pelago iron Ceylon to S.
2. A. Dallachyanum, Baill. Adans. vi. 937. A shrub or small tree,
closely allied to A. Ghasembilla, the young shoots rather less pubescent
and the adult foliage often almost glabrous. Leaves from ovate to
Bnocolsto-elliptiesl obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, 2 to
4in. long on petioles of 2 to 4 lines. Male spikes pubescent, od
pes but sometimes solitary, more slender than in A. Ghesemhi
ee
86 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Antidesma,
pare more or less interrupted. Perianths sessile, deeply divided — 4
or 5 broad concave hirsute segments $ line e long. Stamens 3 to 5, |
usually 4. Rudimentary ovary rather large, hirsute as well as the -
lands, Female flower racemose, the pedicels 4 to lin
erianth-segments very broad, ciliate and hirsute as oats as i we
and ov "à Styles. broad, 2- lobed. Fruit obovoid “white and aci id,”
twice as large us in A. Ghesembilla |
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
N. Australia? Some male specimens from Port Essington, Armstrong, appear to -
belong to this species, but vith smaller leaves. l
3. A. B Spreng.; Muell. Arg. in D C. Prod. xv. ii. 262. nm ;
usually quite eat Leaves oblong, obtuse, pe or shortly acu- -
or some 1
kingham aa D PEN —The species extends over the Indian |
o the Pisce va South China. The Australian specimens are im-
peel but E to belon
elatis of Antidesma with the Inge gi pr leaves of A, Bunius ; 1. with Roe |
sho 2. wi
a
P olium, F. Muell Fragm. iv. 80. A bushy shrub -
about 4 ft., the young ‘shoots x inflorescence very slightly pubescent, -
the de foliage Ee. Leaves ovate obovate or orbicular, very -
I ues e, not exceeding 1
as well as the glands and ovary. Fruit “red,” not above 2
long.
Queensland. Port Denison, Fitzalan, er
5. A. Schultzii
and inflorescence sltghtly spun d m adult foliage glabrous.
ovate obovate or elliptica
racemes solitary or 2 together in the axils, A ein de^ under 1 in. v |
the flowers shortly pedicellate in the axils of small bracts. Peria
geen m ivide TIRE narr - a acute ciliate I about
i lin
than. eee more
Antidesma. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, 87
| gue as well as the ovary. Styles sbort, broad, deeply lobed.
ruit apparently small, but not seen ripe.
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 610, 743.
ostre, F. Muell. Herb. A shrub, , por ony glabrous in the
iu seen. pne eulong inque c or wont ical, often acuminate,
2 to 4 in. long, on a short petio " Ma le-flowers unknown Fruiting
racemes axillary, anil, 1 tol pee uite glabr ous. Pedi
about 1 line long. _Perianth i shortly 4-1 a Fruit small, “ black," -
glabrous. Styles v
Queensland. Ms vies y, Dallachy .— Perhaps a form of the E. Indian A.
EC issoria, Roth, miih which, uer it cannot be properly compared until the male
_ flowers are known
uatum, Benth. A tree of about 30 ft, glabrous or the
young T slightly pubesoe nt. Leaves oblong or elliptical, entire or
deeply sinuate, 2 to 4 in. long, on petioles of 3 to 6 lines. Male flowers
unknown. Female frui biting racemes solitary, 1 to 3 in. lon sy Pedicels-
1 to nearly 2 lines. Perianth glabrous or nearly so, broadly einer
mersa lobed. Fruits compressed, 3 to 4 lines long. Styles very
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
4. PHYLLANTHEJX.— Flowers distinct (not ae in
calyx-like SEU, both sexes with a perianth. Embryo with iod
se noha and a narrow radicle.. Ovules » » each cell.— ds nan
r herbs. aves line or rarely crenate, often coriaceous r if
Fees usually pee Flowers in axillary mcg or th
This tribe differs from Cro in the ovules always-in pairs, and generally in habit
and inflorescence. From He bloruiie Stenolobee the embryo affords perhaps the -
constant distinction, although there are no two peiora belonging to the two tribes w
have not several other characters to separate
13. ANDRACHNE, Linn.
Flowers moneecious, in axillary clusters or the females solitary.
Male fl.: Calyx more or less deeply divided into 5 or 6 lobes or
segments. Petals as many as calyx-lobes and shorter than them.
ngitudinally in 2 valves. Rudimentary ovary in the centre ve
small. Female fl.: Calyx usually larger than in the males. Pe
minute or none. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 3,
more or less MN divided into 9 entire branches. Capsule separating
into 9 9-valved cocci. Seeds curved, 3-angular, rugose, not caruncu-
late. Embryo re with ont coty ledons. —Herbs or undeshrubs,
with giten: ascending or erect branching stems. „Leaves alterna
. petiolate, entire, usually small. Flowers very small, pedivellate i in the
"E the females solitary, with or without a few males in the same
88 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJ. per 4
1
The genuscontains but few species, di 1 ] gions
of both the New and the Old Worlds. The only one in peony og is also in voe Ros in
the Eastern Archipelago. The habit is often that of a Phyllanthus, from which the
Le differs in the presence of petals and of a central rudimentary ovary in ^ male —
1. A. Decaisnei, Benth, Apparently annual, but the stems hard
and A ar at the base, much branched, decumbent, attaining
1 to 20 ., the whole plant softly villous. Leaves broadly -
5, lanceolate, acute, spreading, about j line long. Petals narrow, -
contracted into a distinct stipes. Style divided to the base into? -
branches. m sule depressed, orbicular, villous, about 2 lines diameter. -
—A, frutie cne. according to Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 239,
Lin!
if the syn onymy is correct, also in Timor and Java. The true Andrachne fruition of
sions with the Linnean plant, is totally — a8 it is certainly not shrub
wns, Bowman
- Var. orbicularis. smaller, orbenlar. Styles divided to the middle only.
Petals smaller. Poshiage a distinct oe
W. Australia. Port Walcot, Harper.
14. ACTEPHILA, Blume.
Flowers monecious, in axillary clusters or solitary. Male fl. : Peti |
anth of 5 or 6 se ngne ents spreading out flat, the inner ones rather larger
than the outer. Petals (or petal- like glands ?) small, as A a as
en
ry9-
celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 3, rly 2-fid, or entire,
free or united at the base. Fruit separating into 3 2 -valved cocci, the
pericarp hard. Seeds large, with a inira. ies brittle testa; albumen |
very scanty or none. Em eu o curved, the cotyledons very thick fleshy |
grown. Flowers rather small, often several females as well as males in |
the the same cluster, all pedicellate. Capsule delis, oiai large int
a. — the North coast, R. Brown ; Victoria river, F. Mueller ;and —
ruDS. .
p alternate, petiolate, abtin usually large, ode when full- -
kr.
1
$
d
Actephila.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 89
The genus A parma r species, dispersed over tropical Asia; the Australian ones
are, Mns all en
Leaves on petioles " in.
. Petals present (very small). Stamens 5 or 4. Leaves oblong-
anceolate or marrow elliptical, oa Ti into the Arny
Pedicels ltolin.long. Lx vun bai
Pedicels 1 to 3 lines lo 2.74;
No petals. Stamens 5. Leaves obovate or broadly elliptical .. eBid, ata.
vo e. Stamens 3. Leaves ovate -lanceolate, rounde
, on rather long petio 4. A. p
ioles qM
Leaves Jessii or nearly so, oblong, cordate at the bas . . . . 5. 4. Peale
1. A. grandifolia, Baill. Adans. vi. 330, 360, t. 10. A glabrous
tree ors ee b of various heights Leaves petiolate, oblong-lanceolate
. or elliptical, shortly and obtusely —8 tapering towards the base,
. coriaceous, smooth, 5 t oa long, on a petiole va sane from under.
gin. to 2in. Flowers f. both sexes in the same cluster and in the
. A. DRIE, Baill. Adans. vi. 330, 366. A tree or shrub closely
prendra tena ona ta no rather obtuso,
N. S. Wales. Mount nadia C. Moore. 7 dna not seen any specimen.
tifolia, Benth. A glabrous epu or tree. Leaves obovate
. 9 to Ĝin. long, on a petiole M tipo under lm. to near 1 in. long.
- Pedicels slender, 4 to 1 in. long. Perianth-segments 5 or 6, tal-like
- with glandular ends, about 2 lines long in the males, rather longer m
the females. No petals. Stamens 5. Styles 3, united at the base,
E dune short, spreading, slightly dilated and notched at the end but not
pT Cape York, Daemel; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
pd. A, olaris, Benth. A glabrous shrubor tree. Leaves ovate-
1 ‘a or ovateavaminate, rounded at the base, thinner Bn in
90 CVIII’ EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Actephila, —
A. grandifolia, 3 to 4in. long, on a petiole of lin. or more. Male —
perianth-segments, 1 line long, petal-like with dark streaks. Petals `
mone. Disk, stamens and -— imentary ovary ie A. grandifolia, except |
that there are only 3 stam Female flowers of that species but -
rather smaller and no ed "Disk and ovary the same. Styles rather |
more united at the base. ‘
aT Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
sessilifolia, Benth. A glabrous shrub of 4 to 6 ft. Leav
ap obtuse, entire, slightly a at the base and sessile or pearly
so, thin inly coriaceous, 2 to 3 in Male flowers not seen. Female
edicels slender, about lin. im E Perianth dense 6- lobed, about
lin es diameter, with very small petals (or petal-like lobes of the ‘dis ke
Styles 3, united at the ba ase, rather short, spreading, undivided. Capsule —
globular, coriaceous, about $in. diameter, slightly scabrous-punetate.
prine qm Caves mountains, five miles west of Morinisi, T'hozet.—There seems —
to be bnt little doubt that this is an Act ctephila, although I have only seen à single -
female flower in Herb. F. Mueller, the other specimens being in fruit only.
15. DISSILIARIA, F. Muell.
Flowers moneecious (or dicecious ?) in axillary clusters or solitary
appearing terminal when the terminal bud is not developed). Male.
fl.: Perianth of 4 to 6 segments, imbricate in the bud, the inner ones
rather larger and more petal-like. Glands none. Stamen ns few or
many, inserted on a central receptacle w without any rudimentary ovary;
filaments very short pega dorsall attached, so oats parallel,
opening lon inudinally in 2 valves. Fem ale anth of 3 or4
segments. Disk iieri or annular. jm 3-celled, wid
2 ovules in each i Bola linear, spreading, undivided, free or very
shortly connate si as base. Capsule more or less tridymous, dividing.
into 2-valved cocci, the pericarp thick and hard, the epicarp usually
separating from the en ocarp in each valve. Seeds without any
Á— "- bumen copious. Colyledons flat and broad.—Trees or -
shru ap ro deme entire or orenulate, pennivein
and slighily pid. cq flowers very small, Bar short pedicels,
emales few together or solitary. Fruits usually solitary.
The genus is endemic in Australia ; hy is, however, as yet Sia E known, the
male flowers -— been seen s 34 n D. resent is, a «id the three species ma may not
therefore be strictly congeners. we “all, however, differ from all other Australian -
Phyllanthee i inb opposite lea
Capsnle 8 or 9 lines diameter, ithe thick corky exocarp deepl NT
furrowed "i e back of the cocci nd fe ae 4 D. baloghioides:
xir le 4 or 5 lines diameter, the corky exocarp slightly furrow | ie
n the back of the cocci . D. Mueller.
Capsule about 4 lines diameter, truncate on the top, t the cocci TRA
furrowed on the back, with a short conical point or horn on the e top 3. D. tricornis.
l. D. baloghioides, F. Muell. ; Baill. Adans. vii. 859. A labrous
tree. Leaves ovate oblong or elliptical, entire; coriaceous, smooth E
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Queensland.
Dissiliaria, | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 91
diameter, ciae ni tomentose, with a thick oan exocarp Pid
m the hard endocarp, marked outside with narrow furrows
dise cocci and a broad deep furrow nes the line of dehiscence on the
back ofeach — Ovules 2 2in each call but only one usually enlarged.
Ripe miel wy
Quee ini i woods, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, also Aaria and
Pine Ader E Fitealon ; but I have only seen Cunningham’s specimen
. Muelleri, Baill. Adans. vii. 359, t. A glabrous shrub or
tree. Leaves broadly ovate, sometimes pb cordate, obtuse, irregu-
larly crenulate, 1 l nd broad, on a petiole f about 1 in.
S
diameter, slightly tridymous and furrowe
thick corky exocarp separating from the endocarp as in D.
Queensland. Rockhampton, Thozet, Dallach ip have not seen the specimens
described by Baillon, but some male specimens anesy may belong to the
same pue althon h the leaves are se obovate m shortly tapering at the base.
In th peria antl-sogme nts 2) 6, about 3 line long, and the stamens Sad but |
rr plv tay in
— Benth. A shrub, with the young branches pu-
bescent, the ad it foliage nearly glabr ous. Leaves ovate elliptical or
almost anodin % btuse, crenulate, rounded or contracted at
i 8 ining and veined above, pale with the midrib
, on a
of "in rait ó tod segments, $ to 3 ine long, painoin petal-like,
especially the inner ones which are rather longer. Stamens 4, a
6 or more, on a hairy receptacle, ee than the perianth. Fema!
perianth of 3 rather acute or mu late glabrous segments, an nd 3
smaller inner atc or sent sao ternating with them. Disk
very hairy t in very short, taperin
hairy, but not prominent. to 3
distinct styles much thickened at the base as in Pseudanthus. Capsules
on pedicels of 2 to 4 lines, pubescent, about 4 lines diameter, tridymous,
flat-top pped, hard, with a small e conical point or horn on the d of each
coccus but
ovules of each cell, iride without any carunculu
tralia. Port Essington, A. Cunningham, and meo the same plant but
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
92 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Petalostigma.
16. PETALOSTIGMA, F. Muell.
(Hylococcus, R. Br.)
owers moncecious, ? n axilary clusters or the females solitary. |
Male Fi uber rianth of 4 to 6 imbricate calyx-like segments. Glands |
none, ae united in a central column without. an
ci ees ovary, the filaments shortly free ;
parallel a o opening longitudinally in 2 valves. Female fl. : Perianth
as in the males, but the segments narrower and very deciduous. Ovary -
carp, separating into 4 or 2-valved and spuriously 2-celled cocci. -
Seeds oblong, 4i
wanting ?).—A tree. Leaves alterna ate, entire. Stipules minute or 1
none. Iptiessesnon of Phyllanthus, but the flowers larger than i
usual in that genus.
genus consists of a single species, endemic in Australia. The flow: said E
to " bietet but pro gebe e| Serene branches or eaa at different times, | :
for our specimens are all unis E
l. P. quadriloc NICE F. Muell. in Hook. em Journ. ix, 17/08
small or inoderatt sized tree, the branches and Neben of the leaves
H
Male flowers several together, on ver t pedicels. a
ments orbicular or broadly obovate, ae -pubescent or Hes Mae. a
1 Stamina
re or
ess undulate and crenate. Fruit oran porum often 4 in. diameter.
Seeds slightly Mp nme smooth.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. i |
273; Hulococcus eus, R. Br. in | em Ie. i rea .; Mitch. Trop. Aust. |
389 ; Petalostigma 1 rüber Muell Arg. l.c. 974; P. Australianum, —
Baill. Adans. vii. 356, t. 2. :
alia. N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham ; islands of the Gulf of Carpentarit
He rnheim's Land, F. Mueller r; - kä interior, lat. 20°, M*Douall Stuart;
Port pes ue n. 94, 298, 299, "xi
d. road Soun : S gnd deavour river and Moreton Bay, 4
river, Mitchell; Roekinitiptoii Port Denison, Edgecombe Bay;
Dali we dni) Albany i island, W. Hill.
S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler, c. Moore ; N. S. Wales woods, London
j iol 1862, n. 90. :
ar. giabrestons” Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, 14 to nearly 2i n. long, becom!ng |
early glabrous, and the ovary and fruit much less villous than in the tvpical form o
ite gla BAI; Claren
ver, C. Moore; London Exhibition, 1862, n. 91; Cape Sidmouth, Curdie.
The species varies exceedingly in the shape * i leaves, the size of the flowers. and
rdi
Petalostigma, | CVIII; EUPHORBIACER. 93
the indumentum. The more glabrous. veia des hori smaller flowers ; both occur
with 3-locular as well as 4-locular ovaries a s. It is possible, however, that there
ma
the size of the flowers; but the specimens ave seen, numerous and various as they
are, have been insufficient for determining. the point; the great perine kanig "either
male flowers only, or fruits only from which the styles have fallen a
17. PHYLLANTHUS, Linn.
(Glochidion, Forst.; Kirganelia, A. Juss. ; Synostemon, F. Muell.; Reidia, Wight.)
Mae ers moncecious or rarely ie ds axillary — or solitary.
socfions 4, more or less distinctly in 2 fi all stn’ and often petal-
a
cell. Styles free or : e or less deeply 2-lobed or rarely
entire. Capsule separating into 2-valved cocci or ea de-
hiscent. Seeds triangular in the cross section, the in i straight ;
the back semicircular, without any carunculus. Caiado road.—
Herbs, shrubs or s alterna tire, often distichous so as
the branchlets the appearance of x leaves. Stipul
small, ally brown — enini or t or edged cat
e genus is numerous in species dispersed over the warmer regions both of the
Nee. and the Old World. . Of the forty-four Aus edes species, I have been only able
` to identify four with widely-spread Asiatic ones, the others appear to be all endemic;
but, d in the sinon Glochidion, the species are distinguished by characters so
that it is possible that some may be still referred to Indian or Archipelaga
faot. 1. Glochidion.— Trees or shrubs the leaves often large. Stamens 3 or
, the anthers erect and sessile on a central column, ded Ovary 3 more jd 8 S
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Ovary pet idit, slightly rowel, he ő pe S OG : s Ferdinandi.
Ovary and capsule deeply lobed, 3- s nS P. lobocarpus.
Szor. 2. Synost —Undershrubs is a herbs. Leaves small.
Stamens 3, sg — adnate to a central column, tee cells parallel. 3-celled.
Styles dist connate at the base. No glands or disk in either sex.
Male Satna yos: narrow, erect, herbaceous or rigid,
d dts Hoary or glaucous "undershrubs or rarely
Styles thick bat free. Stems from a woody base decum-
nt or ascending. Leaves rather Higió €
upper
Leaves seil M lower ones pem yo.
ovate 3. P. ditassoides.
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94 CVIII: EUPHORBIACEX. [ Phyllanthus.
Leaves linear.
ves 4 to Í in. t: Mai perianth-segments erect
but free . 4. P. Adami.
Leaves unde rh in. long. Male perianth segments i
connate nearly to the apex 5. P. thesioides.
Styles more or less connate or very short. Stems branch- L2
ing, ascending or erect. 3
Male perianth-segments united to the middle. 3
ndershrub. aves linear, distant . 6. P. hirtellus. ie
Small shrub. Leaves small ahonnate, or emarginate :
clustered at thenodes . 7. P. rigens. :
Male perianth-segments free. Leaves ovate or obovate, :
gm
sessile. Branches much compressed or angular . . 8. P. ochrophyllus. 1
Male flower e senio; short, rigid. E
Branches nearly terete, hoary-tomentose . 9. P. rigidulus.
Male perianth- ae are: ovate. Erect much-branched almost ;
leafless und . 10. P. ramosissimus. 1
Male perjan cnet small, spreading :
Stems -— = eafy. Sti ules very spreading, Anthers 3
short, round the dilated summit of the c 11. P. rhytidospermus. q
branching shrubs. Anthers oblong, ie nearly 3
gem = li sii Pedicels filiform |
ves petiolate, thin. Pedice . .12. P. albiflorus. :
Leaves almost sessile, coriaceous. Pedic els v y short 1
aves obovate-orbicular, glabrous, 3 to 4 Mars Du. 18. P. crassifolius. 4
Leaves ovate or oblong, hoary, 1 to 3 lines long . . 14. P. elachophyllus. x
Szcr. 3. Kirganelia.— Shrubs, pa large. Leaves distichous, usually petiolate.
Stamens 5, the filaments usually at the base. Glands present. Ovary and ;
3- or more-celled, usually fes Fe or ac mgr Styles distinct or connate at the —
base, short in the Australian species 4
— obovate-ob filif ri dudes of 2 to 3
Capsule phis 3 lines dia 15. P, Nove, Hollandi.
een ovate or orbicular. Capsule end lobular, about
2 lines diameter. Styles exceedingly s
Pedice els filiform, under 2 lines, but mostly longer Mn the
perianth ‘ i IM JR peu
Pedicels mostly shorter than the perianth . aA ducces-c AR ud
firme less united. ee hers f rid tabin, Samen wage
n à or more or " nihers free, t s parallel, opening i
Glands present. CT Styles free. Capsule dry. a
> penny more or less unit
Leaves narrow- — or linear-lanceolate
pcs ame nials with virgate ac tle a and disti-
us lea
Flowers i a sessile. Capsule tuberculat . 18. P. Urinaria.
ins els 1 to 3 lines M e tuboroulato. Ca apsule
- + 19. P. trachygyne.
Flow nearly sessile. nd caps sule smooth . 20. .P. maderaspatanus.
— tushy — teas Hg a 4 in. long. Flowers
. 21. P. Mitchelli.
Leaves ‘obovateablong Pedice ls filiform, t io 4 lines long.
wars aqu under the frui 2. P. Gasstræmii.
nma erianth much enlarged, as ig as the capsule . 38. P. Dallachyanus.
Se also 29. P. grandisepalus, which has: the filaments sometimes united at the
Phyllanthus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, 95
** Filaments free. 1
a much sig ag usually as long as or longer than the
ea
Leaves ovate or lanceolate, acute «0. « 24. P. subcrenulatus.
Leaves obovate or oblong, ‘abt tuse or mucronate
Male pedicels filiform, 2 to $i es lo: Western ies 25. P. calycinus.
Male M lline long or cig Wi ners
ari glabro
sor chat plant. Stems decumbent from
Sod . 26. P. flagellaris.
letas "plant z glaucous, Shrubby with elongated
slender branch ooth . 27. P. similis.
Glabrous. diis very vespa ji in. ‘long . ` 98. B
patara glaucous. Shrubby and branched. Seeds
29. P. grandisepalus,
Minutely hoary-tomentoso. Fruiting perianih ‘less
nlarged . . 90. P. Carpentaria.
hae ib. 28. P. Dilihpeina] i in which ‘the taiii are sometimes almost
s pubescent or hairy.
un fur m plant, shrubby and branched. Cap-
. 91. P. Fuernrohrii.
Teansiibies or b plant, a shrubby and ‘branched.
Capsule sprinkled wi . 92. P. hebecarpus.
(0 _ tt Fruiting perianth shorter t. the capsule.
- Low diffuse annuals. Leaves oblong, ob
meg ge bi sp pad Cli: scarcely 2
lines diameter 33. P. lacunarius.
Stipules reading. e globular, 3 lines diameter on P. trachyspermus.
Undershrubs or shrubs, Capian s small, coriacevus, not not dis-
tichous. Fruits almost sessile.
‘rui
Low diffase glabrous undershrub . 35. P. australis.
Erect rege Bett virga te branches more or less pubescent.
eis urs 2 —
Erect bushy gi dives shrub. Western stern species
Shrubs with the leaves distichous on the young Ec A
ves small, coriaceous, rigid. Pedicels very short.
Leaves ova te, about 2 lines Tong, ma as well as the
r oe ade ae ee
Lain see ol about 3 lines lo ^ labrous as well as
ys ce lsh es ng, g ed M k,
Ko about bont 4 in. AS armas “Fruiting pedicels TT.
(See a P ri edi cdi sc Cadel EUMD Qu Lid
anbeli 1 ae
aging or up
E broad oonnertine, r u iaa present, ry 3«elled. Styles pel uie
3 Liun, a common tropical weed belonging to this section, has not yet
E si sri t in Australia.) "
_ Stems annual or from a Loi bon slightly beanahed,
“rather rigid, 4 to1 ft high. Leaves oblong . 1 41. P. simplex.
96 : CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZE. [ Phyllanthus. |
tems from a woody Laem EENI filiform, under 6 in.
Leaves obovate or orbicu 42. P. filicaulis.
Stems annual, filiform, branching r to u ft. long. ` Flowers
very minute . 43. P. minutiflorus.
cr. 6. Rei bia. — Trees or 8 shrubs wit th dittichots leaves. Male perianth of 4 seg- —
MAE Stamens 2, the filaments united in a central column, anthers with se ota :
parallel cells having the appearance of 4-celled anthers. Female perianth of 4 to em
segments. Styles
Branchlets with es leaves, several at n os of the
branches with the appearance of pinnate leaves . 44. P. Armstrongü.
Sect. 1. Grocuipi0N.— Trees or shrubs, the nus often large. |
ana s 3 or 4 (or in. species not Australian more), the anthers erect -
and sessile on a central column, free or more or less pean the cells
parallel, with the connective vincia beyond them. Nu -0r
more-celled. Styles short, thick, erect, often connate at the base. No -
gne nds or disk in either sex. — Genus Glochidion, Forst., Brad
some rms enumerated be T INT TRAS identical with some of those from the - |
Archipelago, rives I have eon unable to match them precisely with any of our -
neck
; ndtenadi. Mue i. Apt in Flora 1865, 379, and in DC. P. Prod. |
xv. ii. 300. A small tree quite glabrous in the typical form except m |
ovary. ila s shortly petiolate, elliptical or ovate-lanceolate, more or -
less acumin often. o "aa contracted. at the po usually some- -
what pm and shining on the upper side, 2 to 4 in. long. Flower- -
clusters in the typical men icu in the axils, the petias to 3 lines |
long. Male perianth-segments nearly 2 lines long i in the few specimens
where I have seen it fully out, but usually much smaller. Anthers 3 -
or rarely 4, linear, erect on a very short en d with the con- —
nective very shortly pro wine above the parall 1 cells. No glands |
within the pun in either sex. Female atts smaller than in the
wer se
about 4 in. diameter when 1
N. Australia. Islands of the Bu of [erri a, R. Brown
eensland. ae ham Bay, W. Hill, Dallachy ; Fitzroy ‘island, M Giliorayi
Wide Bay, C. Moor
N.S S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others.
m following n ay possibly pr E ove to be distinct species
r?m smaller. Pedicels shorter. Styles longer and more visti :
— Bremer river, "a yore ham; New England, C. Stuart.
r.? supra-axillaris. Leaves ofthe typical form or larger and more coriaceous:
iden very shortly pedunculate and inserted shortly above the axils. Capsule -
4- to et elled, - more than 4 lines diameter and less depressed in the centre, quite
most specimens, but pubescent in a few. ^R i allachy
e amk Thozet, .O' Shanesy
Phyllanthus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 97
Var.? mollis. Branches, foliage, and flowers softly pubescent. Anther-column very
= Short.—Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. A sub-variety from the same locality has the
_ leaves narrow and not 2 in. long
a n
_ cave, the 3 inner ones rather longer than the 3 outer. Anthers 3, erect
ther sex. emale perianth rather smaller than the male, and
slightly pubescent. Ovary depressed, almost 3-partite, the carpels
deeply 2-lobed. Styles 3, short and thick, erect in the central depres-
sion, stigmatic inside. Capsule about 4 lines diameter, much depressed,
more or less deeply divided into 6 or fewer lobes according to the
number of seeds perfected. Seeds “orange-red when ripe,” but not
quite ripe in the specimens seen.
Queensland. Rockhampton, O’Shanesy; Nerkool Creek, Bowman.
Sect. 2. Synosremon.—Undershrubs shrubs or perennial herbs.
. Leaves usually small. Stamens 3, the anthers adnate to a central
. column, with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary 3-celled.
. Styles distinct or connate at the base, usually spreading. No glands
= or disk in either sex.
The section is limited to Australia.
| . 8. P. ditassoides, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 487, and in DC. Prod.
. Xv. il, 826. An undershrub with a short thick woody base and wiry
_ Slightly branched ascending stems of 4 to 1 ft., somewhat angular,
Segments narrow, erect, about 14 lines long. Anthers connate and
twice as long as the column below. Female flowers solitary, on very
e r than i e males and
; “keris Ovary depressed, 3-celled, pubescent. Styles diverging
om the base, thick, 2-lobed. Capsule not seen
Puss Australia. South Goulburn island, A. Cunningham; Port Essington, Arm-
rong. i
4. P. Adami, Muell: Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 327 (9 ). Stems from
a thick woody base, ascending or erect, simple or branched, from a few
inches to above. 1 ft. high, more or less angular, glaucous as well as the
p VOL. VK H
98 CVII EUPHORBIACER. - [.Phyllanthus, 1
foliage. "Leaves linear, acute or obtuse, rigid, rather thick, $ to 1in.-
long. Flowers diceci the males few to ether, almost sessile
of 1 to 2 lines. Perianth-segments spreading, at first of the size of the
males, but growing out to above 2 lines. Styles thick but rather DE 1
and bifid. Capsule ovoid, almost acute, epe p A ay Sg 3-celle
—Synostemon glaucus, F. Muell. Fragm.. i. llanthus bossiæoides
A. Cunn. He spes e» stenocladus, Muell. del in ^ lon 1864, 536, and in
DC. Prod: xv. ti. 927 ( 4). a
. Australia. Port Keats, N.W. c A, Cunningham; M‘Adam range, Point |
Pearce, Providence hill, F. Mueller ; Pot Dirai, Schultz, n. 460; Port Essi ele
m UM Pi dli, Benth. Probably arcae nite glabrous, the
stems slender but rigid, much mie erect 0 ending, the speci-
mens seen 4 to 8in.long. Leaves linear li “ist iion uh the lower
ones oblong-spathulate, obtuse, pror thick, flat or with recurved
ins, 2 to near 6 lines long. Flowers apparently dlsdiods. soli
on pedicels of 1 to 14 lines. Male perianth tubular, 2 lines lon
com „Female flowers mt smaller, the perianth-segments short
spreading. No disk. Ovary habit 3-celled, with 3 short thick
free styles, spreading at the end but not lobed.
qM. Near Brisbane, but sg dh local, C. in do (female specimen).
N.S. ae Lachlan river, L. Mor eton (male spec en).
his "eia two single spec imene which, t endi of different sexes. and from.
different sdohé appear to me to belong to one species, allied to dami, but dif
ferent as well in fohage as in the male e erinth ad and ae rome styles. The characters
ave, however, to Pis yerified from
6. P. hirtellus, Muell. Arg. in DC, Prod. xv. ii. 996." Apparently
herbaceons, or perhaps an undershrub, the stems in the specimens seen
not above 6 in. long, slender, minutely pubescent as well as the foliage.
Leaves distichous but rather distant, linear or oblong, Lid somewhat
cuneate, 1 to j in. lon Stipules very minute. Flowers mo
solita Ty, t thé males on pedicels of 1 to 14 lines. Perianth ‘tubular,
NERA lines long, pent. slightly dilated upwards, ad
lobes not À as long as the tube, 2 of the inner ones hs than the
thera Anthers culito: oce cupying about half the length of the
staminal column, the connective ver slightly projecting beyon
Pe é be
Mess, of nearly $ line. Styles united at the base, at free, :
broad and spreading at the ri i All pe aea ovoid, pubescent, nes ^
long.—Synostemon hirte i do.
Queensland. "res es river, libel Bowman.
con CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 99
|
- Synostemon rigens, F. Muell. Pini ii. 153
| ., N. S. Wales. Upper Darling river, Bowma ; Mutanic range, Beckler ; bo
single sme specimens in an im E ERI in Her b. F. Mueller, but very diffe
| from any other species known to me, although with something of the habit of Pp.
1 s :
Res. Perianth narrow, the segments erect, nearly 2 lines long. -N
th
3 E. below, tipped with the small projectin ng, connectives, Female
- perianth rather smaller than the male, n: enlarged after flowering.
ue 3, erect, connivent ‘or more or less donate shortly divided
1 end. Ca van ule globular, 4 to 5 lines diameter. Seeds smoo ooth, a
p bur when unripe.
PON. Haken Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 428 (males) and 489 (females).
P 9. P. rigidulus, F. Muell. ; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 72, and in
DO. Prod. xv. ii. 370. Stems erect, rigid, 1 to 2 ft. high, hard and
woody at the base, with virgate branches, hoary as well as the foliage
with a minute tomentum. Leaves almost sessile, ovate or broadly
lines long, tomentose outside, divided vom a arro
Tigid segments. No or disk. Ovary tomentose. Styles erect,
. connivent and more or loh connate, shortly 2 lobed at the end. Capsule
(which I have not seen) globular, ashy-tomen ntose. (Muell. Arg.)
— N. Australia. Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller.
efus bey eger Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 70, and in
eed i. 826. A slender wiry rigid much- Ber es im ers of
bout l fs, ei or nearly so at the time of flowering. Leaves few
and only "on th oung branches, linear, thick, almost terete,
~ to 4 lines loe. Buod small but persistent. Male paren sessile
100 CVIII EUPHORBIACER. [ Phyllantius,
or nearly so, «pa hie ^i LR out inthe specimens. Peri ianth-segment | ;
; glan
ne arly the w de f the column. Female flowers on pedicels var yiii
from 2 to 6 lines, solitary or 2 together. Perianth narrow, about 1 line -
long. saat labrous. ` Styles free, thick, dilated and shortly 2-lobed |
Ch a ie ee Ec celled, 3 to 4 lines long.—Synostemon —
Tuell. F 1
omens filias ine ss E Mue
S. Wales. Between the Darling river pi Cooper's Creek, Beckler.
. 11. P. rhytidospermus, F. Muell. ; Muell, Arg. in Venen xxxiv. 20, |
and in DO. Prod. xv. ii. 327. Stems from a woody bas cumbent of
ascending, 6 to 8 in. high, the branches angular, gialiions ed glaucous
as well as the foliage. Leaves teat somewhat distichous, oblong ot -
broadly linear, acute or mucronulate, 3 to 5 lines long. Stipules per-
sistent, subulate and conspicuously s radin often 1 line long. Flowers -
. moncecious, Mus small, nearly sessile. Mal Atek ig -segments ovate,
spreading, petal-like, about 3 line long. No glands. Staminal column |
very short, anthers 3, very short, adnate roun cem dilated end and pro- -
jecting slightly above it, forming a disk of 4 line diameter. Fe
Ovary glabrous. ibn short, erect or scarce y^ spreading at the top, 1
N. Australia. Depót Creek, Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller.
12. P. albiflorus, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 70, qu. Py
DC. Prod, xv. ii. 326. much-branched glabrous shrub, varying from
3 or 4 ft. to twice that height, the branches terete or slightly angalah
the smaller ones slender but rigid. Leaves obovate-oblong to narrow-
cuneate, very obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, contracted into avery
a
dieses, ea greens: Styles distinct, recurved, cuneate and emargi
Capsule depressed-globular, nearly 4 lines diameter.
D E pas yaa Mine river, Moreton Bay, F, Mueller, C. Stuart ; Rockham
18. P. crassifolius, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 513, and in DC. F
xv. ii. 395. A rigid gl abrous divaricately branched shrub, someti
low and spreading, but sometimes attaining 3 or 4 ft. Leaves distichoUs -
obovate or orbicular, rigidly coriaceous, scabrous-puncticulate, 3 to k
lines long, all ti tipped i in our specimens with a black gland. Stipw®
small and gland-like. Flowers very small, few in the axils, on Vel)”
short veiliceli surrounded by small broad black bracts. Male periant? :
segments ovate, about 2 line long, the. inner 3 rather longer than
1 Phyllanthus, CVIII; EUPHORBIACER. 101
thick and scabrous outside. Ovar y GADON Styles.3, an or in-
. eurved, deeply bifid. Capsule not s
j tralia. Sharks Bay, Milne; chon river, Oldfield.—The . origin nal
specimens examined by Mueller Arg. were Milne Oldfie ld's Murchison river ones,
1 P have numerous o flowers, were, only d by him after his character was
E Tà
P. elachophyllus, F. Muell. Herb. A bushy shrub, with
; m rigid branchlets, hoary as well as the foliage with a minute
. almost papillose e pubesce nce. aves distichous, ovate or oblo
. rigidly coriaceous, 1 to 3 lines long. Stipules a almost gland-like. M e
flowers very small, few in the axil, on exceedingly short pedicels.
Perianth-segments ovate, rather thick, about } line long. No glands.
TUE Naika range, F. Mueller ; Einasleigh river, Ent
. ECT. 3. KrnaANELIA.—Shrubs, often large. Leaves Pisae Y
3 Stamens 5, the filaments usually connate at the base. Glands present,
. ovary an and e capsule 3- or vehat oi usually fleshy or r succulent. Styles
. distinct or connate at the bas
| .15. P. Novee-Hollandiz, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. i i3
. small spreading e ea shrub. Leaves distichous, pede oblong-
1 pee very obtuse, often acute at the base, membran 4 to 8 lin
Female flowers none in our specimens. Ovary according to Mueller
Arg. 5-celled. Styles 5, bifid and recurved. Capsule somewhat fleshy,
. globular, 2 lines diameter.— P. uber iflorus, Baill. Adans. vi. 343.
Queensland. Port Denison, bras Bay, Dallachy.
16. E tta cire . var. glaber, Muell. ide in DC. Prod. xv. ii.
5.
slightly enit. les branches slender. Leaves ditichons petioli,
ovate-o i
lines. Male rud xai a 5, broad, very obtuse, 4 line long or 1
or 2 outer ones eon Stamens usually 5, the 2 or 3 inner ones with
their filaments m or less united, the outer .o nes free or nearly so.
Glands present. but (riae, sometimes scarcely consbisudis. emale
102 evi. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Phyllanthus. l
iis Ms rather cn Pg the male. Ovary usually with about 8 cells, 1
Jug ut p t length leary dry and furrowed between the seeds, about 1
lines diam Anisonema eglandulosum, Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 154, -
and e: synonyms given by Muell. Arg
t pro l
qoe opposite e Timor. . The above on ncs is therefore taken nafy from A. Cun- -
ningham’s specimens gathered at Coepang in iad
17. P. baccatus, F. Herb. A large spreading or diffuse
glabrous shrub. Leaves pon J shortly petiolate, o oveta ha
elliptical obovate or almost or icular, varying and
depressed, wey 3 n prem án more succulent than that of P.
pe —P. Nove-Hollandia , Baill. Adans. vi. 343, not of Muell. Arg. —
N. stralia. Vansittart Ba Em Greville ems “Rage W. coast, -
A. Cuaningiam thai ien river, P. Mueller ; wn n n, Schultz,
n Herb. R. Brown n fom Prin of Wales i island andi Pe a diee of
species wi didus narrow leave the peo as far as I can find, all males, — |
the plant either dicecious or the a xa yet developed. E
SECT. 4. PARAPHYLLANTHUS, Muell. Arg. — Herbs or shrubs of varied
habit. A een: 3, the filaments free or more or less united ; anthers
are the cells parallel, opening longitddigally. Glands present. Ovary
3-celled. Styles free. oe sule dry.
18. P. binyag Linn. ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 364.
with angular r stem and n us slender branchlets resembling si
rons dm, v sometimes sne arl tit long on the main stem. Stip ules
ular. Female perianth-segments narrower and more rigid than the
males, about 4 line long. Ovary 3-celled. Styles free, spreading,
Phyllanthus, | CVIII.: EUPHORBIACER. 108
dilated and 2-lobed at the end. Capsule depressed-globular, scarcely
rrowed, scaly-tuberculate or almost muricate. Seeds more or less dis-
tinctly marked with transverse ridges or rows of tubercles.—P. echinatus,
A. Cunn. Her
N. Australia. South Goulburn island, A, Cunningham; Port Darwin, i st
n. 85, 203.—A common weed in tropical Asia and Eastern Africa.
19. P. trachygyne, Benth. Stems from a perennial base, decum-
bent or erect, simple or slightly branched, often compressed, 1 to 1} ft.
t
obtuse, i tolin.long. Stipules minute, bro Flowers apparently
m "Wises clustered, the filiform jet about 2 lines long in
ecimens, not above 1 line in others. € t o: 6
Réiüida ‘flowers salsa or 2 td vier with short pedicels. Perianth-
j ue Disk with :6 broad thin lobes.
ie viru saw d Styles 3, bifid, recurved and E ies ap-
ovar
Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 112 ial with eed cels) ; n.
Maioria with i laii stems and. obtuse leaves); n. 668 ^" d (ep AR n
leaves); and 788 (males with longer pedicels and in Me
20. P. maderaspatanus, Li»».; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 362
var. angustifolius. An erect simple or r branched rather rigid annual (or
Ee of 1 to 14 ft, the branches slender, virgate, et
lar. Leaves distichous, oblong-linear or cuneate, obtuse or m
eronate, contracted towards the base but sessile or nearly § so, $ to lin in.
ic d nis usually bordered with white owers very sm
male with or without 2 or 8 males in each axil, the pedicels
e
ie; Glands minute. Anthers 3, distinct, erect on the top of a short
column, the cells parallel. Female perianth about twice the size of
the male, iy 2 lobe 3-celled. Styles distinct, spreading, dilated ont
d y
tralia. p E TS island, Dam gutem ago, A, Cunningham ; Port
: Walcot, N.W. coast, Harper; Uppe E e Vidos and Fitzmaurice rivers, F. Mueller;
11.
ensland. Hoc khampton, Bowman, O'Shanesy; Charlesville, Giles; Peak.
urkitt. 1
The species is common in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World. The
shape of the leaves in the Australian specimens is "T nearly Pt figured by Wight,
although much narrower than in the commoner forms of the
21. P. Mi Mitchelli, Benth. An erect bushy shrub, koe renting
Some of the roux fone less pubescent forms of P, thymoides, with
104 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Phyllanthus:
which it is united by Mueller Arg., but the irons is quite glabrous, the
male flowers larger on shorter pedicels, with the segments more united -
a ~ base, and the filaments in all the specimens I have examined -
d to above the middle. Leaves not distichous, narrow-cuneate, |
said, riy licate, 13 to 3 lines MN Flowers probabl dicecious, all
males ie specimens seen.— Micrantheum triandrum, ook. in Mitch. |
Trop. ion 2; P. triandrus, Muell. Arg. in DC. "Prod. xv. ii. 195
(among the species kolale from Micrantheum) a name reserved p. 299
for E Kirganelia triandra, Blanco; P. thymoides var. Wusll- Arg.
Le. 37
Queensland. Pyramid depot, Mitchell.
. 22. P. Gasstreemii, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 858, - An erect
glabrous shrub or undershrub of 1 to 2 ft. the branches Men M bi
ressed, the smaller ones à with the general aspect of P.
e, membranou “om under r j in. to nearly 1 in. long. Sti-
pules brown. Flowers pak small, moncecious or almost dicecious, the —
males in eluste rs of 3 or 4, the females solita Male perianth- -
the projecting: connective. Female o preti e and more -
acute than in the males, but n a A after flowering as in P. Dal- -
lachyanus, greenish, bordered d FON Ovary 3-celled. Bes longer
than the ovary, linear, bifid according to Mueller Arg., entire in the -
flowers examined. Capsule Soprema onia glabrous, smooth, about
2 lines diameter.— P. indigo ofer node, A. Cun erb. 1
BS age pee a Burnet ES 3
N. S. Wales. Port Kris (Cabramatta), Woolls ; CURED river, M' Arthur; :
Hastings and eer rivers, Beckler; New England, C. Stuart; near Liverpool and |
Illawarra, A. Cunningham
23. P. rae EM enth. A glabrous shrub, the young branches |
_ often flattened, the e Y QUARE slender, 3 to 5 in. long. Leaves |
or vishespe j in. long. Male sida segments ovate, Mike :
obtuse or mucronate, $ to nearly 1 line long. Stamen 53, the filaments -
united to about the middle; judi colts arallel, but separated by à
broad thick connective. Female pida oa
enlarging round the fruit to about 3 lines. "Disk with a broad
margin. Styles 9, thick, diverging, 2-lobed to about the middle.
Queensland. Rocki apiid Bay, Dallachy.—With the foliage nearly of P. Gunnit
this has the filaments more or less united as in I preceding species, and the enlarged |
fruiting perianth of P. i ae and its a
' 24. P. subcrenulatus, F. Muell. Mi: i. 108- A glabrous branch-
ing shrub, of 1 to 13 ft., the Aeros acutely angular. Leaves $ sessile |
Phyllanthus.] CVIII: EUPHORBIACER: 105
or nearly so, ovate-lanceolate, more acute than in almost any other
species, rounded at the base, rather rigid, with a prominent midrib,
4 to 8 lines long in the N. 8. " Wales s specimens, larger and thinner in
the Queensland ones. Stipules brown. Flowers monecious, solitary or
very few together, on piiióela " fh to 14 li = "n per rianth of 6 ovate
petal-like segments, nearly 2 the filaments dis-
tinct from the base; anther- A pian gera lint distinet and almost Ar
fr
divided to about the middle into 2 branch a globular, aie
brous, smooth, fully 3 lines ege Sods ys tly
din nally. — Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. x
Sprcensiand- Upper Brisbane river, F. Mueller pRa O’ Shanesy
Wales. SA England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler; St. ys
P oL Backh
P. calycinus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 75, t. 225. A glabrous
shrub of l to 2 ft. Leaves oblong-cuneate, very " obtuse, contracted at
the base but scarcely petiolate, 4 to 4 in. or Reng very luxuriant nearly
ł in. long. Stipules ‘small, brown or more or less white. Flowers
moncecious, on pedicels of 9 to 4 lines, the faiiiafes solitary with or
without 2 or 3 males in the same axils, the fruiting pedicels lengthening
di 3 in. or more and thickened towards the end. Male perianth-seg-
nts 6 or sometimes 5, petal-like, pink bordered with white, den
phlei about 1} lines long. Glands prominent and broad. Stamens 3,
filaments free from the base ; ; anther-cells distinct but parallel. Feal
ries; larger than in the males, the segments broa gh ovate and after
owering lengthening out to 8 lines vi i io with a free
S. PARES Port — Wilhelmi; Sger Gulf, Warburton.
. , W. Australia. Swan river, Drumm t coll., Preiss, n. 1212; Murchison
Tiver, Oldfield ; Champion Bay, È. Grey; rd. lani, Lie n.1213 3; King George’s
Sound yare adjoining districts, Harvey, F. Mueller, O Hd —The above allenot far
coast, but also Bla ckwood river, 90 miles M e sea, Oldfield.
i dedii a. Flowers much smaller, the female perianth scarcely 2 lines long
Py flowering .—W. Australia, Burgess.
Wo species are sequ dutingdished, according as the seeds are priae or smooth,
but the strie a are often not apparent till the seed is quite ripe, and amongst the very
numerous specimens in [^ ery few have ripe seed, and the two rw are other-
. wise absolutely undistinguisha.
106 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Phyllanthus.
96. P. flagellaris, Benth. An undershrub slightly hoary or at
ngth glabrous, with a woody base and m mbent simple or slightly
branched stems of 6 in. to above 1 ft., more or less flattened. Leaves
distichous, po shortly etes satay from a orbicular to
oblong, rarely above + in. lon tipules minute. Flowers ap med
dicecious, cmi males 2 to 4 together on pedicels of about 1 line, the
females solitary on pedicels attaining 2 lines when in fruit. M
pe
peri aan sonrmiale petal-like, oblong; nearly ep a long when fully out |
and o
n contracted and thickened at Glands large.
Stamens 3, the filaments free ; eager arallel. Fruiting perianth-
segments enlarged to 9 lines. Capsule epressed-globular, 23 lines
diameter, glabrous. Styles free, shortly bifid Seeds smooth.
N. Australia. Goulburn islands, 4. Cunningham.
similis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 71, and in DC. P
xv. ii. ` 869. A nedum shrub, the branches elongated, slender, sli dy
compressed distichous, semet] pieni obovate-oblong,
m irr mostly about ns in. long. Flowers moncecious, shortl
REN Moreton Bay, P. Mueller ; Demon Creek, C. Stuart.
98, P. microcladus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 71, and in DC.
sree xv. ii, 909. A Pie PARES shrub, glabrous or nearly € the
tests scarcely petia ate, cuneate or proc dew en ota rigid,
solitary, the males on very short pedicels, it Malo on longe.
mos y
bee attaining } to 2 in. when in fruit. Male pe
s prominent. Stamens 3, the filaments fee; a p perl
Renials perianth when in fruic about 2 lines diam Glands connate”
into a lobed c We Ovary glabrous. Styles deeply. ‘divided. Cap
depressed-globular, about 2 lines diam
gu Moreton Bay, F. Mueller.
N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler.
I have pe -" | Metam answering to the above description taken from Mueller :
Arg.'s charac
29. P. ince sepalus, F. Muell. ; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 72, ;
and in D C. Prod. xv. ii. 369. Apparently shrubby, itat but glaucous,
the branches somewhat angular. Leaves distichous, peis shortly pet
late, oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or mucronulate. Stipules aps a
Flowers moncecious, the m es 2 or 3 together on exceeding!y
i
j
Phyllanthus.| CVIII. EUPHORBIACE#. 107
pedicels, the females sete af qi the nedin rather longer but shorter than
a » ovate Heim # line,
or the inner ones nearly 1 line I tam 3, the ments free or
into 2 branches. np eie depressed:
globular, sm mooth, scarcel hroms D" yaa lines diameter. Seeds
0
N. Aus "dioit e river, F, Msc per ud several of the following
species are difficult to aoni, although th ey appear to be really distinct: The
| cbr oft the fruiting perianth is sometimes very variable.
NT arpentariz, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 72, and 4 :
Pr i 70. An apparently erect shrub, with rigid. ‘but edda
vitgute Psalt hoary when young as well as the “foliage with a
minute tomentum. Leaves — or obovate-oblong, scarcely
petiolate, under 4 in, lo Flowers monecious, the males
not above 1 line long under the fruit. Male — anth-segments narrow,
pubescent outside, nearly 1 line long. Glan e. — 3, the
filaments erect and rather thick but free ; ne sui
perianth-segments larger than the malos and but lite enlarged after
| ing. $ reading, very shortly 2-lobed.
: > ag ae somewhat seer glabr us and smooth, about
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f P Asia ^ @ableland, "moe s Land and Roper river, Gulf of Carpentaria,
31. P. Eeen F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soe. ^ i. 15, and in
ar
scent. Styles 3, divided to about the mile Capsule ange :
depressed- globular. Seeds smooth.—Sond. in Linnza xxvii 566 ;
M mij Ár E: in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 373. -
sland. Cleveland Bay, 4. Cunningham; Dawson river, ‘F, Mueller; Rock-
=e e Rockingham Bay, Dallachy Rockhampton, ae Herbert's
Cre E. Saunders’ Creek, Expedition range, man ;
. Wales. Sandy gravelly banks of the erra d na Y Mueller (with the
fur perianth less enlarged).
8. w. cec ake Eyre and the river Finke, Æ., Giles.
MS Sharks. Bay, à var. get es obovate leaves pcm to
ler A Ag. D qe perhaps a different species I have not seen the specimen
L
108 : CVIII; EUPHORBIACEX. [ Phyllanthus,
PA P. hebecarpus, -— h. An p ranged erect rigid shrub, with
te terete branches, more or less hoary tomentose or villous as well
sessile, E erect, oblong or e iptical, rom under 4 in. to nearly 1 in.
1 . .
T hai por Beets s
. Australia. is of QUE F. M
Quid urdekin river, F. Melior (a ht more villous v somes
. 93. P. lacunarius, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 14, and in
. Kem Journ, viii. 330, A small diffuse or b en Ae fi
our specimens mostly under 6in., glabrous but often very glaucous,
the branches flattened or angular. Leaves very shortly potiora
oblong or wenden contracted at the base, under 4 in. lo
Stipules minute. Flowers very small, monecious, usually 1 “female
a
filaments free ; anther-cells parallel. Female perianth rather larger,
the segments “about t 4 line ef or slightly larger under the ruit.
A aed short, ee 2-lobed. sule glabrous, de rossed-globulim
O9-furrowed. Seeds finely striate s longi ond. in Lin
— : 566; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 37
Wale es. Junction of the eire udi Darling rivers, F. Mueller ; Darling
dum Godiin and Dallachy. :
54. P. trachyspermus, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 14, and
in Hook. Kem Journ. viii. 210. A glabrous glaucous annual, with
ascending branching stem about 6 in. high in the e
Leaves almost sessile, brondy oleng kd 4 to din
spreading as in P. rhytidospermus, but very minute. Pis monecious
(Muell Arg.), but no males on our specimens. Females solitary in the
axils, on very short pedice h-segments ovate, spre& ing,
N. s. Wales t the UGES of the Kansy. an Darling ri s, F. Mueller —
I have only seen. ivo imperfect specimens, one in the Min n other in the
Hookerian herbari
35. MES: Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 984, and in n E
Tasm. i. reer A low glabrous undershrub with a woody base anó
Phyllanthus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJ. 109
numerous ascending wiry stems of 3 to 6 in. Leaves not Pa
ovate or obovate, obtuse or acute, es flat, 1} to 3 lines long.
Flowers dicecious, the males in clusters of 2 or 3, ‘the females edite,
on pedicels of 1 to 1 line. Male per Hanh -segments red, ovate-oblong,
under ĝin. long. Glands large. Stamens 3, the filam ents i anther-
cells parallel. "Female peranth-segments Ls 1 line long, narrower
and more acute than the males. Dis obed. Ovary glabrous.
pe 3, deeply divided into 9 eine Dipsule de nupt about
Le ines diameter. Seeds smooth.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii.
. 8. WVales.? Some specimens from egg Aena) A, Cunningham, appear to
belong to this species, but the flowers are not in a state for examination.
mania. Roadsides, probably common, but overlooked, J. D. Hooker.
96. P. thymoides, Sieb. Pl. Exs. ; Sond. in Li innæa xxviii. es
shrub of 1 to 2 ft., more or less page scent or hirsute, at least the young
branches. Leaves no t distichous, nearly sessile, fom bro wee obovate
to narrow-cunea diio mucronate truncate or emarginate, the mar-
gins recurved or revolute, coriaceous, — above d and sometimes
only 1 to 14 fina long, the midrib very prominent underneath and
cp reed the whole 4 af stniplibite- Pas small and bluck.
ne obtuse or the init ner ones mucronulate. Glands large.
la p
tuberculate. "Mall x in a DC. Prod. xv. ii. 372; P. hirtellus, F.
Mu v Herb.; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 22; P. ledifolius, A. Cunn.
D Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 264, and FT. Mist.
. 4. Cunningham, and others; New England, C. ‘Stuart ; Mudgee, N. Taylor ;
"Twotold Bay, F Mueller.
Victoria. Wilson's Promont tory, W e reed s and Genoa rivers, P.
Mueller; Grampians, Wilhelmi; Wimmera, D
S. Australia. Tattiara country, Woods (liene: and the Wimmera specimens much
less hirsute, sometimes peels shit tos
Var. glabrata. Almost gl pt th hoots.—T wofold Bay, Mossman,
F. Mueller. it
v o
sp aa a _— Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. i. 179. A kp rgo
ing 2 to 4 ft, the branches angular, glabrous but o landalax
scabrous. Leaves not dis tichous, obovate oblong or rarely almost
linear, obtuse or ral eh ie rounded or ic sep at the base, rather
Stipule jer.
segments ovate or oblong, 3 to 2 line long. Glands conspicuous.
Stamens 3, the filaments free ; grosor parallel. Female perianth-
110 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, [ Phyllanthus.
nts nàrrower and more 2 than the males, rather above
1 dio: long when in fruit. about s 8, recurved, undivi ded. apsule
depressed, am 3- pe E v 2 lines diameter. Seeds smooth.—
per ll. = iim DC. Prod. x
Cape Riche; Pune n. 1200, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 223 ; Bald
ttd; Olid Tit tzgerald river, ' Maxwell (siia small narrow eaves) ; between. Espe-
Bay and Russel range, Dempster (with rather large stipules
Vos dre sce ay Benth. A shrub with rather slender rigid
rarely above 2 lines Mie. Flowers moncecious, ee pres on
outer. Glands large. Stamens 3, the fi ments keg patse:
parallel. Female perianth rather ioe e the male. Disk lobed.
Ovary eon MINA 6-furrowed. Styles 3, erect, shortly
bifid.
N. Australia. ak Sound, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. :
39. P. aridus, Benth. An erect much- iar rigid shrub, the
ceedingly short ee corer lengthened under the fruit. Male
perianth-segments (perhaps Rog Jet ns Aarelapen) ovate, pear -like,
4 line long. Glands small. 3, the filaments free; à PA
cells parallel. Female Perianth s slightly ang under the
labrous, almost coriaceous. Capsule depresed-globua Mus
lines diameter, 3-celled. Styles not s
. WN. Australia, Barren shores of saine - and Port Warrender, Yo
Bay, N.W. Coast, 4. Cunningham.
0. P. Gunnii, Hook, f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 284, and Fl. Tasm. i.
ll shrub, sometimes almost arborescent, quite glabrous, with
slender s rapae ien branches. pi aves distichous, obovate or orbicu-
nd ve
Bramens 3, the > the filaments ‘ai variable in length; anther-cells pun
rianth scare aroa larger than the male. Ovary 8-celled,
glabrous. P'tyles fr ee, bifid, wed.
ll. Arg. in didi ens d 20, a d in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 368.
N. S. Wales. Twofold Bay, » (sp
_Wictoria. Between Yowaka and Sealer's Cove, Mount Hunter, Broadribb river
asmania. Dense forests at George Town, Circular Head and Rocky Cape, Gunn
King Island, Herb. F. Mueller.
Phyllanthus] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEX. ei
The specimens ye a. leaves can scarcely be distinguished from P. Gasstremii,
except by the free
Var. saxosus, F. rid i More rigid, with fewer flowers.—P. saxosus, F. Muell. in :
jen xxv. 441
Victo Wim ra, Dallachy.
s. Asicatin: Flinders Baise) Cudnaka, towards Lake Torrens, F. Mueller.
T. 5. EUPHYLLANTHUS, Muell. Arg.—Herbs shrubs or estes of
ce "habit Puis analy distichous. Stamens. 3, the filaments
S
diverging or opening P a rA dh and often separated by a broad con-
nective. Glands present. Ovary 3-celled. Styles free. Capsule dry.
This is rather an artificia] section than a natural l group, some species bearing a close
resemblance and only istinguished by their
anthers ; the foils à are, however, usually much ri than in that se
rarely above igh, flattened wh oung. quts aiai,
almost sessile, lanceolate or almost linear and acute or the lo
oblong obtuse, rarely above in; long. ules very small,
brown or white wers moncecious or almost cnt sin
without males often 2 or even 3 from the same axil, al turo to Di
side. Male perianth-segments 6, spreading, coloured, not 4 line long.
mee thd ‘Stamen s 9, ' the filaments free; anther-cells glo-
tyle m
brous, smooth, scarcely 1 ameter. Seeds usualy punctate or
tuberculate when quite e ripe, but sometimes DeF coloured and smooth,
although AP DRED y full gro
Endeavour. ioa x: Cunningham ; "Roiegham: Bay, Dallachy ;
Roc ampton, e O’ Shane
Var. leiospermus. im 1 to " ft. high, and mq annual. Pedicels shorter
than usual. Seeds almost or quite smooth.—Narr r, Mitchell
P. Beckleri, Muell. Arg. in Linnæa xxxiv. 74, mii DG. Prod. xv . ii. 390, from N. S.
) aeneis arence river, Beckler, which I haye not seen, gto gaid to differ from
simplex only in the smooth seeds, which Say no more than in P, calycinus appear to
bc available as a specific distinction.
- conterminus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 31, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 389, from
ides the smooth seeds of P. Beckleri to differ in its diccious flowers.
Mueller arg. however appears to have seen the female only, and many speise st
(Pa be seen without any male flowers, which are always very deci
. and often pid absent from the
Be P. Pese Benth, A small glabrous plant, with a
| and numerous filiform stems, from 1 to 6 in. bug, pm
E habit Honors] that of P. australis but more slen de aves obo-
. Vate or the lower ones orbicular, under } in. long. Stipules minute.
112 . | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. | Phyllanthus.
m oured, under 1 line long. Glands sm Stamens 3, the filaments
free ; anther-cells globular, divergent. yes nep segments nar-
rower and rather longer than in the males. Disk truncate and lobed.
-— 3, bifid. Capsule glabrous and esos under 1 line diameter.
New England, C. Stua
43. P. minutiflorus, F. Muell. Herb. ; Muell. Arg. in Linnea x xxxiv.
ascending stems from a few inches to above 1 ft. long
Lower leaves broadly eam or almost orbicular, 2 d bs lines d a
upper ones oblong-lanceolate or almost linear, } to lowe
m
Stamens 3, the filaments free; anthers not seen perfect. Styles short,
dep 2-lobed. Capsules depressed, under 1 line. diameter. Seeds
Upper Victoria river, F. Mu Vc pre the same species,
Simic uper ;
small young plants of 1 to 2 in ids orbicular leaves, Port Darwin, Schultz, n n. 326,
and elongated specimens vit lon ger pedicels and doa iud small leaves, York
Sound, Pe W. Coast, A. Cunn a
Var.? gracillimus. Filiform branches zu endet 1ft.long. Leaves all narrow,
2to4 fa long. illi b. Hook.
ueensland.
Moreton Bay, E Mue
e above eA probably all forms ia one ii fion but with the minuteness of the
Th
esse - is difficult to establish definite characters from the imperfect specimens ' in,
our herba
Sect. 6. RErprA.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves ote Male
Phat "of 4 segments. Stamens 2, the filaments united in a cen
anthers verticillate round the top of the Sari Female aries of
Styles :
4 to Ó segments. Styles 9.— Reidia. Wight; Eriococcus, Ha
44. P. Armstrongii, Benth. A glabrous shrub or tree, the branch- —
lets slender, 4 to 8 in EAM with thin distichou s leaves resembling ©
Lue ade leaves chiot at the ends of the branches. B ond ekers shortly
petiolate or almost sessile, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, ciini ranous, -
mostl about lin. lon ti pules minute. owers monceci cious,
Mel perianth rotate wine NC S pitt more ibn lli cs [e
lands large. Anther-cells radiating from a short c iege mt um»
which iube sli € brine them, -— cell = g transversely
in 2 small valve erianth of a: ate dentate ents
Disk broadly e eu muria half as too as the vieni a Y
glabrous, with 3 exceedingly short bifid styles. Fruit not seen.
. N. Australia. e Asa Armstrong. i
!
,
i
Breynia.] CVIII: EUPHORBIACEJE. 113.
18. BREYNIA, Forst.
(Melanthesa, Blume ; Melanthesopsis, Muell. Arg.)
| Flowers moneecious, axillary, solitary or few together. Male fl. :
| ten anth GUIAS, fat topped, the small orifice in the centre almost
| ioc mens 3, united in a central column, with-.
ben any rudi Ant oe ovar ; ‘anthers 2-celled, adnate to the column,
the cells parallel, opening "longitudinally in 2 valves. Female fl:
= erianth turbinate or campanulate, with 6 very short lobes or teeth,
. Sometimes minute or o Eis yu sessile Pn shortly stipitate,.
or nin a indehiscent doe, See iiis iN with a S EUR t inner
angle and a curved back, the hilum small, de er end ag sie
ranches slender, the foliage u usually pude not always drying black.
aves alternate, ponp S usually broad, entire. Flowers small, on
short oe cels. Fruits
The genus is generally jid over tropical Asia and the Pacific islands. Of the
four Adétralían species, one and perhaps two are also in the Indian Arc lago, the
two others appear to be quite e Ah he genus is allied to the section Glochidion
of Phyllanthus, but readily distinguished by the peculiar ma by the
more baccate fruit. The section Mela opsis, with longer spreading divided styles,
has not as etected in Australia. The seeds appear to me to sam
both sections without anything that can be properly called an arillus. The hilum at
thet um ery small, the -e cavity at the lower en e n
. the inner and outer r coating of the se th of them crustaceous except at the lower
end "T the imt where the outer one p membranous and wears away leaving a sma
pening.
Fruitin ng perianth spreading flat to a diameter of about 3 BM ul 1. B. cernua.
2 lines d hort t or spreading on the
E ous Styles very short erec P nt "^ i
| Fruiting perianth scarcely enlarge d.
Ovary and capsule more or less contracted into a stipes at the |
base and crowned with three Lug surrounding the see
e les 3. B. stipitata.
vary and capsule sessile, the “ovary ‘tapering ‘at the e top, the
capsule toes enly contracted into a beak . 4. B. rhynchocarpa.
rnua, Muel in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 499. A glabrous.
shrub, with the "end. rad orbicular leaves and the flowers of.
B. stipitata, but the female perianth rather largor at the time of flower-
ng, very shortly broadly and retusely 6-lobed, and when in fruit
spreading out quite flat to the diameter of fully 3 lines. Capeule sessile,
gi ihe without appendages, Kati Phe the very short styles.—
Tene lanthesa c ua, Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 155. T hic
The ecimens female flow
T Apte NW. Cn 4 dcs an- which the capsule has Te fallen I
D VOL. VI.
114 CVIII, EUPHORBIACEJ. [ Breynia,
off, nt " far as they go, they agree po with the typical Timor aene of
B. cer: A specimen from Point Pearce, f. Mueller, may also be the e species,
with the f he fruiting perianth not so dme developed, but the fruit is not yet cate ripe.
Queen: York, Daem
ovite ‘or a oadly oblong, obtuse, $ to 1 in. Stipules batts rather
rigid, acu owers monecious, the females solitary, with or without.
1 or 2 sate, hee pee acne in cluste of 2, 8 or more, and the cluster
someti short raceme, with a es of 1 to 1 line,
ee ith iml ifite angilo. Hike bracts. Pedicels usually about 1 line
le perianth nearly 1 line long, broadly turbinate, flat-topped
sit ‘the aeifibe closed, the stamens quite included, the anthers covering
the greater portion of the central eld umn. Female perianth spreading
and fel and broadly 6-lobed, about 1 line diameter when in flower,
enla “By 02 y under the fri but remaining concave, not spread-
mg ernua es short, entire, erect or spreading.
distila ak, Stolen, aba 3 lines diameter, obtuse, without any
protuberances round the styles.—B. cinerascens, Baill. Adans. vi. 944
Queensland. Broad Sonnd, R. Brown; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, F'. Mue ller;
Percy island, A. Cunningham (with broader leaves) ; ijide pio, O'Shanesy,
ozet ; Cape hagas
prg a di the Blue Mountains, R, Brown, Phebe a n. «Mm
A. Cunsinghers. ce — Honora river, Oldfield ; New England, C. Stua
stipitata, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 442. A tall pr
t pro
ring round the short styles jid pun their Tenet, both the stipes and of
the terminal protuberances already apparent on the ovary at the tim
a
wit "endis 7».:546, 581; Prince of Wales islands, R.
Rockingham p^ Dallachy; Cleveland Bi Bay, Bowman (with nar
rower leaves).
B. Fron aes Baill. Adans. vi. 344, from Rockingham Bay, Dallachy, from the B.
ery imperfect specimen E undis dd F. Mueller, appears to be a slight variety of
slpiteta, with much larger le.
ynchocarpa, Benth. Apparently 4 a shrub with the habit of
. B.
B. sniongifotra, but the specimens not drying so black, and assuming
glaucous hue. Leaves broadly ovate or or cul, very opis 18e, mostly
about 1 in. lon ale flowers only seen young, but a j rently
e
stralia. Islands of the Gulf of Tae tage g ETM Henne ; Port Dare —
Breynia.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 115
N. Aus RE King's Sound, N.W. FN MES
19. SECURINEGA, Juss.
(Fluggea, Willd.)
Flowers dicecious, in axillary clusters. Male fl.: pns divided,
to the base into 5 petal-like segments. Stamens 5 or times 4,
2-fid or 3-fid pistil without any ovary, but Sion as long as the stamens;.
anthers with 2 parallel eels opening longitudinally in 2 valves. Female.
: Perianth of the males. Disk flat, = a free dentate margin.
Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 8, recurved and bifid.
Fruit os. or scarcely su succulent ger €— ee irre is Mode ge ease
ntire. Flowers very small. Fruits
he genus is spread over the warmer regions am i and Africa, one vo reac mkin
j 8
[os the mae alian species eiae have the peculiar structure of those of quam
: owever, Up seg wn by the perianth, the exserted stamens, the
tary piai, the dry y fru
Branches unarmed, bs eaves above 1 in. lon 1. S. obovata.
Branches often "Sana Leave va to i d » long, of often emarginate,
or very obtu. . S. Leucopyrus.
l. S. obovata, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 449. A tall unarmed
sd. quite glabrous but sometimes glaucous, the smaller branches often
ad a
young. Leaves ovate, usu oad and sometimes
seat orbicular, rarely s id very obtuse, 1 to 2 in. long or
when very luxuriant nearly 3 rominently pen nnienined and the nu-
merous reticulate veinlets oon also prominent underneath. Flowers
minute, the males usually very numerous in : e cluster, the females
ttim, both on filiform pedicels.of 1 to 2 lines. Periant s
Fe ls rather broad. Ce ule red, de sien lobular, aa dor
» a fons Hort. Berol. 329;
F. Muell. i n: Hook. Kew Journ. ix. 17; Fluggea
eva salen F. Muell. in Trans. Bot. Soc. ee vii. 490, and tmd
numerous other synonyms given T Muell. Arg. Lc.
*
".
116: CVIII EUPHORBIACEA.. [ Securinega. .
Australia. Regent's river an. Cygnet Bay, N. W. coast, A. Cunningham;. |
Kings Sound ay Collier Bay, Chapm pan: Hierson island, Gregorys Eape-.
dition ; Victoria Fitzmaurice Aven P. ller ; Islands of the gulf of pne a
taria, R. Piobwf. Sweers island and Albert river, ' Henne ; Port Dar rling, Schultz,
57:
8.
Queensland. Cape York, at iit d Gilbert river and Howick’s group. F.
Mueller; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Rockingham and Edgecombe Bays, Da llach y;
Broad Sound and Bowen n river, Bowman ; Kennedy district, Daintree; Flinders river,
Sutherland; Port M ackay, Nerns
The species is common in atent Asia and Africa.
. Leucopyrus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 451. A large
stragglin shrub, quite glabrous, with numerous small rigid branchlets
occasionally terminating in a -s votis _ es ovate obovate or almost .
orbicular, very obtuse or emarginate, smaller and more membranous
than in S. obovata, and usually not M "I long. Flowers and fruit
entirely those of P. obovata.— 5S. virosa, Baill. Adans. vi. 334, and several
synonyms given by Muell. Arg. l.c
eensland. Gilbert river, F. Mue hed Rockhampton, tier tet O' Shanesy ;
Bowen river, Bowman. — Common in many parts of East India
20. NEORGEPERA, Muell. Arg.
Flowers moncecious, in axillary clusters. Male fl. : kentn Mer
to the base into-5 or 6 petal-liké segments. Stamens 5 or 6, exserted,
surrounding a broad central irregularly-lobed disk or abortive pe E
anthers with 2 parallel cells, opening longitudinally in 2 valves. -
male fl.: Perianth deeply divided into s, narrower than. in the
male. Disk shortly lobed. Ovary 9-celled, with 2 ovules in each
cell yles 2, clavate or broad, undivided. Capsule globular,
rating into 3. 2-valved coriaceous cocci. Seeds ovate-oblong, slightly
compressed, any carunculus. ‘Testa. smooth and shining,
without any as cavity. Albumen Dens copious; embryo nearly
straight, with broad cotyledons —Shru es alternate, shori
petiolate, en coriaceous. ‘Flowers ^ni so small as in Secur
— much e i
The s is limited to iru de d Baillon reduces it to a section of Secur ine :
but ve A sn of the fruit and seed appears to differ far too much to sanction the union- —
tour elliptical-oblong,, mostly about 1 in. long. Sob elongated
. N. built.
Titres cunéate oblong o or almost st obovate, to Zin. long. St less short enti
broad and thi ck t di ng: fn . N. Banksü.
Neor&pera.] -CVIII EUPHORBIACEE, (OM
and narrower, shortly united at the base. Styles 8, rather long,
clavate-at the end but not pee tb die cb globular, about 3 lines
diamet ter.—Repera buxifolia, F. Muell erb.; Seeurinega Muel lisia,
Baill. Adans. vi. 333
Queensland. piióané: Creek, Bowman; Lizard island, ‘Walter. — Some speci- '
mens, also without flowers, from En deavour iei 4. itn ningham, and referred by him
to Sersalisia obovata, appear to belong to the s
2. N. Banksii, Benth. A twiggy aliod shrub of several feet.
eaves cuneate-oblong, very obtuse or emarginate, rarel mucronate,
ied slightly veined, 4 to gin. long. Flowers few in the
clusters, the males rather smaller an in N. buxifolia, and the stamens
not hi in our specimens, in which, however, the flowers are not
y
seen in fruit, which is the same as in N. buxifolia, except that the
styles are short and very broad. Seeds not seen quite ripe.—Phyl-
lanthus Banksii, A. Cunn. Herb.
Queensland. Sandy i north shore, Endeavour river, A, Cunningham,
21. HEMICYCLIA, Wight et Arn.
lowers dh euros Mal aint Perianth p 4 or 5 much
ment
male. clusters sometimes apparently forming a short raceme from
The genus contains but few species, dispersed over the East Indian Peninsula,
Ceylon, and the pester Archipelagy, Of the three Anitealiap species, one appears to
e the same as the commonest of the Indian ped the two others are endemic. All
"three are, however, vy lose allied to each other.
Alaikik ede much longer than the if bn anthers . 1. H. sepiaria.
y short; anthers twice as long, oblong, not exceed-
the
Oran e peria 2. H. australasica.
- Ovary moon Bm =: i and.
l. H. s W. & Arn.; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 487,
var. ? asi Ak ^A shrub of 6 to 9 ft, the young shoots minutely
as. - €VIII. EUPHORBIACEX. [ Hemicyclia,
posee thes adult foliage glabrous. Leaves petiolate, ovate-oblong
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous and shining when full-grown,
but most of iu on. the flowering specimens. still uns and mem-
ranous, finely veined underneath, 14 to 2l in. long. Male flowers
several together i in axillary clusters sometimes. growing out into short
e filiform pedicels — si lines -- Perianth-segments
4, broad, about 1 line long. Stam to 8 in the flowers examined,
inserted round a hollow disk, wi ith. the margin ads late. as. in. H.
australasica. No fe HHR specimens seen: of the Australian variety.
e bea ach, Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 746.—The species is
the narrower leaves as well as in the disk, but are probably a a variety on ; the stamens
are entirely those of A, sepiaria, and not of the two following species.
2. H. australasica, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 487. A spread-
ing tree attaining 40 ft., rarely reduced to a shrub, the young shoots
slightly pubescent, but soon becoming glabrous, sometimes rather
dn us, aves petiolate, from broadly ovate to Baer
giro fos "rif s of prin fumar Hen ne; lios pi ice Ro kin a
Bays, Dallachy ; Bordekin in F. Mu eller ; Cleveland Bay, Bow man; Kennedy
with longer narrower leaves a irec of 100 ft. Lord Howe's island, C. Moor
There are also among the Queensland plants specimens with narrow leaves, and others
with larger or smaller ome: which i in the P ies of male flowers I am unable to refer
with certainty speci
FE. er, and after lim “Baillon n, refer the whole species to the East t Indian H.
sepiaria, Wight and Arn. ; but t notwithstanding much general r oe it appears
to differ essentially in the stamens and in some minor particular
.H ogyna, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 119. A tree with the habit
a H australasica, but the leaves usually larger, 2 to 3 in. long, mem —
branous at the time of flowering, but ecoming coriaceous when "n
ruit. Flowers rather larger than in. H. austr alasica, the perianth- :
os mostly fringed or ciliate. Anthers large, oblong, on very |—
short filaments as in that x eee but often bearing a few hairs, and
the ovary pii gl We villous |
N. Australia. Ps Leichhardt Armstrong; Port Darwin, Schl
n. 700, 742 Acer d 692 (mal :
ee eee
Your. thoota and nndareide of the Jeaves t
the specimens seen.— B. ovata var.
Briedelia,| CVIII. EUPHORBIACEX, 119
22. BRIEDELIA, Willd.
s monccious, in axillary iUc or d: Male
Flow
‘Calyx deni divided into 5 segments, valva the bud, spreding
n in flower, Petals 5, scale-like, ober dé "spathülato, "s sm
lamina usually broad and dentate. Disk bro ad, with a entire
or slightly lobed margin. Stamens 5, inserted on a central T oliin
riz
2 ovules in each valk Pros distinct or connate at the ase, more or
less 2-lobed or nearly en Fruit a small berry or drupe, with a
succulent indehiscent Fa the deeem rather hard or crustaceous,
separating into 2 indehiscent cocci or pyrenes. Seeds usually solitary
in eac yrene, with a longitudinal furrow on the inner face;
tire, wi sa
veinlets prominent on bot th. sides. Stipules small. Flowers small,
or drupes ee red or "ead
The genus ree over the warmer regions of Asia and Africa. Of the four Aus-
tralian species, two are also Asiatic, the two others appear to be endemic.
Whole plant edis
Flowers few together. Male calyx-segments 1 line Ini Staminal
column not half so long as the filaments. Styles very short. . 1. B. exaltata.
owers in dense clusters, Male UD rS ents 4 line erm Sta- :
rus column nearly as long as the filaments. Styles rather pea
2. B. ovata.
escent
owers in dense clusters. Female ey Seen zi ne long . 3. B. tomentosa.
Flowers solitary or 2 or 3 together. Female ca y at least 1 line ^
NEC C20 s 4. B. faginea.
tata, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 39. A tree of 60 to 70 ft.
Dora
pert aboot Leaves shortly petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, acute or
tuse, with much more numerous primary veins than in
thin and spreading. Disk nolo Staminal column very kori
filaments at least twice as long. Berries black, globular, much on
than in B. ovata. Styles ilecdiaghy e but Hl is n in BO. Po
Xv. ii. 495; Amanoa ovata, Baill. rp ere vi. nx
120 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. { Briedelia.
N.S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler ; Richmond river, Herb. F. Mueller ; Tweed 1
river, ipei
2 to 4 in. long, the te priu veins uh more distant than in B. tomen-
e or nearly so, numerous in the ode and pre-
Jk
REP, rather larger than in B. tomentosa. Styles rather lo
tralia. Sims island, ‘North coast, A. Cunningham.—The eae is also —
in "Timor and Malacca, A. uus ngham's specimens entirely agree with those de-
scribed 2 piel from Tim
"with a rather thick flat fe. and entire margin. St aminal column
— the free part of the filaments about as long, radiating from the —
top of the column round the central abortive 3- to 5- lobed pistil.
= AE. bes on very short thick palios s. Calyx rather larger than
in the males and the petals more a Disk with a dou e margit
the outer one flat and entire or nearly so, the inner one for DAE a short
sd usually 5-lobed. Ovary "-
Mos 336. à
Australia. Victoria river, F. Mueller; Port Essington, Armstrong; Pot —
Pob, cmd n. 46, 101, 111, 166.
Queensland. Hoc cim; HEBES n
Var ss Fru Wood island, Gulliv
c e species is M in P EN India Md p» d PERS. extending northward to South —
ina
4. B. faginea, F. Muell. Herb. A tall shrub or email tree, the -
slender branches aud underside of the leaves tomentose-pubescent or at
h glabr Lea b 0
lengt es ovate or ection rer obtus almost
acute, 1 to 2 in. long, firmer than in omentosa, and on some branches
under 1 in. | and obovate or almos cu a [yon lanceolate.
Bracts small. Flowers closely sessile, po ae or 2 toge mostly
females in our specimens, but the males appear to be ei solitary:
Male calyx-segments rather broad, obtuse, scarcely above 4 line long.
UNE
Flower- vba gie mostly i in leafless titénrpt ted ferruginous ai^
Leav
-Briedelia.] .CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 121
.' fPetals entire or nearly so. p of B. tomentosa. Femalé calyx-
segments narrow and at least 1 line long, the inner disk large. Fruit
red, globular, fully 2 Mace vpe r, hard but not thick, separating into
2 cocci or —€— and ripening ale one a ti in each.—Amanoa a faginea,
i. 336.
Baill. Adan
Quee "We aiko Dallachy, Bowman ; Keppel Bay, Dallachy; Port
Dern, ts ge
' 23. CLEISTANTHUS, Hook. f.
Flowers moncecious, in sessile EL ey or in leafless spikes.
Male fl. : Calyx deeply divided into 5 lobes segments, valvate in the
pink spreading when in flower. Petals 5, stipitate or spathulate, iin
mall lamina usually broad and dentate. Disk broad with an en
or slightly lobed fr free margin. Stamens 5, inserted on a central pie mn
axis, a broad pbritithat rine: See s with a rather scanty pennis
cotyledons broad, " er thin, often more or less folded.— Trees or
rubs eaves al
not so prominent as in Briedelia ia, aret nts and ee far within
the mem the voinlets eotioalate, not transve
ae of
South Povia slanda; but the rnn ita "dice ndm m » all hen It m been
ma
culiar inflorescence, different from t E t of any other Australian Phyllanthee, and
. "approaching that of Amanoa, from which Cleist anthus like Briedelia differs essentially
sters.
in the valvate perianth, the structure of the seed, and other c
Fii 4 all axillary, small. Leaves mostly under 2 in.
tamens very shortly unite
Capsule stipitate, Leaves obtuse yids "ep put e Cunning
Ca ssile. Leaves mo: . Ca
s above 2in.long. Staminal column as long as the
Siekiai
pnta 1} lines long. Leaves green on both sides.
Capsu eg
Calyx-segments MEL 1 line long. , Leaves pale or r glancbus
underneath. Young capsule villou . 4. C. semiopacus.
3. C. Dallachyanus.
122 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEE. [ Cleistanthus, —
.. 1. C. Cunninghamii, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 506. A tall
shrub, quite glabrous or the young shoots slightly pubescent. -— a
petiolate, ovate-oblong or elliptical, rather thinly coriaceous, obtuse or
rarely obtusely and idis pred sapo mostly 14 to 2 in. lon oft P
= underneath. Flow n dense axillary clusters, sessile or —
nearly e
mens very aged united at the base. Female oa with a broadly 1
usually yon t 3
ninghamii, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 80; Amanoa Cunninghamii, Baill. —
eel vi. 335.
N. Australia? An imperfect specimen from Victoria river, F. Mueller, may be [
this species.
eensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, w Cunningham, Fraser, F. Mueller;
bra river, F. Mueller ; Rockhampton, Dallach 1
iS. hb nage Hastings river, aUe Becker: Richmond, Tweed, and Clarence 1
itle C. Moor i
This ome is pem to C. stipitatus, Muell. Arg., from New Caledonia, but the leaves E
are much less coriaceous, and 1t is readily distinguished by the densely villous ovary. ———
2. C. apodus, Benth. A straggling shrub or small bushy tree, 1
usually quite glabrous, nearly resembling €. Cunninghamii, but the leaves 1
more ovate, an ally acute or acuminate, the male flowers rather -
smaller, the ica ments varus above 1 line lon
Mi Cape York; M'Gillivray, Daemel ; Rockhampton Bay, Dallachy.
M c. Dallachyanus, Baill. in Herb. F. Muell. A enn tree,
Er
aa any foliage glabrous. Leaves ovate, obtuse or nidie freq
obtusely ac uminate, rounded at the base, rather thickly x
axils of floral leaves of 4 to 1 in., more frequently nearer together
from ; e abortion of the floral leaves forming more or les sad don ie
ee"
* pont indi seen ve
pertect, being much injured in our specimens by insects.
- Cleistanthus.] CVIII EUPHORBIAQEZ. 3193
1 pre (Baillon). Capsule closely sessile.— Amanoa Dallachyana, Baill.
- Adans. vi. 335.
1 a T 2:41 S cod 3 in $1 ys.) 1 ; n Brown; Rockhampton,
- Dallachy, Thozet.
. 0 :
_ Very short cup. Fruit depressed-globular, tridymous, nearly 3 lines
. diameter, ferruginous-villous or at length nearly glabrous.
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
E pu or the males rarely: without any. |
mbryo with broad cotyledons and a narrow radiele. Trees, shrubs,
or herbs, eaves usual) i
E often toothed. Flowers, a j
panicles, very rarely reduced to clusters. Stamens usually indefinite,
ew or many.
TRIBE 5. Croroneæ.— Flowers distinct, both sexes with
Ovules
1l. +- Caly.
Valvate in the bud. Petals as many and usually as long as the calyx-
road usually hairy receptacle or disk ; filaments free, inflected in the
bud below the anther, erect and usually exceeding the expanded
194 .CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. "[Oroton. —
stipi itate glands at t. the top of the petiole or base of the lamina. Stipules :
usually minute. Flowers ee clustered along the rhachis of ater- —
minal r Boe the bracts very sm
nus is a very large one, ex — over the pe eae of both the New 4 |
The g
and de ‘Old World. Of the seven Australian species ted by a distinct —
'variety in New Caledonia and another in the Fiji and Philippine Fislsnidá, the five ee |
"appear to be quite endemic.
Stamens not more than Yun Leaves penniveined, rarely i EOE
s larly 3-nerved at the base ^
AA eph clothed pre AMET with a stellate xd or
ilve
Female Bi nay 3 lins din male ed lline. Styles with 2
elongated bra HR 1. €. Schultzü.
Female calyx iei 1 line as well as the male ^
Sty mm th 2 rather broad branches . ena a « 2. C. insularis.
es with E. hir. ea iriran
"ss s all alternate Se a UD punc
All or nearly allop . 4. C. oppone
de on both sides witha a ae stellate tomentum . 5. C. somentellus
io pid prame or very sparingly sprinkled when young
wit te hairs or scales.
Leaves fier. thin. Stamens 10 to 12. Capsule globular, : a
scarcely í furro er 6. C. Verreauxn.
tamens 5 to 8. ` Capsule longer dans Eid
gotten scarcely furrowed . . C. acronychioides.
Leaves coriaceous. Stamens about 10. Capsule deeply 3 E
Y a Were at the to C. triacros.
Stamens 20 to 30 or more. Leaves broad, 5- or Tnerved at A
base, dis a garet , . 9. C. arnhemicus.
1. C. Schultzii, Benth. A shrub b of 8 to 12 ft., the he young bronta
imperfectly 3- or 5-nerved, 2 to 4 in. long, on a petiole
in our née Anis the upper surface hoary when young, s orinklod. when |
ll grown with a small scaly pubescence. Racemes short and dense, -
-with a thick rhachis, the upper part male, with a few female flowers? -
-the pri part, the darkie 5 exceedingly short. Male calyx-segments |
very , Obtuse, imbricate, about 1 line long. Petals rather broad.
dug "en ll, on a hairy receptacle. faits le cal -— 4
es lo ong. Styles 3, " united at the , deeply
divided into 9 ) nitber long entire bra :
N. Au ia. Port Da — , Schul cent single specimen). In the large
female ar this species resem les the pp na C. argyratum and the E. Jndian
tum and its allies, vA differs in the form of the leaves, the short racemes, |
inate female flowers, &c. z
2. C. insularis, Baill. Adans. ii. 917. A tall straggling shrub 0r
small tree, the branches inflorescence and underside of the ates :
-silvery-white or slightly reddish with a close scaly tomentum. Lesv9* :
ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, entire or scarcely sinuate, rounded or taper -
ing at the base, finely and often obscurely penniveined, the upp?"
“surface green, but sprinkled with a few small scales, mostly 2 to Jin
Croton.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACE Æ. 195.
long, on petioles of 1 to 4 in. Racemes 3 to 4 in. long, the upper por-
tion male, the female flowers occu g the lower cliisters, and otten
lor 2 with the males higher up, a s [an on HARE of 1 to 2 lines, length-
very slightly ul lic or almost valvate m sa out as long.
Stamens about 11; anther-connective rather broad. Female calyx-
osa was ns. oni eran oll 3 lines diameter.—Muell. Arg. in
d.
msland. Br m. i und, R. Brown; ie bane Moreton Bay, A. Cun-
eitgham, 2 Fraser, Leichhardt, F. Mueller ; Reckinghars "Bay Dal llachy "Burdekin
river, F. Mueller ; y Boskhampion, Thozet, Dallachy, and ot her! Queensland Woods,
London Exhibition, 1862, n
- S. Wales. Blue Mini Miss Atkinson; Breakfast Creek, Leichhardt.
3. ny phebalioides, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in. Flora 1864 (Oct.)
485, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 581, A tree attaining 40 to 50 ft., with
slender weak often pendulous branches, silvery-white as well as the
inflorescence and underside of the leaves with a close scaly tomentum.
. Leaves petiolate, lanceolate, or the larger ones ovate- de ceolate, and
_ the smaller ones narrow oblong, obtuse or almost acute, entire or
C. stigmatosus, F. Muell. ie Tiv: deb ac ov BEDS j
Lin nnæa xxxiv. 107, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 580.
Queensland. Burdekin river, fa a d Port Denison, Fitzalan ; Edgecombe
we Prep Rockharepton, Bow
es. Clarence and Richmond MEN Beckler.
Te species is also in New Caledonia. The original specimens of C. phebalioides,
E Mueller, fio the Burdekin, have — mostly obtuse — leaves, the primary
most
usually toothed Hv with 2 veins more prominent underneath; but in some speci-
oppon Muell. Herb, A single a in herb. F.
Mui: has the parse gh and indumentum of €. phebalioides, but the leaves
are all opposite, or nearly so, and the capsules on T peduncles of
2 or 3 lines are much larger, ovoid, nearly 3 in. long, densely villous
with short stellate. hairs, scarcely furrowed, and mostly 4-celled.
126 CVIII, EUPHORBIACEJE. [Oroton. —
oie isting under the capsule, of 5 broad imbricate MN Styles :
poe ently mg vi none of them perfect on the specim Jj
collector’s name and precise station not given. The :
a nganom elucidation from more vrai specimens. The o e leaves are.
pir a in the genus and may be accidental in the specimen, or the may Dee
to
xt to some other genus notwithstanding its close general wan end o0.
ioides.
C. tomentellus, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 141. A shrub, the smaller.
Pct foliage and inflorescence hoary with a short close pn
tomentum, nearly the same on both sides of the leaves. Leaves ovate,
broadly elliptical or ee pened Paw or shortly si aso entire,
2 to 4 in. long, on peti f $ to above 1 in. long, the glands at jus
base of the lamina Miu Suy stipitate acemes 2 to 0
long, UR one or more females in most the lower and middle
rec
(not very perfect in our Tum: seris divided into 2 bifid branches.
p str a river, F Muelle, one | probably the same species wrd the —
Boote in leaf T Cjcoelii ing Bay, N.W. Coa . Cunningha
..6. C. Verreauxii, Baill. Etud. P 357. A small tree, either ;
uite glabrous or the smaller branches and foliage sprinkled with a few
scattered st tellate hairs or scales, Leaves from almost ovate to oblong-
elliptical or lanceolate, obtuse or oaia entire or vi HH Mu
or tapering at the base, green on both sides, 2 to 4 in n most
specimens, but Are the wee ones twice that size, ithe nin
ry prit
ort i near wr lobular, variable in size, sprinkled with stellate hairs
ous. Mell. A bit in a Linnea xxxiv. 117, and in DC.
141.
oe pes m a de Gulf of cone R. Brown; Port Essington,
Armstrong; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. ag nd 680. In these specimens the oung
have more stellate hairs or scales, and the flowers are rather smaller and more
numerous than in the N. S8. Wales «ci Geena o ones. e racemes are in
specimens shorter in others longer and looser t ; ca
à risbane river, Moreton ber A. Women MES raser, F. Mueller,
Stuart,
N. S. Wales. Paterson's, Hunter, and Williams rivers, BR. Brown; Hastings
Croton.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEXE, 197
` Clarence, M'Leay, and Richmond rivers, Beckler, C. Moore, and others ; Tweed ri
oore; Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, -Woolls ; Illawarra, A, Cunn pe sr
Macarthur, Harvey.
e species is perhaps endemic in Australia, for the ey: ait island [rone
Hreig to it by Mueller aie appear to me to differ more from it than the C. levifolius,
ume, from the Atohipélags, Vhich veis Arg. retains as distinct. Possibly, how-
Pw they may all be varieties of one spec
C. acronychioides, F. Muell. Fragm, iv. 142. A shrub or tree,
the young shoots and inflorescence more or less sprinkled with a seal
tomentum, the adult foliage pea ly e, glabrous. Leaves shortl
somewhat ciliolate. Petals narrow, ciliate. Receptacle hairy. Stamens
5 to 8. Female Cahe ents above 1 line long and narrow. Ovar
densely hirsute. Styles road, divided at least to the middle into 2
mostly bifid branches. Capsule 5 lines long and about 4 lines broad,
; hut or less scaly. Seeds with a small carunculus,—Baill. Adans.
00.
. Queensland. Rockhampton and ding districts, Dallachy, Bowman, Thozet.
o
. 8. C. triacros, v Muell. Fragm. vi 185. A tree or shrub, quite
Liege or the young shoots and inflorescence "t sparingly scaly
| tose. Leaves vite or elliptical, obtuse or uide eee
: ecd or obscurely sinuate- -crenate, rather coriaceous, sm oth, penn
. veined, with fine and distant primary veins an cure réoeatine;
|. to 6 in. long or even more. Racemes domiti very short, but some
fruiting ones 3 or 4 in. long, often several together at the ends of the
ran ches, some entirely or nearly entirely male, others entirely or nearly
1 entirely female, Pedicels under 1 line long. Calyx-segments nearly
. lline long, imbricate in the bud. Stamens about 10. Styles rather
. deeply divided into 2 entire branches. Capsule es with stellate
. Scales, tridymous, obtusely 3-lobed at the top with a deep central
E depress ssion. Carunculus of the seeds very sm
. Queensland, Rockingham Bay, at ont
| “Bio. arnhemicus, Muell. in Linnea xxxiv. 112, and in DG.
| Prod. xv. iio 599. A rather enter shrub of 5 or 6ft., or a =
3 i "and so
1 prominently 5- or 7-nerved at the base, with pinnate ary an
. Wansverse secondary veins, 3 to 5 in. long and. nearly A briad, or
EJ
128: CVIII. EUPHORBIACEÆ®. [ Croton, —
aster on the side branches. Racemes 3 to 6 in. long, the flow em ;
u pper ones aie or entirely males. Pedicels varying from 1 to 3 in
hui. Pet ements broad, obtuse, rather above 1 line long, imbricate in kel
Petals scarcely lon er, ciliate-hairy. Stamens 20 to 30 or even
, on a hairy €—— e, the filaments glabrous. Bsyles divided to. -
the res into 2 lon gene entire or very shortly 2-lobed brago
g.5
rici drami not furrowed, hirsute with stellate hairs, fully 3 li
diam
Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Victoria ana Vite.
maurice rivers and Sea-range, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 48, 563, 68
Var. I prb Baill. Adans. vi. Pea Leaves more ovate and often ai Ue
ease 5-nerv Flowers rather sm :
; Pedir Port anis Schultz, n
Gne eensland. Cape k, M Gillivr vray; pe Denison, Fitzalan ; Edgecombe Bay,
Dallachy ; Gilbert edi poet :
25. ALEURITES, Forst.
glands. Stamens pre on a central Cea or disk without any :
rudimentary ovary; anthers erect in the bud, the cells e and.
esh h
globular, with a distinct outer somewhat cartilaginous coating, the.
inner coating bony; albumen oleaginous ; cotyledons broad, fat, v wi
a short narrow radicle.— Trees with a stellate t ontan ;
alternate, petiolate, large, entire or lobed. Flowers in WS a quur Í
the wae MA few, terminating the main branches |
A genu w species, natives of tropical Asia and the — islands. TM um
Poet acre vus is also widely spread over die. Archipelag
1l. A. moluccana, Willd. ; Muell. Arg. in DO. Prod. xv. ii. 728. A.
tree attaining sometimes a considerable size ize, the young foliage densely
full-grown. -
nate, rarely narrow-lanceo ate, entire undulate-crenate or 3-, 5i o
7- lobed, — nearly 1 ft. long and. broad but in herbaria sually:
4 to 6 in., 3-, 5- or 7-nerved, the primary veins pinnate with transverse :
«Spade veins as sis Croton rs numerous, in broad
rminal much-branched panicles, the pedicels short. Calyx tomentose
“aia usually in 3 segments, about 14 lines long. = Petals obovate
openi 3 lines long. Stamens 15 to 20, on a convex hairy rec eceptacle
Aleurites. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 129
2 branches. Fruit fully 2 inches diameter.—Jatro ka psoe doa , Linn. ;
Aleurites triloba, Forst., and several other synonyms, as given by Muell.
rs
= and. Ro Drs png: Bay, Dallachy. pecie spread over the E
Arc cem ud the islands of the South Pacific, and sent also from various eed
regions, where however it is generally plante
|
96. CLAOXYLON, A. Juss.
opening qos e from the apex d rM. Female fl.:
less tha bes divided than in Me males a 25 or 4 valvate lobes. Disk
ran
SEV RN Albumen copious. Cot lodong broad, with a narrow
ees or shrubs, glabrous or sparingly pubescent with short
appressed ia the foliage often taking a reddish tint when dry. Leaves
V petiolate, usually large, entire or toothed, penniveined,
Racemes solitary or 2 together, shorter than the leaves. Flowers
small, the males few together in ' clusters, the female solitary. Bracts
minute,
E ^ Th is spread over tropical Asia and Africa. The Australian species are all
bk endemio, but the characters are difficult to ascertain without good specimens
Leaves long and — on petioles under ind nig mone-
pth. on n pelicl s of a p de diri glabro 1... angustifolium.
- Leaves various, m petioles of $ to 1 Flow: nis ' dicecious or
nearly so oe A ke "under 2 finés. Totecstashitnal glands
gla
Racemes in the axils of l Ovary glabrous. Styles
pna " t the vei iens eerte is z 7 2. C. tenerifolium.
emes in th ils of full. le aves. ” Ovary jubescant: i
Styles es * axils o grown cave ue 3. C. australe.
E s a large on petioles of 1 to 2i in. Flowers dicecious, on very n
short pedi cels. Interstaminal gland and ovary pubescent . 4. C. Hillü.
LE LO. angustifolium, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 165, and in DC.
Prod. xv. ii. 780. A shrub of 5 or 6 ft., glabrous except a minute
. pubescence on the inflorescence. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, acuminate,
. irregularly toothed, tapering at the base, rather firm and smooth, 4 to
. 8 in. long and rarely above ‘Lin. broad, on a petiole of only 1 to 3 lines,
_ the basal glands very small, Flowers monaeiche in racemes of about
VOL. 5x K
130 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. | Claoaylon. :
Ovary glabrous or minutely pubescent ; ; pai A short, ’ tooth- z
like. Young capsule ritmi glaucous and inr g abrous, on a
. pedicel of above fin, i
TX al kart dag and Port Denison, Fétialan. TPY specimens in
enerifolium, F. Muell. in Baill. Adans. vi. 323. A tree of 20 to
ibabrodé Styles short; united at the base in a deciduous cone, sp
ing in the upper half. Capsule tridymous, nearly 8 lines diszetetild -
Mercurialis tonerifolia, Baill. Adans. vi. 323.
oie Rockhampton, prose pomi m Broad Sound and Cleveland |
rm wh rown, on both sides or rarel reddish- :
purple nadon Ae asal g Nads very variable. Flowers diœcious, —
the male racemes 2 to 3 in. lon ng, the females much shorter, the pedicels
ame
curialis australis, Baill. Adans. v
Queensland. Parti river, Moreton n Bay, A. Cunn TM Fraser, F. Mueller;
Port ore, A. Cunningham ; Wide Bay, Leichhardt ? tesan ens very bad).
. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Woolls, Miss Atkinson ;
Claoxylon. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 131
LB ydney woods, Macarthur, Paris Exhibition, 1855, n. 22; Hastings and SP
. rivers, Beckler and others ; 'New England, Ci Stuart; "eI to Illawarra, A. Cun
ningham, Harvey, Ralston
Var. “iy Leaves xs and broad.— Rockhampton, O' Shanesy, males only.
= Var. laxiflora. Leav s long and narrow. Racemes longer and looser with longer
joliseis oath ubl ed quid river, C. Moo
“Var. dentata. Leaves coarsely and do toothed.—Macleay river, Beckler.
C. Hillii, Benth. A tree of 20 to 30 ft., the young pers and
| irecene pubescent, the adult foliage glabrous, and often assuming
t pu ws Die e. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, entes i3 Fa 8 in.
broad on petioles of 1 to 2 in. n Hill's and
M'Gillivray's. 8 ion en little more than half that size in Dallachy’s,
and still very you ng aemel's specimens. Flowers dicecious.
Racemes in the upper al of the previous year’s wood or at the base
. Valvate segments. Stamens 219 to 20, the Aou glands ciliate-
hairy. Female racemes ee 2 in. lon the flowers not numerous,
Solitary within the bracts, on pedicels of about 1 ee Perianth of
short broad segments. Disk ft 3 broad distinct segments (or petals ?)
eter. Seeds glo obular, Ai oe a about 1 line diameter,
les.
. Queensland. Cape York, M'Gillivray, Daemel; Albany island, W. Hill (all
. males); Rockingham Pay, D Dallachy ( (females).—I am not certain of having correctly
. referred Dallachy's female specimens to the same species as "Hi D York males, or
3 nte on may not belong to some variety of C. tenerifolium or C. australe, with
| More p ent flowers and inflorescence. In the male flowers € (lio Vila appear to be
3 always g ghistoei in C. tenerifolium, ciliate-hirsute in C. Hillii.
27. ACALYPHA, Linn.
_ _ Flowers moncecious or rarely dicecious. Male fl.: clustered in axil-
. lary spikes, with a small bract under each cluster. Perianth of 4 valvate
. Segments. No petals or glands. Stamens 8 or rarely 8 to 16, inserted
9n a raised central receptacle, without any rudimentary ovary ; filaments
free; anther-cells distinct, en wavy or tortuous, attached by one
end. Female fl.: 1 to 4 together within a a leafy bract, the bracts
. Solitary or spieate. Perianth of = rarely 4 imbricate segments.
“trey with 1 ovule in each cell. cic fe distinct, finely branched.—
Shrubs or trees or in species e Australian herbs. Leaves alternate,
usually dentate. Flowers very small, the males and females in separa rate
near the base of the male spikes
A large genus dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions at eth the New
and the Old World. The three Australian species appear to be endemi
132 CMS CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Acalypha. }
Villous shrub. Lenves 1 to 3 in. long, ovate or broadly lanceolate.
Youle aod pis 1 or more at the base of the male spikes
or in separate ax 1. A, nemorum.
be or pe osea slender shrubs or trees. Leaves small,
ong.
Female flowering bracts sessile at the base of the males or in sepa-
“rate ae or if —— with abnormal deeply divided muri-
cate A. ale clusters approximate . A, eremorum.
Female Mooii bracts on filiform pe eduncles with normal cap- ;
sul Male clusters distant in filiform spikes . 8. A. capillipes.
1. A. nemorum, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 38, and in
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 858. vits shrub of from 3 or 4 ft. to twice that he ight,
2 ec shoots more or less softl ee the adult foliage sparingy
Mies Ve omer tan or oblo ol tise or scarcely a inate, —
ge :
in. to 1 in. long, those of the ateral gon smaller, on short -
tioles. Male des pug pedunculate, 1 to 2 in. long, the flowers —
in clusters of 10 to 15 or more, on saper d short pedicels, with a
pied axils, and bataati es several crowded in a short spike, each
within an bibita crenate bract, atthtnih E 4 in. diameter. —
Perianth-segments 3 or 4, very ‘small. ary UM Styles long
TU. with capillar fodit A, poeni Muell. Arg. in Linnea -
v. 95, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 861. ;
Queensland. Brisbane river, p Dm. ia^ A, Cunningham, Leichhardt, F:
y rief C. Stuart; Burnett river, F. Mueller; Wide Bay, B Bidwill :
Wales. Hastings and Clarence ri vem. Beckler and A Richmond river,
C. n New England, Techo rdt, C. Stu r
e species is exceedingly variable in the a mentum, sometimes very den: se and —
soft, re eao any, in the breadth of the leaves and length of the petii in
the female bracts few or many, crowded and clustered, or Uum arig a short interrupted :
2. A. eremorum, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 440, and in DC. P.
xv. ii, 863. A rigid shrub, with virgate or divaricate rather $
Acalypha.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 133
tA small and the capsule deeply divided into 3 muricate obovoid
Noni |
Queensland. Brisbane river, Fraser; scrub on the Burdekin, P. Mueller ; Rock-
Oh bres Dallachy.
3. A. capillipes, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in Lin v. 40, and in
DC. Es vd. xv. ii. 823. A tall shrub or small tree, oak divi dts erbes
branches, the smaller ones often acicular and spinescent, resembling the
spinescent specimens of A. eremorum, with which Baillon unites it as a
riet
t is more glabrous, the leaves rather broader and thinner, the
vv ikes filiform, with still s maller flowers in distant clusters, the
ER apparently all solitary on filiform Sedait of 3 to 1 in., wit
a normal orbicular bract of nearly 2 lines diameter, the capsule Rer
and tridymous but Kog cocci not deeply separate as in the pedunculate
fruits of A. eremorum, the Nd vid much more numerous capillary
branches than in that! spec
N.S. Wales. Clarence river, Bui.
98. ADRIANA, Gaudich.
(Trachycaryon, AZ.)
Flowers diccious, in terminal spikes. Male fl.: Perianth globular
and closed in the bud, opening in 4 or 5 valvate segments. No petals
central receptacle, without any rudimentary _ovary ;, A/aments., very
short ; anthers M éreet the cells adnate, IE , opening Hr
ill
Testé crustaceous. bumen copious. Cotyledons flat, much broader
than the radicle.— Erect shrubs, glabrous or stellate-tomentose. Leaves
alternate or opposite, 3- or 5-nerved, coarsely toothed and often 3-lobed.
ale spikes usually rather long and interru ted, the flowers sessile in
clusters of 3 to 6 in the axil of an ovate or anceolate bract. Female
spikes usually very short and dense, sessile or very shortly pedunculate
within the last leaves.
The g very closel allied to each
other, and d night easily te Erev w E acin. 5 F.M Mueller beg end
: pe these might be united in a single one, for which he proposes Pie name o
Leaves 2l or nearly all sensi on rather long petioles. (Each
es glabrous or tomen
Leavi ve or their middle lobe epe Ur" often E
acuminate. les free, emt longer than the rat e. es
Eastern or tr "d species 3 1. A. acerifolia.
$
134 CVIII: EUPHORBIACEZ. [ Adriana, —
Leaves deeply 3-lobed, Be middie lobe oblong or ovate-oblong, |
+ obtuse, not acuminate. es free any exceeding the cap- Mie.
sule. North-western Ra Western speci 2. A. tomentosa.
Leaves oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, rarely lobed. ‘Styles . :
. Shortly united at - base. Deserts specie e 8. A. Hookeri.
4. A.qua
b. A. pori
A. acerifolia, Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 971. A rather coarse
iani ^ed 9 or 4 ft. , usually hoary or white rudi a „stellate tom a
obtuse. Seeds smooth.—Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 890; Baill 4
Adans. vi. 312; 4. Srey ne Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 1i 1
Trachycaryon myosin ; Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 19, and 4
in Hook. Kew Journ. viii. 209
N. Australia. RAE and Fia rivers, F. Mueller 3
d. Maranoa and Balonne rivers, Mitchell ; Rockhampton, Dalach, 1
mre North Kennedy district, Daintree ; ur eton Bay, C. Stuart. 3
: Hunter, Paterson, and Williams rivers, R. Brown ; Port J
he "ie Atki an rive
Darling river to Cooper's Creek, Nielson ; New England, C. Stuart ; Mount a
Peel and Namoi rivers, C. Moore; Hunter river, Backhouse; Hastings river, Bechler. 3
Victoria. Snowy and Buchan rivers, F. Mueller. :
Var. glabrata. piger po a so in all its parts.—A. glabrata, Gaudich. in 1
Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, 3, and d Freyc. Voy. Bot. 487.—A few specimens froni 3
Quénisisili N.S. Wales, - Victori q
923, and in Freye 1
. A. tomentosa, Gaud. in Ann. Sc. Ni
Vis oF Bot. 487, t. 116. A shrub of 2 to 4 ft Su AE allied to 4. aote.
rifolia, - uiid with it by F. Mueller. It is also similarly y
the whole leaf Baias above 2 in. pens tefie as in A. aceri oli
iater longer and the styles shorter and thicker. Capsules larger D 3
seeds as far as known, with a pitted testa.—Muell. Arg. in DC. Pr
E CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 185
ii. 891; acerifolia z puberula, Muell. Arg. l.c.; A. Gaudichaudi,
Baill. "Mans v vi. i 312 amm y)
tralia. N. t: Carew ri river, A. Cunningham ; Depro ge Bynoe;
Nichol B Bay and De aa river, on Ridley s Expedition ; Point Larrey,
W. Australia. Sharks Bay, e Denham ; Port Gregory rg Murchison
river, yon
. A. Hookeri, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 891. A glabrous
or minutely tomentose shrub, more slender than A. acerifolia. Leaves
alternate or here and there opposite, petiolate, oblong or oblong-lanceo-
late, obtuse, Hen toothed and 1 to 13 in. long, or a few of the larger
ones 3-lobed with the central lobe like the AiO Pda and j^
lateral ones short and broad. Flowers fewe cerifolia,
shorter spikes, the females often solitary, the anh al heirs
smaller than in that species. Styles shortly united at the base, more
slender than in A. tomentosa, not so long as in A. acerifolia. —Trachyca ryon
Hookeri, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 16, and in Hook. Kew
Journ. viii. 210.
Victoria. Murray river, F. Mueller; North-west districts, L. Morton ; Wimmera,
Dallachy.
4. A. quadri partita, Gaudich. in Freye. Voy. Bo d hs A shrub of
2 to 6 ft., quite glabrous in all the specimens seen. es all A
sessile or very shortly Lie peate ovi mecaht or o T
acute or obtuse, coarsely toothed, ved at the
2 in., rarely 3 in. long.” 8 kia short Laid few flowered as
and the styles Miles united at the base. Capsule ot! ais
. Stellate-hairy or peers muricate. Seeds smooth. DC.
Prod. xv. ii. 892; Croton quadripartitus, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. "23, t
223; Trachycaryon Bild tM in PI. vem i. 175; Adriana
Billardieri, Baill, Etud. Euph. Atl. 6, t. 2, f. 19 to 20.
Victoria, Port Phillip, R. Brown, Gunn, e; 7 cus Otway, Herb. Hook.
oe
a ière.
i alia. Point Henry near the sea, wp towards Cape Riche, Drum-
Dg "m coll n. 224 and 225, and in Herb. F'. Muell. 239; Esperance Bay, Maxwell;
.. Swan river, Preiss, n. 1206, Oldyield ; Port Geen: Oldfie eld.
= 9. A. Klotzschii, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 899. Magen of
3 to 4 ft., with the opposite almost sessile leaves of A. quadripartita, of
Which it may be a variety distinguished by the leaves, white-tomentose
. underneath, the female perianth-segments epe ete more obtuse, and
the styles longer and free from the base as in erifolia.— Trachycaryon
- Klotzschii, F. Muell. in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vie. d "ib, and in Hook. Kew
. Journ. viii. 309.
i F. Mueller
The pers e. M. ONA aai Port Lincoln, R. Brown; Rivoli Bay, Robert-
Son; Encóunter Bay, Whittaker; near Adelaide, F. Mueller, Blandowski; Port Lin-
coln, Wilhelmi; Venus Bay and Kangaroo island, Waterh ouse.
136 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZE., [ Alchornea.
29. ALCHORNEA, Swartz.
(Cladodes, Lour.; Celebogyne, J. Sm.)
Flowers one » rarely moncecious, in terminal or axilla
racemes or spikes. Male fl.: Perianth globular and closed in the bud,
opening in 4, rarely 3 or 2, valvate segments. No petals or glands. -
Stamens 8 or more, rare "ir 4, in the bodie of the flower, without any
No disk (except in one ë Mile P apatie). var
with 1 ovule in each cell. Er diis or 2-branched, free or shortly
connate at the base. Capsule separating into 2-valved cocci. See
without any carunculus. Testa crustaceous. Albumen copious. Coty-
` ledons flat, much broader than the radicle.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves |
a cdg sonra Long y toothed or in Me species almost lobed, -
bia nds on the under side at the base of the lamina.
The gen ese ver d tropical regions of both the New and 2s ee orld.
Veg number of its species have been proposed by various botanists às “distinct n
ge a enumerated by er Arg. as irio nyms. Amongst necs in uniting them, :
e has selected Swartz's name as the oldest. Baillon has for reason n
ve, substituted Loureiro's name Cladodes, which, however, is two: yeshi more recent. -
o Australian species are endemic
Leaves coriaceous, with broad ME iae -pointed lobes. Styles
short, broad, spreading flat on the top of the ovary . 1, A. ilicifolia.
Leaves "thin, with dite or shortly eun Meth. Styles erect,
narrow, connate at the base . A. TThozetiana.
l. A. ilicifolia, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 170, and in DC. Prod.
xv. ii. 906. A glabrous straggling everg shr ub, attaining 12 to -
15 ft. Leaves ovate or rhom vidal broadly diüsbidporied or shortly -
lobed, the teeth or lobes terminating in prickly points, coriaceous, pen-
nive ined and reticulate, resembling those of a holly, 14 to 3 in. long;
ale peria x .
ing the perianth. Female flowers on thick pedicels of A to 1 line, the
ianth-segments rather peri than in thA male 8. ary 3-celled, :
Cladodes ilieifolia, Baill, Adans.
Queensland. Brisbane river, ainean ae P iaaiiai, F, Mueller ; Rock-
hampton, Dallachy, O’ Shanesy, Bowma p
AU NO NETT NET E E MEER NIE MS S ESTER AIRE Ng PEREAT EM
<
Alchornea.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEX. 137
. S. Wal Cabramatta, Woolls; northward to Clarence, Hastings, and Mac-
23 rivers, gripes Aig M to Illawarra, Harvey; Sydney woods, Paris Exhibi-
won, 1854, T,
The s shrub, uiii b id parthenogenetic properties, havin reproduced itself from
seed in Europe ean gardens through several generatio P from fem AS ants alone without
the intervention of any tale owers, has been the subject of Paves B ors y
Caspary, Karsten, A. Braun, wee A others in ish sn ded very
little to the facts detailed by J. § u oi y e
n th oir.
rlin M observed that the seeds ie cccasionll two por ian n nited a
jn BÀ a whieh hl
4 A. Thoz een Baill. in Herb. F. Muell. A glabrous shrub of
2t Lea in the typical form, ovate obovate or rhomboid;
sharply toothed, "but the teeth more numerou s less deep and not so
basal glands often obscure and sometimes deficient. Stipules, also in
the typical form, very small and subulate as in A. i
ers u male racemes terminal, 9 to 4in. long, the
Howers distant. Perianth une ually 4- or [OX the lobes acute,
'$ to
line long. Ovary usually 3-celled. Styles short, erect, narrow
ut flat, shortly united at the base. Capsule ir ous about 4 lines
diameter.— Cladodes Thozetiana, Baill. Adans. vi. 321.
Queensland. Rockhampton, Thozet.
Var. longifolia. Leaves 3 to 4 in. long, acuminate, the teeth obtuse or with very
small points. Stipules setiform, the upper ones sometimes 2 line a Female
racemes and fruits as in the typical form.—Rockingham Bay, Dolo
30. TRAGIA, Linn.
Flowers moncecious, in terminal or lateral racemes. Male fl.: Perianth
globular i in the bud, of o = or 3 valvate segments. Disk none or with
a slightly prominent margin. Petals none. Stamens numerous or few,
the filaments free or erint sometimes very short. Anthers dorsally
attached, the cells parallel, opening ap amit in 9 valves. Rudi-
mentary. ovary none or small and obscure. e fl. : Perianth of 6
or fewer, rarely 7 or 8, imbricate segments, iie: or pinnately divided.
Ovary 3-celled or rarely 4- or 5-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Styles
rect Capsule
n
separating into 2-valved cocci. Seeds globose, without any carunculus.
don
Testa crustaceous. Albumen copious. Cotyledons flat, much broader
radic i
liio
nate, petiolate, toothed, often cordate, 3- or b-nerved. Flower small,
9
part of the raceme, all usually solitary in the axil of a sma
The genus is spread over the tropi ical and subtropical regan 2 z both the m and
the Oid World. ‘The T Australian species appears to be en
138 CVIII. EUPHORBIACE E. [ Tragia.
l. T. Novz-hollandis, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 180, and in
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 999. A twining herb, attaining several feet, more or
di
gemcebuncuis usually 6, more acutely acuminate than the males,
ut imbricate in the bud, at least 1 line long. Styles 3, erect, and
connate to above the middle, recurved at the end and entire. Capsule
Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Brown, Bowman; Brisbane river, Moreton Pay,
A. Cunnin ham, Leichhardt, F. Mueller; Logan river, Fraser; Rockhampton,
chy, O' Shanesy, Bowman, Thozet ; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy.
Like most species of the genus, this plant is noted by O'Shanesy as “ stinging like
the common Nettle.” On Dallachy’s labels, however, I find the memorandum “ does
not sting like a Nettle.’ Whether there be a mild variety, or whether it loses its
stinging properti ccasions, or whether there has been some error on the
es on some o
part of Dallachy remains to be ascertained
31. MALLOTUS, Lour.
(Rottlera, Roxb. ; Echinus, Lour.)
FI
lary racemes or spikes. Male fl.: Perianth globular and closed in the
o
Female fl. : Perianth more or less deeply 3- to 5-lobed. or minutely
toothed and at length spathaceous. Ovary 2- or 3-celled with 1 ovule
in each cell. Styles free or very shortly united at the base, spreading,
undivided, the upper or inner stigmatic surface fringed with raised
papille or processes. Capsule separating into 2-valved cocci. Seeds
.
usually solitary within each bract and more pedicellate,
[ORE a
Mallotus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 139
The genus is generally feed over tropine Asia and Africa. Of the nine Australian
Species four are als so more rless genera
i the spec
aE AAN nd for ie sea-urchin, Baillon pime the other name, but rias pot e for
wha
eoe (m (mal) fai arr gett ih A ar MRTE Capsules
Leaves Soi Node Erpen terminal. Capsule
processes long and soft.
Tomentum of the plant soft and loose. Capsules very
densely echinate with long crowded rt esses . 1. M.ricinoides. — -
Tomentum close and white. Capsules echinate with fewer
day p rol yr 8808.
Racemes axillary. Capsule processes setiform 3. M. zar inso
Author dalla’ centrally attached to a small connective. Caps
omentose, without processes
inal.
Fio dome
AA a or ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long. Capsules
RM) -celled.
Leaves mostly alternate, fincas tomentose underneath.
Capsules with a red to “i M. philippinensis.
jones slieranie green ^s glabrouson on both sides, v without
mall glands. nai tomentose . 5. M. angustifolius.
6. M. polyadenus,
Loaves s broadly ovate. rhomboidal. "Capsules. mostly 2-celled,
he to: 7. M. repandus.
Racemes or interrupted spikes simple, axillary at the base of
e youn
ge umi; rioa the transverse veinlets rene
underneath
Lead ovate and acute or ‘ovatelanceolate, ` white ander :
eath, the veins fine . . . 9. M. discolor.
ea
M. nesophilus.
i, = ricinoides, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 187, and in’ DC.
Prod. xv. ii. 963. A tall ane or spreading tree, more or less clothed
with a Salute often floccose tomentum, s wearing off from the
leave
as on the branches and inflorescence. Leaves xà! ovate or orbicular,
acuminate, entire or slightly sinuate, either peltately attached near the
base, or the petiole quite basal, 3 - 5- or 7- nerved, with 2 glands near -
| : m
ovary. Styles 3, tomentose outside, densely fringed ai labrous on
the inner or upper surface. Capsules very densely covered with long
140 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Mallotus.
jin. or more in diameter.—Croton ricinoides, Pers. y . ii. 586;
C. mollissimus, eise : Crot. Monogr. 73; Echinus mollissimus, Baill.
Adans. vi. 316; Mallotus pycnostachys, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 138, and
M. Waa Aie of " Muell. Le. 189, and numerous other synonyms quoted
by cieli
Queen kingham Bay, Dallachy; Mount Elliott, s aus —Extends
also over the E asters Per. ce to the Philippines and South Chin
Persoon's and Geiseler's specific names both bear the same date, 1807. Mueller Arg.
of Pera as former under ihe vimpain, that it was a year older , but 1806 is the date
2. M. paniculatus, Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 189, and in DC.
Prod. xv. ii. 965. A tall dard au. r small tree, the Wires
inflorescence and underside of the leaves white iie ferruginous with a
short close stellate sometimes almost scal Leaves on long
pe boi
or obscurely si sinuate or rarely lobed, not peltate,
dicecious, in terminal broadly pyramidal oue s of Gin. to 1ft., the
males clustered along the branches, the HR soley, within each
bract, all on very short e Male Mire nth-segments about 1 line
long. nthers small, wit road connective as i ricinoides.
emale perianth rather ‘oho than the male, usually 5-lobed with
acute or acuminate lobes. Styles much shorter than in M. ricinoides.
Capsule 3-celled, 3 to 4 lines diameter - sgg and muricate with
soft closely-tomentose processes, which are few and distant from eac
other, not densely covering the whole Mipaite as in M. ricinoides.—
roton paniculatus, Lam. Dict. ii. 207; Mallotus chinensis, Lour., and
other synonyms quoted by Muell. Arg. le.
ki aghem Bay, CSPMES —Extends over the Eastern Archipelago
to the Philippines and S. Chi
. M. clao: qucm e Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 192, and in DC.
Prod. xv. ii. 972. tall strageling etes or small tree, or sometimes
a handsome tree (Dattachy), ^ e branches and foliage deabtbet with
satisorbd stellate hairs. aves opposite, but those of each pair often
bi s petiolate, -€— ovate or elliptical and acuminate, but
a m ong to almost orbicular, 2 to 6in. long,
kms or acute, penniveined and often more or less distinctly 3-nerved
at the base, green on both sides, with 2 or more glands near the
base sometimes almost obsolete. Stipules rigidly setiform, short.
Flowers dicecious, the males sessile or ern pedunculate in 2 or 3
dense clusters collected in a head or in @ short dense or — in-
terrupted axillary b mes 2 females 3 bee 6 together in an umbel-like
cluster on a common peduncle of 4 to 1 in., the pedicels at first short and
eis but attaining under he fruit the length of the peduncle. E
rianth-segments about 1 line long. Stamens numerous, the anthers
Mallotus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEX. 141
small with a broad connective as in M. ricinoides. Female periensonsnge
ments lanceolate, attaining 2 lines under the fruit. Styles rather
short, densely fringed on the inner hor. Capsule 3-dymous, Rec jin.
iameter, muricate with rather rigid setiform processes.—Zchinocroton
claoæyloides, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 32; ZEchinus claoxyloides, Baill. Adans.
i. 915; oases affinis, Baill. Etud. ci 424,
Quee Brisbane teh Moreto weed Fraser, W. Hill and F. Mueller, C.
rcge Tockhampton, Dallachy ; Wide Bay, B idl, ‘Lizard isan A Cunningham
. S. s. Archers Dr Leichhardt ; b. F. Mueller.
if T. ficifo eins Baill. Leaves broader, often es and 3- or Tauro entire or
este toothed. Male flowers lar rge.—Rockhampton, Dallachy, Bowman.
acrophylla. orsi itt ovate, acuminate, 4 to 8 in. long, usually 3-nerved
at de base. Stipules longer.— m Bay, Dallachy.
o DRP Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 196, and i
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 80. A tree often acquiring a capa A size, the
branches and inflorescence more or less ferruginous-tomen Leaves
on long petioles pews vate taiibentets or almost ovate peter: or
obtuse, entire, contracted or rounded and 3- hervel at the base, 9 to
in. lon ng, more coriaceous than in the preceding species, the upperside
glabrous, with obscure glands near the Das. the under surface pale or
ferruginous Das a minute tomentum, i principal veins ferruginous
tomentose. Flowers dicecious, the racemes terminal or in the upper
axils, the males more branched than the females, all much shorter than
e leaves Male perianth-segments membranous, about l
Filaments short, anthers rather large, the cells attached in the centre
a short connective often tipped with a red gland. Female perianth
yles
oblong, densely fringed on the inner face. Capsule tridymous, 3 to
4 lines. diameter, covered with a red stellate tomentum without any
processes. Seeds nearly globular.— Croton philippinensis, Lam.. ict. i1.
206 ; Echinus Pon an Baill. Adans. vi. 314; Rottlera tinctoria, Rox
Pl. Corom. ii. 36, t. 168, and other synonyms quoted by Muell. Arg. Le.
Queen Bris river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. Mueller ; zm
Bay, Bide mille Pine river, gode Bbckhüniptus, Thozet; Rockingham and Edge
ag Bays, Dallach
S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Fete C. Moore, and others;
oihan woods, N. S. Wales, London Exhibitio n, 186 02, n.
The species is = wr over tropical Asia, cade eae to South China.
pe
varying in the d" ohabter from under pib above lin. lon
blong“elliptioal o or ipee lanceolate, acuminate, slightly and dde d
dentate, 4 to Sin. long, and rare in. bro , rather ri nni-
2g
142 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Mallotus.
Male perianth Pani into 4 lobes. Stamens numerous ; anther-cells
a aie dorsally by a connective shorter than themselves. F
nth of 5 im eae. acute segments. Ovary villous, 3-celled. Styles
tmited at the base, spreading a ‘and bifid, but not lon ae Capsule tri-
ymous, tomentose, not muricate, above '4 lines diamete
Queensland. Bikiiglid Bay, Dallachy.
infloresc Leaves either opposite and unequal i ay air
nS shortly petiolate, oblong elliptical or ovate- Mie
obtuse or acuminate, coriaceous and sometimes shining above, covered
3 to Gin. long, penniveined, and sometimes 3- or 5-nerved at the base,
the 2 to 4 glands of the upper surface very uncertain or obsolete.
Flowers sometimes moncecious, but the two sexes in gritos spikes or
emes, and usually on different A Hn ns, the racemes 1 to 4i
long in the forks or upper axils, or forming a lonkin panicle. Male
flowers clustered, the pa ‘arly 1 line long. Filaments short.
Anther-cells attached to a small connective. Female flowers solitary
within the bracts, on pid idole at first pm but lengthening to 2 or
3 lines. Periant h divided nearly to the base into very small segments
not enlarged basin ki fruit. Styles recurved and closely appressed to
the ovary, the inner or u ord surface very shortly fringed-papillose.
Capsule arii, "aliut 4 lines diame ki glabrous except a few of
the scale-like glands of the rest of the plan
Queensland. Cape York, W. Hill; boim Bay, Dallachy.
7. M. repandus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 197, and in DC.
Prod. xv. ii. O81. A large tree, the young bra ai inflorescence and
seat of the leaves softly stellate-tomentose, with longer hairs
often rmixed. Leaves on rather long petioles, broadly ovate
rhomboi vidal or almost orbieular, acuminate, entire or obscurely sinuate-
toothed, 2 to 4 in. bd slightly peltate, $- or rarely 5-nerved at the
insertion of the petiole, the flat glands of the upper surface obscure OF
Mercer the minute v glands of the underside almost concealed by the
mentum, darker and more glabrous above. Flowers dicecious, i
es o ^
Boklesijten and poen m Day, altes hy.—The species is also
i sns y
widely spread in tropi ical Asia. e Aust re all males; they
better with the tomentose ones from the [mn tnd To Peninsula, than with the more -
glabrous ones from Timor and Nev Caledonia
-
Mallotus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 143
8. M. nesophilus, F. Muell. ; Muell. Arg. in t binge xxxiv. 196, a
in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 981. A tall shrub, the branches inflorescence wv
Um d of the leaves whitish or d SERM V with a close
al
petioles, 3-nerved or obscurely 5-nerved at the base, the oper surface
very sparingly tomentose or at length glabrous, with 2 at glands, the
under surface minutely landular, the primary veins and transverse
reticulations prominent. Flowers dicecious, in single racemes in the lower
of young shoots, the males 2 to 3 in. long, Tia clustered flowers
e
N. Australia. Islands of the North coast, Hines. yf its Port Darwin, Schultz,
n. 881; Port "ELA ANEN S : ee a Bay, liver.
Queenslan Albany island, ape X ar Daemel (with longer male
' pedicels); Caps! Flinde ers, A, Cunni
9. M. discolor, F. Muell. A tall tree, the branches inflorescence and
tinderside of the leaves white with a short close tomentum, with more o:
less of longer hairs on the principal in underneath. read on rather
and fruits unknown.—Rottlera discolor, F. Muell. in Coll. Ngee
Woods N.S. Wales Lond. Exhib. n . 82; Macaranga mallotoides
F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 140.
gr A d O'Shanesy; Moreton Bay, iud woods,
. . Queensland
1 reme Behn, 1862, n
n. r^
Cla: arence or Mountain brush forests, London Exhibition, 1862,
This plant is reduced by F. Mueller, Fragm. vi. 185, to a variety of M. repandus
from which, however, as "dip the specimens go, it appea: s. be. Sedet dir distinct.
t ppa, however, remain doubtful until the A a are
re known. 8. vi. 3 >
y Teles , but he had probably mes seen the "Exhibition speci-
mens, which | had no flowers.
144 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Macaranga.
382. MACARANGA, Thou.
(Mappa, A. pes
ikes racemes or d pales Male fl.: Perianth globular and closed in
t in 3 or 4 ee Apis dn o petals or glands
Stamens inlefnite, usuall numerous, on a central iti without
into a spath r 3-celled, wit vule in each cell.
Styles free or MURUS uated at i the base, undivided, eS papillose
or fringed with processes on the inner surface ' separating into
uc i
ee ves alternate, Me yani broad and often large, entire
toothed or poem often peltate or 3- ore nerved at the insertion of
e petiole but sometimes peniiveiied ithal lateral nerves. Male |
flowers clustered along the rhachis or branches of the inflorescence, :
sessile or very shortly pedicellate, with an entire toothed or
bract under each cluster. Female flowers in fewer clusters and few in.
the oleate" or west the bract usually Digor than in the male, and -
often fringed or ciliate i
S e Eas :
part of East India d 8. China, the other T enne is lel = )
Mallotus, ripe most species mri in habit, uae some have a different fe wo
perianth, or 'fewe r stamens, or the ovary reduced to is single sal and ovule, ‘but the only .
constant be | is that of the det
Leaves oblong elliptical or lanceolate, teo veter i scarcely
jare at ehe s. racts very small and e
orescences including the peduncle Agora 1 "E Oy. not ;
a 2- ew Am nem 1. M. Dallachy.
he d ith n a
Female perianth bbs lanceolate, free . . 2. M. subdentata. ;
t :
inute scales. Female dier usually spathaceous 3. M. inamena.
Tieni mure terea alminerve rel as long as or longer
wee the rest : and toothe hed or frin
eaves slig cd peltate. Stir ules belts: Ovary 1- or 2- :
— oo r . 4, M. involucrat |
tat l -i
Lt eep y pe e. _ Stipules es broad. _ Ovary usually 5 5. M. Tamariut-
1. M. Dallachyi, F. Muell. A shrub variously described as T
and straggling or tall, glabrous except a small scaly tomentum ere
inflorescence and young branches. aves elliptical or oblong, 8€"
minate, penniveined, usually with a few depressed glands on the m
E js
Macaranga.| CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 145
rare y in 2 lobes. poe. 2-celled, ed i A without processes.
Styles linear, thickened at the base, not (roges, rather Sel a hon
1 line long.—Mallotus Bellach, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 184;
14,
: . Queensland. Roc lii bay, Dallachy.—The pala examined by Baillon
had fione flowers o itn but with them were loose male flowers and remains at ues
which belong probably i Mallotus polyadenus, thence Baillon’ s mistake in
M. Dallachyi to Mallo
_ 9. M. subdentata, Benth. A shrub or small tree, ee rie i
. a minute scaly tomentum on the inflorescence and y oung shoo
sinuate-toothed or y almost entire, penniveined, green on bot
but paler underneath from the minute scales they are more or
less covered with, 3 to 9 in. long, o tioles varying from 1
shorter than the leaves, bearing 2 to 5 flowers, of which 1 or 2 sessile
BOO
. lanceolate segments scarcely 1 line long and quite distinct from the
_ base. Ovary and capsule usually 2-celled, scaly-tomentose and shortly
Pos Styles filiform, scarcely thickened at the base, often above
$ mm ng.
ensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—Ve ar M. inamena, with which
EI Di probly c eti es it in the specimens of F. ellas vollecton first examined.
d aving returned them I received the specimens now described, which appear to
s dw. be too ip rh in the female perianth as well as in the ing to bo? he ft as a mere
The two forms, however, require further comparison in both se
3. M. inamoena, F. Muell, A tall shrub or small tree, the branches
: foliage and inflorescence scabrous-pubescent, the short hairs nomoi} or
irregularly stellate. Leaves oblong or narrow-elliptical, acumina:
entire, penniveined, green on both sides, the small glands underneath
few an scattered, 3 to 5 in. po on a petiole of 4 to 1 in m e spikes
in the upper axils. or r at the ends of the } ches, 2 to
4 in. long, the flowers clustered whi small broad densely. tomentose
bracts, the clusters at 1 engh distant along the rhachis th-
Segmen ut ł line lon tamens 2 peduncles
axillary or lateral, elongated, be ie aring Poem mes 3 pedicellate flowers
at the end with another occasionally lower down, sometimes dichoto-
mous with 1 to 3 fl the of in. br Pedicels at first
very short, b lengthening to from 3 to 1 in Perianth of 4 or 5 narrow
Tin ear segments 1 to 2 lines long, united in La spath aceous calyx splitting
: “pt on e ps (or rarely in the uppermost flower separate ^ Ovary.
OL
146 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. [ Macaranga,
and capsule ena 2-celled Med 3-celled, echinate. Styles long and l
slender, thickened at the bas attaining sometimes 5 lines.— Mallotus
ina “a Herb.
Queensland. Hockingham Bay, Dallachy.
4. M. involucrata, Baill. Etud. Euph. 482. A tree attaining some- —
times 50 to 60 ft., but often small and straggling, the branches in
florescence and underside of the leaves softly p ahesient, Tentes broadly :
ovate-rhomboidal, acuminate, entire or slightly sinuate and denticulate, —
usually — peltate, 3- 5- or 7-nerved, with 2 to 4 flat glands on
upper to ong an sometimes as broad, on a petiole of 2 to
in. Stiga ules Pa o Male spikes in axillary panicles not much
branched and shorter than the leaves, the flowers almost sessile, in
dense clusters within an oblong or ovate toothed bract of about 2 lines. |
Perianth-segments about 2 line lon ,villous outside. Stamens 10 to 15. -
Female as NER e simple or nearly so, the eduncle ssilliay or lateral, |
shorter e leaves, with a single pata qot several distant clusters. —
Bracts en epi ovate or cordate, acute, toothed, often 4 in long. Perianth —
sessile, short, broadly and obliquely cup-sha ped. Ovary 1- or 9-celled, —
more or less ‘muticate — soft —— Styles. J! or 2, long, ms
xv. li. 101124 Urtica involucrata, Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 592; r
mallotoides, F. — Fragm. iv. 189; M. asterolasia, F. Muell. Y c. 140, ;
Baill. Adans. vi. 317. a
I sep Endeavour river, A. Cunningham ; Port Molle, M i :
ingham Bay and Mount Elliott, Dallachy; Cape York, Daemel.—The species Hor
the pone Archipelago, but not in emn except as pecie p^ the Calcutta -
Muell. Arg. in ps. Prod. xv. ii. 997. A tall erect i
long peti
veinlets. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4 in.
membranous margins. Male panicles often much Nac ido but sho
than the leaves, the flowers pedicellate in the clusters. Bracts ova
segme Female peduncles simple, bearing few
Miam ee gay cup-sha a Bracts ip peu
: ed : Ms long, yir Ade vary muricate with glabrous entire
rocesses. Styles irah long, papillose or shortly fri
Ca m9 3-celled, éoniibas, shortly and sparingly muricate, 95
ines diameter.— Zicinus Tanarius , Linn.; Mappa tanaria, Spre
Syst. iii, 878.
AMacaranga.] CVII. EUPHORBIACER, 147
usc Port Essington, Armstrong, viet
Queensland. Df napi islands, R. Brown ; Howick's s Group, F. Mueller;
Port Dots and Rockingham Bay, Dallazhy, Piratan; 5 Broad Sound and head of
Isaacs river, sup od — ampton, Thozet; Moreton Bay, W. Hill, F. Mueller;
see river, Gulliv
. Wales. Tweed river, Guilfoyle.
tomentosa ge cp "e Leaves softly tomentose. Capsules rather angi
eiiim Bay, D
The species — sit. Bast India and the Archipelago northward to South China;
| 33. CODIEUM, Rumph; |
Flowers usually moneecious in axillary or terminal racemes. Male 8.:
Calyx of 5 or 6 membranous segments much imbricate in the
Petals 5 or 6. very short. Glands as many as E alternating with
l tly raised receptacle,
u
Flowers small, the males usually clustered but few together, the females
solitary within each bract in veda igs, or, in a species
my at the base of the male
omprises a few species from Yi ast E Todi and the ae mes
the my Aditvelign one which, if correctly identified, has a wide range over the whole
area, but in some places perhaps cultivated only.
atum, Blume; var. moluceanum, wv Arg. in i DG
; on petioles. of 4 to liù., penniveined, green both sides or
especially in the typical form blotched or variegated with white. Flowers
ulary or lateral racemes, and usually a male and female ra-
long as broad, or sometimes rather longer than broad, slightly dentate.
Glands about the same length, broad, thick and truncate. Stamens
about 20, Female flowers on thick pedicels of 1 to 4 lines. M
bei s nts shorter and thicker than in the males. Disk obscurely
lo oer short thick and recurved. Capsule opem nin smooth,
3. to 4 lines diameter.—C. obovatum, Zoll; Baill. Adans.: vi. 803; C.
7 .
Mount Elliott and Seaview Range, Rockingham Bay, Da e
The sam riety also in Timor and Java, and the species widely s qos over East
India an an the Archi ipelago, but often cultivat ed only. I do not feel, howeve
that Mueller mn is right in referring this broid- rry ipes ame Pans to the real
, C. chrysosticton, Spreng Syst. ñi
t. 3051, and other hantaran ini ie Muell: Agl Ta) hd
always much difference in the y sen. of the leaf, the general E is D the same,
148 .CVIII. -EUPHORBIACE/E. ' [Codiceum.
and the styles are much shorter and thicker in this broad-leaved form than in the -
common C. variegatum.
34. BALOGHIA, Endl.
Flowers dicecious or moncecious, in unisexual short terminal racemes.
Male fl. : Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate. in the bud or very
late ns nite,
shortly b vimos or inserte ot a taod or conical died raced, Wi or
tyles
divinis deeply divido. into 2 branches As jim in ag Pets
Ld
glabrous except sometimes the Sowas Leaves oe or sitera
Sprinceonh finely veined. Flowers few, not sma e racemes som
The genus b estafa but few species, chiefly from New ma ay inelnding the two
found also in poeta. Mueller te reduces it to a section odiewm, but the
habit, inflorescence, perianth and stamens, and perhaps the wer are quite different.
Baillon thinks it reaecly distinct Bey Ricinoea carpus, but besides the habit, the embryo
is that of the Crotonec, not of on
Leaves opposite. Petals ide 1, B. lucida.
Leaves NIA or soattered. "Petals densely woolly 1 tomentose :
nside . . 2. B. Panchen
numerous, the educa very shortly united in a conical or oblong E
column or receptacle. St " divided almost to the base into 2 branches.
vom hard, globular, 4 to ł in. diameter, somewhat tridymous, with
rrow bordered by 2 2 narrow ridges on the back of each coccus.—
Codiceum lucidum, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 1116.
enslan
P Mueller.
d. Rockingham: Bay, Daliaehy; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy ; me :
Baloghia.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACE X. 149
N. S. we Vales, Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler ; Clarence and Richmond
rivers, C. Moore, London Exhibition Mo N 2 Illawarr. a. _ Cunni ham, Mc Arthur;
Sydney fare "Paris Exhibition 1861, ; Lord Howe's si island, Milne
The species is also in Norfolk island Lis in ix ew Caledoni
2. B. Pancheri, Baill. Adans. ii. 214. A AE tree of 50 to 60 ft.,
erheen except the flowers. Leaves alternate or here and there opposite,
ed at the end of the ME obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse,
din QN, of a shining ereen, prominently veined as in B. lucida, but
re
slender, glabrous, 3 to 4 lines long. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, very
shortly sinuate-lobed or —€— ud vein and sometimes irregularly
splitting, tomentose on the ma Petals nearly 3 lines long, glabrous
outside, but the inner or upper paren very densely covered with a soft
white loose tomentum or w wool. Stamen presi but rather fewer
than in B. lucida, the central column more prominent and tomentose-
villous, the free part of the filaments glabrous or nearly so. Female
flowers and fruits unknown to me, but described by Baillon as having
the tatg character.— Codieum Pancheri, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod.
xv. ii. 1117.
Qu ueensla Scrubs near Kilcoy, Herb. F'. Mueller, the AER i not named, a
single specimen agreeing precisely with a specimen in Herb. Hoo m New Cale-
donia, where the specimens were gathered on which the iocis was ra SEL
35. CARUMBIUM, Reinw.
(Omalanthus, A. Juss.; Wartmannia, Muell. Pad
Flowers moneecious, in terminal racemes. Male fl. : Peri os
at ug ERO bii. or shortly lobed, often dividing à inth E ja
lobes. No glands r petals. Stamens few, in serted on a central -re-
; Ah quem any rudimentary ovary ; filaments free; anther-cells
mous, somewhat fleshy, indehiscent or tardily opening in gas eee along
the back of the cocci. Seeds with a fleshy arillus or carunculus.—
i eater part or the
whole of the raceme, the females solitary hrs th eac bie one or few
at the base of some of the male racemes, or alone.
The genus has but few species, limited to the Indian Archipelago and the islands of
the South. Tui fic. Of the An ig stralian species, one ranges generally over the area
Capsule eh smooth. See a hal rrr in a fer otis
arillus. Bracts with 2 Me gla 1. C. populifolium.
Capsule ae usua o 6 Tei conical. processes or
tubercles, Seeds uana cara tt carunculus. Bracts pP aa
vit villons ous glands deb wx s dE stillingiafolium.
150 CVIII. EUPHORBIACE X. o:
m.; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. i, part ii
orr bol al, abtina" je prominently Pad € an
rning red underneath, 2 to 4 in. or on luxuriant shoots 6 in. SÉ and
n as broad, on petioles usually about the same length. Stipules
cit $to lin. lo ong, but so deciduous as to be rarely seen except
dh young shoots, which being usually at the base of the inflo-
reson, 2 stipules have been described as barren bracts. Racemes
Bracts small, entire or denticulate, with 2 large glands
ai "hir basi ‘Male flowers 3 to 6 to together, on pedicels of 1 or pi
on one side or into 2 un lobes, and when pressed sige in ee
ng appearing often Npa ar EAA at the base. “Stamens 6, or fewer in
th al flower flowers few at the base of the raceme, on
pedicels varying from 1 to lin. Perianth like that of the males, but
very deciduous. — laucous, didymous, 4 to 5 lines broad, open-
ing very tardily along the margins or back of the cocci. ds
more or less nyA "xis fleshy arillus or carunculus—C. populneum,
D
Muell. Arg. i o . ii. 1144, with the synonyms adduced;
ieberi, M rg Liniites xxxii. 85, and i ene a u
1145, Baill. Adans. vi. 326; C. platyneuron, Muell. Arg.
€. pallidum, Muell. Ar rg. in Linnæa xxxii. 85; Omalanthus pee rd
. Grah. in Bot. Mag. t. 2780, F. Muell. PAN 32.
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown; Moreton Bay, F. Mueller ; Crocodile
Creek, Bowman; Rockhampton and Booking iua Bay, Dallachy.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Æ. Brown, Sieber, n. 640,
and others; northward to Hastings, Clarence, and Richmond rivers, x. Beakler Hender-
gives a peculiar character. to i aspect of some of the valleys, A. Cunning
astern EAT o of Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller.
pecie s is pproad over the Eastern Archipelago, and some of the Pacific inant
I am e to Duce dg Re eei ol the thise forti s described as specie 2
Mer A Asp. in the Prodro: The foliage is exceedingly väino i in size and consi
according to age im rosari neadh
pulifo ums br
triangular or almost Smile. usually acute but scarcely vacuity
aat } ;
R
Brects a and acute or lanceolate and acuminate, without any 97 —
Carumbium.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, 151
readily dehiscent than that of C. populifolium. Seeds with a short
fleshy carunculus.— Omalanthus stillingiefolius, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 32;
Wartmanmia stillingiefolia, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 1147.
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, Fraser, F. Mueller.
N. S. W. i . Moore.
ales. New England, C. Stuart ; Manning river, C.
same nature and origi
36. SEBASTIANIA, Spreng.
(Gymnanthes, Sw. ; Microstachys, A. Juss.; Elachocroton, F. Muell.)
opening longitudinally in 9 valves. Female perianth of 3 segments
Y
Ova
?
free or very shortly connate at the base. Capsule separating in
[1] -
her in clusters occupying the greater n or
the whole of the raceme, females usually solitary or few at the base of.
the spike.
The genus is rather a large one in America, with a single species spread over tropical
Baill ites the genus with
the seed is accompanied by some differences in the habit and flowers, which appear to
Justify the separation. :
l. S. chamelæa, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 1175. An annual
or perennial, with à hard woody base and erect or ascending branching
virgate stems of 1 to lift, glabrous and often glaucous. Leaves
l
serrulate, 1 to 2 in. long, tapering into a very short petiole. Male spikes
i i racts very small, acute,
with 2 large more or less stipitate glands sometimes as long as the
152 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER, [ Sebastiania.
Tragia chamelea, Linn.; Excecaria chamelea, M. M" vi 998;
— asperococcus, 'F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Jou 17. :
N. Islands = the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. e Mc ; Vict
river, F. P. Muell r; Goulburn i RN A, Cunningham ; Port siete pne n. 539;
Beagle Bay, N.W. Coast, Hu.
eens Zand. Endeavour ae A. Cunningham; Baines creek, F. Mueller ; b
nor's and Bowen rivers, Bowman; Rockin um | y, Dallachy ; Cape York, M'Gillivray
. This, the only Old hahaa Ah is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa, "
does not extend to Amer
37. EXCZECARIA, Linn.
Flowers moncecious or diccious, in terminal or axillary racemes or
ikes. Male fl.: Cage. of 3 or 2 very small segments. No petals
or glands. Stamens 3 aa fomning almost the oc flower, bie
any rudimentary ov dé : ‘file amen re. or shortly united at the
ly
3-p artite ‘han’ the Ovary 3- or 2-celled, with 1 ovule in eae
cell. Styles v iad undivided, free or shortly united at the base.
Capsule dividin -valved cocci, or (in species not A an)
r
é
juice. Leaves alternate, entire or crenulate. Flowers very small, the
males clustered 2 or 3 ‘to gether along ds rhachis of thé raceme oF
‘spike, or sometimes solitary within each bract. Stamens exserted.
: The females in separate shorter racemes, or in species not Aust tralian
at the base of the male racemes or spi
The genus, if taken to include Sapium, is Siti spread over the tropical regions
of both Hb New and the Old World. Of the thr pe i Peisgehu Gee species or varieties, One
is common on the sea-coasts of tropical Asia, the other two are endemic
— whi or sans elliptical, obtuse, entire or crenate, 2 to
on, 1. E. Agallocha.
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, obtusely acuminate, crenate, ‘1 to
3 in. lon 2 B Dallachyant.
Lede narrow-oblong, very ‘obtuse, entire, 4 to 1 in. long dg Bw parvifolia.
1. E. Agallocha, Linn. ; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 1220.
small tree, quite glabrous. Leaves mostly obovate or broa i |
NADA obtuse or shortly and obtusely acuminate, rounded or C08- .
tra t the base, entire or somewhat crenate, thick and shining whet
old, 9 to 3 in. long on a petiole of } to 1 in. Spikes or racemes usually
Excecaria.} CVIII: EUPHORBIACER. 153
ye pedicels 1 to 9 lines long. Perianth of 3 me acute rather thick
es. Capsule tridymous, about 3 lines diame
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentari efe Brown, Sweers; salt-
water banks of Victoria river, F. Mueller; Goulburn nd A. Cunningham ; Port
Queensland. Common n the coast from E and Broad Sound to
Cape York, Dallachy, Bowman, M‘Gillivray, and others
r|
. This species appears to be a common maritime tree in teal Asia.
. E. Dallachyana, Baill. Adans. vi. 324, as a var. of E. Ag allocha.
N ite y to E. Agallocha, and perhaps really only an ona Se
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, -= tusely acuminate, crenate, 1 to
3 in. long, less coriaceous and the veins more prom minent noi reticulate
underneath. Flowers both male and Take apparently the same as in
XE. Agallocha.
‘Queensland. Burnett Diei F. Mueller; Rockhampton, common, always in the
sera, Dallachy, Bowman, Thozet.
. E. parvifolia, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 483, and in DC.
Prod. xvii. 1221, Very nearly allied to E. Agallocha, and reduced by
Baillon like the last toa Moog of that species, with narrow oblong very
obtuse entire leaves of 1 to lin., tapering into a short petiole. The
peo racemes are also smaller, 1 to lin. long. Pinal flowers and fruit
unknow
N. Australia. Gani round the Gulf of Corpeniarit, R. Brown, F. Mueller,
ti —'' Gutta-percha tree" of the latter.
Orver CIX. URTICEJE.
Flowers unisexual or very rarely polygamous. sper simple and
calyx-like, of 3 to 5 oe Poet (rarely reduced to 1 or 2) imbricate or
induplicate-valvate in the bud. Stamens in the austen as many as
perianth-segments, hs pen tothem, very rarely fewer or more;
filaments short and erect or longer and inflexed in the bud; anthers
usually with 9 parolle: cells opening longitudinally. Ovary in the
females free or rarely more or t i
Style simple or more or less deeply divided into 2 branches or 2
orthotropous, or laterall attached and amphitropous, or ‘poidulous s and
Sota gu ea so i always superior. Fruit of each se parate
f y drupe nut or indehiscent utricle, es sometimes
suc
rounding or subtended by. or — in à fleshy ede Seed with
membranous testa, with or without album Embryo straight
curved or spirally bidon the ae be flat « or - folded, the radicle
Superior.— 'rees shrubs or herbs very varied in habit and foliage.
' Leaves ine or opposite, entire toothed or rarely divided, pen-
niveined and often 3-nerved. Stipules present, but usually very
154 CIX. URTICER.
deciduous. Flowers small, in cymes clusters or heads, rarely gt
the clusters or heads often racemose or Spec the receptacle of
heads araj ay shaped and often bordered: by an involucre of
-—
me important grou of this Order have not yet been worked up for the Panels
the subjoined tribes and their characters have therefore reference chiefly to the ae
Australian genera; the Urticee proper have, however, been very carefully monographed
dell. i on
by Wedde es the name of eystoliths to — a eka concreti
e epidermis of the leaves, which, when line specimens the
aspect of appressed superficial hairs, although really within piia ean nee of the leaf.
The form of these he abel has iua some Urticeze been m n se of as a specific character,
Trise 1. Celtidese.—Flowers often polygam pened i ailfany or lao . Fila-
ments short, erect or slightly endi in A bud. Styles or style- iiid 2, ` equal.
Ovule pendulous. Embryo curved, the cotyledons often folded over the incumbent
REL Trees or shrubs,
Flowers polygamous, the fertile ones frequently hermaphro
© Perianth-segments imbricate in the bud. Style- eae ce
styles) linear-oblong or dilated, truncate or 2-lobed . . 1. CELTIS.
Flowers polygamous, the fertile ones frequent] herma phro
i u^ le- branches (or
styles) short, orae ^: menda vein on the small fru . LREMA,
owers unisexual (mo us). nth- — ram aa in
the bud. Style- aai. (or styles) PaA ý 3. APHANANTHE.
Trp — Flowers unisexual in dense spikes or heads, or crow owded oñ Z
orinebsd in in g fesi re receptacle. fuk erect or slightly incurved in the bud. Sty
ed. Embryo curved oF
undivided Ovule pendulous or laterally attach
straight. Trees rere with a smth jusi
Flowers lobular cd ^d -shaped receptacle
; deed at a small a oce ce by sm P nd s " . 4. Ficus.
xir in globular heads on a rs rec scape. "Fruta syncarp
rmed of the nt ye Heshy perianths and re wien 5. CuDRANIA.
wded on a ari ad receptacle, fe males soli-
Mea Fruit a vog mass consisting of the consolidated invo-
lucre and pericarp, the tips of the bracts alone . 6, ANTIARIS.
Tri —F lowers unisexual in dense spikes or heads. Stamens 1n Se
in the ud eina usually direi Ovule pendulous pe latoraliy attached. Em-
bryo in ncurved on innoluia, Trees or shrubs, very rarely he
p ain rob ial vits anil orifice St fe branches elon ated 7. MALAISIA.
ale flowers in dense spikes. Females few in very small spike
or heads, their perianth of 4 segments. St gie -branches elongated 8. PsEUDOMORUS
Flowers in globular paps em us heads. Style elongated with
, small brauch or tooth at the base. Stem herbaceous. . . . 9. FaroU^
UNES
CIX. URTICER. 155
~ TRIBE eve.— Flowers unisexual, in cymes clusters or rarely in shane
Stamens reete in "the bud. A" undivided. Ovule erect. Embryo straight or
nearly so. Trees shrubs or herb.
. Susrrise 1. Procrideze.—Plants not stinging. Female perianth deeply lobed.
Fä densely crowded on a flat or concave receptacle with
involucre of several sii pcasrs ufted. Leaves — or
rarely alternate . . 10. ErATOSTEMMA.
Susrrize 2. Boehmeriese.— Plants not stinging. Female qv en ug
and minutely toothed, enclosing or adnate to the ovary, or rarely minut.
Shrubs or trees. Flower-clusters in axillary spikes or rarely soli-
ile.
Stigma linear, persistent UP ee Gram niea hanna
Stigma linear, Pure “pas 2 MB. KITURI
Herl axillary sessile solitary cymés or clusters.
prio linear, doi bue Male perianth-lobes or segments con-
cave o pae ptly inflected at the top. Leaves entire. Bracts
y sm 13. Povzorsia.
Mgr or tufted. Male yerianthesegments nearly flat. Leaves
e
Bracts united at the base into an involucre . . 14. PARIETARIA.
"im linear. Male perianth os 1 ane ile outer lobe. Stamen
l. Leaves toothed. T ilo brac . » «15. AUSTRALINA.
Supreme 3. Urerese.—Plants more or less armed with stinging hairs. Female
perianth lobed, 2 piae usually larger than the 2 others
- Herbs with o posite leaves. Stigma tufted 16. UnrtcA.
Trees or sh Ns with alternate Min Stigma linear . . . . 17. Larorrea.
Trips I. CErpTIDExX.—Flowers in axillary or lateral cymes often
polygamous, the i aphrodite or female pA sometimes upik
i i 2
laments short, erec slightly ineurved in the les
ways deeply divided into 2 equal branches. Ovule pendulous or €
rally attached ne s abryo curved, the c coty said o
1. CELTIS, Linn.
(Solenostigma, Endl.)
Flowers pol ous, in axillary or lateral c apre — in both
sets of 4 or b segme nts imbri isaisa di bud. 8 s in the male
and hermaphrodite flowers as many as hate erem i exceeding
the perianth, but. slightly incurved in the bud. Disk hairy, with a
rudimentary - pistil in the males. Ovary in the fem ale and hermaphro-
TP erbe inserted on a hairy disk. ancora rum distinct styles)
cumbent on or embracing the ascending radicle.—Trees or shrubs.
Leaves alternate, more or less J-nerved, entire in the postal species,
dentate in some others. - Stipule es small and iduous
156 CIX. URTICEJE. [ Celtis.
The genus is dispersed over the temperate and x ed nao regions of both the 7
and the Old World, with a pe tropical species, chi oy
e Australian species extend to the Indian Archipela
Leaves broad, stron xe 3-nerved, pei Tum 2 :
ons flat or nearly 1. C. philippinensis.
Leaves ‘ovate-lanceolate, ; the lateral nerves scarcely prominent.
2. C. paniculata.
a minute pubescence on the young shoots. Leaves on petioles of 1 to
and sometimes rather obli ique e saps varying from 14 to 3 in. in
the more rigid broader leaved specimen o 3 to 5 in. in mds ones,
coriaceous, green on both s ver: beds and strongly
nerved, with very fine M MUR ymes loose, 4 to 2 in. diameter,
those with all male flowers more crowded than the polygamous ones.
Perianths pedi , the segme ,1 arly 1 line long.
Stigmatic branches of the style (or styles) broadly cuneate truncate or
2-lobed, s s broader than , some r than
br n poma of the. same flower dissimilar. ne a ovoid,
de. Plan
lia. eua Vansittart, and | Carvening bays, N.W. Coast, A. Cunni
Austra. ning —
Victoria river, F. Mueller ; o» d han; defi. of the Gulf of
psa Sat
am;
aire and opposite mainland others; Port Essington, A.
AN
Sharasland. Sunday island, A. Cunningham; Port Denison, F'itzalan, Dallachy.
leaved specimens upen which the C. oides was founded appear to have grown m
dry situations. C gham’s larger-leaved specimens are stated by him to have
been from moist shady situations ing’s Philippine island specimens have st d
larger T, san coriaceous leaves. "reped plant I h ien red T
2. C. paniculata, Planch. im Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 8, x. 305. A large
tree, pis glabrous. Leaves from ovate-laneeolate to ‘elliptical-oblong,
— more or less —— atthe base and often oblique or light?
falcate, entire, coriaceous, smooth, penniveined and 3-nerved at
base et. the midrib alone cg the lateral veins or Mc hort
and fine or almost evanescent. Cymes sometimes dense and few-
miha igma — Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 42 ; S. brevi v, Blume
Mus. Bot. ii. 67; C. sp. nova, n. 92, Planch. in Ann. Sc. 30. Nat Fue 3
3, x. 900; C. ingens, F. "Muell. Fragm. iv . 88.
. N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpenta
Queensland. Broa
a, R. Brown, Hen -
d Sound, R. Brown; Endeavour river, A. Donuk More-
Celtis. | - OIL URTICER, 157
ton bay, F. Mueller; Rockham mpton, |, Thozet, O' Shanes Edgecombe bay and Port
Desa) Dallachy ; Curtis beers Henne ; Keppel bay, ‘Phozet,
s, Clarence, and Richmond rivers, Beckler, C. Moore
(London Exhibition 1862, n. 1 93, C. — Kiama, Harvey.
In C. Moore’s ‘collection from Lord Howe’s Island, ee marked Elat ma
en Deve * 34, d r to be x visuty of Celtis with the lia vis jew
thicker and all very obtuse, the e cymes are "t. ED and deti and I only see male
2. TREMA, Lour.
(Sponia, Commers.)
Flowers polygamous, in small axillary rapit zm bec of 5,
rarely 4 segments, escape ndn in as man
as perianth-segments, erect in the bud; filaments very short Prin "wid
mentar " or more or less de veloped. ’ Female perianth-segments nearly
slightly imbrieate when posa) sereia Per Style a tan
concave and induplicate in the
unisexu ual.
The genus is "n Mn: over the tropical and subtropical regions of the New rs
4 Wo rld. Numerous species have been published, but the greater number o
‘them differ only in e ‘indesnenbene which is often very variable in the same rid
ii is with much regret also that I babe found pre: "^d MEE from the Prod
Tomus in the nomenclature of the genus, but I cannot but agree with Blume that
. Loureiro's character is quite as de dte as the idea] one given i" cane on's
. 158 CIX.. URTICER. [Trema,
dendi ata uid ie Map is indeed as much reason for adopting Loureiro's pam
in this case of Mallotus, Dichroa, Centipeda, &c., now so generally
es green and scabrous on both. sides, sprinkled with scattered
bain or nearly gio rous 1. T. aspera.
maas and glabrous above, and smooth or - scabrous, white
mentose undernea 2, T. orientalis. —
eaves shy — cent m densely velvety pubescent or hirsute E
underneath 8. T. amboinensis.
or several female or hermaphrodite ones in the same cymes.
aa scarcely .1 lme diameter when o nd the female smaller.
les varying om half the length to the dh. of the ovary. Drupes
shes scarcely compres mene: obtuse o t ME acute, varying from under
14 lines to Ea 2 lines in length.—Celtis aspera, Brongn. in Duperr.
Ai din 218, t. 48; a aspera, Planch, in Ann Sc. Nat. ser. 3,
N. A JU: Victoria river, F. Mueller, with small very strongly veined leaves
and compact cym
M "brisban ane river, Moreton Bay, W. Hill, F. Mueller, and o thers, and
‘ence to to Rockham ampton, Rockingham and Wide bays, and Burdekin river, F Mueller,
Bidwill, Thozet, and other rs; oe islands, R. Brown; sent by Maitla
as a poison plant frm. Rockbam
N. S. Wales. Port DM to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Woolls, ad |
others; northward to Hastings and Macleay rivers, Beckler; New En land, Q. Stuart; —
southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, Harvey, and. others, and ofold n E.
ueller; Sydney Woods, London Exhibition 1862, M'Arthur, n. 75.—
Macs: Hew cim have the small compact cymes and small prie of those fom
" peii Leaves larger and less hairy, but no other cope Premi viridis,
Planch: in Ann. Sc. Nat. eer. 3, x. 319; Trema viridis, Blame Mus. Bot. ii. 58. Port
— Armstrong ; ultz, n. 1, 8, 183, ^ " 788 $ i igh
Dallac: This variety is defired by Planchon (DC. Prod. xvii. ined.) to the widely-
virgata, Blume ( Celtis a, Roxb., Sponia virgata, Planch.), from w91 of
it is oe not easily distinguished. Brongniart’s name has, however, t ks righ :
priority. timorensis, Dene. from Timor, belongs to the same group à variety
or closely allied species.
orientalis, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 62. A tree sometimes attain- -
ing 2 40 oh. the midi pubescent. yon inhale e or lanced- —
late, acuminate toothed, cordate at the base and scabrous 0T —
almost smooth on the upper surface and isl glabrous, white or hoary .
yan ith with a r short soft pubescence,
TEM
Trema.] CIX. URTICER. ' 159
varying from 2 to 6 in. ong Male cymes usually broad and man
flowered, with the tutae siger than in 7. aspera, the cymes as well
as the flowers smaller when several or allo them are fertile. Celtis
orientalis, Linn.; Sponia E is, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3,
23.
Queensland. Albany island, W. Hill; Port Molle, M'Gillivray; Port Denison,
Fiala ptiele: Rockhampton, Thozet, and others.
.S.W Mat, Paramatta, Gata
and with numerous flowers larger sor that ect and the cymes themselves larger and
I have had before me, I met with several which, in one or more of the above c
"es were entirely conformable to Asiatic or Archipelago specimens of the typical T.
ntalis.
3. mboinensis, Blume Mus. Bot. ii. 01. A fine tree of 40 ft.,
the pte densely pubescent or villous. Leaves shortly petiolate,
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate with long points, more equal
rounded or cordate at the base than in 7. aspera, to 4 in. long, rather
thick, softly pubescent above, densely Vel Abie con or villous
underneath hare pic esa the bracts usually more vipera than
in T. aspera. — Sponia amboinensis, Planch. in DC. rod. xvii. ined. ;
8. ideis Planch, in qum Sc. Nat. ser. 3, x. 827; Trema velutina,
i. 62.
.. Blume Mus. Bot.
| . N. Australia. sire c A. Brown.
Queensland. Hocki am bay, Dallachy.
The species is ien d m over East India and the Archipelago, RU ad north-
ward to South Chi It is on the authority of shone re that I refer this very common
Archipelago species p? the óriginal Celtis amboinensis, Willd. He believes also that this
may be the typical Trema EE Lour.
9. APHANANTHE, Planch.
Flowers moncecious, the males in axillary cymes, the fetta solitary
or 2 together. Perianth in both sexes of 4 or 5 s segments, imbricate in
p
Compressed, the endocarp ee "Seed nearly globular
membran nous; albumen little or n Embryo curved or invol etek the
outer larger cotyledon’ esito the smaller one.— Tree or shrub.
Leaves alternate, penniveined. Stipules very small or none. M
. €ymes in the ails of the old leaves, female flowers desde or shortly
Procite in = lower eri of the hee e emm
pis and t bay in aom howe reer ni both Siren one. different habit, dicecious
flowers, and more subulate styla. lebicbes,
160 k ^CIX. URTICEZ. [ Aphananthe,
ensis, Planch. in Ann. m Nat. ser. 3, x. 837. A tree
or tall shrub, sem or scabro ous-pubesc Leaves shortly petiolate
broadly ovate to elliptical, acute or aimat obtuse, rigidly membranous
coriaceous, scabrous, the = coe ey y prominent underneath
— g astomosin npe ge €: p: into
pungent pointedly obes. Male cymes almost sessile but loose. Perianth-
broad, concave, ciliolate. Anthers half exerted when fully out.
Monisie perian nth-se segments narrower. Fruit ovoid, acuminate, about
3 lines long.— Taxotrophis Bros ibi F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 192; Sponia
ilicifolia, S. Kurz in Flora, 1872, 4
Quee Brisbane river, Moreton e F. Mueller; Queensland woods, Lon-
don Exhibition 1862, W. Hill, n. 86; Rockhampton, O'Skanesy ; Rockingham bay,
. S. Wales. Clarence river, Wilcox, preng aee and Richmond brushes,
Porti woods, London Exhibition 1862, C. Moore,
TRIBE II. AmrocARPEX.— Flowers unisexual, in dense unisexual
or NA spikes or heads, or crowded on or inclosed in a fleshy —
receptacle. dr erect or ‘slightly incurved in the bud. Styles
undivided or unequally rarely equally 2-branched. Ovule pendulous
or lateral] a Embryo curved or straight. Trees or shrubs,
with a milky jui
4, FICUS, Linn.
(Urostigma and Covellia, Gasp.)
Flowers unisexual, minute, enclosed in a hollow globular ovoid or
ar-shaped receptacle called a fig or synacium ; the minute orifice closed
y bracts turned inwards, or the first rows erect outwards. Male
flowers usually near the " mouth of the pepada very rarely in
ya pach JEFE, and often very few. Perianth of 3 to 6 lobesor 7
segments, imbricate in the bud, rarely sica] to a a €:
uL 1, 2, or rarely more, opposite the perianth-segment
2-celled or "the pas conte uen wi E the Apes. Female Path =
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alternate or opposite, entire or lobed, penniveined “ft d usually
less distinctly 3-nerved at the base. Stipules usually very eciduous,
Ficus.] j CIX. URTICEÆ. 161
convolute on the young buds. Receptacles ells 3 in pairs, or peitar
by the abortion of one of each pair, either a — ua or e old wood,
and then often forming clusters or racemes on short don branchlets.
Bracts usually 8, often small and sealer I "aioe at the base of the
receptacle or along the pedicel below it. Bracts within the receptacle
subtending the flowers usually very numerous, varying with the
ry large genus, fae over ee yarar and subtropical regions ae the New and
the Old Wo rld, but most abundant in the Indian Archipelago. Of the thirty-four
i se als
but it is possible that on ke general elaboration of this difficult genus, now in the
0 "M. Barean, some further identifications of Australian aid Archipelago species
may be effected.
S Urostigma.— Male Eire 3-merous, rarely 5-6-merous, Stamen 1;
dither celi distinct or confluent. Female peria rianth 4-6-merous. pear (in the
Australian species) elongated, acute. Leaves alternate, entire, usually
B em 8 usually Bec :
giros tri setose inside between the flowers. Male perianth 5-6-merous. Sta-
A" DUNS densely pubescent underneath». aca EF colossea.
i UE EPA bracteate inside between the flowers. Male perianth 3-merous, longer
t
pm igen rather distant inem ne with a tw s veins and nume-
transverse M ulations. maller fine pri-
d veins between the principal o
Recopase gE ii poser Supls and. — shoots ot 4) pio
Recopiso les globular a turbinate.
Petioles ¿toli :
ceptacles binis c r ona peduncle of 1 line, not ex-
ceeding 5 lines diameter.
Leaves obtuse or shortly and sba acuminate ARE
ui coast species) . i as 8. F. nesophila.
ueens
— ire m d and shortly acumin ( cw Cunninghamit
Receptacles on eduncles of 2 lines 4 to in. diameter 5 F. Henneana.
- Petioles under } in P ong. Pedun cles very A koj 6. F. validinervis.
(F. macrophylla, and occ sasionally some other species of the following group, approach
those of the present nie in venation.
Leaves with numero parallel ary transverse veins all
equal or every third or Po more veg et
Leaves thi riaceous, mos er 3 in
ceptacles € x on very short ence
Petioles under 3 lines. Leaves miy em — —
obt Babes les 4 in dps 4. F. retusa.
VoL. VI. M
162 CIX. URTICER. [ Ficus.
pite łto 4 in. Leaves bur. iow or elliptical,
reely acuminate. Receptacles į in. diameter 8. F. eugenioides,
Petioles + ip $ in Leaves pen or Broadly elliptical, Aa
acumin a irag under io Pu hag 9. F. benjaminea.
Receptacl Adji late, 4 in. dia "he LE 0
Pexjaainea E di 10. F. Muelleri
go
Leaves more ou ll obtuse o or F shariy and “obtusely ¢ acu-
minate, rarel nar
e softly beiden underneath. Receptacles villous, :
arcely u iis nate . 11. F. leucotricha.
Leaves glabrous, Receptacles ‘glabrous, prominently
mbon 18. F. puberula.
[ORT A t pe or on very short thick peduncles.
0 4 in.
aves ferruginous de mih when youn Dog . F. rubiginosa.
Leaves glabrous or minutely pnhement sa gni ^ dis £'". platypoda.
Leaves glabrous, with ver ery short petioles pa very
prominent veins (doubtful species KR 2 F. dictyophleba.
pea mostly 6 to 10 in. long, glabrou " i SE S 6. F. macrophylla. —
- Szor. 2. Fuwrose Mal, ianth of 5 or 6 lobes or segments, rans. reduced to 1.
omens pre lai pan ter e; sorgt ee Female perianth 4—6-mer. Stigma (in
the Australian ecies) P ed — oblique or oblong. Leaves posa: or oppo —
site, de toothed or lobed, often deciduous. Receptacles axillary or on the old wood.
Leaves smooth, at least on the upper side, or aeeooy scabrous.
Leaves large (3 to 14 ft.), glabrous, Stigm not peltate.
aves obovate-oblong or elliptical. Bipules id rigid. 5 odi
Stigma obtuse, scarcely thickened. . 17. F. magnifolia.
Leaves cordate-ovate. e" membranous. ‘Stigma a
les ope ks ` . 18. F. ehretioides.
ves und
Stipules ar young shoots silky-hairy or hoary. Stigma
ue, lan
Creeping or clin "Cm shrub. Leaves mostly cordate-
ovate, st rongly reticulate underneath . 19. F. pumila.
Small tree w pe endulous. branches. Leaves ‘ong, lan-
ceolate, Palo nate - + 20. F. coronulata.
Quite glabrous. ced s eliptia. e oblong.ov
Petioles slender, 2 to 3 line g. Leaves prominently
reticulate underneath. Stigma oblique . 21. F. leptoclada.
Petioles 4 in. long AV — scarcely conspicuous
loloa. "Style, short. . Stigm peltate 22. F. depressa.
Petioles pre — s ~ 8. Stigma peltate- Male o
perianth of 23. F. philippinensis,
Wadanside a te Tees E "oop «iy Y villous. ;
Sti . 24. F. mollior.
Leaves very RUN.
les unise xe the males oblong. ee heme e fe-
ovoid or globose, Leaves ite or alte n Bb Ku dept
Receptacls androgynous, ovoid. bed haa
Leaves all alternate, pubescent or villous unde on rene
ee
fedes villous, ae orifice a with exse rted bra a F. aspera.
aves frequently opposite, Receptacles enar; Moe
r rarely pu aboia ,
bo m mostly pese rigid, ovate or orbicular, the
margins aculeate. pg tii
Branches glabrous wiles aod isai c 27 JA. orbiteri |
- Branches odes or pubescent . doce ibi d nioo BB Tagua
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Ficus. | CIX. URTICER. 163
Leaves entire or sinuate-crenulate, not aculea
Leaves of the flowe pring branches ovate, 2 to T in. long,
petioles 4 ip h in. . 29. F., opposita.
Leaves of t flowering branches obovate, "2 to 3 in. f
' long, Sois very short . 90. F. scobina.
. Covellia.— Male periode ad. 3 or 4 read pnpniente enveloping each other,
Female pe ery smal rarely
exceedin, € ipes of th eh disin ‘Style gla pie art with a peltate or oblique
stigma. p Des paral, large. Stipular scar prom : Receptacles chiefly on
mere all Sponte, Receptacles 2 to 1 in. ba not
AI, hispida.
bru all or mostly alternate. Receptacles ‘about H in. dia-
meter, 6-ribbe
aves henian 4 to 10 in. long. Young shoots pubescent
or his v2 p 82. F. fasciculata.
ave Ain, “glabrous. and smooth as well as ; the branches 33. F. casearia.
Leaves ail ker, glabrous and smooth. Dry 1 X
1j in. diameter, not ribbed. Signa oblique 4, F. glomerata.
Mn. in the Journ. Bot. Neerl. 1861, 234, mentions his U. stipulosum Mig) M
ings river, Beckler. I can find ‘nothing in Beckler's collections which
able to vir to the Philippine mt Vois originally described as U. stipulosum, tA
entered as Ficus sti; a in the us. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287. Miquel has also in
the oes n. Bot. deg: 1861, 240, ru piel an Urostigna $ Kee iin from Rock-
m o dewription Neat than some of m forms of F. plat oda, but they e more
s tha " mentioned b y Miquel, and no can be satisfactorily
identified without the fructification ;
Szcr. I. Urostrama.—Male perianth of 3 lobes. or segments
(except in F. colossea). Stamen 1; anther-cells distinct or more fre-
Jie confluent at the apex. Female perianth of 4' or 5 rarely
lobes or segmen Stigma undivided, elongated, acute, filiform, or
slightly broader towards "the base. Leaves alternate, entire, gully
coriaceous, glabrous or softly pubescent or villous, not at all o
scarcely scabrous. Hecdteclss usually axillary.
__ 1. F. colossea, F. Muell. Herb. A tree “attaining more than
ws ft. with imm — abutments and a spreading head, and therefore
named Ajbey-tree by the colonists,” the young shoots, petioles, and
ideas of the leaves densely and sofily pubescent or villous, Leaves
| ivre e cordate, acuminate, entire, mostly 4 to 5 in. long
; to
. pair not very prominent. Petioles ne to l}in. long. Rece ait onl
Seen loose and their attachment not noted, turbinate-glo dm
lies diameter, shortly pubescent, on peduncles of 1 to 2 lines.
. Flowers within the receptacle intermixed with hairs: or T about as
164 ,CIX, URTICEX. | Ficus.
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I cells, the mpc often slightly pes beyond them. 1
eit inside at the
vem with 2 distinet parallel cells. Female flowers more se
vemm subulate, acute, p eres towards the hes i in 3
. Mus ugd. Bat igma pilosum, Miq. Fl. Ind.
Bat. i em li. 381; F. slligasidio, F. Muell Herb.
Queensland. Alban aon, d Cape York, F. Mueller ; Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
-The Me is also in ava, and robably in other islands of the Archi-
pelago. It is readily diatingwished from all ota r Australian species by the shape of
the a dod.
.. 8. F.nes Mig. in Ann. Mus. gaa: Bat. iii. 286. A shrub of
small tree, quite iwon or with a very ae putare on ae
stipules and young buds. Leaves on petioles
in., ovate or oblong-elliptical, ses Rec and
acuminate, rounded or almost truncate. at the base , 8 to Gin, long, -
1} to 3 in. broad, coriaceous and shining above, with ce :
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smaller on most specimens, the outer subtending bracts
broad. Male flowers few in the receptacles opened. Perianth sii
with 3 segments, brown as well as the bracts. Stamen 1, shorter
ihe peri rianth ; anther-cells parallel. Female flowers very num
Ficus.) CIX. URTICEX. 1605
Stigma subulate, sn tie dilated towards the base. L Urostigmá)
imn, Miq. in Jou t. Neerl. 1861, 237.
ustralia. Cambri ia "e and Enderby's island d, N.W. coast, A. Cunning-
ham Nich hol bay, Gregory’s JU BARNOK i King's Sound and Collier bay, Chapman;
islands of the gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Gulliver ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 562,
Queensland. Quail island, THE Pa pay, E
This may nme to be a variety only of F. Cunninghamii, more. coriaceo
leaves, the points much less promin Me y^ more obtuso, and both. i Ps is "eios
- too closely allied to the wide-spread Indian F. ar a,
unninghamii, f . Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 286. A
large robust tree a 80 ft. Sot us. Leaves on petioles of 4 to
om ovate to oblongellipteal, bid and abruptly acuminate,
rounded truncate or scarcely cordat the base, 4 to d in. long, 2 to
b ften less so
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dilated towards the bas e.— Urostigma Cunninghamii, Miq. in Hook. Lond.
i re L i r
Queensland E river and Percy island, A. Cunni lajina’ Brisbane es
Bremer rivers, Fraser; Keppel bay, R. Brown; Rockhampton, Bowman, O'Shanesy,
lachy ; Rocking ies bay, Dalla Dm
„The species is perhaps tog closely allied to the East Indian F. E hearty differin
slightly in the form and especially in ise acumination of the leaf.
cribed by Miquel from a single specimen with one damaged receptacle in Herb.
Hooker from Brishny'? river, Fraser. His raseri was founded on a specimen in
leaf only from n nearly the same locality in He rb. Hoo er, which he Min M in Ann,
ded Lngd. Bat. iii. 287, refers to the PARA island = caulobotrya, Miq., which
i re
esides an inflorescence unkno species, is also readily
distinguished by the Mir of the lea I r see ab P forced at all as far as the
Er c go bet aseri, F. eyciótr imfolia, and some acknowledged forms
9. F. Henn nneana, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 216. A shrub or
slender tree quite glabrous. Leaves on petioles of 1 to 13 in., oval or
up coriaceous, the primary veins dista and. roii the
Par very oblique, the others spreading, the veinlets conspicuous but
scarce] Kerne Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous. tvecep~
_-tacles (in pairs?) on es a of about 2 lines, globular, 4 to in,
diameter, smooth but mottled with white, the subtending bracts very
166 CIX: URTICER. | [ Ficus, —
deciduous, leaving a truncate margin under the ripe fig. Male fn E
few, shortly stipitate, the perianth trimerous, with 1 large anther on a —
very short ameng and the subulate stigma of the females entirely 1
those of the sect.
N. Australia. I island and Caledon ba ay, Gulliver a
Queensland. Booby island, Tones Ben "- Cunningham, Henne ; also perhaps q
-the same species, Rockingham bay, 4
The "e ese from P. Mia. Fidh in the receptacles twice as large on —
longer peduncl 3
6. , F. Muell, Herb. A small tree, qiie glebrons. 3
Leaves elliptical or i ia abruptly pupi entir , rounded or
cuneate at t e, 4 to 8in. long, 14 to 21 broad, soris céóge the
primary ET da veins and the smaller intervening ones el
nsverse reticulations very prominent underneath, the basal
Rockingh s has the short petioles fF
phil M x is TRA n Y and is remar Fable for the very promi
venation of its very coriaceous
7. P. retusa, Linn. Mant. 199. A small or large tree, :
me. Leaves on rather broad petioles of 2 to 3 lines, vary!
m. broadly obovate or almost orbicular and very obtuse or Tetuse
Europ or n t oblong, rounded or very shortly contracted at
ow base, 9 or Sin and 1 to 2 in; road, more coriaceous t as m
in pairs, globu Nae ditio about 4 in. dinieonee when ripa i 2
arena bracts nearly orbicula ar, about 1 line diameter. Periant E
stigma entirely those of Urostigma. Anther not exceeding the perian
(the cells distinct and parallel ?).—F. nitida, Thunb. ; Wight Ic. t. 642;
Urostigma pisiferum eum, U. nitidum and U. retusum, Mi „in
Hook. Lo Lond. Journ. vi. i 590, 581, 582.
Australia. Islands of the T of maari R. Brown.
praes Rockingham bay, Dallac
This species extends over East Ind ia, ihe Andi and New Caledonia, —
northward to the Philippines and South C
8. F. eugenioides, F. Muell. ; Mig. in Ann. Mus, Lugd. Bat. iii, 286.
‘A small tree, quite gla brous. Leaves on petioles of 1 to 41n., oblong
lanceolate or e liptiesLeibltng, obtuse or scarcely acuminate, rh |
at the base, 14 to 24 in n. long, 4 to lin. broad, entire, coriaceous, *7.
numerous fine | parallel — uto iiri ie from the midrib, W
alone prominent wit a pair of very oblique basal 9 Y
ipules narrow. Receptddles tieli mostly in pairs in the lower
mW DESIERTO WII EUER. UM ANUS He ILS eee
NUN A
Ficus. I .CIX. URTICEÆ. 167
Quee [No rthumberland islands, R. Brown; Albany island, F. Muelle
Brena Hil; soon Dallachy, Thozet ; Crocodile Creek and Berseker » fune
N. S. ptr Tweed river, bio
Bot. 1. 2875 pare aee Mia. in ae tee ‘ ‘Lond! Journ. vi i. 62
N. pv tralia. York Sound, N. W. co ast, A. Cunningha
F. benjaminea, Linn. ; Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 288. A
large elegant tree with dedo ides branches * Cone like the
weeping willow” (Dallachy), quite glabrous. Leaves on petioles of 1 to
in., ovate or ovate-oblong, acuminate, rounded or cuneate at the base,
2 to near 4in. 1 g, entire, thinly coriaceou , with numerous fine
rather rigid. Male flowers not numerous, intermixed with the females.
Perianth trimerous; wire not exceeding the rmt the cells distinct
and parallel. Stigma gg — Urostigma benjamineum, Miq. in Hook.
nd. Journ. vi. 583; Ficus neglecta, Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 166.
Queensland. erii bay, Dallachy.
. F. Muelleri, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 987. A gabe
tree. Leaves on rather Anada petioles of 3 to ĝin., ovate or elliptical-
i
narrow, acu Receptacles in pairs closely sessile or on exceed-
ingly short ead globular, Mini. above iin. diameter, the
internal nee as in F. benjaminea.— Uros stigma Muelleri, Miq. in Journ.
Bot. Neerl. 1861, 235.
. gay n Beckler.—This may iro rove to be a variety of F.
benjaminea, but, as far very few s ecimens show, it appears to have narrower
leaves on ael petiole ^m a slightly different venation ae larger receptac
ll. F. tricha, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 285. A
small tree, po dowering Trobi and petioles hrs me i sprending
x Leaves miu qwe ovate bro UN oblon VM
*
308 — CIX. URTICER. . [ Ficus.
fallen away from almost all the specimens seen. Male flowers inter-
mixed with the females towards the orifice; perianth stipitate 3-merous,
with one mie ant se with hun cells. Female flowers nearly
i! Australia. tale z pa Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Bea Range, F.
F. Mueller Sangune t two varieties, Moran in which the nuc are about
4 lines, and macrocarpa, in which they are fully 6 lines diameter; but o xamination
peo — appear to be iit yet fu ‘grown, w A the wers in bud aid only just ex-
a central cavity ; “whilst e larger the fruits are ripe, com-
pletely ‘ling uel receptacle, The bracts subtnding the (Der appear to be larger
this than in any i, eg Australian spec
12. F. rubigin Osa, Desf.; Vent. Jard. Malm. t. 114. <A tree of con-
“siderable size, with o ading branches, throwing out woody roots,
cordate at the base, 3 to 4 in. tds and 2 to 24 broad w
u
K s. Wa les. p Jackson Blue Mountains ag to several her barið, 4
but no collector's name given; Hu nter's river, A. Brown; New As gla nd, C. Stuarts
Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; rd Howe's re CM
d of the
It is by some mpa that Mignel has yeee the pun of Venen an n
Botanical Magazine as F. ferruginea; they are both correctly named F. rubi ‘gn eu
eB i R4
F. ferruginea, Desf, mi published m a er Moy species, ‘which Miquel lier
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3 ditions,
Ficus.] CIX. URTICER. 169
been of CMS origin ; but Bureau refers it tothe true F. rubiginosa. e spe-
cimens from Lor owe's island were received under the ms. name of F. columnaris,
accompanied by a sketch of the habit of the tree with its grove of columnar adventive
roots; but I can find nothing to distinguish them from the N. S. Wales F. m
3. F. puberula, A. Cunn.; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 987.
A tree with the habit of F. platypoda, and apparently almost as EUER
in the leaves, rather large and broad o ller and narrower, always
obtuse or shortly and obtusely ac amaina; ON: glabrous or very
slightly pubescent, and not ferruginous, wit venation of F.
Receptacles globular and smooth, about 4 to 5 lines diameter, like
those of F. platypoda but on peduncles of 3 to 4 lines, and usual]
distinctly umbonate.— Urostigma puberu lum, Miq. in ond.
Journ. vi. 562, t. 93; U. Meses Mi Journ. Bot. Neerl. 1861,
2 ET vum Miq. in Ann. sue ia Bat. iii. 288.
York Sound, mir coast, A. Cunningham; Port Walcot, C.
Nds ; ene river, F. Mueller.
14. F. platypoda, A. Cunn. ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 987.
A small tree of robust growth, perfeetly glabrous in all its parts in the
typieal form, more or less pubescent in several varieties, but not
ferruginous. Leaves in the typical form on broad petioles of about
3 in., ovate, oneness entire, "d a slightly cuneate at the base, or
the lower nes almost cordate, 24 to 4 in. long, and 2 to 23 broad,
thickly an ead, with numerous E parallel primary veins, the
i e bas
Stigma linear-subulate and acute, or sometimes in the same receptacle
shorter and more obtuse.— Urostigma platypodum, Miq. in Hook. Lond.
Journ. vi. 561,
- Australia. York Sound and Vansittart’s Bay, A. Cunningham.
The following forms may some of them, when better known, prove to be sufficiently
distinct to be received as species :—
a the typical form except that the ends of
he bran and petioles a ubescent, and the under surface of the leaves also
slightly so; the petioles artien p7 short Urostigma nocau iq. in Journ.
Bot. Neerl. 1861 238. icu in Ann. Mus. Lugd. "Bat. iii. 287.—
ane je ralia, Baudin's Fapidion pte de ke N.W. Un; Port Darwin, Schultz,
Var. ? minor, Mi iq. Glabrous. Leaves elliptical-oblong, 2 to 3 in. long and 1 to o1
a AM petioles rather longer than in the typical form and the receptacles on
rt pedu
ustralia. N.W. Coast, Bynoe; Nicol Bay, Gregory's and Ridley’s E.
Var. ? petiola Gl lly larger than in the typical form, on
Petioles of pe i A sii e Onde rors jn, y nel sea AU Sel, 6h short
170 CIX. URTICEZ.. [ Ficus.
` Queenslan t Brisbane and Hastings rivers ” Pairs s a — Mai Fraser
Narra river, jm ardt; Rockhampton and Cape river, ^ Cleveland
Burdekin Expedition ; Port Deniboh, Fitzalan; and ute e dh sanie orm but wi
smaller leaves, Maranoa river, Mitche it.
Var.? mollis. n of the last variety but velvety- pubescent on both sides as well
as the young branche
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
subacumin Leaves "o on long petioles as in the last two forms, pubes-
cent, but not 8 ba 80 as in the r. mollis, and tapering above the middle so as to
be sometimes nium QM lanceo!
Queensland. itsunday Med et
The two last varieties are referred in b. F. Mueller to the F. Teicher, ta
n Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 287( Uri 1 aie ede cs Mig. in Jou Pier x "
1861, 235), o of whi ch, however, the typical vitiis
io i
from the North-Western ones with short petioles, it ood iain Siecle name oof
. Leichhardtii.
15. ? F. dictyophleba, F. Muell. ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 218.
This supposed species, described from leaves only, very much resembles
the broad-leaved glabrous forms of F. platypoda, differing in the shorter
pee usually oe 1 to nearly pe long, the more coriaceous shining
ith numerous veins much more prominent,
- Queensland. Islands off Cape Flattery, F. Mueller.
16. F. rophylla, Desf.; Pers. Syn. Pl. ii. 609. A large tree
with a Vost head, quite glabrous, closely allied to F. rubiginosa, and —
especially to the var. petiolaris of P. platypoda, but with much larger —
eaves. These i oval-elliptical or Bioadly oblong, obtuse or obtusely
acuminate, entire, 4 to 10 in. long, and 3 to 4 in. broad, coriaceous,
with numerous transverse paean rimary veins, but with the princ cipal
ones at some e from sith other more prominent per tie
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nearly globular or somewhat pear-shaped, ? to 1 in. disi d
peduncles of 3 to 4, the internal structure entirely as in F. platypoda.—
Urostigma macrophyllum, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 560.
Queensland. Pine river, Leichhardt; Moreton Bay, Hort. Kew.; Mount Dry-
MEN "Apte E
bug Hunter's and Paterson's rivers, 4. Brown; Macleay and Bellinger |
i ike SE ar St sak cee Si aes ee A A a a a E
Se Le REE ee eT ee AE ENE ER ae GR ER IR ENT et
rd d Moor
Mique iy Mus. Lu gd. Bat. iii. 287, refers to this org the F.H d 2
Kunth AF "Bouché, or Urosti igma Huegelii, Mig. in Hort. Lond. Journ. vi- 586, d
the U. m, Miq. in J Bot. Neerl. 1861, s 39. :
ome specimens labelled * Brush forests along the ” and exhibited as F. ma
crophylla in the collection of Northern woods, London “Exhibition eo n. 85, C. me E
are evidently the F. elastica, Linn., which has leaves of the same size but with a more
pt acumination, and the numerous parallel vei - — m equ à] and proxi
end v Amm; m xà have been Meo m cal arden o ill vy the speci-
9. Evsvcr.—Male iex of 5 or 6 lobes or a: 3
rarely reduced to a single one. Stamens 1, 2 or more; anth
Ficus. | CIX. URTICER. 171
Leaves alternate or opposite, entire toothed or lobed, often
deciduous. Receptacles axillary or on the old wood.
17. F. magnifolia, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 50, partly. A handsome
tree, the foliage slightly scabrous, but otherwise glabrous. Leaves
Male flowers few, with 2 or 3 stamens,
and an ovary within the same perianth. Style glabrous, with a small
obtuse shortly oblong stigma.
Queensland. Mount Elliott and Rockingham bay, Dallachy, F'itzalan.
„Fitzalan originally gathered this species without fructification, and named it F. mag-
nifolia.. Dallachy found fruits on trees of J’, hispida, which he took to be the same, and
sent them as the fruits of F. magnifolia to F. Mueller, who thus described the species
a
Specimens of F. magnifolia, with its own receptacles, which are entirely those of Eusyce.
172 CIX. URTICER. a
the dd vede nd tior Li in. and broader in proportion.
globular or ae turbinate, 14 to 2in. diameter. Male flowers not
seen. Style glabrous, with an oblique terminal Ver fe lanceolate
stigma.— F. stipulata, Thunb. Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. 439.
iy ? ,^ specimen in Herb. F. Mueller, without station, is n * The
Wide rl creeper."
. Wa Hunter's river, C. Moo
The Maid as limited by Piera. bif indk | over the Indian Arehipelago to South
China, but fruiting specimen: rare in herbaria, and in several localities it is an
ied plant... Whether the: ‘Australis n specimens are really fndigonons may be in
some measure uncertain. The closely allied F. erecta, Thunb., sometimes regarded as
a variety only, extends over Pig Asia genera T
onulata, F. n Journ. Bot. Neerl 1861, E
aes. below the leaves, on pedicels i to lis in., am contracted into
a short neck formed as in F. dde a by the erect braets of the broad
orifice, becoming at length nearly globular and nearly iy diameter.
Tries within the receptacle and perianths white-hyali Male flowers
not seen. Style Aia bronsi with a terminal oblique slightly dilated
stigma.—F. salicina, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 49.
N. Australia. iiri and Fitzmaurice rivers, F. Mueller.
toclada, Benth. A “beautiful tree of about 40 ft." with
. F. lepto
E branches, quite glabrous. Leaves Seg nek We acuminate,
entire, cuneate at the base, 2 to 4 in ae , 2 tol road, not
rigid ;
usually solitary, globular, 3 to 4 lines diameter, E bracts of the orifice
sho t deo ad neck, the external Tb mall and scale-like
cle.
dilated at ene apex into a short oblique or almost peltate stigma.
could find no male flowers in the two receptacles I Low
ennt Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
ssa, Benth. A tree, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate;
on dite petioles of $ in. or more, obovate-oblong, about 3 in. long 1
Sabe Se ENDE
Ficus.) ÇIX. URTICEZ. 178
pty :
those under the flowers small especially in the lower part of the fig.
Flowers all closely sessile, the males few near the ori ce. Perianth-
0 in ion
à wd Mount Elliott, Pitalan.—The i rnal structure of the ss pui
18 m many respects the same as in F. mollior sedie that of Covellia ; n F.
depressa there are no setæ between the pan and the foliage is differen t from wie of
llis, at least as far as it can be ascertained from the hie specimen received by
post from F. Mueller.
23. -= philippinensis, Miq. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vii. 435. A
small tree, our specimens quite glabrous Leaves on very short rather
thick petidles, elliptical or oblong, acuminate, entire, contracted at the
base, 3 t about 14 in. broad, thin y coriaceous, smooth,
the principal primary veins rather distant, almost transve erse, promin nent
underneath as well as the fine smaller veins and transverse reticulations,
vahid. Family island, Rockingham srek Dallachy. GK inge specimen in
Her F. "Muell ller, but quin similar to Archi ipelago specimens. e extends
porthward to the rede’ islands, and is also in New Caledonia
9 F l
eh and pude of "m leaves i pubescent or villous.
ong, E
smooth A the váther distant primary vein transverse reticula-
tions prominent underneath, with 1 or som otimies 2 pait rs of basal veins,
oblique but arial finer than some of the primary ved higher up.
Receptacles on pe uncles of 1 to 2 lines, axillary, ducens or in pairs,
globul
ular or somewhat obovoid, 4 to 5 lines ee shortly villous, the
external subtending bracts small and scale-lik ose round the ori
sometimes protruding almost as much as i n F. aspera. „Perianths nd
174 CIX. URTICER. [.Ficus.
inner bracts dark brown as in Urostigma. Male flowers very few
amongst the larger bracts near the orifice, the 3 oe -lobes broad
and enveloping each other, cte rd a single stamen as in Covellia.
emale flowers intermixed wit e long rigid hairs or sete rof the
receptacle as in F. colossea, the per rM ents narrow and unequal,
scarcely ete a ovary. Style short, glabrohs; with a terminal
concave rpg
sland. Bode tad; bay, Dallachy.
25. F. stenocarpa, F. Muell. Herb. A tree, apparently Dann
glabrous, but all parts especially the leaves very scabrous, ae
fully as large, all mela scabrous like the rest of the plant. "Outer
bracts scale-like on the peduncle below the receptacle. Perianths in
Mn sexes ieu gore as well as the bracts, the aum oblong, the
bracts rather broad or fringed. Stamens usuall a ending in à
vein hirsute un obtuse and coloured towards the
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy; Fitzroy island, rai
era, Forst. Prod. 76. A tree, sometimes described as
small, s fes es as attaining 80 to 100 ft., the young branches petioles
and ele Ae hispid with short hairs. Leaves on short petioles,
oblans ellie. MOTEN, primine, often oa spate above the
middle, roun ue and sometimes emarginate at the base.
3 to 6 in. mea A “th to 2 rood broad, very scabrous Sone pubescent oF
ispid underneath, the primary dive ergent veins distant and prominent
underneath as well as the transverse reticulations, the basal pair of
the cadi near the pot of dii padianels sina hispid, with gree?
tips very deciduous. Male flowers numerous intermixed with the
Perianth stipitate, with 5 orÓ n concave segments.
Blamer 2 to 4; eri -cells uet 6 one often abortive in 1 or 2 of
the stamens. Fem a peint s on & shorter stipes. S. glabrous
with a terminal MU or slightly peltate stigma.—Miq. i n Hook
Lond. Journ. vii. 425 ‘
Queensland. rake river, Moreton bay, A. Cunningham, Leichhardt, Fe
Mueller, and others
Ficus, | CIX. URTICER. 175
s. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Woolls, Miss Atkinson ;
oiu s river, R. Brow Maitland, Backhouse ; Clarence d Hastings rivers,
w Englan : Sturt; southward to Illaw npn ncc and
ubglabra. rpm of the receptacle so short as to he tates at vin sight
Sein n. Brisbane river, F. Mueller; Hunter's river, R. Brown
eth with few distant primary veins, and 3-nerved from the
prominence of the basal pair, the vetivaldté veinlets fine and little con-
u i a
pubescent, Su nae bracts smal m scale- like, 1 or 2 usually on
d peri i
peltate stigm
. . Lond. diim: vii. 196 ud Hei not pare so "hend
and F. Bee kla j| Miq. in Journ. Bot, Neerl 1861, 241 (as to the
N. ^ dude epee es).
a. Careening bay, Hevlerhy. i ind and Denies A N.W.
Cond, ri ose Bai King ud nd, H: Hugha ; Nichol bay, Gregory's Expedition ;
Victoria and Fitzmaurice rivers, P. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Suits, n. i. 307.
+ aculea
tall Shrub , Very pont ‘allied oF : P. orbicularis and per erha aps a variety,
e
_ tomentose, the margins more aculeate. Receptacles rather larger and
Pa MEINT ST piper or hirsute, on exceedingly short peduncles,
uth Goulburn island, A + Cunningham; Nichol bay, Ridley's
RS ee ; Kings Sound and Collier bay, ‘Chapman
Var. mi F. micracantha, Miq. in Ann.
Mus. Laat Bat. ii 221. "Iolandsof the Gulf espina R. Brown, Hen nue, Gul-
. liver ; Cairncross island, Z, Mueller.
29. F. sita, Miq. in Hook, Lond. Journ. vii. 426. A tall shrub or
. Small tr BAL ha Tout Brkiehof and underside of the leaves softly and
. den ia pubescent. Leaves mostly opposite, exceedingly v variable in
. Size and shape, in the typical specimens broadly cordate-ovate and
. about 2 in. long on deber s not exceeding $in., in others ovate, ovate-
1 oblong, or ovate-lanceolate, 6 to 8in. long, on petioles of 4 to lin.,
176 CIX. URTICEÆ. [ Ficus.
all obtuse or acuminate, entire or very slightly RON e dug C very
scabrous Mw distantly penniveined with the lowest pair starting
from very near the or: " transverse veinlets and EA EORR pro-
minent unde E; e barren branches the leaves are hastately
9-lobed with 1 Gag. poe eatttral por 2 short lateral lobes.
Cent ts u laity at some distance from the fig, but saset aloit to it.
Flowers entirely those of F. orbiculata.—F. indecora, Miq. in Journ.
Bot. Neerl. 1861, 242, as to the.specimens from Clarence river.
Queensland. rod sap: and Shoalwater bays and Broad Sound, R. Brown ; e
river, Priest Rodd’ A. Cunningham; estuary of the Burdekin, F. Mueller
me Denison, Fitzalan ; Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Bowman.
. S. Wal New England, C. Stuart; Clarence river, Beckler.
0. F. scobina, Benth. A shrub or small tree of 8 to 20 ft., re-
4 ?
and irregularly bii tee at the end, the At primary Veins
and transverse reticulate veinlets prominent underneath, without any
distinct basal pair of veins. Mi ga mostly solitary, globose, the
largest on our specimens 4 lines diameter, scabrous like the rest of the
plant, but without hairs, the iod Wi ts small and scale-like, either
close under the r receptacle or along the short pene: e flowers
nt near the orifice. Perianth-segments of both sexes narrow an
ual, and as well as the bracts white-hyaline as in F. orbiculata.
ecc 1 with a large peeled anther, and sometimes a ed smaller
one. Style glabrous, with a terminal ene or i vel stigma.
N. Australia. Lizard island, € ningham ; sington, Lei Mardi;
ih Darwin n, rne . 6, 410, 499.— -although wird de some sapeva 2A e three
short petioles, s, that it can scarcely be det ered as a variety only, ce dia vote identi ntiy it
with any of the Indian scabrous species to which it bears some resembla:
= a —Male perianth of 3 or 4 broad E
i tin
out
la
few hairs, short, with a peltate or oblique stigma. Leaves sal hg
the stipular scar prominent. Receptacles chiefly on the old wo
31. F. hispida, Linn. f. Suppl. 449. A small tree, remarkable for
the young branches, when luxuriant, very hollow and contracted at tlie
Ficus.) ,* CIX. URTICEZ. 177
anden; wes foliage and branches more or less sprinkled or covered with
shor airs. Leaves all opposite, broadly riens een or
erneath, the primary veins distant, prominent underneath as well
as the transverse veinlets, the basal ies died oblique. Receptacles either
in pairs in the lower axils or more frequently in leafless clusters or
se olin.
diameter, * white," more or less hirsute. Male flowers amongst the
larger bracts near the orifice, the segments brown-hyaline, very broad,
each one completely enveloping the next in the bud. Female perianth
38 ; Covellia oppositifolia Gan, du diy ia iyaka quoted
P Miq. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. iii. 296.
ustralia. Brien ck Bay, N. W. t, A. Cunnin
nsla nd. Northu saben islands jut Broad Soun i pi Brown joiner in
but VR this species); Rockingham and Edgecombe bays, D
Wanie el iptical, } scebrilial sinuate-crenate, rounded
contracted or slightly Seale at e base, 8 to 10 in. long and 4 tod
broad in some specimens, much smaller in others, the distant primary
and often depressed at the dite Bracts within the reri
inute excepting near the orifice. Male flowers few under the inner-
most developed d miy like those of F. hispida. Female
pem genos Fitzroy river, Bowman, Thozet, Dallachy.
one Leaves here and there Spposite and branch hollow as d £
hing t with the small 6-ribbed receptacles of F. fascicu
NA river, Dallachy.
. 838. F. casearia, F. Muell. Herb. A tree with a broad
head, quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, on petioles of } to To jms or onis
_ or elliptical, acuminate, entire, rounded or cun — —
: v in. long, 13 to 2} in. broad, membranous, not scabrous, the TE
p pr "uii veins distant, slightly prominent dudes) the ved voli ne
178 CEXISURTICE@> =< [ Ficus.
pair very iit or obsolete, the smaller veins and transverse reticulations
very fine or inconspicuous. Stipules rather long, acuminate, deciduous
Receptacles usually below the jevo nearly sessile or on peduncles
ines, apparently obovoid when ng, depressed-globular
ll grown, and attaining about j in. diameter, quite €
10 aast aid. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Fitzroy fa me oe ik iste river,
Herb. Delesse tt. F. Mueller distinguishes two forms, 7" casearia, with obovoid pedun-
lochidioides, with almost sessile depressed-globular ones ; but
cimens are intermediate as to the peduncles, and the s of the rec ceptacles
dash. doors upon age; the foliage and internal structure of. the figs is precisely
the same in both. The speci in very near F. fasciculata in the ribbed receptacles,
but the =i is very differen
AN. Australia. i Vibe river F M "m
Fe seg Bar De Northumberiand ‘islands, R. Brown; Port € Fitzalan; Rock- —
i Bay, Dallachy; Rockhampton, Bowman, Thozet, D allachy
The speci: ommon in vids ric es soil in Ea st is and aa een v"
the Indian Archipelago under some other name, if I a really correct in referring , the
— plant to the Indian species. Ihave not aducteded | in detecting any tangi
differe:
9. CUDRANIA, Trec.
the lt i more or less fleshy. Male ist of 40
a
segments, dilated and dels at the apex. Stamens 4 or 5, flame ents -
ened i
4 segments imbricate in the bu tyle simple, with a filiform ste
Fruit a onmi formed of the enlarged somewhat fleshy perianths 3
oT ae
8
EI un So PORT PR PRI RE
Cudrania. | CIX. URTICER. 179
receptacle. Nuts free but enclosed within the Durex and aas
immersed in the receptacle, ra ericarp crustaceous. See
lobular, the testa membranous; albumen very rian or none. ‘Coty:
edons broad and thick, folded ia over the ias incurved radicle.—More or
less climbing shrub, often armed with axilla
aves alternate. Flower-heads axillary. `
he genus is probably limited to a single species, Sane from Eastern Africa
over East India and the Archipelago id north ward to Jap:
P X: t3 ^
C. javanensis, Zrecul in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, viii. 193, "i shrub
0
niveined adi aen but the veins pogi not prominent cam
ing slightly tomentose.—Bureau in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 3
the several synonyms addu dal; Maclura err Miq.; ume
e ae ii. 88, t. 31; Morus calcar -galli, A. Cunn :
and. Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. robe P ; Rock-
hampton, O Shaneey Stewart's Creek, Bowman ; Rockingham Bay, [A wd Mackay
river, Sutherlan
; . S. Wales. Cabramatta and Hunter’s river, Woolls ; Sydney woods, Paris Ex-
| hibition 1855, [on n, 76; Kiama, Harvey.
6. ANTIARIS, Leschen.
of several bracts, in irregular rows, adnate ovary and closely
- combined in an ovoid m ass, the tips alone free, without we E
1 peus Style divided nearly to the base into 2 long filiform stigmatic
. branches. Ovule e pendulous. Fruit consisting of the rini more or
i succulent involucre and pericarp. Seed. pendulous, with a crus-
testa and no albumen. Embryo straight, with M plano-
convex cotyledons, and a sh superior radicle. —Trees or shru
a milky juice. Leaves alternate, distichous. Stipules small, decidtious.
Bisai axillary.
The genus consists of few species natives, of tropical Asia and Africa and of the
ands of the South Y TA 2 ncludes the celebrated Upas ime of the Archipelago.
ustralian species, in as far as known, appears to be endem
_ 1. A. macrophylla, R. Br. in Flind. Voy. ii. - t. 5. A tall shrub
9r very small much branched tree, quite glabrou don es broadly
: : t ly am
180 .CIX. URTICER. [ Antiaris.
1
Ylower-heads several on a very short common um e, the lowest
female, the others male, on short pedicels. Male receptacle flat or con-
cave, about 5 eet diameter, em marginal bracts ciliate, at first inflexed,
ei Australia. Shores of Company's Island opposite Arnhem's Land, Æ. Brown.
—I have found no are of this plant in any of the herbaria I have had access
to, and bise therefore no means of comparing it with the closely allied WC
cies. e above —— is taken from Brown's elaborate account and Daue
plate in Flinders’ Voyag
TRIBE 3. Monzu.—Flowers unisexual, in dense spikes or heads.
biüinens inflected in the bud. Styles usually 2-branched. Ovules
pendulous or laterally attached. Embryo incurved or involute. Trees |
or shrubs, very rarely herbs.
7. MALAISIA, Blanco.
(Cephalotropis, Blume; Dumartroya, Gaudich.) .
Flowers dicecious, the males in oblong or cylindrical spikes, the —
females i in globular heads on a small e Male perianth deni P
ivided into 8 or 4 lobes or segments, valvate in the bud. Stamens
9 or 4, the filaments quac d, inflected i in the bud. Female perian
urceolate, with a small orifice, enclosing the ovary. Style with 2 elon-
a milky jul aves a ay usua
deciduous. Thlireatnéo axill
The genus appears to be limited to = state Australian species, qe over te
Indian Archipelago and Bladds of the South Pacific to the Philippine
y entire. Stipules smat,
concave, the prominent dorsal pubescent gibbosities densely imbricate. Sd.
Flowers mostly rudimentary, only 2 or 3 in the head perfect, conce
Maluisia. | CIX. URTICE®: 181
under r hits except the iia filiform’ exserted style-branches.—
Bureau in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 369, with the following Australian
besides several. other Eua t Cunningham sei in n "o
: ETE, od Dürvii, Schultz, n. eh
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Ba Xu Cunnin gham, F. Mueller, and
diis. anse to Rockhampton, Rockingham and "Edge mbe Ba 8, cr the Burdekin,
F. Mueller e t, Peu ar one and be scab Wide Bay, idwi
N.. S. Wales. Cam r, €. Mo oore; Richmond river, Henders ; Dla-
warra, Bort : ORO a "Hl n the Colonists, 'F. Mueller; larence river, Beckler
(with acuminate Paice sometimes bi near the apex and 3 to 4 in. long); Lo
owe's Island, €. Moore (with large ovate acuminate or ovate-lanceolate leaves d
remarkably large reg nike the Somalia not seen).
8. PSEUDOMORUS, Bureau.
led
ats ab radicle incumbent, ascending.—Tree or shrub with a ar
Juice. Leaves alternate. Stipules small, fs pies Inflorescences
axillary.
The genus is limited to the single Australian species, which extends into New Cale-
donia and Norfolk Island.
- Brunoniana, Bureau in / Ana. Se. Nat. ser. 5, xi. 872. ` A tall
hitch or small tree, attaining sometimes 20 or 40 ft., glabrous or nearly
80. soon very shortly petiolate, vnd ovate-lanceolate or lanceo-
slightly da ree on the underside sa ects on the nerves an nd so e-
times scabrous above. Spikes solitary in the axils, € or body
pedunculate, the males not abo in. long in the m jority of the
Australian specimens, but: in a few s e and capil i the
Norfolk Island variety lengthe ening t even 3 in. nth-
Segments about 4 line long. Female died very small, mes diit
taining only 3 or 4 foward each within a minute ract. Berries
hy
Brunoniana, Endl. Atakta, t. 32; M. pendulina, F. Bauer, n Endl,
Prod. Fl. Norf, 40 ; Streblus Brunoniana and S. pendulina, p Muell.
Fragm.-vi. 192.
BA Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, 9 Mueller, wil
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182 CIX. URTICER, [ Pseudomorus.
others; Rockham O’ Sha: owman; Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; also in
Leichhardts co inapi and onn Woods, London Exhibition 1862, W. Hil,
es. —A Woolls ; northward to Macleay E Met rivers,
Wal
Beier; New — den : sonthw ard to Ilaw: warra, A. Cunningham, re
Clarence and Ri end LE Lo ondon bation 1862, id Moore. n. 38.—"
by the dici for boomerangs,"' F. Mueller.
9. FATOUA, Gaudich.
anther-cells parato. DUERME. pistil very small. Female
pendulous ; testa membranous ; albumen y anaes o curved,
with broad flat equal cotyledons, and a lon hitunent radicle. weer
herbaceous, Leaves alternate, toothed. Viowarihéáds axillary.
The genus consists of the single Australian species d pret the Indian Asa
pelago and the South Bon Islands, extending northward to Jap
long, more or less pu dh add scabrous on both si es. Stipules
ovate or lanceolate, ichs to 3 lines vis d and remaining long persistent, -
but sometimes small o decid Flower-heads sho ortly cts :
Mahd
culate and usually jit in the axis 2 to 3 lines diameter.
small, membranous. us e flowers Foug n females almost
synonyms adduced.
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstrong.
Trt BE 4. Evurticr®.—Flowers unisexual, in cymes clusters p
Tv Ta heads. Stamens inflected in the bu d. Styles :
The Order Urticer is T Tute to this tribe, but none of the characte given
pater and the habit is not always distinct. us Fatoua in that respect ne
sembles sev eral Huurtwee, Elatostemma has the pari y of Area pád, Pse
turus are very ' nearly allied to each other,
SUBTRIBE l. PnocniDEX.—Plants not stinging. Female perianth ;
deeply lobed.
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10. ELATOSTEMMA, Forst.
wers moneecious or diccious, in Mery unisexual heads, the re-
ac usually flat or concave, surrounded by an involuere óf several
ments more or less adnate to the segments, ihe c central r antary
iege usually very small; anthers Ie parallel cells ud back to back.
emale perianth minute, of 3 4 segments. Stigma sessile,
tufted. Nut ovate, slightly compr ress HE erbs rarely shrubby x n
bite: hal
he genus is spread over the pce and telnet ire regions ud pi iia World. The
two Australian species appear endem mic, although closely allied to one or two
common Asiatic and Sro Bea stand species. The distinctive characters in the genus
are very uncertain and d
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Coarse plant. s 3 to 6 in. long. Male heads À to 1 in
diameter. Females on short pesca or seri sessile . . 1. E. reticulatum.
Slender plant. Leaves 1 to 2i long. M heads 2 to 3 lines ie
Females on slender rw ks . 2. E.stipitatum.
l. E. reticulatum, Wedd. in Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 4, i. 188, Monogr. Urt.
302, and in DC. Prod. — i.176. A coarse straggling herb, the stems
often food at the base, attaining 1 to 2 ft. and sometimes branched,
ing at in the t pical form either quite glabrous or with a fow
ad ae on pn midrib of the leaves underneath. Leaves usually 3
to 9 pr
side, the lower ones not at all or cue more Mii than the suc-
the tolo of 4 or 5 acute or acuminate bracts nearly as long as
the flowers. Perianth about 1 line long, of 5 broad segments. Female
heads more globular, rarely above 3 or 4 lines diameter and the in-
| Volucre much shorter. Nuts about $ line long, Sip ori: at the base
‘almost into a stipes as long as the minute piu
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton Ba sis
ales. Hunter's river, [jc ue Ag nd river, Henderson ; Clarence
iw ‘and Mount Lindsay, Beckler ; New England, C. Stuart; Illawarra, A. Cunning
ham, Backhouse
Var. pubescenti-hirta, from the brush of Kiri, Leichhardt.
/
184 CIX. URTICEJE. [ Elatostemma.
Var. sessile. Male flower-heads sessile or eid so, but with the leaf-venation and
iie: surface of Æ. reticulatum.—Macleay river, Beckler
sire aves 6 to 8 in. ung and b Broader t van e the other M quur Flower-
heideon n long Cirta .—E. sessile var. grande, W n DC. Prod. = 418.—
Lord Howe’s isla net "Milne , M'Gillivray, €. Moore.
I have little doubt but that all the Mei belong to one species, SA is allied to the
E. sessile, Forst., o the South Sea islands, but without the marked almost triplinerved
venation of that species. Fed de approach to it is in some of the leaves of t e Lord
Howe's island plants, but ev s shorte
= and the peduncles are » cu aiot long. The Macleay river specimens hari the
e heads, but not the leaf-venation of Æ. sessile; its male flowers are 5-merous, not
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322, t. 9 D, f£. 11-16, and in DC. Prod. xvi. i. 186. A ‘small V edd
diffuse or prostrate herb, the stems sim ivi or branched, rooting at the
base, a few inches or rarely nearly a foot long. Leaves quite sessile,
vlt as well as the stems more or less hispid. ower-heads Pul T
pedunculate, the pat 2 to 8 lines or very rarely nearly 4 lines diameter,
e much narrower than in Æ. reticulatum. Flowers nearly as m
that species. Female heads still smaller.
N. S. Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Mount Lindsay, W. Hil.
SuB E 2. Borumertz£.—Plants not stinging. Female pe
dide ‘isha tubular "n winutely "vd enclosing or din » the
ovary, or rarely minute or no
1l. BOEHMERIA, Jacq.
Flowers moncecious or diccious, in globular usually unisexual
gne. math small scarious bracts. Male e perianth of 4, rarely 3 or 5,
r lobes, valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as periant th-
MN pom a central clavate or globose rudimentary pistil. Female
tubular, compressed, more or less dilated below, usually
tracted at the orifice, w ith a 2- or 4-toothed border. Nut dry, in included
in the persistent eM free or more or JE adnate to it, sessile OF
more or less X llela C Rd or sma we inves alts ade :
oS petiolate, ‘eats toothed, Biipules usually deciduous.
lower-clusters axillar , either sessile and solitary or in simple inter-
nicles.
rupted spikes or short ranched ^
e genus is pe over the tropical a subtropical regions of both the New cd 5
The
the Old World. cies as as yet been detected on the main land of Australia ;
subjoined one is endemic in Lord Howe's island.
1. B. calophleba, F. Muell. e vii. 11. A bushy shrub of
6 to 8 ft., the branches minutely pubescent with appressed a
Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, obtusely
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neck minutely 4- toothed at the orifice. Nut sessile and completely
enclosed in the perianth but free from it, the linear e sistent hirsute
style protruding to about the length of the perianth itse
N. S . Lord Howe's island near the base of Mount Li ingbird and sides of
p rahe etn q vi m e.—The "i teness of the underside of the leaves recalls that of
B.n but in t shape as well as in the inflorescence ge species is h more
sid “allied to sn Norfolk island m. australis, Endl.
12. PIPTURUS, Wedd.
bed or stigma hirsute ne side, and deciduous after flowering.
Fruit forming a small eid s globular REND) the slightly
tboil perianths, however, quite distinct at the Seeds with a
very scanty albumen.— Trees or tall shrubs. Prec alternate, entire
or toothed, often white underneath, 3- or 5-nerved. Stipules axillary,
deeply bifid, deciduous. Flower-clusters axillary, solitary, or in
un spikes
he genus comprises E few species, dispersed over the Indian Archipelago, the
Pacific Selenide: and the Mascarene group. ‘The only Australian species has the general
LP) argenteus, Wedd.in DO. Prod. xvi. i, 995". A tree usually
small but sometimes attaining 50 ft., the young branches and under-
side of the leav ves ayi or white with a bere Fans tum. Leaves on
and € erigi “dry in ried specimens.— Urtice argenteis
Pont’ Prod ; R. propinquus, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 447, t. 15
Que vx pone. ead, 4. Cunningham ; Daw r, F. Mueller; Fitzro
island, pre vray, C. Moore, ve others; Cape Yo. M Kennedy disci
Daintree oak ham Bay, Dallachy ; j Bookham mpton, Dallachy, Bowman, Thoz
N. S. W Richmond Pim
The nedar is alle i in the Indian Pikea and in the Pacific islands.
186 CIX: URTICEÆ. [ Pouzolsia,
13. POUZOLSIA, Gaudich.
(Memorialis, Ham.; Gonostegia, Turcz.; Hyrtanandra, Miq.)
owers moncecious or ius b dicecious, in sessile usually androgynous
Flay with small us
segments, valvate in the pe
or obovoid rudimentary eui. d perianth usually ovate, con-
tracted at the orifice, with a 2- or 4-toothed border, often enlarged in
uit and sometimes winged but not succulent. Nut enclosed in the
s
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The genus is spread over the — — of both the New and the Old World.
_ them
Australian species are both o Indian and paler the two sections
into which t nus ide "m hic have pted as genera by
ell as well as by several other botanists. I have, hawisie followed F. Muell
reuniting them, the sole character derived from the sha male perianth is
of litt impertance, and the ueteri in habit, di ipod marked i in the typical beh
of each section, do not run thro e whole of the
. Secr. 1. bidet iii i jei concave at the top, but rounded and
mC VUC.
_ Stems diffuse. Leaves all alternate . . . . . . . . 1. P indica.
` Secr. 2, Memorialis.—Male perianth-segments abruptly bent in near the top,
with an acute transverse e orei angle.
Stems elongated. Lower leaves opposite . . > . . .2. P quinquenervis.
Sect. 1. Povzorst I4.— Male perlanth- segments concave at the top
but rounded A obtuse on the back, giving the whole perianth à
globular fo
1. P. eine Catch Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 898, t. 18, and in DC.
Prod. xvi. i. 220, tetraptera subvar. pentandra, Wi "
perennial with the habit of a Parictaria, more or less iei ee or hir-
sute, the stems usually from 6 in. to 1 ft. long. Leaves alternate or the
lower ones rarel gen. shortly petiolate, ovate, acute, entire, we E
times all u nder arely near ly lin. long, 3-nerve d, with the latera.
long, sometimes ovoid and equally 8- or 10-ribbed, Pu others in in
same axils with 4 of the ribs produced into FEMME ings, Nuts blac
arnhemi Muell. Fragm. i
. Austr teli js Range, Wilson; Sunday island, t iwi esa
Queensland. erri de bay, Dallac hy.
cT $ iai is DAE in East India and e Archipelago, with the male up bad et i
8. e Sea Range specimens correspond to ^ ho P. procumbens,
2099, n. n. 35 eg the y RN, Wight Ic. t. 2100, n. 43, the ier with 10-ribbe bed, the
latter with item fruiting perianths, bot h correctly ot by Weddell to P. indica, 4
FeO 7 99 3 a P Ert eere eO REUS
Pouzolsia. | CIX; URTICER. 187
and although both are pouty described. as having 4-merous male flowers, Blume, Mus
Bot. ii. 231, erp rae! says that cumbens is usually 5-merous, though sometimes
4-merous. The gle Rockingham Bay specimen has rather larger leaves, the ore
b 4
Ww 8 pe
some of the male flowers 3-androus or gie oh iting periant €
canines, with a esr p n Mri uma id containing a a T un SE Shoul
the 5-me vd
Lo Bl., be on y erous varieti is
Pariet ria oppositifolia, 2: Ma ell. esi ^ a appears to me to be a young
lites speci of Pouzolsia indica var. alienata, Wedd., with E of the raus
apposite, Mi. A d 8e, dd or broadly c oria at the base. Very similar s specim
ur occasionally amongst the Indian o
SE . MEMonrALIS, Ham.—Male perinsiti le alid abruptly
bent in near the top, with an acute transverse pace angle, giving a
perfectly flat or concave t to the cor
2. P. quinquenervis, Benn. Pl. Jav 66. A perennial with
que nding or erect stems i: 9f. ft. or more [y NOM branched except at
e base, quite glabrous or the angles of the stems and margins and
cala of the leaves very slightly popora Leaves on very short
petioles or Popii sessile, the lower ones apain y^ xà r ones
3- or 5-nerve ; the upper ones often smaller per vae ires , but
not reduced to small adis as in some species. Flower-clusters rather
loose, the two sexes usually mixed but in different pro rtions in
different specimens. Male perianth IAM a i pes diameter, with a
concave almost saucer-like A road apex, u we 5-merous. Female
uiting perianth with 3 or 4 rarely 2 or 5 aa rU ipe and
quite i wen Nut Bee smooth and shining.—Jf: aque-
nervis, Ham.; Wedd. i DC. Prod. xvi. i. Sd Hoods, js d
or Memorialis lythroides, T. Muell. Fragm. 94.
Queensland. La agoons, Rockingham bay, Dad! ; table-land of South Alligator
river aid. Upper Lind river. . Leichha rdt.
The species is also in Sikkim, Khasia and Nepal. It is closely allied to the common
P. hirta, differi riug in being much more glabrous, the petioles "a shorter or cxi
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any, and the wings of the fruiting perianth opaque and apparently veinless. I o
very near to M. Ee a, Benn., and aquatica, ia 1 in ys au
leaves bein ng reduced to small bracts. With regard to the | (or ric)
name, if it be t thought that that of Memorialis, Ham., was eerie published i
Wallich’s Catalogue, that of Gonostegia, Turez., would take precedence over Miquel
Hyrtanandra.
14. PARIETARIA, Linn.
(Freirea, Gaud.)
Flowers polygamous, in axillary cymes often reduced to loose
clusters, the external bracts more or less united at the base. Perianth
lobes, with as man ny stamens, in the females with a more deve
tube and smaller lobes without stamens. Ovary in the irod
1838 CIX. URTICER. Le
and female flowers free within the perianth-tube, in the males rudi-
mentary. Style filiform or very short, with a densely tufted linear-
athulate recurved stigma, deciduous after flowering. Nut enclosed in
the variously enlarged perianth, that of the hermaphrodite flowers
usually cylindr rival, not su a | —Annual or perennial much-branched
erbs, pubescent with more or less prehensile hooked hairs. Leaves
alternate, entire, 3-nerved or ML Stipules none.
® The genus is ge cup over the greater part of the globe, the only Australian species
ihe one of the widest range.
P. debilis, Forst. Prod. 73. A diffuse more or less pubescent
doy annual of 6 in. to above 1ft. Leaves on slender petioles,
ovate or cordate, phe or acuminate, membran n both
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Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 985; Freirea disteni Nees in P
Preiss. i. 638.
N. Australia. Sea Range, F. Mueller.
Queensland, Brisbane river, Darebin creek, and Buchan river, F. Mueller ü
. Argyle county, 4 rg ingham ; Hunter’s river, Miss Scott ;
Shorihaven nen guiies C. Moore; New England, C. S :
n fissures of rocks, F. ‘Malet; Carling creek, Robertson; Little river,
Plager Vo Murray — Dallachy. ssland,
Launceston and various places along the coast, Gunn ; Flinders istan
Milligan s Yi King’s island F. Mueller Lake
t. Vincent’s gulf F. Mueller; Gawler ranges, Sullivan ;
Gillies, Burkitt; Kan aroo i SAM , F. Mueller. d
ustralia. Bid , Drum koka i coll. n. 134, eon jek an
Kalgan rivers, (Olaf; ‘Oldfield’ river, Miisan: veda island, Preiss
The s s spread over the tropical and temperate regions both of Ko s
the Old Wor Hd, with the rius of Europe d Northern Asia. It was distinguis "n
by Gaudi chaud generically from the peer P. officinalis, under the name of Fi fu
on account of its sessile stigma, a character which however does py DE ood in
P. mauritanica, which is in other respects p closely allied to P. debi.
15., AUSTRALINA, Gaudich.
the
Flowers moncecious, in the same or different axillary clusters, x
males few together (1 to 5) sessile on a very short common pedune |
the females sessile or on very short pedicels. oe ae ie y
bilabiate, the outer lip infexed in th out an
rudimentary pistil. Female perianth ovoide, preii E d
Ovary enclosed in the perianth but free, with a linear style v0? —
ae APT e eee
Australina. | CIX. URTICER, 189
especially on one side and persistent. Nut enclosed in the persistent
perianth.—Diffuse or prostrate branching perennial dd with the.
habit of Parietaria. Leaves petiolate, alternate or arely oppose,
crenate or obtusely toothed, membranous, 3-nerved. Stipule ules small.
Besides me: tein species, one of which is also in New Zealand, "nt is a third
in UM
Stem Pen IM, Leaves bie mostly 2 to 4 lines diameter ^ A. seen
ie ascending. Leaves, except the lowest, ovate, 1 to 2 in. long . 2. A. Muelleri
l. A. pusilla, Gaudich. in Freye. Voy. Bot. 505. Stems filiform,
creeping along or hanging from rocks, usually under ‘6 in. 1 D d
ines
diameter or rarely 4 in. when very luxuria ale flowers solitary
2 toget er on a common peer about as lon e perianth, which
od. xvi. i. 235°; Urtica "ril Poin Dict. t Sup. iv. 924;
Australina Nove Zelandie and A. Tasmanica, Hook. £. Fl. Nov . Zel.
i n
ania. Circular Head and banks of the aedis Gunn; Macquarrie Harbour
id. Hampshire hills, Milligan; South Port, C. Stua
e species is also in New Zealand preserving eA same characters. I find in —
axils 2 male peduncles each bearing 2 flowers and only 1 or 2 females, in others
females and a à singlo male 1-flowered peduncle, or sometimes t he axils are wholly s
or wholly fem
A. Muelleri, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 545, and in DC. Prod. xvi.
E ogee A much stouter plant than A. pusilla, creeping at the base,
with ascending or erect stems of 6 in. to 1 ft., a few of the lower leaves
sometimes small and diodi, but those 3 the Fidis stems always
ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or almost acute, coarsely crenate-
toothed, 1 to 14 in. long. Male peduncles slit bearing 2 to 4 flowers
all ee. in a whorl so as to resemble a flower, the perianth
gre more hirsute than in A. p e flowers in dense
ener
sessile clüdteb, often numerous, in separate axils or on separate plants
m the males, or rarely 1 or 2 in the male axils. Fruiting erianth
} to $ li ine long.— Urtica Tasmanica, F. Muell. First Gen. Rep. 18 (as to
the e Victorian plant ,
ctoria. Buffalo di Dandenong Ranges, Mount Disappointment, Delatite po
Apollo Bay, etc., F. Mueller; who considers this as a variety only of A. seis but I
ave seen no connecting form.
SunTRIBE 9. UnxnEx.—Plants more or less armed with stinging
hairs, Female perianth 4-lobed, 2 opposite lobes usually larger than
the 2 others
190 CIX. URTICEJ. ^. [Urtica.
16. URTICA, Linn.
Flow moncecious or dicecious, clustered but distinct. Male
peraith [^ Riesed-plobilaz in the bud, deeply divided into 4 concave
nearly equal segments. Stamens 4; with a small rudimentary pistil.
Anthers oblong-reniform. Female perianth with 2 outer segments
A smaller than the 2 inner, which become Vno de and ovate beg
sprinkled or covered with yr stinging hairs. Leaves opposite,
toothed, 5- 7- or rarely ped ed. Stipules interpatiolar, free or the 2
on each side united into one. ower-clusters in axillary simple or
branched interrupted apes or panicles, shorter than the leaves, and
often shorter than the petioles.
The is widely spread over the extra-tropical regions of both the northern an nd
southern yetirnberen i in the New as well as the Old World, more rare within the tropics.
The only indigenous Australia apu We is also in New Zealand, and is a close repre-
- sentative da à common northern one.
Perennial. Male and female flowers in distinct inflorescences 1. U. incisa.
Annual Male and female flowers in the same inflorescences. . . .*2. U. urens.
l. U. incisa, Poir. ; Wedd DC. Prod. xvi. i. 52, A perennial,
with stems usually weak or dec batt at the base, sometimes slender
and rarely 1 ft. long, sometimes trailing to the length of 10 or 12 ft,
p ‘between the stinging hairs. aves usually on long petioles,
Tanceolate or almost linear, acute, deeply toothed, somewhat cordate at _
the base and 1 to 3in. long, rarely ovate-lanceolate. Inflorescence
usually simple or branching into 2 at the very base, the males mostly
as long as or longer than the petiole, e clusters eie uet lengthening
into short branches, the females shorter and more dense, but in some
specimens the female inflorescences are jt ng, slender, and branched, in
DONE UMS mU ved c MI
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1 line diameter, labrous or slightly prahcqus; Eum dis smaller
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when in fl ut the inner segments
nut, NU. DNA slightly com Der as gos. as Or roy longer
than the persistent, perianth. OE f. Fl. Tasm. i. 343; U. lucifugt E
Hook. £ in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 285. :
Queen Covering an island in Fitzroy river, O'Shanesy, a single specimen —
not 1n flower. |
N. S.
Wales. Paramatta, Woolls; Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; New
castle, Leichhardt. :
Victoria. Marshy plains on the Yarra, F. Mueller, Robertson; L Little river,
E ;
Common in various parts of the island, peer in moist shady places,
A D. masa: Flinders. island, Gunn; King’s islan
S. Australia. Strathalbyn, Herb. F. Suellen, a, ee not named.
This species, Mg ns is also in New Ze aland, is usually dist inguished , from ron a
northern a er dioica, nn., by the weaker stems glabrous Meo p stinging di U
narrower leaves and Nai male flowers; some northern specimens, however, °
ces CIX. URTICER, 191
*2. U. urens, Linn. ; Wedd. in DO. Prod. xvi. i. 40. An annual with
erect or ascending branched stems rarely bovo. 1ft. high, glabrous
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17. LAPORTEA, Gaudich.
Flowers dicecious or mon neecious, clustered but distinct. Male
pevianth "Mélitéieod: -globular in the bud, deeply divided into 4 rarely
segments. Stamens 4, rarely 5, with a rudimentary pistil; anther-
cells reniform. Female perianth fh 4 lobes or segments, the 2 inner
ones usually larger than the outer and dissimilar from each other.
Stigma simple, elongated, i ed. Nut more or less compressed and
. rigid de hairs. Leaves alternate. Stipules entire . or bifid,
_ deciduous. Flower-clusters in axillar or, in dw" not Australian,
terminal vice usually shorter than the leaves
The species are distributed over the warmer regions of the New and s Old World,
but m i in the Indian eem nus and Pacific Islands, one Mt iun lly A ous
is, however, North American and extratropical. e Australian: species
the fem rianths very un
Leaves eni ovate, vordat i the base, ee ot e €—
cent underneath . 1, L. gigas.
.. Leaves jm not “cordate, neatly; glabrous . 2. L. photiniphylla.
.. Leaves broad, more or des pie at LM base, pubescent o or :
leis on both s si n 3. L. moroides.
l. L. gigas, W Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 199, t. 3 and 4, and in DC. Prod. x
pL 7A large tree, exceeding 80 ft. the trunk erect, with a soft j Miey
3 fibrous wood and smooth ash-coloured bark, supported at the base by
192 CIX. URTICEJE. _ LLaportea.
a curved fle shy mass.— Urtica e unn. Herb.; Urera pe iji
Wedd. in Am. T Nat. ser. 4, i. 177, and U. excelsa, Wedd.
Quee specimens in leaf only from Brisbane river, A. Mane
~~. sedi sag to diis species.
. S. Wal gom in the Illawarra district, A. Cunningham, L
Clarcne e river, Bee ecimens also in leaf only, from Glendon and "Three.
ra ile scrub; Le ichhardi, id pot ly be a variety of this species with the leaves more
othed.
AA um p ge d Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 138, in DC.
A fine tree of 60 ft. with a straight a Real stem
of. 30 ri 40 8. yir Leaves ovate or almost elliptical, obtuse or
more frequently acuminate, entire or sinuate-toothed, not cordate,
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as, but more glabrous. Nuts m anger the pedicels d
eshy mass.— Urtica pho
phylla, A. Cünn. He rb.; Fleurya photiniphylla, Kunth. Ind. Sem. Hort.
Berol. 1846, nu (Weddell).
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton bay, A. Cunniaghar, S Mueller; Rock- —
hampton, arias T ic Dallachy ; Nurrum-nurrum, Leic i
N. S. wW hi yaaa erri Clarence river, Beckler ; Northern woods, i
tha. Exhibition 1862, n
man's
e Fiji is teg peas. to this species by W acl po ose
to pom d in the venation of the leaves and in ET pedicels always remaining
unenlarged.
veidos, Wedd. Monogr. Urt. 142, and in DO. en vii, i
ing hairs
ore
Ed toothed than the other species and more Pit
(Dallachy). dg d moroides, A: Cups
— eensland. 4. Cunningham ; Port Denison, d > Mount ; Elliott and v
com her's [vc eem bays, Dallachy ; Cleveland 2g "Herb. F, Mueller,
not n
Orper CX. CASUARINEE.
Flowers wes e males in cylindrical spikes, the females er r
globular or ovoid spikes or cones, both sexes sessile and solitary i
the axils of whorled brut the bracts of each whorl united into * —
CX. CASUARINE, 198
stam
bud, erect and exserted from the sheath of bracts when fully out.
Anther with 2 large distinct cells, placed back to back, and opening in
2 valves. Female fl: Perianth none. Ovary minute, 1-celled. Style
very shortly entire, with 2 long filiform stigmatic branches. Ovules 2,
an a nerve (the base of the style). Seeds solitary, erect, laterally
attached by a funicle showing at its apex the second abortive ovule;
flowers, &c., are superposed in twice as many series as there are
. of each whorl. ale spi lets,
. almost sessile along the permanent bran es, the female cones usually
sessile or only shortly pedunculate, but in both sexes there are always
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. and style-branches usually purple or red, the latter elegantly fringing
_ the female flower-cones.
The Australian speci appear t all endemic except olia, which ranges
over nearly the whole area of the Order, and has become naturalized in m pic
subtropical regions of the New and the Old World. Except the New Caledonian
3 types
E Pacific, which are not Australian
|; des i and a posterior; I
-. dividnals or species there is only one, the posterior one. I have found it so, as figured in
3 the Flora Tasmanica, in C. stricta (C. quadrivalvis), and in some other species I have
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194 CX. CASUARINEZ,
found both the anterior and snpieriot one; bat these organs are very delicate and dii
cult to examine in dried specim I have not therefore been able to yay it in
sufficient number to avail myself o of it in the TE characters. From the caret
observations of Bornet mentioned in Decaisne and Lemaout’s Traité de Botanique,
533, it would appear that the one is almost barney in C. stricta (C. quadrivalvis
Lai aa the two in C. torulosa
1. CASUARINA, Linn.
Character M distribution the same as those of the Order.
Secr. 1. Lei .— Whorls Ste Pa orig 6-merous. Cone-valves usually
prominent, thicke med and keeled or angled on the back or with a short broad and
smooth, dorsal protuberance (rugose in C. p rica a).
Whorls usually 10- Soron i uper 9to 16). Cone-valves
thickened Ei a Cue or keel.
Cone-valves very p n
Bra — usually r minent, o ribbed. Cones 1 in. dia- ^
more.
Malb-apikes usually dong, Me TERUS e
ointed. Eastern 1. C. stricta.
long fine points. Western « specie . 9. C. trichodon.
Branches terete. ale-spikes not pz eedin ng 1 in.
pun about 4 in. diameter, the cones villous on the
8. C. glauca.
nov s very $ co mpact, th the s small and thick, scarcely :
4. C. Huegeliana.
WhoHs i enc 7-merous ‘ranging 6 to 8). Cone: valves
ap
bular, the valves pubescent on e back . 5. C. equisetifolia.
Male- — v iform. Cones usually oblong or ` small,
the valves glabrous. Br: ictum very slender
Mein i in. diameter or more, usually Shion en ste, Ae
nes not above 4 lines diameter, globular s d Ub ning aimo
Shrubs eey ?) diccious. Con e-valves NEN pro-
(cosa with the dorsal piene short and
East and west species 8. C. distyla.
Cone valves with the dorsal protuberance as long as the 5
d rugose. Western s ice 9. C. wastes
Secr. 2. Trachypitys.— ag helen eda merous, hie Une ves rarely
prominent beyond the thick broad ob Sip star ' prowubertanses, ee nich. we apes we
or divided into tubercles (nearly deem in C. Decaisneana).
Male-spikes and Moe slender.
Cones ie glabrous.
Male-spikes 3 to os lines long. reete deus with the
d ce divided into 1 large and 2 small
tuberc PINE Gua V vr.
Malospikes 2 to 4 lines. ‘Cone -valves with the dorsal
vided into bi. 6 nearly ne :
u " " LI aci. e. humilis.
. Cones dag gs " villous.:
Shea: A pe very short. Cone-valves = protrud-
ond several ‘small dorsal tuberc!
iea pia terete. Sheath-teeth = the DEC
spikes scarcely acute. Eastern species . 2. C. torulosa.
CUN o pd Ec ae tee te
Casuarina.] CX, CASUARINEJX. 195
npe tery acutely 2- or 4-angled. Sheath-teeth
f the pikes acuminate. Western species . 13. C. decussata.
Sheath; teeth 1 k 5 lines long. Cone-valves not excee *
g the single large dorsal tubercle 4. C. Decaisneana.
Male spikes short. Branchlets short, rigid, divaricate aes
intrica
Branch of €— mr articles. Male spikes 2 to 3 lines
(Cones unknown) LB C. Haul DR
Bosinklats mostly of 1 article. Male spikes 1 to 2 lines lon ng.
Co s with several nearly equal dorsal tubercles . 16. C. microstachya.
Secr. 3. Aca mariire. —Cone-valves very prominent, the dorsal protuberance
woes into a nd po poi
Whorls 10—12-merous. et it of C. stricta. Point of Lap
dorsal protuberance as resa as the valve . 7. C. bicuspidata.
Whorls 4—6-merous. Branchlets short. Point of the Pa ge ;
protuberance much longer than the
Branchlets spreading, consisting of oca, nearly equal
ternodes . 18. C. thuyoides.
— erect, rigid consisting of one short basal in- à
and one long terminal en jrit one. . 19. C. acuaria.
Src a LzrorrTys.—Whorls (of ital sheath-teeth and
flowers) 7- to 16-merous, rarely 6- -merous. Cone-valves usually promi-
. nent, thickened on the back into a promi eG kee ofngle, or into a
: short broad transverse rune smooth AC
E due or keel.—Wi l. iv. 190; €. quadrivalvis,
bill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 67, t. 218; fin. Rev. Cas. 71, t. 9, 10, and in
C. Prod. xvi. ii. X Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. jo F. Muell. "Fragm.
vi. 18; C. macroe A. Cunn. Herb. ; Q. crista. a, Mig. Rev. Cas. 70,
10 A; c. Piin Took. È Mae in Ned. Kruidk, Arch. iv. 100.
N.S. Wales. Lachl d Twofold Bay, A, Cunnin
Pone. From Wonk Vale ee pig sunk og. and Gipps’ Land,
ue.
Tasmania. Abundant Throng the island, excepting towards the north-west,
J. D. Hooker —The oak of the colonists.
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf, Blandowski ; Bugle Range, Port Lincoln, Kan-
"eller.
The Lachlan river specimens distinguished by Miquel as two varieties
8 of tom de vere e d sinata = pre wid all gathered iade m tree; the is
do not appear t an are many of the Tasm mens. The
©. Gunnii, formeni x plished by uy Mogel Pes Ress Se Es Hooker t wi a var. war: spectabilis of
©. quadrivalvis thing but a
02
196 CX. CASUARINER. [ Casuarina.
2. C. trichodon, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 641; Rev. Cas. . 63, t. 8, and in
DC. Prod. xvi. ii, 336. A tall erect shrub closely resembling 0. stricta, the
whorls 8- to 10-merous, the ribs of the internodes prominent, and the
cones the same as in that species, in the sheath-teeth mostly terminate |
in long fine points, the male spikes, not much above lin. long, are |
closely imbricate, with the long s rending : almost hair-like points of the
sheath-teeth very conspicuous. Valves f the cones ovate, thickene d |
into a ar — angle as in €. stricta
W. Austr King George's Sound to Cape Riche, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 239,
A yov pekini n. 2000, but not the loose fruits sent with it, Harvey, Max-
we
C. glauca, Sieb. in Spreng. Syst. iii. 803. A tree, often attaining
a bekas size, the specimens sometimes very difficult to distinguish |
from those of C. stricta, the internodes however much less promin
v
the back, thickened into a smooth dorsal prominent angle or keel.
some forms, miden Sieber's tipi specimens, the cones are smalle
with very numerous rather sma
Miq. Rev. Cas. 76, t . ll, and in DC.
Miq. Rev. Cas. 75, t. 11 B, but not of Ait.
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton bay, and between Mackenzie and Suttor
rivers, P — er; purs mpton, O’Shanesy.
N. " t Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n
Wovils ; ite plains and New sii pie IE hhardt; Lachlan river and Liver
s, A. Cunni ingham ; from the Lachlan and Darling to the Barrier Range, Victoriam
aa other wpeditions. ;
ia. Avoca and Murray rivers, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Wilson.
S. Australia. Flinders' Range and Murray Desert, F. Mueller.
In the specimens from the interior ig nra by Miquel in Ned. Kruidk. pe i
100, as C. pauper, F. Muell., and in those from Bess and, the cones are m
those of C. equisetifolia than those of Sicbers typical specimen.
4. C. Huegeliana, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 640; Rev. Cas. 68, t. 11
and in DO. Prod. xvi. ii. 995. A suns. or small re appa
dicecious, with the terete branches, 8- to 12-merou
sheath-teeth, and glaucous aspect of C. first, but x ma
W. Austra iit "ege Lem Oldfield; King George's Sonnd or Swan
` Preiss, n. 2006, Dru mmond, and others a
The only specimens seen in fruit are those of Oldfield and some loose fruits ho ,
cimens, otherwise imperfect, in Herb. F. Mueller. The male specimens of Prei
Casuarina. | CX. CASUARINEJR. » 197
1 Ve p ones of Drummond differ in their much more slender branches. Drummond's
1 2, with male amenta only, may belong to C. dis istyla, or gera to C. bicuspidata.
ee specimens with shorter cones from Murchison river, are referred by Miquel to
eh Aces : : P
5. C. ainiti h Forst. Char. Gen. 108, t. 52. A tree attainin
a large size, but so frequently cut that it is s generally m et with muc
spreadi
the smaller ones often pendulous, lebron è or tomentose when g.
Whorls usually ae but the parts varying from eath
teeth short or S es fine-pointed on the persistent
branches, the rie rarely exceeding } in. up ribs rather PS
. ment. lowers iecious, male spikes about $in. long, term nating
slender deciduous branchlets, the à
in i DC. Prod. Xvi. ii, 338, with the several (non-Australian) synonyms
_ there given.
. _N. Australia. North ig A. Cunningham ; e of the Gulf of Carpentaria,
— Henne; Esc 'ape Cliffs, Hulse; Port Darwin, Schultz,
3 ueensland, Nai aati islands, R. Brosh n; Cape Bedford and b a
. Cape Flattery, F. Mueller; Entrance island, Endeavour Straits, Leichhardt; P.
3 ront Walter ; Rockingham and Edgecombe bays, Dallachy; Port De bale,
zalan
m T iiu shoots very tomentose. C. incana, A. PN — — Port
3 e, A. Cunningham, Leichhardt ; Moreton Í sland, C. Moor This ety ap-
E ques bo to be found in New Caledon, from a specimen received pas the Paris her-
- , The species is widely spread over East India and the qe e man With C. distyla
. it has long been cultivated in gardens, where varieties ha - sen which have ted
1 LE as new Australian species. Amongst per C. excelsa, Dehnb.; Miq. Rev.
6. c. uberes]: Ott. - Dietr. ; Miq. Rev. Cas. 54, t. 6, and in DC.
Prod. xvii. ii. 837. A t e of 30: to 40 ft., the s specimens closely re-
the cem : extending nearly to the apex of the valve—Hook.
Fl. Tasm. i. 948, t. 96; C. leptoclada, Mig. Rev. Cas. 41, t. 4, and
Pee ae I A
108 s CX. CASUARINER, [ Casuarina.
n DC. Prod. xvi. ii, 889; C. mesta, F. Muell. in Miq. Stirp. Nov. |
Holl. Muell. 2. |
Queensland. Percy islands, A. Cunningham, Denham; Brisbane river and More- —
ton island, P. Mueller ; - Stradbrooke island, £’ powy Ipswich, Nernst; Rockhampton,
[44 Shanesy; yin Rockingham bay, etang Sisi Cape Y he |
ort Jackson, R. B dioe, "Woolts Argyle County,
AC Cunt ham ; Clarence, Hastings, Pi Ma ey rivers, AREE: ; Richmond river,
Fawcett; evern river, Leichhardt; New England, C. Stuar
edd Ya and Da ndenong mountai ins, ‘P Mueller, Robertson,
mson
Common in the island on stony hills (the specimens rather more roon 1
thas de reni ones), J. D. Hooker.—Known in some of the colonies as the Oak or |
Swam p" k. 1
C. rigida, Miq. Rev. Cas. mt . 7 D, and in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 337, as to Fraser's —
specimens, m ay be C. suberos the more robust Tasmanian specimens belong to to C.
istyla. A cA very deal: ‘allied to C. suberosa is found in New Caledonia.
7. C. Cunninghamiana . Cas. 56, t . 6, and in DO. Prod.
Xvi. ii. 335. A tree with ae aise scil resembling C. egwi- |
setifolia and C. suberosa in the aspect of the specimens and number of
the fruiting-cones are much smaller, scarcely ex g 4 lines
diameter in any of the p ims globular, ve apn ti s glabrous, —
with prominent valves. Male s (in Herb. R. Down) slender like -
those of C. suberosa but more Fe so ]
pennant Woods of the London Exhibition 1862, Hill, n. 9; Gilbert river, —
W^ ;
lgay Hunters river, 2. sea Sydney woods, Paris Exhibition 1855, —
At y Arthar, n. Glendon, Leichhar Hastings river, Beckler ; Nepean Rd I
Woolls ; Mess the Darling and the Darter range, Goodwin and Dallachy; Tw dois 3
bay, F. Mueller.
8. C. distyla, Vent. Jard. Cels. t. 62. A dicecious shrub, usually 1
only 2 or 3ft. high, with erect or spreading branches, but in favourable |
situations attaining the size of a small tree, the branches glabrous or —
more or less pubescent. Whorls usually 7-merou us, but the parts vary- —
ing from 6 to 8, the teeth short. Male spikes on deciduous branchlets —
of 1 to Sin. or almost sessile on the persistent branches, 1 to 1 or]
from , the b bl
anainn truncate a dightty, MMC though considera
ines than the dorsal protuberance, which is broad entire and smoot th.—
Miq. Rev. Cas. 57, t. 7; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. MOS C. stricta, Mi a
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 336, not of Aiton; C. Mue na, Miq. 1n to
K Arch. iv. 99; O. rigida, Miq. in DC. m. ao ii. E as
the Tasmanian uid &.
. Wales. Port rs n to the B P es R. Brown, Sieber, ™
n Mist n. 605 -— others ; Lachlan river, T$ Cunningh ' Land,
rne, Adamson; Wilson’s slob ai Care Howe, Gipps ^^^
#2 uci.
Tasmania.
Common throughout the island, ascending to 4000 ft., J+ D. Hooker:
Casuarina. | CX. CASUARINEJE. 199°
alia. St. Vinesaio Gulf, Blandowski; Onkaparinga range, Mount
nie Cos er Mueller ; Kanga »o island Waterhouse "s
W. Aus vy King George's s Sound and adjoining districts uh cones usually
very regul Me gp long.in some ied mens, above 1 in. in oth rown,
Drimmiond i “ah co P) n. n. SAT i oret id and others; Kalgan i "Tweed rivers,
river, coll,
5s above ed 1 j po 8 and C. Baate , Mig. Rev. Cas. 37, t. 3 C,
referred to C. suberosa as varieties by Mi DC. Prol xvi. ii. 33 38, both rud West
Australia, appear to me both to belong ay fer to C. o not understand why
Miquel reduced this to Aiton’s C. stricta, hich byth haracter given in the Hortus
Kewensis “ vaginis multifidis” is contradiction to the “ vaginis 7-fidis" of C. equiseti-
Tha, as mv as from the inspection-of the original specimen is reni Labillardiére's
vis, notwithsta: ict e inapplicability of Aiton
sa, a low shru ub with the branchlets smaller and more slen der than i in =
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and Dietr. ; Miq. Rev. Cas. 66, ^ A C.; C. dumosa, A. Cunn. Herb.—Port Jackson to
the Blue. Mountains, Sieber, n ; Argyle County, A. Cunningham's Twofold Bay,
De S esa river, and DARE. Port "Phillig F. Mueller ; North west interior of Victoria,
EE C. Fraseriana, Mig. Rev. Cas. 59, t. 6 D, and in DC. Prod.
ii. 987 partly. A "all erect dicecious shrub or small tree, nearly
allied to C. distyla, and very difficult to distinguish from it without the
cones. ‘These are in the typical ba. nearly globular, 2 in. diameter,
i sal protub
r more again
Museum are more Md the pie ones but larger with more numerous
parts to the whorl.— paro in PROP, SON MEAN
NN. mame orge's vers d, Preiss, n D F. Mue vni Oldfield.—The
cm requires further ol idea from better s seeps sette 1E
C. torulosa with the V Wade and whorls of C. ata, En ought ees to be referred
to the following sectio
_ BECT. 9. Me e nu: —Whorls (of stem-angles, sheath-teeth and
flowers) 4- or 5-merous, rarely 6-merous. Cone-valves rarely apie
nent beyond the thick "blond obtuse dorsal protuberances, whic
Véry rugose or divided into tubercles.
10. C. nana, in Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 804. A densely branched
erect dicecious s dena “the branchlets short slender and terete, the ribs
Mi iq. Rev. Cas. 29, t. 2 B, and in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 340.
200. CX. CASUARINER. [ Casuarina.
| N. S. Wales. Rocky hills, Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 328, A. Cunningham,
Woolls.
11. C. » Ott. and Dietr. ; Miq. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 940. A
dicecious sai of "o to 6 ft., erect or the dowei branches diffuse, «s
uu allied to the eastern €. n nana, the whorls usually va merous, wit
ery 8 more
prominent thou; h usually obtuse n: never so acute as in re decussata.
open.— C. Preis eiss. un
. Cas. 31, t.2; C. selaginoides, Miq. in D] Preiss. i. 643, and Rev.
Cas. 35, t. 3 B; C. Lehmanniana, Miq. in E Preiss. i. 639, and Rev.
Cas. 33, t. 3 A, and C. tephrosperma, Hot H mb. Miq., Rev. Os 91,
all referred to C. humilis, by Miq. in DC. Prod. xvi ii. 940; C. nana,
A; wi Herb. not of Sieb.
W. Australia. King George's Sound to Swan River, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 732,
i dcn 238 and 333, ren, n. 2008, and according to Miquel, n. 2003, 2005 and
2009, A. Cunn ingham, "Bact r, F. Mueller and others; Murchison river, Oldfield;
Dirk Hartog's Hen Milne.
C. ramuliflora, Otto and Dietr. Mi at Cas. 38, t. 4 A, is believed by Miquel t
be an abnormal Sarco form of gom is with 6- rom whorls and terminal ps
It may however perhaps be rather ie to C. suberosa.
torulosa, Ait. Hort. Kew. iii. 990. A small tree, dicecious
Species except some orms of C. su the ri arcely bur
ls 4-merous or very rare nly in cultivated specimens ?) the
pene E "à md the ot ry shor ale spikes very
= river, Moreton bay, and Burnett river, F. Mueller; ^ Strade —
Que a. k-
brooke island, Fros ; Berseker ra "ge, „0 Sanes (with very corky bark); Roc
hampton, Thozet ; Rockin ngham ba lachy; Mount Elliott, Fitzalan ; on" E
ill, n z3 ;
woods, London mino a 1862, :
. Wa ort Jackson, k. Brown, Sieber, m: 327, Woolls; Newcast
Leichhardt ; ppt and Macleay rivers, Pailt; Sydney — Paris Lis
8
9; O, Moo ore, n. 59, and London ‘Exhibition 1862, C. Moore, n
. Australia. Port Linco In, R. Bro
13. C. decussata, B Benth. Barba apparently elongated and :
* andar as in C. torulosa, to which this species is closely allied, and the
x " TRETEN úi TEES is
a ai Ta n RI NNUS ee e RN IERI ee TE Ve eae TA SO ERI WIL, BON, NOS
- Casuarina. | CX. CASUARINER, 201
W. Australia. pei Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 434.
4. C. Decaisneana, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 61. A tree of 30 to 40 ft.
tie branches terete, rigid, scarcely ribbed, the internodes above } in.
long. Whorls 4-merous, the shea th-teeth somewhat paleaceous,
lanceolate, fine-pointed, 1 to 2 lines long, or on the Nes pda
branches often 3 lines t and never recurved. ikes
unknown. Cones or very shortly Pd 1} in. long an
l in. diameter, very woody, tomentose-villous, the thick valves not
mu beyond. the ded thick vindivided | dorsal tubercles.—Miq.
rod. xvi.
N. Australia. buit interior, near Mount Mueller, F. Mueller.
15? C. Drummondiana, Mig. Rev. Cas. 26, t. 1 D, and in DC. Prod.
xvi. 343. A bushy Mrd; with tie: divaricate rigidi intricate branchlets of
C. microstachya, but the ‘whorls are mostly 5-m rous, the internodes
shorter, less constricted at the nodes, the male heat 2 to 9 lina long,
and m mostly su spanen. on se sag of 1 to $ in., although sometimes
nearly sessile. Cones unkno
W. Australia. ee ps towards Cape Riche.
16. C. gue dey Miq. in Pl. Preiss. i. 642, Rev. Cas. 94, t. 1l E,
and in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 949. Ar rigid much brendhód dicacious shrub,
in flower when onis gi in. to 1 ft. high, but said to attain 3 ft., emittin
aee at every node short branchlets either of a single internode or
n
sembly, anak long. Cones sessile, ed or ovoid, 4 to de long,
compar
W.A alia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Fraser, Preiss, n.
Pee Bari 1999, F. Mueller ; Gordon river, Maxwe ll; Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll.,
Secr. 3. AcanTHoprtys.—Whorls (of stem-angles, sheath-teeth,
and Benin 10-12-merous or 4—5-merous. Cone-valves very prominent,
202 CX. CASUARINE. [ Casuarina, .
the dorsal panie produced into a rigid point as long as or longer
than the valve
17. C. bicuspidata, Benth. A stout shrub (or tree ?) with nume-
rous whorled erect branchlets resembling those of C. stricta. Who rls
ba
ances striate, t e teeth setac [ale amenta terminating long
branchlets, but only seen Eg a then from 1 to 1 in. long, the
icho
in. long) sessile ; ovoid iloue, the valves very prominent, rigidly
acuminate, thickened a on the back, the keel-like pro-
tuberance of the lower Sit prance into a free point of the length and
shape of the point of the valve itself.
S. emer Flinders Island, R. Brown
W. Australia, Boo. two cones in the Kew Museum without indication of the
precise ln
18. C. iepen M in Pl. m i p) ed Cor 97; t. 2A,
3
. lanceolate-acuminate pungent Sidi much longer than the valve.—
C. echinata, R. Br. Herb.
W. Australia. Lucky bay, R. Brown; Quangen sd au ow river,
Preiss, n. 2004; King George's Sound and to the eastward un Cape Riche,
Drum mond, 3rd coll. n . 233, Baxter, Harvey, Maxwell, F. Mue
19. C. acuaria, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 16. A shrub? with erect
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a small rigid point. Valves much protruding, obtuse, the dorsal pre
tuberance thick and villous at the very base, produ ced into an externa
bract tapering into a long rigid m much exceeding the valve.—
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— NW. Australia. Drummond, Ath coll. n. 240, 241,
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CXI. PIPERACEZX. 203
Orpen CXI. PIPERACEZ.
Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, in closely packed spikes or
E racemes, each with a subtending o br act often stipitate. Perianth
t
o S to 10, inserted on the rhachis or at the base of the
ovary Ovary (except in the tribe Saurureæ, which is not Australian
l-celled, with 1 erect ovule; stigmas 1 to e s
e Order is genera ide rues r the soni and subtropical regions of the
je d the Old World, pasti chilly of the two Australian genera, both of which
Tange over the general area e Ord
Anthers of 2 fete cells Pr fg to back, each opening in 2
valves. Aa en s 2 to 4, usually 3. Shrubs trees or climbers, rarely
tall herbs . 1. PIPER.
Anther-cells confluent, the whole anther opening in n2 valves. Stigma
tufted, He rbs often small . . 9. Peperomia.
The spurious dissep imen es hth 80 o frequently divides the Te anther-cell more or
Sa perfectly into two is usually very prominen iret anther is there-
fore sometimes described as 4-celled in Piper, dd rut ay in P
1. PIPER, Linn.
(Potomorphe and Macropiper, Miq.)
fae unisexual or hermaphrodite, the pabtencing bract peltate or
adnate. Stamens in the Australian species 2 or 3; ne of 2 distinct
cells placed back to back, each opening outwards 'in 2 valves. Ovary
I-cel d, audios a single ovule. Stigmas 9, or in tig not Australian
x1 4 o Berries sessile or stipitate.—Shrubs trees or woody
imbers, mun tall herbs, the branches usually radniats at the nodes.
Le eaves alternate, Spikes usually leaf-opposed and solar, rarely
clustered or solitary on short axillary peduncles or branches
The s ranges over all tro posl lands, slightly extending to the southward in
Australasia and S. America. Of the six d species one has the v Vile range of
are ideni, and there may be one es more species amo ongst those of which w
have as yet the leaves only.
Spikes solitary or 2 or more together on axillary peduncles or
short branches. Bushy erect shrubs or tall herbs.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Leaves 6 to 1. P. subpeltatum.
nise xh ave . 2. P. excelsum,
Spikes all solitary and leaf-opposed. Sides. (in the Austrálian
species) climbing Spike pa unisexual.-
Spikes all dense, 4 to 1 i . Bracts peltate. Anthers
exserted. Berries anu" Leaves membranous, glabrous 3. P. Nove-Hollandia.
Male spikes unknown . Be 5
tate. Leaves pubescent underneath. . . . . . 4 P. Banksii.
204. CXI. PIPERACE®. [ Piper.
— m pen, 3 to 5 in. long, the coils of flowers
by the adnate bracts. Anthers exserted.
Fon ora 5. P. triandrum.
. Male spikes no dense, 1 to 1i in. long. Bracts piss
closely imbricate. Females ovoid-o blong, d in.
Leaves vellior coriaceous : . P. hederaceum.
l. P. subpe nau Willd. ; Cas. DC. Prod. xvi. i. 333. A “large
herb or shrub of 3 to 5 ft., " glabrous or with a ql pubescence on
the petioles and nerves of the leaves and on the inflorescence. Leaves
didi: of } to l in., and often common aps ie iud in the same axil,
the spikes "e dense, l to 3 in. eva Bracts peltate, the terminal
lamine triangular or semilunar, hirsute at the margin. Flowers her-
maphrodite. Berries obovate- 3-gonous, glandular-pubescent.—Poto-
morphe PES Miq., Wight Ic. t. 19
Queen Rockingham bay, Dallachy. —Widely spread over the tropical regions
of both de m and the Old World.
lsum, Forst. ; Far DC. Prod. xvi. i. 334. A small bushy
earen shrub in Lord Howe Island, OMNE, 90 ft. in other stations.
eaves petiolate, orbicular-cordate, s ortly acuminate, 7- or 9-nerve
m the base 0 4 igmeter, M in some stations to » ovate.
eren Lord Howe's Island, M'Gillivray, n. 726 (the specimen numbe red
970, xc. eme collection, quoted in the Pr odromus, as from the same e station, i8
Reoul 1 land in the Kermadoc group).— The species extends over New Zea m":
Norfolk bied and several of the South Pacific islands.
Fetan, Amsterd. ser. 2, ds A “tall doltoincna plant climbing
against trees in dense forests." Leaves on the barren mere usuall
broadly ovate, equally cordate, acuminate, 7-nerved, 3 to 4 in. €
nch
on flowering branches not so broa 1 unequal at the base, scarcely
cordate, an ufi li- or septupli-nerve pikes unisexua eaf-
v Os the males $ to nearly lin. long, on slender peduncles rather
shorter than the spike, very dense, 1 to 14 lines diameter. Bracts or-
bicular-peltate, the lami uch undulate when the flowers are fully
o 2 or 9, shortly exserted. Fruiting- spike not longer
than the erries ovoid, red, 2 to ; lines ig 0 on stipe at
Piper.] CXI. PIPERACER, 205
nsland. Brisbane river, Moreton n F. Mueller, W. Hill, Dallachy ;
Roc Ekhampton ME Rockingham bay, Dallac
ort Macquarrie ay Perea n only).
2 eee Cas. DC. Prod. xd i. 353, from Paramatta, Huegel, may prohetiy
be the same species, at least I find no character given to distinguish it. Ihave
no specimen for compari
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jin. Berries red, pot or incl rm pot to 2
lines long, on stipules of about the same length.—Cas. DC. Prod.
xvi. i. 849.
Queensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Mackay and Murray rivers,
aa n Dallachy
triandrum, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 197. A “bushy climber,”
quie: Pierod. Lenves shorty petiolate, ovate, acuminate, geris at
base but scarcely cordate, membranous, quintupli- or septupli-
nerved, 3 to 5 in. long. Male spikes pisce z pe 3. to 5 in.
long. Bracts adnate to the rhachis , with a very small free margin sepa-
rating the coils or rings of flow wers. Stamens 3, the sitter slightly
pro truding. Female spikes unknown.—Cas. DC. "Prod. xvi. i. 965.
Queensland. Mackay river, Dallachy.
6. P. hederaceum, A. Cunn.; Cas. DC. Prod. xvi. i. 366. A “m
nificent woody climber ascending to the tops of trees 150 to 180
high," quite glabrous. Leaves yegi p T" rien shortly acumi-
an
ovaries sorti protruding, with 3 small stigmas. Very young berries
not i geo
D X Cunningham, Sadho: Sydney woods, Paris Exhi-
bitien 655 Macarthur n.
Pri. x 353, from Huegel's collection, is pow
iq remarkable wed e firm Stair nce of its leaves, and very net in its
floral characters. The suppo ar persistent — of the anthe -— on which account
Casimir DO. placed the P hedera ceum in his pus on Apopiper, was in this instance
DM on the observation of imperfect specimens s I learn from M. C. De Candolle
2. PEPEROMIA, Ruiz and Pav.
. Flowers hermaphrodite, the subtending bract peltate. Stamens 2
anther-cells confluent at the apex, the whole anther opening in 2 ruled
206 CXI. PIPERACEZ. | Peperomia.
1-celled with à single ovule. Stigma tufted or en Berries
ss e a bap stipitate.—Herbs sometimes very sma
Spi
nal Iis or rarely leaf-opposed. Flower and Ren very small.
"arm over the tropical m Weir iaculi f the New and the Old
World d, but is is especially rich in American species. wo Australian H epos one
is also in the Pacific i Av the other extends over nearly "ho "s area of the g
Leaves usually opposite, pubescent, thin when dry . pP Liebe
Leaves in whorls of four, glabrous or nearly so, coriaceous when dry ^ P. reflexa.
1. P. leptostachya, Hook. and Arn. Bot. Beech. 90. Stems shortly
> and rtg at the base, ascending or erect, from a few inches
osed situ s, above li
2 thinly membranous when dry, 5-nerved but the lateral nerves
the margin and s t
Prod. xvi. 5. 448; Miq. "Pip Nov. Holl. 6; . Bris
baniana, x DC. Le. 414,
maerens Brisbane river, — boy, F. Mueller ; ug n common
scrubs, O' Shanesy, Bowman, Dallachy ; Rockingham bay, Dalla
N. S. Wales. Newcastle, Hovey: ew England, C. Stuart; y PER A.
agen species is also in the Pacific islands, and is very closely allied to an East Indian
2. P. reflexa, A. Dietr.; Cas. DC. Prod. xvi. i. 451. A small erect
or diffuse herb, said to be annual, 2-3-chotomously, brane hed, more 0r
pu a cent. Leaves in
4, very shortly petiolate or almost sessile, ovate donis
S. Wales. Blue Mountains pe Athinacn, Woolls ; Newcastle, , Leia ;
now England, C. Stuart; Hastings river, woe r; Tweed river,
warra, A. Cunningham ; Lord Howe's island, € —Common in most vae
countries.
Orver CXII. ARISTOLOCHIACER.
p hermaphrodite. Perianth herbaceous, adherent to the
vary a bas superior variously shaped entire or lobed
limb. die lobes valvate in the bud. Stamens 5, 6, 8 or more, inse
CXII. ARISTOLOCHIACEZE. 207
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the Order, bas South American ones, The only jene e d the principal one “of
Le
, Sessile or on vn shortly free filaments. Stigma 3-, 5- or 6-lobed.
Capsul e sakiy 6-celled and tie in 6 valves from the base upwards,
the pedicel itself also splitti limbers or rarely erect herbs or
undershrubs. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters or racemes,
Perianth very large in some species not Y stet.
The genus is widely distributed over the warmer and temperate regions of the globe.
Of en. five Australian species one is a common South Asiatic one, the other four are
Woody climbers, with coriaceous reticulate leaves.
Leaves much visis deeply cordate at the base. eig od
lip broadly triangular . A, deltantha.
vare obtuse or scarcely ‘acuminate, scarcely cordate at the b Pid
ers unknown 2. A. prevenosa.
EA trailing
Leaves 1 to 2 in. long, oblong or ovate, cordate . UU A. pubera.
ves 2 t 5 in. long, linear d linear lance olate . B d "Thozetii.
mes or pakir: Ea . « 0, A, indica.
‘shini ng shen paired 3- or boul and very strong y reti-
rneath.
E stipitate, the upper portion as long as the utricle
mois ripis the 1 re a lip forming an ani pn obtuse-
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: — in. diameter, with 6 prominent longitudinal ribs.
Seeds an ae yellow” ( Dallaehy).
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
2. prevenosa, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 166. A tall climbing shrub,
the young branches and principal veins of the underside of the leaves
underneath. Flowers unknown. Capsule (according to F. Mueller)
AU esr lin. long. Seeds compressed, tubercular-rugose.—
Hid n DC. Prod. xv. i. 496.
cdi Clarence river, Beckler.— The only specimens I have seen are
Prod flowers or fruit.
Of. S ih dd ps above € , more or less pubescent, or
so Töm daite quite glabrous. Leaves on rather long ‘oe eg ovate ovate-
lanceolate or oblong-pandurate, obtuse, cordate at the base with broad -
rounded auricles, 1 to 2in. long. Pedicels axillary, aolitary, 1-flowered,
1 to 2 lines long below the o ovary, which at the time of flowering is 3
pe Bue river, W. Hill; Rockhampton, O’Shanesy; Elliot n
and Nerkool gard Bowman ; Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; in herb. R. rown aie :
perce w of the station. |
. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler.
4. A. Thozetii, F. Muell Fragm. ii. 107. A trailing or costrité
herb, closely allied to aaa, perhaps a variety of A. pubera, usually rather
stouter: aves linear or linear-lanceolate, broader at the base and
cordate or hastate, usually 2 to 4 in. long ; ; a few of the lower ones |
era, but not cur perfect. Fruit of A. pubera, and equ ually
variable in size.— Duch. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 484.
veensland. Rockham dii Thozet, O’Shanesy ; Keppel bay, Thozet ; Herbert's,
rm Touman; Rotkinghim bay, Dele 1: 2. C
Aristolochia. | CXII. ARISTOLOCHIACER. 209
^. Var.? angusti issima. Leaves very narrow and not dilated at the base, pedicels more
ithe and bracts longer. Flowers only seen di young.
. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 547, a single specimen, A. Baueri,
Duch. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 484, is SERIE the. same species.
5. A. indica, Linn.; Duch. in DC. Prod. xv. i. 479, var.? magna,
F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 180. A tall “biit apparently hert vere glabrous
twiner. Leaves in the typical form — y ovate-ob or almost ob-
ovate, obtuse, truncate or cordate at the base, an to in. pep in
the Australian vhriet broader, vedi mener more deeply cordate,
8 to 6 in. long, membranous, 5- or 7-nerve wers in short axillary
racemes, sometimes almost contracted into liit the pedicels usually
longer than the common rhachi is, and each with a small bract at the
ee ee
-auriculate at the base. Capsule ovoid, 1 to 1} in. long. _ Seeds b
8moo
ulin. hase our river, Banks and Solander (Herb. R. Brown); Rock
ingham bs , Dallachy.—The latter specimens are in leaf only with two detached
capsules, the identification is coe doubtful. "The species is widely distributed
over East Tadia and the Archipelag
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Orper CXIII. eee
in the upper por Ovules 1 or 2 in e a cell, erect or pendulous.
Fruit consisting of r more nu ; re or less
Ero ed in, the usually enlarged persistent i aali ucre. Seeds usually
in each nut, without albu ious, the ra
usually superior. —Trees o r shru ves alternate, penaiveined
.. The Order is almost limited to the northern hemisphere in the New as HC
Old World, with the exception of the single Austra (m genus, which belongs to rx
temperate and colder regions of both the northern and the southern hemispheres.
1. FAGUS, Linn.
Male see in globular pendulous catkins within small scales
poa off very anf or rarely solitary. © Perianths "— stalked
.910 | .. CXIII. CUPULIFERZ. , | Fagus.
. within each catkin-scale, gromenalete 4- to 6-lobed, containing 8 to
16 stamens, with protruding filaments. Female cat s globular,
almost sessile, the scales linear, with: numerous close-packed filiform
inner scales, p empty except the innermost and forming an involucre
ound 2 to.4 sessile flowers in the centre of the iin: Perianth-limb
each cell. Styles 3. Nuts 2 to 4, angled or winged, enclosed in a
hard prickly involucre, composed of the combined scales of the catkin,
and opening in 4 valves.—Trees or rarely shrubs. Leaves alternate,
coriaceous, penniveined, frequently plicate and toothed. Stipules -
idao ous. Male catkins usually in the lower axils, the females —
in the upper ones.
The genus comprises 2 or 3 European or North American species, and seve veral
a ag ones from South America and New Zealand. The Australian species are all
en
leone op ehrtugir plato, with the veins gigi f da prominent under-
Stipules persistent, saccate 1. F. Gunnii.
rer flat, coriaceous, x ein s slightly mre Stipules
membranous, very
Leaves of ToS branches bid, very obtuse, ] to Lin. : $
lon e à $ . 2. F. Cunninghamu.
Leaves of f flowering branch ovato, shortly acute, P to 1 in. ;
DOC RIE ES ree aM" . 98. F. Moore. |
k. f. in Hook. oa dip t. 881; Fi Tasm. i. 946. 4
A Din VARF d shrub, “tian covering ith an impenetrable
scrub 5 to 8 feet high, the young bradda tee pubescent and the
foliage usually sprinkled with a few o Leaves very
upper
coriaceous, eac with 4 to 6 rudis obtuse dorsal scales (or ho
the adnate scales). Nuts usually 3, T 3-winged, or the
one 2-winged.—A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 120 :
Tasmania. Summit of Mount Shui at an elevation of 4600 to 5000 ft., Gunn;
Mount TARDEN C. Stuart; Mount Sorrell, Macquarrie harbour, igan.
ourn. Bot.
dcl pu or cs idm es nly re senes ev oat.
eltoid rhomboid or orbic
Fagus.] CXIII. CUPULIFERJE. - 211
Stamens about 8, the anthers oblong, longer than the filaments.
. Female involucre sessile in the upper r axils, containing me 3 mp aet
. Perianth-limb of 3 small teeth on the an les of the ovary. Sti
eapitate. Fruiting involucre about three lines long, the dota alo
. or recurved tips of the catkin-scales narrow and terminating in a g an
Nuts usually 2 with 3 wings and a central flat one with 2 w
. Hook.. it Tasm. i. 946 ; ‘A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 122,
E Viet per Yarra, Mounts Useful and Bawbaw, Cape Otway, Wilson's Pro-
. montory, F. atu.
asmania rH. jo own; common especially in mountainous and
. western oe di stridii Henig a e proportion of the forest and ascending to
. 4000 a shrub.—* Myrtl e treo" ot the colonists, J. D. Hooker.
3. F. Moorei, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 109. A “beautiful tree 150 ft.
- branches, ovate or ovate- janooolates acute or a few only of the lowest
. obtuse, flat and coriaceous as F. MT ut with more
| humerous and rather more Kin fui primary veins. Flowers unknown.
of F. Cunninghamii, but larger, the uam e mostly about
5 rae long.
, N. S. Wal On high mauttain h depos forming dense forests at the head ud Bel-
- linger river emt Bealsdown Creek, a fi t the head of Macleay river, C. Moore (in
herb. F. Muell. all) ,—Received also ails Mr. p OM himself due the name of F. Car-
- ronii, Moore
Orper CXIV. ene :
6 segments, valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as the
‘Obes and opposite to them, inserted at their base or within the free
e structure often
cure or apparently homogeneous before fecundation; stigma ter-
ntire or lobed, sessile on = we xi borne on a short style.
ruit an indehiscent nut dru upe o a single erect seed.
Albumen fleshy ; embryo pig “ally ver e ahai Xap] the top
the albumen, with a superior Mis dons.—Herbs or
Shrubs rarely trees, usually ibed ái aay aves alternate or
ely opposite, entire, without stipules, often rodacbd to minute -—
very deciduous. Flowers usua ly small sometimes BR ter-
inal or lateral heads cymes or spikes, or rarely solita
The Pasir mperate parts of the : with a few
Of te Fane: irc ey eens one has a ge mend dition pu. over the
212 CXIV. SANTALACEZ.
extra-tropical regions of the Old World, two extend into New — and tropical Ang 1
Sid MINCE M Srt ralia. It is nea ge ted to Olacinea, above described in -
the first v and to Loranthacec, in the GER the latter Od might in- —
deed hive peers better placed in the present E: p: 1
Perianth-tube adnate at the base, no the upper campanulate .
Herbs or small shrubs, “ib alerts linear eaves. . . . 1. TxEsium.
Scales or glands alternating with the aging at the base of the
r pe. Trees or shrubs, with flat
eaves mostly. oppo 2. SANTALUM.
tueur on Ww the "ula divided to the ovary or to a broad
Par sca with 2 parallel sat ening hee apnea Fruit
a drupe. Trees or shru e ar site flat lea 3. FUSANUS. ©
Enah terminal, with colle confudit 6 opening i lobes.
aves a ternate, minute and scale- like, or M nains or
none, Flowers minute
Flowers es or clustered, surrounded by 2 to 4 scale-like
ract 4, CHORUTRUM.
Flowers in little spikes or clusters or rarely solitary, each
subtended by a te scale-like bract often very deciduous 5. LEPTOMERIA.
` Anthers with 2 parallel Mdh Bu egg —— age Habit 1
and infl 6. OxPHACOMERIA-
Perianth peir the ee vided g^ the broad ‘base or ‘dilated i
summi
Wing
n 3- or 4-merous, the finia solitary,
the males in ‘clusters. Leaves alternate, linear-terete or ;
minute and scale exp i 7. ANTHOROLUS.
Flowers polygamo inflorescence and foliage of Leptomeria,
or the leaves develops d and flat . 8. ExocARPUS.
(The flowers in the last five genera very NS VERSE than i in the first three.)
l. THESIUM, Linn.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth-tube adnate at the base, the free
portion campanulate or tubular, with 5 or rarely 4 persistent lobes, -
with a tuft of hairs inside at the base of or behind the stamens.
near th
Sta e serted near the base of the lobes; filaments thers ^
with 2 parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary inferior; placenta
ften fle h 8 ovules suspended fro aper;
style more or less elongated with a termi btuse or capitate stigma
Fruit a small nut, usually ribbed outside and crowned by the persisten
free portio h anth.— Herbs shru ender
wiry stems. aves alternate, usually linear. Flowers small, ofa
greenish yellow, solitary or in small cymes, pedunculate in the
but the peduncle usually adnate at the base to the subtending
free portion
leaf,
with 2 bracts on the short :
The genus is widely dispersed over the temperate and warmer regions s of t
World, the species partion arly ipw iud n. gum Africa. The only Australian
appears to be the same as an East Asi
1. T. australe, R. Br. Prod. 353 labrous perennial i
mr or erect wiry branches, rarely pubes 1 ft. high. Leaves
Thesium. | CXIV. SANTALACER. 215
often above lin. long, but the upper ones much shorter and
€ Einder, and a few of the lowest short and broad. Peduncles
1-flowered, m short, adnate at hs base hi the di: D "n
Distant: peris n bay, Dawson and inet rivers, y Lem
S. Wales. Nop ean river and Cow pastures, R. ; Hunter's river,
Jus ican Exploring Erpeditio ion; Bokhara Creek, pere pto river, Beckler ;
New ‘oe a nA Stua
. Port Phillip, ka "pee ; Delatite and Ovens rivers, Lake Omeo, F.
Mueller ; — Val, Bober
Tasm river, a Brown; also Laurence.
Iam malls to ieee from this species the T. chinese, Turcz. ; A. DC. Prod.
Xiv. 649, dies N. China, or the 7. pe Bl, A. DC. Fc. 652, from Japan, Formosa,
and Loo-choo. Takin ng the flowers at the sa I^ I find the same shape and propor-
tions of the perianth- tube and lobes in all ees
2. SANTALUM, Linn.
en herma hrodite. Vostri Timeo at the base, the. free
them into a long point. Style elo ngated, with a small 2- or 3-lobed
Fruit a globular drupe, the epicarp fleshy- but not thick,
marked above the middle or on the summit with a circular scar left by
the deciduous perianth-lobes, the endocarp hard and usually rugose.—
es or shrubs. Leaves opposite or rarely —— petiolate, entire,
in 0
nera, in small cee or terminal otomous panicles usually
shorter than the leaves and s almos reduced to simple racemes.
i s the Australi hich a Fts be endemic, there a few nearly
allied prod in Kast In die qiie rehipelag, a nd the N. and g. "Pacific islands.
© species require a careful revision from complete specimens ; many 0 of those in her-
Paria, Ex or T the Australian ones, are very doubtfui, from the absence of flowers or of
- frui
Frat $i € in ie be pe picis Perianth 3 lines T or more *
am., marked with the scar of the perenne
lobes aa Aeon below the summit . 1. S. lanceolatum,
214 CXIV. SAN'TALACEJE: [Santalum. —
Flowers - pdt y above 3) on the peduncles. Perianth rarely
2 lines long. Fruit 3 to 4 lines diameter, the terminal scar
enclosing a small area.
Leaves eee usually broad and og acute . PENN k S. ovatum.
Leaves oblong or lanceolate, obtus e... . 8.8 obtusifolium.
1. S. lanceolatum, R. Br. Prod. 356. An erect shrub from 2 or 1
3 to ad ^ high, or cee a small tree, with pendulous or spreading '
brane Lives ostly oblong or lanceolate, rather acute and |
Bhoil tapering db. a petiole of 2 or 3 lines, the limb usually 1$ _
in size breadth, |
to 24 in. long but occasionally varying much i and dt
rarely obtuse, the lateral veins often conspicuous on old leaves.
Flowers rather large, in trichotomous panicles in the upper axils or at
hoto
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Prod. 355, A. DC. l.c. 683.
N. Australia. Islands d the Gulf "à E Mr R. Brown; Upper Victoria 3
ien F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz L
Queenslan ndeavour iren i d Solander, A. Cunningham ; Port
Denison, Fitzalan, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Those, and others; Balandool rive
Looker; Nerkool Creek, Bowman; MM llo, arton.
N Gwydir river, Leic |
_ 5. venosum, R. Br. Prod. 355; A. DC. vid xiv. 683, from Arnhem bay, R. B 4
m the broad-leaved forms of /S. eT fla t
Mi angustifolium. teavet arrow, pt n with a fine incurved point. a
ales. From the vi ie river to Cooper's Creek, Dallachy and wen :
Neilson New England, C. Stuar,
» R. Br. Prod. 350. An erect shrub of 7 to 10fe
We
and then 3 cymes t oget -— a central and 2 lateral ones, he e pedi
very short, and often only 3 Sinter on each peduncle. Peri nth d
the iube Dales or Peis alternating wit the stamens, ene
dark purple. Stigma distinctly 3-lobed. Fruit globular, 3 to 4 ing
emp the scar of the apex enclosing a small area.—A. DC. P
N. Au m N. bay, B. Brown; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 618, 11h
771.—I have fast fe seen a. Seded s in Hei. Pie and Banks; the descrip
the flowers wid à e othe Jg articula ars are taken from Brown’s MS. notes,
Schultz's specimen wii é not in fruit. The k ecies appears to ha
«mi the foliage near that of some forms of WS. lanceolatum,
may possibly a to be a very broad-leaved small-fruited variety.
Santalum. | CXIV. SANTALACEZE. 215
3. S. Vete miim m p Br. Prod. 356. A se slender shrub of livid
E often revolute in dr T ng, l to 2 in g. Flow. wers fen, in
small, shortly rnm axill
r lateral — rely bearing 2 or 3 flowers. Perianth mes 2 line
or dana) alternating with the stamens, o ovate o gular. Ovary
semisuperior, with an elongated style, the = acuminate as in
S. lanceolatum. Fruit enne 3 or m ines ee the scar of the
apex "m a small area
s. Hawkesbury ae R. eite, j rie rare, Woolls; Illa-
vam, ri Cunningham Shepher
8. FUSANUS, Linn.
Caaan Mitch.)
. 80 as to be sero
The genus is limited to o Andr - pa besides the Australian species only
One known from New Zealand. It is united by De Candolle with Santalum, but the
_ perianth the disk, the ovary, won the pes appear Sig me to be sufficientl ‘distinct to
Maintain the — genus ad v ed by Brown, and to show a bens i siuhet ie
. much to L^ etrum as to Santal
rri till the fruit i is n in "ie 1. F. acuminatus,
Leave ostly Panicles axillar ry. Perianths EEEE
the lobes falling off tininadiatony a after flowering F. persicarius,
Leaves ostly obtuse. Panicles axillary, dense. ‘Perianth nearly
Pomage e lobes persistent till the fruit s ps i pe pie . F. spicatus.
aves mostly obtuse. Fruits nearly sessile, the lobes fa ing of
immediate iy ah flowering . b. 4. F. crassifolius.
F. acuminatus, R. Br. Prod. 355. A tall shrub or a tree of 20
to Sof Leaves opposite, lanceolate, acute or sometimes when young.
916 CXIV. SANTALACER. [ Fusanus.
with a short hooked point, mostly 2 or 3 in. long. and ta seed into a
coriaceous, ;
J ke 6
Pl. Preiss. i. 615, A. DC. Lc., F. Muell. N i. 85; e s
Miq. l.c. 616 A. DC. Eie: also Fusanus acuminatus, Mig. Le. 617, accord- .
ing to F. xui
. Wales. Murray and Darling rivers, Victorian and other Expeditions ;
Magen, N. Taylor
ia. N.W. district, Z. Morton; Mount Korong, Herb. F. Mueller ; also in
Mitchell's collection. i
australia
Morunda, F. Muel
W. Australia. Fowler's bay, R. Brown; from the Kalgan to Bren an Murchi-
son rivers, Oldfield, Maxwell, Drummond, n. 227, 152, Preiss, n. 2098, 2
Memory Cove and Port Lincoln, R. Brown; Murray river near
Var.? angustifolia. Leaves narrow. Flowers rather larger and fewer. Fruit not
seen. — Santalum anquetsfo tem A. DC. Prod. xiv. 685.—W. Australia, Drummond,
n. 430, and perhaps also n. 2
2. F. persicarius, F. Muell. A tall shrub or small iiA os ko thosa
site or scattered lanceolate or linear leaves, often very muc
of F. acu
nites "d than Be vadit lobes of F. indicio —^Sa
pari, F. Muell. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 41; Fragm. i. 86.
Murray. desert, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dui); Mount Dispersioh, — —
arat; W dies vale, Robert a
s. alia. Near paige Baker, F. Mueller.
autre a. meds on ri "well.
4. jokius ee n Pi Preis vd ge AS mergi cs (Mees en Ek A, DC. Prod.
xiv. ie from W. Aus dle Preiss, Il probably prove to be the same spem
and the name would im the right of peines but the several species of /usanus
- Fusanus.] CXIV- SANTALACEJE. 217
so imperfectly ipia, in our herbaria, that it is as yet EFREN to establish cor-
rectly pat respective lim
: wrrayana, Mitch. TN Exped. ii. 100, with a woodcut, is most probably
this srt
spicatus, R. Br. Prod. 355. A tree attaining 30 ft.,
Se but not pendulous branches. Leaves opposite, “from ene
ares rarely as long as the wie , rather crowded nd pail de
together on the short secondar ry branches. Perianth-tube turbi-
nat, about 1 line long, the broad epigynous disk with a prominent
ee margin; lobes triangular, about as long as the tube. Style very
short, with 2 rarely 3 stigmas or stigmatie lobes. Fruit lobules 3 to
nearly 1 in. diameter, Gaaah till nearly ripe by the persos. perianth-
lobes enclosing a rather broad area , the t psa nearly smooth.—
creme + spicatum, A. DC. Prod. xiv. 685; rn Mio. in Pl.
Preiss. i. 615; A. DC. Le. j
S. Australia. Spencers Gulf, R. Brown; Marble Ranges, Withelmi? (See
F. crassifolius.)
us til . Salt and Gardner rivers, Maxwell; N. of Stirling range, H;
Mueller r; and thence to Swan and Murchison rivers, up arp Preiss, n. 2103,
Gardner, n. 226; Shark's bay and Dirk Hartog’s island, M
rassifolius, R. Br. Prod. 305. An erect shrub of 2 or 3 ft.,
4. F.c
the jede branches ides or 4-angled. Leaves opposite, on
very short petioles, linear, obtuse or scarcely xb. entire, Ba the
: the d n. lon
margins recurved in ried specimens, 1 to ng. cles
PMJ, er flowered at the top, the pedicels very - ihort Drupes 3 to
4 lines meter in the Pe ree iy ut apparently unripe, ovoid-
i tun emis by an entire rim enclosing an area smaller than in
caria.—Santalum ‘rast, A. DC. Prod. xiv. 685.
Hunter's river, R. Bro n, from his Herbarium
Sees Parama and
red us no ete station QD) i in the Prodromus being d idehtly a mistake. The
sp2cimens x1 in fruit only, the fruits pn ime. sessile, on axillary peduncles of 3
or 4 lines, with the scars of other fallen flow
S. Au ustralia ? The specimen from Marble adio Wilhelmi, quoted above under
F. spicatus, may possibly belong to F. crassifolius
4. CHORETRUM, R. Br.
|... Perianth-tube adnate, bte wel et penny above the ovary,
lined by the truncate or sinuately ’4- or 5-lobed disk, and the border of
the tube more or prosifiiétt oindiide the base of the limb; segments
f a so i
mss segments; filaments short; anthers terminal, with confluent cells
2s out in 4 valv vary ' inferior, with an epigynous disk lining
free part of the perianth-tube. Style very short, with an entire or
218 : CXIV. SANTALACER. [ Choretrum.
Ped 2-lobed stigma. Fruit a globular or ovoid drupe, crowned by
the persistent perianth-lobes, the epicarp succulent, the endocarp hard
and ADT thick.—Shrubs with numerous n or rigid apparently
leafless branches, the joe all reduced to minute scales usually
deciduous. Flowers minute, solitary or in little pee along the
Lo npe E by an 'involucre of 2 to 4 or more minute 'scale-
like bra
The genus is limited to Australia.
Flowers 2 to 5 together in shortly pence. or almost sessile
1. C. glomeratum.
fos solitary within each involucr
id
Branches rigid terete. Flowers appre imate in spikes 2. C. spicatum.
a coder terete, Outer rim of the perinifihsttbe scarcely j
ominen 3. C. lateriflorum.
Branches send acutely angular. Outer rim of the perianth-
he ms i acu y pa b a. Oi Oii
C. pup $a nell Pg i 31,8 rom Port pikët; Wien is ——€— refer-
rible ‘to the genus. vt is a rigid leafless spinescent shrub, wi h the aspect of sor
meria aphy ut the flowers are paie and solitary or in pm er ve ies phe
broad connate bracts. The perianths are all closed and aa a line long or mor re
when opened they eb E een abes Be ege stamens or hairs pem but in the
borde of the flowe ve nute stamens without rudimentary
vary. The ey may ral possibly be i i a esos state. If not, the sidak must belig
to some very differen t On der.
omeratum, R. Br. Prod. 354. An erect hrab; sometimes
c
scarcely 1ft. high, sometimes almost arborescent, with numerous erect
slender wiry angular branches. Leaves re uced to minute subulate
deciduous scales. Flowers smaller than in €. lateriflor a, 2 to D together —
sessile and clustered on a common peduncle of 4 to 1 line, each cluster —
surrounded by 8 or 4 minute almost orbicular bracts. Perianth about
# line long, the broadly turbinate adnate tube not above half the length
of the lobes, the external margin Met! vio na Drupe when
dry 2 to 4 P long, ponar or slightly ovoid.—A. DC. Prod. xiv.
676; Miq. in Pl. Preiss. i. 608; En dl. Tabu: t. 45.
N. s. i: Gros ‘cag e ini perm valley, A. Cunningham ; Mac-
quarrie river, Bowman ; Cas "wd river, C. Moore; Mudgee, N. Taylor.
gros: Li eller.
ght river, Tar li je F. Mu iWhit-
S. A Memory Cov rt Lincoln, R. Brown; PP bay,
EN Victoria Take, F. Mue es? T kakr island, biet Point
ustralia. mmond, 3rd coll. n. 199, ; Cape Riche, Harvey; jrm
Henry and Dickes sede Oldfield; base of Burling Range, d Mueller ;
river, Preiss, n. ae
Var. chrysanthum. Flowers seat’ larger and more yellow. 1 am quite pere
detect, any oer peet abid —C. chrysanthum, F. Muell. in Hook. Kew Journ. vii. ri
. 81, ined.; A. D goera xiv. md ay and Avoca desert, £-
«VIt
ded bar: near Wheal Barton Mines, F. Mu
; spicatum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 21. An erect shrub, ke :
branches terete and when in iier d ikai and more rigid than in el 3
young ones slender with numerous closely ap e T d
other
near hnceohte scale-like leaves of about 1 line, which soon fi
rs on the previous year’s — sessile, solitary at cue n
DUET ITE Uo se TH S enm PER INNEREN
DLP POSTS e ERED See WC EN Se PME SERE ae eps REOR SOE E IRE UI E EO a RETO orem UM, TTE. Soe et ee T RETE FED TEN
Choretrum.] CXIV. SANTALACEX, dus 219
but usually numerous so as to form a rather close spiké, each flo eua
surrounded by about 4 broad somewhat jagged bracts, half as lon
m perianth, with some smaller ones outside. Perianth about 1. ig
; the external rim of the adnate tube prominent. Fruit rather
sisi] ovoid-globular.
Victoria. Murray desert, = Mueller ; Wimmera, Dallachy ; near geo Creek,
Irvine; Wendu Vale, Robertso
S. Australia. Kangaroo “sland, Bannier.
ateriflorum, R. Br. Prod. 354. A shrub, aad Bus mid
Folate branches, terete sd gnus striate, the
^. not nearly so aee nt a in €. Candollei lei and ida continuons.
676; i nnde Sl, Sieb. Pl. oa not of R. B
N. - Wales. Upper Clarence river, Be ilies New Engana, Z — Port
Certi Berrima and Mittagong, Woolls; Lachlan river, A.
Victoria. Mitta Mitta, qot and Murra ay rivers, F.
tralia. King eig oh s p R. Brow the sjodiltns nse resem-
bling F. Mueller s Latrobe river one
SX "s Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, Sieber, n.
d and FL. Mixt. n. 525; Liverpool plains, Leichhardt ; New England, C. Stuart ;
Castlereagh Bk X Moore ; southward to Illawarra, ‘A. Cunningham, Shepherd;
ites N. Taylor.
5, LEPTOMERIA, R. Br.
Perianth-tube adnate, usually narrow, the border not at all or
scarcely prominent outside; segments of the limb 5 ort rarely 4, in-
flated or somewhat thickened at the end. Stamens inserted near the
the centre often very prominent an angie or lobed. Ovary inferior,
"With a more or less distiuct ena isk. Style very short, with an
220 CXIV. SANTALACER. [.Leptomeria.
The genus is foie to Australia.
Sect. 1. Keromeria.—Bracts subtending the flowers falling off long before the
flower expands.
* Western species.
Branches “omar Spikes dense, few-flowered, the rhachis
about 1 Fruit dry. Peri anth-lobes whitish
Branches Hea, with tained Darai loni: Spikes loose, ‘the
aie his 2 to 6 lines. Fruitdry. Perianth-lobes whitish 2
Branches slender, terete. Spikes dense, Ae rhachis 1 to 2 lines. :
Fruit succulent. ` Perianth brown yellow 3. L. pauciflora.
— angular. Spikes dense, ihe flowers closely s sessile
notched or excavated rhachis. Fruit t dry 4
pt
L. spinosa.
. L. Preissiana.
. L. scrobiculata.
** Eastern species.
Hacainon loose, often 4 to 3 in. img: Perianth-lobes fulvous
hen dry.
Disk not lobed . 5. L. acida.
Hioc oose, $ es in. long. Periunth-lobes white when : B
nU. Di sk lobe 6. L. Billardieri.
Racemes 3 to 4 nes long, rather dense. Perianth-lobes dark
en Bo Disk slightly lobed. Branches rigid, often
ipia 7. L. aphylla.
"o tut pn Eb to dense almost sessile ‘clusters of fow flowers 8. L.g rp
dt 2. Oxymeria.— Bracts vti under the flowers.
Bracts very spreading and mostly recurved
Benets abe eid or Miuedy ehe e not recurved.
es pers + Cunningham
Pract: fone, miae at the base. Bem-lónves ‘deciduous 11. L empetriforms.
Species insufficiently known. Stem-leaves persistent, 14 to 3 lines long ; flowers
solidi à in the upper axils.
. L. squarrulosa.
to
Leaves and bracts e ah not rigid . 12. L. axillaris.
Leaves semiterete, at ] pu pungent. Bracts smaller, elip
tical-lanceolate . 25 13.
Leaves and bracts obovate or obovate-oblong . Ow dw 4 c ME A Mositd:
Sect. 1. XERowERIA, Endl.—Bracts subtending the individual
flowers falling off long before the flowers expand, and rarely to be seen
except in the nascent Spike.
. L. spinosa, 4
shru ea s at the time of flow wering, ‘the minute "oae cible E.
scale- like es soon falling o off mae the young shoots, the @ fei
branches terete, slightly striate with raised lines, the shorter ones 9
Ee CXIV. SANTALACEA, 221
Var.? lept aie Branches much more slender, rarely spinescent.—Dirk Hartog's
‘alaind; - Duniingións
2. L. Preissiana, A. DC. Prod. xiv. 078. Branches erect, rather
rigid, ‘terete, slightly striate with raised lines, leafless at the pim of
fowering, the minute scale-like linear-subulate leaves on the
slender WE falling off very early. Flowers in little lateral hic
loose racemes, mostly on the previous year's branches, the rhachis
2 to 6 lines. Bracts situe ovate- dibetitó: slightly denticulate,
falling off so early that: they are never seen on specimens in
flower. Perianth apparently white, scarcely 1 line jin the narrow
turbinate adnate portion tapering into a very short me the lobes
quite continuous without any external rim.— Choretrum Preissianum,
Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 608.
W. Australia. Et river, its Preiss, n. 2101.
o
ens. Perianth greenish-white, about 1 line long, the lobes as
long as the narrow tube. Fruit succulent : rod. xiv. 680;
L. aphylla, A: DC. lc. 677, partly but not “a R Br; EN Lehmanni,
Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 614, A. DC. Le. 678
W. Australia. King Getege's Sound and adjoining districts, R. riget =
Dinnington Oldfield, F. Mueller, Drummond, 2nd. coll. n. 229, 3rd coll. n
Preiss, n. 2107, 2121; Vasse river, ’ Oldfield.
L. scrobiculata, R. Br. Prod. 354. A shrub with numerous
slender slightly angular ranches gas at the time of flowerin
in a cavity of the Phsehis, the subtending bracts ovate acute and ve
deciduous, leaving sometimes a tooth-like scar. Perianth-tube shortly
222 CXIV: SANTALACEJE, [ Leptomeria.
turbineto] the lobes rather longer. Epigynous disk very prominenta
bu e, without the distinct glandlike lobes of L. Billardieri. Stigm
ene ^s lobed.—A. DC. Prod. xiv. 680; L. ericoides, Miq. in Pl
Preiss. i. 611, A. DC. l.c. 679; LL. chrysadena, Miq. l.c. 61 12, A.DC; Le.
"WV. Austr alia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Preiss,
n. 2117, YS Oldfield.
Miquel describes the bracts as persistent in his Z. ericoides, which I do not find to
be the case in the specimens I have seen, except at the top of the young spike
5. L. yw R. Br. Prod. 953. An erect broom-like shrub, attain-
ing 6 to 8 feet, the virgate branches much more angular than in
Billardieri, leafless at the time of flowering, the minute linear-
lanceolate scale-like leaves falling off very early fe rom the young shoots.
Spikes more slender than in L. Billardieri, often 4 to 2 in. long and the
flowers much smaller. Pat- tube narrow- turbinate, tapering at
the base, but sessile, the limb of the same fulyous colour as the tube,
barely 2 line diameter when open, the pias much hooded, MS re
tips. Epi our disk somewhat lar but not lobed
minutely lo A. DC. Prod. xiv. 627; Endl. Iconogr. t. Zu
id PR rou island, F. Mu eer
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Moun tains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 132,
and many others; northward to Hastings ih Beckler ; southward to Twofold bay,
ictoria. Genoa Peak, F, Mueller.
6. L. Billardieri, R. Br. Prod. 354. An erect prona De shrub,
attainin lodtetimes 6 or 7 ft. but Baca sometimes under 9 , the Ahhaa
Holl. i. 68, t
mi 3 ek —— — Tweed river, C. Moore——The flowers
are smaller fn an ib the Tasmanian specimens, but E distinctly stipitate, the perianth-
Tasmania.
near the N. coast, $ D.
7. L. aphylla, 2. Br. Prod. 854. An erect shrub of 8 to $ ft. with
rigid spreading branches: often spinescent at the end, qui @ ferte
without prominent ridges, leafless at the time of P Saa Sis ib. I hav
not succeeded in ipis, ny young shoots with scale-like leaves sall
persistent. Flowers rather numerous, in lateral racemes of 3 or 4 lines;
the rhachis rather "thick; Perianth-tube narrow-turbinate, the lo
dark-coloured when dry, opening to nearly 1 line in diameter. Epi-
"Leptomeria.| CXIV. SANTALACEJX. 228
gynous disk prominent, potaea P eg or almost lobed. Stigma
minutely 5-lobed. ^ Fruit ovoid, picarp menim DC.
Prod. xiv. 677 as to Brown's synonym; ZL. pungens, F. Muell, in Trans.
Vict. Inst. 1855, 4
i a mg oe Wilhelmi; Murray river and Mount Korong, Herb. F,
weiter
. Australia. Memory. Cove, R. Brown ; Serra Range, Guichen bay, P. Mueller
Bethanie, Behr. cue Brown's specimen the flowers are smaller than in the others, but
as yet in bud on
8. L. "c F. Muell.; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 970. A much
lower and more rigid shrub than L. Billardieri, rarel lid 1 ft.,
lobes white or spreading to weti 1 line in diameter.
Epigynous disk p masr Mun
Tasmania. South ark C. Stuart; south of dd va Millig :
L. Billardieri, var. humilis, Hook. Fl. Tas from tiis à t. Clair, Gunn,
appears to be rather Mim wor i with the ow rte of us m slightly elongated but
never exceeding 3 lin
SkcT. 2. Oxy , Endl.—Bracts mod each flower in the
en = Viri at least until the flowers e xpand.
R. Br. Prod. 3854. A shrub of 1 to 3 ft. with
tik jet Kin George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, A. Cun-
ningham, «d rdi n- a 198, Preiss, n. 2109, F. Mueller, and others.
i n Pl. Preiss. i Ens An ana shrub,
224 | CXIV. SANTALACEJE. : m
allbcogh opening in 4 lobes as in all Leptomeric, have the lobes less dis-
tinct than in some species, and the central scis i very prominent.
Fruit gobular, crowned by the persistent perianth-lobes, small and
gps Prod. xiv 3
Rn Md A cerit re, bur: not seen ripe.—A. DC. Pro . 679.
Swan river, Preiss, n. 2096; Swan and SUN rivers, CUR
T y. Pd noo coll.?) n. 228; King George’ s Sound, Mui
11. L. empetriformis, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 010. An erect much
branched shrub, of 1 to 2 ft., the branches terete, often more or less
sprinkled or covered with minute pem ille but not really hir-
sute and the papille varying much even on di d
specimen. Leaves terete, rather flesiy, contracted at the base, 1} to
24 lines long, deciduous on the main branches. Flowers in loose leafy
much contracted at se. Perianth about 2 3 line long, the lobes at
least as long as tapers into a very short pede p
ra de xiv. 680; L. hirtella, Miq. in Pl. Preiss. i. 610; C
c.
i as, Swan river, Preiss, n. 2094, 2113.
r. Prod. 354. A divaricately andhok shrub
12.
of 14 ft. with Ae ein Leaves linear-terete, tent, rather
thick, 14 to 3 s long. Flowers very shortly veloce, solitary
in the upper cvy and very much shorter than the leaves, the raceme
forming a leafy branch. Perianth opening to 3 line rater den ya lobed.
Anthers 2-celled. Nut réel pl is crowned by the persistent
aeria th-lobes.—DC., Pro
stralia. DEN s oiu Vis R. Brown. I p ve taken the descrip-
tion bch Cn naire r. Brown’ s notes, his specimens have unexpanded flow ae and
y see one ual from which, howeve eT, "the perianth- lobes are s fallen away.
with t from near Port Enolo, J. Forest, in Herb. F. Mueller, may
possibly I belong to the ae speci
18. L. laxa, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 612. A small shrub with je
erect slender simple stems of about ft., leafless at the base.
in the upper part ae scattered, semiterete, at first soft, at lng
ó a
Preiss, n. 2120. I have not seen any specimen answering t0 ihe
. L. obovata, Mig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 619. A shrub with gtey 2
aguas branches. Leaves scattered, mince obovate or obovate —
aim :
d T it was described by Miquel from a single one past flowering and bearinB? .
Leptomeria.] CXIV. SANTALACER. 225
elliptical, flat or concave, fleshy, 2} to 3 lines long. Flowers solitar
in the axils of bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, forming leafy
spikes of 4 to lin Powe with their aed i is lon ng. Lobes of
the epigynous disk very Pure nt.—A. DC. P v. 680.
W. Australia. Preiss, n Drummond, Ath rey pe 4, neither of which
Specimens spe Iseen. The jum donas is taken from Miquel's and De Candolle's.
6. OMPHACOMERIA, A. DC.
Flowers unisexual by abortion. . Perianth-tube short, adnate
end. Stamens inserted near the base of the segments; filaments short E
Aikor with 2 distinct parallel cells opening enen d thee ein
empty or abortive in the females. Ova ary inferior, abortive
ens, iin sometimes a few male clusters on a female specimen, both
Sexes sessile in a concave disk without distinct bracts
. The genus is limited to irse
_ Branches rigid but rather slender, terete : ^x O. acerba.
B ranches more rigid and shorter, prominently striate or angled. 2159520, —
unable to disc ver any leave on any of our specimens. Fem sia flowers
E i t inent Ovary thick, scarcely
. iline long, the perianth-lobes scarcely longer and as broa d as long,
- the anthers ERR ty and smaller “than in the males. Male
- flowers in almost sessile | AB of 3 to 5, the perianth without any
. distinct tube or ovary, the lobes or segments as in the females and
- the anthers perfect; the central disk flat, NS a slightly prominent
. entire rudimentary style. up ovoid, 3 to 4 lines long, with a
. eulent epicarp.— ZLeptomeria acerba, R. Br. Prod. 354.
E Wales. Port Jackson to ^s Blue Mountains, 2. Brown, A. Cunningham,
. and others,
3 noa Peak and mountains on the Mitta Mitta, F. Mueller, specimens
E both € i ern and on one of the latter a few male clusters
__ 2. O. psilotoides, 4. DC. Prod. xiv. 681 (part) Very closely
allied to O. acerba, and perhaps a Pone only, with shorter more rigid
branches very prominently striate or angled.
e Mountains? ^ Biens 134; the specimens seem male only,
I have sed -— any specimens of " Cu:mingham's answering to this species. The
presas of Gains referred to it by A. DC. is the Leptomeria glomerata, F,
VOL. VI. eS
296 CXIV. SANTALACEX. | Omphacomeria.
Muell, which at first sight closely resembles O. psilotoides, but the flowers are herma-
phrodite, with the perianth-tube, stamens and style of Leptomeria, whilst in Omphaco-
meria the anthers are much nearer to those of Hxocarpos.
7. ANTHOBOLUS, R. Br.
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back to back. y
and fleshy ; stigma sessile, pulvinate, obscurely lobed (or furrowed by
The genus is limited to Australia.
Leaves linear terete or filiform, persistent.
ender. Perianth usually 3-merous. Endocarp not
pitted. Tropical species.
Branches terete or.nearlyso. . . . . . 7. « . . 1. A. filifolius.
wenebes angular 10202 c5 alte siaii pols (gu Ae iriqueter.
Leaves rather thick. Perianth usually 4-merous. Endo-
itted. Western species
p E UM VS B. Ul a aen
Branches leafless, the minute scale-like leaves falling off from
Biss esl) po DUOC ate Feed
4. A. leptomerioides.
1. A. filifolius, R. Br. Prod. 357. A tall shrub, with slender
nearly terete branches. Leaves linear-filiform, 2 to 2in. long. Male
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F. Mueller. : i
2. A. triqueter, R. Br. Prod. 957. Very closely allied to A. filifotius,
and probably a variety only, the stems and leaves rather thicker and
the young branches slightly angular, the female flowers and fruits
rather larger.—A. DC. Prod. xiv. 687. B
ueensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; a single specimen in Heb. C
Town. i
3. A. foveolatus, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 212. An erect shrub of 6 to —
Bft, with virgate spreading or sometimes pendulous branches, terete
Anthobolus.] CXIV. SANTALACEÆ. 297
or slightly angular when young. Leaves all linear-terete, acute, 2 to —
B in. long. Male flowers 2 or 3 together on axillary peduncles T
a
lengthened and much thickened ‘peduncle. Fruit ovoid, 3 or 4 lines -
long, the endocarp marked with very small scattered pits, otherwise
smooth. Embryo straight, linear-terete, more than 2 the length of the
albumen, the cotyledons at least as long as the radicle.
Queensland. Burdekin, Suttor and Burnett rivers, F. Mueller.
8. EXOCARPUS, Labill.
Or nearly so, in a notch of the rhachis or in the axil of a minute scale-
like bract, one on y or rarely 2 or 3 in the spike fertile with the pedicel
Tapidly enlarged, the others falling off without any enlargement of the
Semi-abortive ov ry.
Of the eight Australian species one extends over the Eastern Archipelago, the others
"re endemic. , The genus sie also one species from New Zealand, one from Norfolk
Island, one from the Sandwich Islands, and apparently one from Madagascar. So
Ine o
228 i CXIV. SANTALACEJE, [Exocarpus.
leafless species closely resemble some species of Leptomeria, but are at once distin-
cbe byt the free ovary. Some spec cies S the fruiting pedicel very succulent are
own to the colonists by the name of “ rry.
ge aprann ETE Tr ponet
ves ovate, 021i o - - 1. E. latifolia.
58i ^ 10 lines lon 2. E. odorata.
Leaves reduced to paeva tooth "ike varaiitinng persistent
scales . 3. E. cupressiformis.
Leaves linear- subulate, 1 to 2 lines Jong and ‘deciduous, or
rarely rather longer and persisten 4. E. spartea.
Spikes vey short and scarcely pe side the rhachis pubes-
cent. Branches stout, often spinescent, y DM t to
minute ovate deciduous cani v4 . E. aphylla.
Tall erect shrub, with fattened lsali sieti . . . 6. E. homaloclada.
ll ere , wit er ngu noche Leaves
minute, subulate, very decidu . E. stricta.
Procumben ved - branched iic wit terete rigid branches.
L ced to minute alternate tooth-like persistent
scales . 8. E. humifusa.
Prostrate much branched dwarf shrub. Leaves reduced
to minute tooth-like scales mostly opposite . . 9. E. nana.
E. latifolia, R. Br. Prod. 356. A small tree, the "e g parts
slight hoary with a noite stellate or Sagrat scaly pube escence. Leaves
adl
ternate, petiolate, from y o to oval-oblong, end sn
coriaceous, with several more or bu distinot nerves diverging from
ase, 1 to 9 in. long. Spikes rather slender, mostly about 4 in. long,
shortly pdunculate, wiped or several in a short raceme in the u
axils. wers 5-merous or rarely 4-merous , not closely pac ed.
Fruit dvo, 3 to 4 lines lng, on a t ickly T tranente peli of
—A a, Zi
luzon-
pei 2 lines ; xiv. FE. miniata, Zipp. an
gue.
Presl ; “A. DC. Le.; UE ovata, Schnitzl. Teena i. t. 10
P eR F the Gulf of Carpe ntaria, R. Brown, Henne; Los !
and mainland, N, Coast, A. Cunn io acea ; Point Pearce 'and Üyper Victoria river,
Mueller ; Port Da arwin, "in ltz, n. 358.
à . Ke epe redi VEN y, R. Brown; Wide bay, Bidwill ; Bu dei
river, F. Mueller ; Port eter sn n; Rockingham bay and Rockhampton, 'Dallac yi
wen river, Bowman ; y district. Daintree (with leaves 23 in. long and broad
N. S. Wales. Teo T Eh Guilfoyle.
eae species is generally dispersed over the Eastern Archipelago to the Philippine
E. odorata, 4. DC. Prod. xiv. 689. An erect densely branched
shrub. Leaves crowded, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse,
mostly about in. long on the flowering branches, sometimes twice a8
long or more on barren ones. epee axillary, 2 to 3 lines long in e
wice i i
id
tooth-like. Perianth-segments more frequently 4 than 5, triangular,
about 4 line long. Anther-cells nearly globular, LM allel. Stigma
nearly sessile, "a pius scarcely lobed. Fruit nearly globular,
about 1 line diameter, resting in the slightly enlarged iron bep RE
shaped perianth, ag pede only slightly thickened.— Leptomeria
Mig in in Pl. Preiss. i. 613.
Sse ae S NSN
Sie E ve c ee
3
;
" . :
Exocarpus.] CXIV. SANTALACER. 229
4 tralia. Sussex district, Preiss, n. 2093 (whose specimens I have not
seen) ; sa Denis A. and E. Pries.
3. cupressiformis, Labill. Voy. i. 155, t. 14. Usually a tree of
PN: 90 ft., the very numerous green wir rigid or filiform Moped
leafless branches sometimes collected in a dis conical head, sometimes
loose and pendulous at the extremities, all terete but more or less
furrowed. Leaves reduced inute alternate scales. Flowers minute,
in little terminal or lateral very shortly pedunculate spikes of 14 to
3 lines, each one sessile in a t ach the axil of a
minute tooth-like bract. Perianth-segments 5, about } line long.
Anthers divergent, adnate to the margin of a broad almost triangular
heap n immersed in and Seer aru with the broad sk;
meria dE Sieb. Pl. n
ameet Sandy Cape, ri Sire Mn bay, F. Mueller, C. Stuart;
ens nes
Po Pt dia bi 8. Brown, Sieber, n. 136; * Cherry tree," Woods
NS à ei onda Eehibidion 1 1862, n. 161; Hastings river, ' Beckler ; New England,
mds
ictoria. Port Phillip, R. Brown, Gunn; Melbourne, Adamson; Yarra river and
Danton F. Mueller ; Ballarook forest, Whos; Seven: Hill, Hinteracker ; Ararat,
E Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; common in inet pati of the island, but
D rien the N. West, J. D. Hooker.
. . S. Australia. "Memory Cove, R. Brown; near Adelaide, . Ș epeen ; Mount
_ Torrens and Mount pw F. Mueller; Kangaroo Water
ustrali specimen from Wilson's Inlet, O/dfield, ink to belong to
E species, but itis in d Bine only, and the spikes are much longer and more slender
partea, R. Br. Pro d. 950. An erect shrub of 6 to 8 ft. or
que eensland. Head of Flinders river, Bonia
.W. S. Wales. Murray and Darling desert, Herb. F. Mueller.
090 . CXIV. SANTALACER. [ Ewocarpus.
ctoria. demi in ay N.W. and along the Murray, F. Mueller, L. Mort
ustr Enfield, F. Mueller; beyond alt Creek, Behr; Port jr
Wilhelmi ; ; York Pass Miss Salmon.
stralia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, and many
ue and thence to Swan and Murchison rivers, Oldfield, Preiss, n. 2125 and 2106
(the latter incautiously mue LA Miq. in Pl. Preiss. 1. 614 to his Leptomeria Leh-
manni), Drummond, 1st coll
5. E. aphylla, R. Br. Prod. 357. An erect much-branched shrub
of 4 to 6 ft., growing out sometimes into a small tree poy stout rigid
teret fail) Risrowed' branchlets, sometimes spinescent at the end.
ves reduced to minute ovate appressed scales, disteli and very
deciduous. Flower-spikes ovoid or oblong, sessil short
pubescent. Flowers 5-merous. Fruit rather small ovoid-globular,
d ped m
trun fend by the fall of the perianth-lobes.—A. DC. Prod. xiv. 690;
erioides, E Muell.; Miq. Stirp. Nov. Holl. ? ; C. le. |
p voee Peak Downs. Herts F. Mueller ; Armadillo ` Bar
S. Wales. Field’s a nd Liverpool plains, = Cunni ningham, Pes Lachlan
and Darling rivers, Victorian € other Expedition
ictoria. aye, F. Mue
' Islands off the S. coast and Memory Cove, R. Brown; scrub on |
pos "Murray, vod and thence to St. Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller ; York "Peninsula,
w. M" Drummond, 3rd coll. n. 101.
E. dasystachys, Schlecht. in Linnea, xx. 580, from the author's description, must
be this apais but the specimens so named i in Herb. F. Mueller appear to me to belong
some to Æ. stricta, and others to E. spar
6. E. homaloclada, Moore and Muell. in F. Muell. Fragm. viii
An erect. glabrous shrub of 10 to 15ft., the flowering ene very
fi
that a barren specimen with o fag Tod or “heaps Mee a ml
i m
N. S. s Tad n 8 ps o Mor "eig habit of the flowering spe-
— is precisely. that of a Psilotus pum no resemblance or affinity (6X- —
epting as to generic Characters) with ide ‘Norfolk island E. “pyllanthotiles; pur is very —
dise) allied to E. s ;
R. Br. Prod. 3857. An erect gialirone shrub of several s
vi .
feet, the ed slender and striate, but usually with 2 or 3 very -
prominent angles, leafless at the time of rai ing es on the r
very young shoots only, subulate, 4 to nearly 2 lines long, leaving a :
hey fall off a minute triangular tooth-like Flo ln Se
sessile axillary clusters, often only 2 together, and ne
g
8
sters of 2 or 3 flowers each in the same axil, mostly 4-merous, a
uit neat
Exocarpus. | CXIV. SANTALACEJE. 231
globular, smaller than in Æ. cupressiformis, rarely above 2 lines diameter
and the thickened pedicel much smaller and white (or red ?).—A. DC.
Prod. xiv. 690; Hook. A Fl. Tasm. i. 336.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Hastings and Macleay rivers, —
New England, C. Stuart ; Bine Mou nteins, A. "Cunnin ngham, Fraser ; Berrima
pete LE EINE Victorian Expedition, Mrs. Ford; Twofold yx
and near Cape
toria. Buffalo Pin " Delatite river, Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller ; Wendu
vale, Moteros
Í T param ` Derwent river and Port Dalrymple, R. Brown ; common in poor land,
k
S. varii gu Cave, R. Brown.
Var cola, F
E. aph le, but the bee e as in Æ. stricta, koe ui the clusters may not be so
4-merous, but erous. Fruit ovoid-o “bling about 2 lines
ton the ‘succulent Dedicel penis red.—A. DC. Prod. xiv. 691.
Summit of Table Mountain d Wellington), R. Brown ; Western
Ctra vr Mount Lapeyrouse, C. Stua
9. E. nana, Hook. f. i k. Lond. Journ. vi. 981. A dwarf
prostrate shrub, with numerous xd deeply-furrowed somewhat com-
pressed branches. Leaves reduced to small tooth-like scales, persistent
and mostly opposite or nearly so. Flowers apparently anes e the
males 2 together sessile in the axils, 5-merous and s arcely above
1 line in diameter, the anther-cella almost parallel, the disk broad and
b-angled. Females only seen in fruit and then solitary, the drupe or
nut ovoid, smooth, scarcely 2 lines long, ps thickened id da nt piden
about as lon ng, the amer -lobes Aggra ceci the C.
Prod. xiv. 691; Æ. humifusa, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 830, not of R. Br.
Victoria. idu r Cobberas ster at an he of 6000 ft., F. Mueller.
"Tasmania. St. Patrick's river, Gunn.
Orver CXV. BALANOPHOREJE,
Flowers unisexual, Male flowers: Perianth 3-cleft, "e lobes or
-segments &
where there is no perianth stamens free an nd 2 only or solitary ; anthers
- or bare diei or rarely l-celled. Ovary none. Fem e flowers
p into a -— lo Ovary l-celled, with a simple termi
ma. Fruita idis utricle nut or drupe, enclosing an adherent
-
939 CXV. BALANOPHOREZ.
seed.— Stout succulent leafless root-parasites. Ste — a 2
tuberous often lobed rhizome, with short thick dne:
replaced by concave scales.. Flowers in dense thick todo ril
usually very numerous and closely packed.
; en small Order, chiefly tropical, a in the New and the Old World. One mon
ypic genus is found as far north as o Modiariantal py another is in New Ze Abad
in inthe south. The Australian pec vtri over E. India and the Eastern Archi-
pelago.
1. BALANOPHORBA, Forst.
Male perianth replay usually of 3 or 4 but varying from 2 to 8
segments. Stamens all united; anthers 4-celled. Female donde
consisting of a naked ovary, terminating in a single style. Scapes
bearing alternate or imbricate scales and a dicecious or moncecious
ike; when aries the males occupying the lower, and the
un the upper portion
us comprises eight species, natives of E. India, the (dien oe and the S.
Paeti Donde the only Australian one is found also in the New Hebrides
1. B. fungosa, Forst. Char. Gen. 99, t. 50. Rhizome short, thick,
irregularly hak with a minutely gr ranular surface. Sca capes thick,
to 4 in. high. Scale-like leaves ovate, obtuse, concave, membranous,
n. Jong. Female flowers exc edin ly numerous and minute
obular
each one on‘a pedicel of 14 5 » lines. up fecero M bos 3 or 4, sprea
ing or reflexed, oblong, concave, about 1 line long. Anthers rese
iEn mass, on a short stipe perp of the united filaments.—
f. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii , t. 8; Oynomorium. balanophora,
Willd. Spec. Pl. iv. 177.
pe sland. Mrs pre AE * on € e of heo Dallachy ; n eres
in the same bay, M'Gillivr island, New Hebrides.—l
myself been able to verify dba. Moard ot ‘the ef rare ben here taken the een ; ;
chiefly from Hooker's above-quoted Mem
Order CXVI. CONIFERJZE.
Flowers monæcious or dicecious, the males in deciduous ana the
females in cones or solitary, all without an perianth. Male catkins
a common axis, each stamen consisting of a Haratis more or less
contracted into a stipes at the base and dilated at the apex; anther-
cells 2 or more, adnate to the stipes or pendulous from under the scale-
like apex, opening longitudinally in 2 valves. Female cones consisting
either of opposite verticillate or spirally arranged imbricate scales, with -
or more erect or inflexed naked orthotropous or anatropous. ovules
(erect or recurved pistils according to some theorists) within each
CXVI. CONIFERR, 938
pistile). Fruit (or syncarp rp Rr a to some) the more or le
branous (cie m Male catkins solitary or clustered, terminal or rarely
axillary, female cones auy lateral on short peduncles or terminating
ponet branc hlets..
hemisphere, bat withi the tropics chiefly confined to m The eleven
Australian genera are all limited to the southern he d icon Jo ocarpus, which
extends northwards to Japan and to the “West Indies, and that genus Pong: P ecieton
are in Sou rica as well as in the Old ld. Three othe gon mara,
me n World. ee other
aerydium, and Phyllocladus reach from New Zealand to the Arc pela ago. Frene la
extends only to Now! Caledonia, and the five remaining ones are endemic, mostly mono-
ple or nearly
In describing the female organs of this Order, I have made use of the terminology
corresponding to Brown’s view of their homology, without however intending to dec yor
den : á
p
biem which does not poy to adm fa parein solution. g 8 hi
been adduced on S eek d side by ervers, none of them abso utely convincing,
for whicheve er view be ad d there te remains a broa in Angie uM ti
organs in Gymnos d h supposed ho molo “os in Angios ong,
therefore ‘ rure cet fea edis s Heec oe dae "E ms best, in describing -
generic modifications, to make use of the terminology w vhi ea is most conformable to
actual ipm e, and to consider these organs as naked ovules and seeds, not as pistilg
and n The genera are also here arranged solely with a view to the practical dis-
tinction of the few represented in Australia, without reference to the tribes founded on
the dri e wie v X the coverings of the seed, whether discoid, carpellary, o
Integument r, besides that the Australian genera are insufficie any clear
Ora (o or É ipea) à in the axils or on the inner surface of the
es.
Leaves pes reduced to scales) — or* opposite.
with only the innerm n nnermost pairs or
Vi of iie. bearing ovu
Leaves or scales in whorls of 3 or 4, Ovules numerous
within each scale . 1. FRENELA.
Mo or scales in whorls of 3. Ovules 1 or 2 within each
2. ACTINOSTROBUS.
Leaves small thic and jmb idate o site and ‘decussate,
E ( pM imr ) oppo T ;
T s (mal "thick, ad ‘inate opposite and decussate.
: with several series of scales bearing 1 ovule each , 4. Mrcrocacarys,
234 CXVI. CONIFERX.
Leaves (rarely reduced to scales) spiral or scattered. ne-
scales flat, hardened at the en ips Meum Sa the
ut t appressed, oft
Male | aüiénta sm all. a tt ns with a p stipes and 2
anther-cells. Cones small. Ovulesfew. Seeds ins 5. ARTHROTAXIS.
Male vest te aii en datas ges more than
s 1 to each s
Seeds. obovate. ‘oblong, p A to the. WA at the base, not
winge 6. ARAUCARIA.
Seeds oblong, 1 free from the ‘scale, ‘winged or on one side . 7. DAMMARA.
Leaves (sometimes reduced t scales) piral or scattered
Cones small, scale thickened and concave, with 1 ovule
each. Seeds mail, the outer integument membranous,
contracted in ^y a nec
Leaves See small, thick, eat, imbricate.
Seeds seated in a m mbranouscup . . . . . 8. Dacryprum.
jaen n out pa terna, rem brenous cup . 9. PHEROSPHARA.
Leaves reduced to pail almost verticillate
ales, with liy leafl like “hombeidal flat branchlets
llodia . 10. PHYrLOCLADUS.
or poy
Ovules 1 or 2, exserted from an oblong fleshy ‘receptacle. Leaves
os un or ital er sich or flat, with a Pe
nent midrib 11. PopocARPUS.
l. FRENELA, Mirb. (partly).
(Callitris, Vent. (partly); Leichhardtia, Steph. ; Octoclinis, F. Muell.)
Flowers monccious. Male amenta cylindrical oblong or ovoid, he
stamens in whorls of 3 or rarely 4, imbricate in twice as many verti
rows, the scale-like apex ovate orbieular or slightly peltate ; ada
cells 2 to 4. Female amenta of 6 rarely 8 scales, more or less dis-
tinctly arranged at the time of flowering in 2 whorls sinant aay
enlarged outer empty scales. Ovules iet carpels) several within eac
aee in 8 vertical series, donee and erect. Fruiting-cone glo obular
r pyramidal, the 6 ra ely 8 sales enlarged and hardened,
i shortly v PFA at the base, appear ly. anged in a single whorl, and
a Wes integument, the tuli dived into 2 unequal F
only 1 wing developed, or very rarely a third rink also pro-
minent on one face, the abortive seeds mostly enlarged and very flat
w $ me species there is a more or les
min entral columella usually 3-angular or 3-lobed, and sometimes
apparently formed of abortive ovules. Cotyledons 2, rarel 3.— Tree
shrubs, with slender terete or 8- or rarely 4-an branch
acicular though short, but generally redu sea to minute we scales, the 1
decurrent midribs forming the an ngles of internodes as ddr ;
ale amenta usually small, solitary or clustered at the po a 1
branches, and rarely a few lateral ones. Female cones on short
ON
TeoH er M T SU ETERNI i
TARNEN
Frenela.] CXVI. CONIFERJE. 235
peduncles or branchlets, solitary or clustered, ripening usually the
second year, and persisting many years after the seeds have fallen
Besides - ve species, which are all endemic, there are one or two from
New Caledon
Fruit-cones — the junction of the valves prominent.
Co emm €— about 1 in. long, 6-valved. .
"qe ia speci “1, F. Parlatorei.
Cones globale d or scarce ely pyramidal ims diameter, mostly
8-valved. Leaves o nd acicular, 2. F. Macleayana.
Cones globular, 3 to 2 in. diameter, in Wed Seton rn species 3. F. Roei.
Fruit-co nes globular, —— v, the. junction of the valves
F. Drummondii.
. F. robusta.
6. F. Muelleri.
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Yon globular or “oblong, more or less furrowed at the
junction 5 ds Miis es, “ea three smaller valves often slightly
with the dorsal | point n near the 7. F. rhomboidea.
Cones ovoid or oblong, the inner wp er: valves not much
ae m ed, with i the small dorsal point near pres eis n
ale amenta usually solitary. Cones rarely above j in. Pod
diameter Y qp ee | 8. F. Endlicheri.
Male amenta usually in threes. Cones usually 3 to nearl T
Vin, long”, yin y SF mre
kn
stout peduncles, ovoid-pyramidal, acuminate, abou t
valves 6, nearly equal, very thick, smooth outside or nearly so, forming
prominent angles at their junction. Fertile seeds with one large wing
and one small one sometimes obsolete.—Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii.
447 ; Callitris Parlatorei, F. Muell. l.c.
Queensland. Darlington Range, W. Hill.
F cleayana, Parlat. in DO. Prod. xvi. ii. 446. A tall
pyramidal tree with s reading branches. Leaves in whorls of 4 or
Sometimes 3, develo 5 on the lower or sometimes on nearly all the
nches into rigid — — pungent-pointed spreading
mine of 2 to 4 lines, reduced in of the upper branches to the
minute scales or teeth of the ie ee a the angles pof the internodes
y pro Male amenta 2 to 4 lines long. Fruit-cones sessile,
236 CXVI. CONIFER, | Frenela.
22, with a plate; Leichhardtia viste Sheph. Cat. Pl. Cult. Sydn.
1851, 15, as quoted by F. Mueller
N. S. Wales. Port Macquarie, acing: ; Hastings river, T'hozet.
The original specimens have none but the oum TE (eph poer Se
i et ation) have similar foto leaves in whorls of 4-on the r br eut
whilst the upper p resemble xe of F. er licheri, uk in their E ier int
whorls, W. Brisbane specimens (without fruit) appear to me to belong to F.
ndlicheri, Which has also Raniotetly pte leaves on the lower branches
3. F. Roei, Endl. Syn. Conif. 30. A shrub or tree with flexuous
branchlets, stouter than in any other species, the internodes very
angula e amenta unkno Fruit-cones shortl ndisse or
opens, as in s po meting species, but unequal as in several p f the
following ones, nearly-smooth outside, de larger valves with a promi-
nent dorsal oonical Shit. below the apex as in F. rhomboidea. Fertile
i large and 1 small wing.—Parlat. in DC. Prod.
xvi. ii. 448 ; F., sub subcordata, Parlat. in Enum. Sem. Hort. Flor. 1862,
24, and in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 446.
ket Ki ; id, 4
oot of Pes y Endlich v nge, F. Mueller.—I have not seen esi specimens,
lato
the name of F. Roei in Herb. Hook. Baxter's plant is ee nly the same as
ond's; the species is readily known by its Hout branchle
4. F. Drummondii, Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. den A shrub or
tree with the angular internodes of F. Endlicheri. Male amenta unknown.
Fruit-cones on stout short’ peduncles, mostly solitary, ‘strictly Lr
without prominent angles, about 4 in. diameter or rather e, the
» ves thick, nearly equal or alternately rather shorter and dee qe
trietly v valvate, smooth or slightly rugose on the back, with a minute
dora €—— below the apex
Towards Cape Riche, Drummond, oth coll., n. 433 ; Salt, Gard-
ner, igit Pomel rivers and Esperance A Maxwell.
ocius size, dun ex sina ", ), misil ae s
a tall shrub, the crowded branchlets short and erect, often slender an
glaucous, the internodes terete or with ver use angles, never 50
rv gites as in the other species, the scales or teeth small and —
ale amenta solitary or in threes, 2 to 4 lines long, more slender an
looser than in F. rhomboidea and F. Endlicheri. Fruit-cones solitary oT
point, "Seeds usually 2-winged, the central saa
1
i er ITUNUP B TEENS PNE eee IRR RE M
Frenela.] CXVI. CONIFERE.” 237
somewhat prominent.—Parlat. in DO. Prod. xvi. ii. 450 ; Callitris
robusta, R. Br . Herb.; F. propinqua, A. Cunn. (Callitris propinqua;
. B . yr ER
R. Br.), Mirb. lc.; F. crassivalvis, wre? Stirp. Nov. Holl. Muell. 1;
Callitris ripen ye | in Pl. Preiss. i. 643; F. canescens, Parlat. in DC.
Ne ii. 448; F. Gulielmi, Parlat. l.c. 449?
stralia. York Sound, Regent’s river, and eam bay, vo E coast, A,
ei ema Mackenzie river, F, Mue ller; Port Dar n, Sch
p eorn nsland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; : Gilbert. aie, Cais, ee river,
owman.
: S. Wales. Blue Mountains, A. Cunn et eie and on all ve barren lands of
the interior from thence to the Darling and Murray rivers and to rrier range,
unningham, Fraser, uds ie iia indi other pr dinelitiig; New England,
C. St xesh Mount Lindsa
Vic ount Brown, Hennes, s Gulf, Kangaroo island, R. oot; Port Phillip
and Muy river, F, ar r.
m tralia. Enfield, St. Vincent's and Spencer's Gulfs, F. Mueller.
i iddi le island, Goose isla nd bay , R. Brown ; King George 's Sound
dide iji districts, Baxter we sr Swan river, Preiss, n
Drummond, 1st ol, gus (3rd coll. ?) n. 186; . Hottenest island, A. PEehlews eal cigs
in Roe’s and oth
. F. mic const 1
Cunn. Herb. ; . intratropica, uell. Herb. ; F'. or Callitris ALERT F. Muell.
Fragm. v. 198; Parlat. m DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 4515: F. Mons Parlat. in DC.
xvi. n. 449. To this belong most of the northern specimens, also Richmond and
Clarence ers Beckler, Henderson, C. Moore ; Moreton Sind, Northern woods, Pari
62.
tin] 5, C. Moore, n.
errucosa. Cones ze rge, with ER vea e on backs of the valves. F.v
gon), Pu Cunn. e vin rrucosa, R. ai Mem. Mus. Par. xiii. 74; Parlat.
C. Prod. xvi. P. tuberculata ( Callies tuberculata, R. Br.), Mirb. Lc
car with the smoothe valved form in the interior of N. S S. Wales, i in S. Australia and
ustralia.
6. F. Muelleri, Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 450. A tree attaining
20 to 30 ft., with the angular internodes and clustered male amenta of
F. australis, but the branches stouter and the fruit-cones more like those
of F. robusta , globular, $ to lin. diameter, neither angled nor furrowed,
the valves 6, very thick, strictly valvate, rugose outside, with a min nute
dorsal point below the summit, the smaller valves about half the
breadth of the larger ones though not very much shorter.— P. fruticosa,
- Cunn. Herb., but probably not Callitris Ane ua R. Br.
S. Wales. Port — Ys — » Thozet ; a A. Cunning-
ham, Frazer, Miss Atkinson.—The species requires rd m inventi
7. F. rho ibis Endl. igh Conif. 36. A tree described som
times as 20 to 95 ft. high, sometimes as double that height, the nece
rather — often drooping, angular when young, “the small scales
= € uch more acute than in F. australis. Male amenta solitary or
small o e bu. e. Fruit-cones often clustered on short
D igote globular, ivt exceeding jin. diameter in the typical forms ;
valves 6, alternately smaller, the larger ones dilated into a broadly
- thomboidal apex with a short conical protuberance about the centre
238 CXVI. CONIFERJE, - [ Frenela.
and usuall yn rugose, the alternate ones much shorter, with a broad base
- slightly overlapping the others on the margin, at least when young,
unopen cone furrowed at the junctions. Seeds 2-winged, the
híc of the win ae 7. variable.—Parlat. in DC. Prod, xvi.
ii. 447 ; Hook. f. FI. . i. 952; Callitris rhomboidea, R. Br. in Rich.
. Mu
Conif. 47, t. 18; Fr m (Ponto ad Mirb. in Mem. Mus. Paiva xiii. 74;
uya australis, Poir. Dict. Suppl. v. 302; Cupressus australis, Desf. Cat.
Hort. P of Persoon ; Callitris cupressiformis, Vent
G ec. 10; Frenela australis, Endl. Syn f. 37, not of
Brown; Callitris arenosa, Sweet, Hort. Brit. 473; Frenela arenosa, A.
Cunn. ; ” Endl. Syn. Conif. 38; Parlat. in DC. "Prod. xvi ii 451;
F. "€ Spach, Suit. Bu ff. xi. 345; Endl. Syn. Conif 36;
F. attenuata, A. Cunn. Herb.
MEDIAE Maii island, F. Mueller ; Stradbrooke island (Fraser ?).
S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, di JD. Hooker ; Sydney here Paris
Exhibition Pet's Sie Ke n. 151; New ; Engl and, C. Stuart; and southw
Illawarra, Shepherd on ont woods, one ica district, London Exhibition 1862,
n. 2 ; Twofold bay, F.
rampians, oo ita her.
E A n: pe rt's river, Onkaparinga, Blandowski.
V anica. s4 b fd in., thick and rugose at the back, the dorsal point or
prominence less ru inre mcd Bay Pine.
owe Oyster Ne Ouan, and others.
ata, Dorsal conical point of the nid cone-valves very prominent.—
iind. F. Mueller ; Mount Sturgeon, Robertson.
dlicheri, Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 449. A tree of 60 to
100 ft., closely resembling F. australis and F. rhomboidea as to its angular
neca and small scales or teeth, except in the young lant "-
i acicular leaves like those of F. Macle ay "tase
usual 7 solitary, short and compact. Fruit-cones Vra] y prem on
gsc and of the size of Pieve of F. rhomboidea, but nearer
ert to those of F. australis, about 4 in. diameter, the 3 larger a fe
but fite o or go at all dilated cial “the dorsal’ point very near the
Queens Wide bay, Bidwill, also probably Octoclinis Backhousi
Mon 2 Queensland woods, London Exhibition 1862, W. Hill, n. 4 shout
ower or
N. S. Wales. Lachlan river and M l plains, A. Cu ham, Leichhardt ;
Berrima, Woolls ; Darling river, H. L oeng dc wom
Victoria. Futter’s Trace, F. po ATE
Var. mucronata, Cone-valves produced me a a ek almost terminal point —F.
Gunnii, var. mucronata, Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 450.—Mount Mitchell, Beckler.
9. F. australis, ; Mirb. in Mem. Mus, Par. xiii. 74, not of —
Endl, A bush or ade des of - to 25 ft. viti p dense branches,
Se eee ee
"DOR E EEE ag a a a i ai a ih
Frenela.] CXVI. CONIFERJE. 239
the internodes prominently triangular, with small teeth or scales. Male
amenta very small, usually 3 together. Fruit-cones ovoid or :
margins equally or unequally winged.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 352
t. 97; Callitris oblonga, Rich. Conif. 49, t. 18, £. 25 €. Gunnii, Hook. f.
in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 147; Frenela Gunnii, Endl. Syn. Conif.
98; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 450, also according to Parlatore,
F. variabilis, Carr. and F. macrostachya, Gord
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant on the gravelly banks of the
South Esk river near Launceston, &c., J. D. Hooker. It is probably a Tasmanian
specimen of this species that R. Brown had originally designated under the name of
Callitris fruticosa, which does not occur in his herbarium.
2. ACTINOSTROBUS, Miq.
Flowers moneecious. Male amenta oblong, the stamens in whorls of
3, imbricate in 6 vertical rows ; anther-cells 2 to 4. . Female amenta
globular or. acuminate, the scales imbricate in whorls of 3, all closely
globular or acuminate, the 6 inner much enlarged scales becoming
almost valvate in a single whorl, with 6 or 12 of the outer barren
. Fertile seeds usually only one to each scale, 3-winged, the
codes ones also more or less enlarged but only 2-winged, the central
fe on very short peduncles, or almost sessile, in the axils of the
eaves,
The genus is endemic in Western Australia. F. Mueller proposes to reunite it with
Callitris and Frenela, but the habit, the numerous imbricate scales of the female
Scale-like p of the stamens very obtuse. Fruit-cones globular
Toro adumbik: 70790 ee a
Scale like apex of the stamens acutely acuminate. Fruit-cones
Pris an at the top into a neck with short spreading terminal
"- x id : . . - B . o * E . . . B . . .
1. A. pyramidalis.
2. A. acuminatus.
l. A. pyramidalis, ig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 644. A densely branched
1
a C pIa s Miq r
oon glabrous shrub. Lower leaves sometimes
and obtuse. Male amenta 1 to 2 lines long, the
amens orbicular, very obtuse and not keeled.
a d s pe
Female amenta w et only 2 or 3 lines diameter consisting of |
; hen as
: 4 to 6 whorls of 3 scales each, all imbricate in alternate series, but as
940 CXVI. CONIFERJE. [Actinostrobus.
the cone enlarges, those of the 2 inner Srvlonbenring whorls become
strictly valva either remain very obtuse or become shortly
acuminate ; “i e attains in. diameter or s and each fertile
valve has a broad st ri one aA HC qs to 2 or 3 lines diameter so
closely appressed to its base as to appear adnate, and sometimes a
second outer one enlarged to nearly half its size.—Endl. Conif. 40;
Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 444; Callitris actinostrobus, F. Muell.
Rep. abu Exp. 19.
WV. Australia. King George's Sound, Baxter ; and thence to Swan river, Preiss,
n. 1311, Drummond, 1st coll. and 3rd coll. n. 234, Oldfie ld ; Miu river, Oldfield.
9. A. acuminatus, Parlat. Enum. Sem. Hort. Flor. 1862, 25, and in
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 445. A small pA densely branched "shrub, our
minating in.a fine acute point. Penice of the size and "trot
of those of A. pyramidalis, but contracted at the tp dub a distinct
neck, each valve terminating in a short spreading point.
b Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll.
n.
3. DISELMA. Hook. f.
rs dicecious, P. amenta terminal Male amenta ovoid or
at the base of each of th er ones. uit-cones small, globular.
Seeds 3-winged.—Erect atid with small p closely appressed
ves,
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Tasmania.
. D. Archeri, Hook. f. Fl. Tusm. i. 358, t. 98. An erect densely
tena vide af 5 to 15 ft. Leaves clo Tx imbricate but strictly
€
tern Miis "v St. t. Clair, s : sn dent &c.,
as Gunn
With the foliage of “Microcachrys this is more nearly allied to Frenela in Fe uctification. a
mistake, owing to which the female plant was described as a rostrate, altho ugh —
rodrom
cleared up by Archer, has been omitted to be corrected in the P.
4. MICROCACHRYS, Hook. f.
Flowers dicecious, the amenta terminal. Male amenta ovoid, con
sisting of several pairs of opposite stamens, the stipes very short, the
eeled, about } line a E
ick
HS RECON
pee CXVI. CONIFERUE. - 241
c
succulent. Seeds nearly erect, not winged, the outer integum
e or less fleshy.— rostrate "reci ith small opposite closely
appressed leaves.
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Tasmania.
- 1. M. tetragona, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 358, t. 100... A prostrate
densely d shrub. Leaves closely Labtfistal but strictly opposite
and decussate, very obtuse, thick and keeled, and 4 line long on the
branchlets, more acute and 3 line ong. on some of the older branches.
Male amenta small and recurved. — Fruit-cones recurved or almost erect,
nearly 3 lines long, the scales a im bricate, concave, thick suc-
culent and scarlet when ripe. Seeds becoming almost erect, the outer
integument wend at least at the base.— Bot. Mag. t. 5576; Arthrotazis ?
__ tetragona, . Pl t. 560; Dacrydium “tetragonum, Parlat.
E DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 496.
Tasmania. Summits of the Western ners Gunn, Archer, F. Mueller.
The foliage of — B agre is so entirely that of the Diselma which gr n the same
mountains, that 3 at first taken for M female of the same tihi although the
one is al ays abe and the other erect; the cones are, however, totall erent,
integuments of the seed. In the —€— mim eue m T integument is shortly cup-
^ ;
5. ARTHROTAXIS, Don.
Flowers moneecious on different branches, the penes terminal and
small. Male amenta consisting of numerous ond X
verse hilum two lonri-
tudinal wings, the integument penike i Cotyledon ns i Dedss
branched trees. Leaves small, in close spires, either very short obtuse
. and appressed or lanceolate and looser. ruit-cones s sessile.
The genus 5 limited to the three Tasmanian species, but is : ose. allied —
1 Chinese Cunninghamia, that Zuccarini proposed the union of the
; Leaves ids aiken very obtuse, 1 to 13 lines "e ka
pns a prbioolar a at the apex be Laos lee i 1. A. cupressoides.
aves looser, acute, 14 to 2 lines lon t-scales sho wee
“acuminate. : apnd , 2. A. lazifolia.
Leaves sd jincurved, acute, 3 to 4 ines lon | Fitacales
pee t the apex i. 8. A. selaginoides.:
R
249 CXVI. CONIFERZ. —— [Arthrotazis.
Don in Trans. Linn. Soe. xviii. Pei t. 18, f. 2;
appare l ite. Leaves closely appressed and densely covering
he branches, broad, very obtuse, thick and keeled, 1 to 13 lines I-
ot ro it-cones rarely diameter when open, the dil
tially about 3 to ea j :
Tasm. i. — Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. i 433; Oun aiser cupres-
soides, Zucc. in Sieb. Fl. Jap. ii. 9; Arthrotaxis imbricata, Maule
—
nia. Lake ^e: —_— Western Mountains, Pine river, Gunn, and others ;
Lake erway F. Mue
2. A. Oo Hd Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 079. A tree of 25 to 30 ft. closely
allied to A. eupressoides, from which it differs in the leaves less closely
appressed although imbricate, acute, and mostly about 2 MR long,
e cones rather larger with the scales more acuminate, thus form-
ing an approach as it were to the A. selaginoides.—H ook. f. Bs i
354; Par e in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 434 ; A. Doniana, Park. (Parlatore).
Tasmania r the summits of the Western Mountains, at an elevation of 3000
to 4000 ft., rally T dw. F. Mueller.
` ' The leaves of young plants sent by Gunn are not elongated as in A. selaginoides.
3. A. s inoides, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 172, 14 A
stouter tea than the two other species, attaining 45 ft. AR loosely
imbricate, lanceolate, acute, keeled, incurved, 3 to 4 lines long, those
of the young see ling gs more linear, s eading, din. long. Fruit-cones
4 to 2 in. diameter, the scales CRAS in a lanceolate point. Seeds
usually à to 6 under each scale.— Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 574; Hook. f. Fl.
Tasm. i. 954; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 434; Cunninghamia sela-
Ross Zucc: in Sieb. Fl. J ap. ii. 9; Arthrotaaxis "alpina; Van Houtte
(Parlato re).
Tasmania. Western Mountains, at an elevation of 3000 to 4000 ft., Gunn, Archer,
F. Mueller.
6. ARAUCARIA, Juss.
. Araucaria.] CXVI. CONIFER. 243
The genus ranges over extratropical and subtropical South America, New Zealand,
and some of the South Pacific Islands. The Australian species are both endemic.
Leaves rigidly acicular, 2 to 6 lines long. Fruit-cones about
BASIE anr chav iacte 0 4. T aiao ahaoe be elle NM
Leaves lanceolate, 3 to 14 in. long. Fruit-cones about 9 in. long 2. A. Bidwilli.
à Cunninghamii, Ait. in Sweet, Hort. Brit. 475. A tree with
a pyramidal or somewhat flattened head, attaining in some situations
150 to 200 ft., in others remaining much smaller, Leaves crowded in
. dense spires, rigidly acicular and very acute, those of the barren
. branches often spreading, straight, vertically compressed, with the
dorsal rib decurrent and 1 to 1 i ng, those of the flowering branches
Queen Port Bowen, R. Brown; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, extending 80
miles inland, and northward to lat. 14°, A. Cunningham, Leichhardt ; Rockhampton,
ueller; Burdekin river, Fitzalan. Known as the “ Moreton bay Pine."
- Wales. Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler.
In general aspect and in foliage the tree much resembles the Norfolk Island Pine
(4. excelsa), but the cones are very different.
2. A. B L ot. ii. 503, t. 18. A tree,
attaining from 100 to 150 ft. in height, with a remarkably stout trunk
and smooth bark, the branches usually in whorls of about 16, crowded
at the top of the tree. Leaves i e
re iam
4 in. long and 3 broad, tapering towards their winged base, the ter-
s obovate, 2 to 24 in. long
and 2 in. broad.— Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 371.
Queensland. Brisbane range, N.W. of Moreton bay, Bidwill; between Cleveland
qr ockingham bays, W. Hill; Condamine, Dawson, and Burnett rivers, Leich-
R2
244 CXVI. CONIFERÆ. [.Dammara.
7. DAMMARA, Rumph.
(Agathis, Salisb.)
Flowers dicecious, the amenta sessile or nearly so. Male amenta
€ or lateral, cylindrical, surrounded by a few imbricate scales at
the base; stamens numerous, in close spires, the imbricate scale-like
apices thick, clavate or orbicular and slightly incurved. Anther-cells
5 to 16, cylindrical, pendulous, in 1 or "2 transverse row emale
amenta lateral or terminal, the scales numerous, with 1 reversed ovule
e
Besides B KERN species which is endemic, there are one "Sl East India E
the Aokipelazô, one from New Zealand, and two or perhaps three from New Caledonia ia
1. D. robusta, C. Moore; F. Muell. in Trans. Pharm. Soc. Vict. ii. 174.
A tree, attaining a height of nearly 150 ft., the rue its nearly verti-
cillate. Leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, shortly acu-
b
gerne sion the us fom n near Wide bay, pin
and bre
It is RUM mora) a slip of the pen that Parlatore (in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 316) in-
cludes Hollan the area of the Kauri Pine, D. australis, Lam., for Mercuty
bay, the special iri r piven, is in New Zealand.
8. DACRYDIUM, Soland.
Flowers dicecious or rarely moneecious. Male amenta ovoid or Cy li
drical. Stamens several, spirally arranged, imbri nne very s
tracted at the base, the apex incurved. y md >
in 2 valves. Female amenta pt a ry ra smal ved scales i
si erse
t
the inner crustaceous.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves small ine clo
imbricate, or on the young plants longer and linear. Amenta
terminal.
pss
Dacrydium.] ` CXVI. CONIFERZ, 245
The genus is dispersed over the Indian Archipelago, New Caledonia, and New
Zealand; the Tasmanian species is endemic.
arg EM Rate pepe Lond. Journ, iv. 159, t. 6, and
357, t. 100. A tree attaining sometimes 100 ft. though
otten quadrifarious. Male amenta (on pi seen m an eae RN ide
gear cylindrical, consisting of stein 12 it-cones
short, decurved, consisting of 4 to 8 dior ibin persistent
le
mtegument membranous with a minute Aang the inner one crustaceous,
— Parlat. in v Prod. xvi. ii. 495; D. Huronense, A. Cunn. Herb.
Tasmania. Southern and wes ts of the island, A. Cunningham, and others.
* Huron P. Pine" of the colonists.
9. PHEROSPHZERA, Archer.
ers dicecious. Male amenta ovoid-globular. Stamens several,
^. Flow
spirally arranged, very shortly c contracted at the base, the incu rved
X not so broad a d anther. Anther-cells 2, parallel, Yen sth
wards in 2 valves. p» e amenta ovate, with several spirally arr
Scales, and a a single erect ovule within eac Fruit-cones ovoid, the
Scales thickened at ad put concave. Seeds (as yet ee
ovoid-oblong, he intecument green, loose, contracted i
néck open and crenulate [S the orifice d sometimes * longitudinally
at the apex bát bim about 4 line long. Seed small.—Hook. f. Fl.
Tasm. i. 355, t. 99; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 497.
Tasmania. Moin near Lake St. Clair, Gunn; high alpine flats, Mount Field
10. PHYLLOCLADUS, Rich.
(Thalamia, Spreng.)
wers monoecious (or sometimes diccious ?). Male amenta cylin-
_ Flow
. Wrical, surrounded by bracts at the base. Stamens imbricated, con-
246 | CXVI. CONIFER. [ Phyllocladus.
tracted into a very short stipes, the scale-like apex ct ^ anos 2,
adnate. Female p of a very few scal gm or.
Besides the Ansteeling species which is endemic, there is one from New Zealand and
another from Born
x rhomboidalis, Xich. Conif. 130, t. 3. A slender tree, at-
taining lep tt. but reduced: to a shrub an Hn summits of mountains, the
he branches more or less verticillate, the cladodia or deciduous
eaf-like branchlets cuneate or rhomboidal, obtuse, obtusely toothed or,
lobed, ł to 2 in. long, the real leaves or scales v ery small and subulate
or fine-poin nted. Male amenta usually 2 or 3 together, 9 to 4 lines
emales globular and about 2 lines ae or sometimes lengthen-
ing out in fruit to 3 or 4 lines, with 1, 2, or 3 fertile scales surmounted
by 1 or 2 barren ones. Seeds scarcely exceeding the scales.— Hook. f.
Tasm. i. 358; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. 40D; P. Billardieri,
Mirb. in Mem. Mus. Par r. xii. 76; P. aspleni wie, Hook. f. in Hook. —
Lond. Journ. iv. 151; Podocarpus asplenifolia; Labill Pl. Nov. "Hol. ik c
71; t. TN Thalamia Psa Spreng. Syst.
Pikia a. Derw r, R. Brown ; apr in a lirei in the mountainous
and PARVA parts of “the pest J. D. Hoo.
1l. PODOCARPUS, L'Her.
brin imbricate ; "anthen-cells 2. Female Bimente of 9 to 4 br acts ¢ or
receptacle, unequally 2- or 4-toothed at the apex. Ovules 1 or
exserted, reversed and adnate to an erect stipe from within the larger
teeth or bracts of the receptacle. Seeds drupaceous, the nu ucle
ean nies in a double integument, the outer one succulent, the inner onè -
ong. nica with 2 short coty ledons and an inferior radicle.-—Tre® "d
or shrubs. Leavesalternate or rarel ppposite, usually POistichous an
flat, with a prominent midrib. ud ly. Amenta axillary oF
terminal, solitary or several together, Sale or shortly racemose. `
The genus is dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, |
from South Africa and New Zealand k Japan, and over the whole of South America
The Australian Bed are all endem
eina broadly oblong a or Jer " to 10 in. p" Male
amenta 1 to 13 in. lon . 1. P. elata.
T
us
Podocarpus.] CXVI.. CONIFERE. 247
spas kinan, acute, 13 to 3 in. long.’ Male amenta 2 to 4 lines
ene og ae cra Male amenta clustered in the axils.
Eastern spec . 2, P. spinulosa.
' Leaves tig piu but scarcely pungent. Male amenta usually
soli estern species . 8,.P. Dr remmpvionas:
Leaves em not Du 4 in. Male amenta small and solitary 4. P. alpina.
. P. elata Br. ; Mirb.in Mem. Mus. Par. xiii. 75. A tree of
50 to 100 ft. Lave oblong-iear or broadly incur lnceolats very
variable in size, on some specimens with young flowers 14 to 2 in. long
and 1 in. wide and quite straight, in the o inar Piers 3 to 6 in. long
and 4 to 6 lines brond, stinighi or slightly faleate, on some barren
specimens 8 to 10 in. long $ in. wide and much faloate, acute or rather
obtuse, the midrib promine ent, the petiole very sh Male amenta
clustered 2 or 3 toget ex sessile, 1 to 1 lo ny surrounded b
several short scales or brac male et 2 to 3 lines long, soli-
a
ines long, with usually only one mion mieti or globular, 4 to 6 lines
diameter.—Parlat. in DC. Prod. 017; P. ensifolia, R. Br.;
irb. lc.; Parlat. lc.; P. falcata, T ion Herb.
Queensland. Cape Grafton, A. Cunningham; Brisbane river, Moreton bay,
F. Mueller ; Rockingham ba ` Dallachy.
N. S. Wales. Hunter's and Paterson riv vers, R. Brow wn; ewm river, Fraser;
Hunter's river, Leichhardt ; ee and nece big Richmond river,
"Henderson; llawa rra, A, Cunn: ingham, Macarthu
. Br.; Mirb. in Mem. Mus, Par
ine
bracts below the leaves of the young branches, with 2 small opposite
bracteoles MORE under the oblon ng 2-lobed autres Seeds
jag than A m ta,—Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. uxus
sa, Sm. i a xxxv.; P. pungens, Caley: Don in Lamb.
Pin. a 2, 193 | (Parlato
N. S. Wales. Port DES Caley, Woolls, and others. ‘Native Plum or
Damson,” .
3. P. Drou : Fragm. iv. 80, t. 31. A shrub or
tree, with virgate branches. Leaves crowded, linear, 2 to 3in. long,
e BUG, Prod xvi
W. A , Drummond, 2nd coll. n. 153, 154, 8rd. coll. m. 199, 200; Vasse
river, idilar ; dare plains, Tone river, Maxwell.
248 CXVI. CONIFERJE: [ Podocarpus.
; Mirb. in ven Mus. Par. xiii. 75. —
Pierio nro p € usually low, Miiotunos attaining
ft. Leaves crowded, "linear, FORME or falcate, rigid, varying from
ps long and obtuse to $ in. and acute, especially on luxuriant barren
ranches.
Male amenta 2 to 3 lines ong. usually solitary and gem
or nearly so in the axils. Fruits much smaller tha any
the ori the fleshy receptacle about 11 Hee ronga sessile ; in the axil,
seed not CH ong. — Hook. f. Fl. T i. 956; Parlat.
C. Prod. xvi ii. 020; JP. Lawrencii, nada £O in Hook. Lond.
Jc ourn. iv. 151.
vi iod: ‘Mount Butler, Hardinge's range, Cobberas mountains, at an elevation of
"E to 6000 ft., F. Mueller
smania. Mou ut Wellington (Table monni) R. Brown; Mountain localities
at an pomum of 3000 to 4000 ft., J. D. Hoo
The P. Lawrencii can scarcely be considered as a distinct yit for it appears to
be the form assumed by the luxuriant fait sw of young plan
Ordrer CXVII. CYCADEA.
Flowers unisexual; without any perianth. Male flowers forming
catkins or cones consisting of numerous spirally arranged imbric cated
m n i the con
i led
scales (or stamens), more or less cuneate, bearing o cea
f their e surface numerous sessile or rarely stipita
anther-cells, each openi alves; the upper imbricate and
the old leaves. ves form ane d n at the apex of the stem, 2
or rie ai. Oha sessile or de "hbri podniitité within the
7 es.
The O her
tropical Asia. Of the tbree A n genera one is also in Asi ver Africa, the eot
two are endemic. The theoretical signifi e$ of the outer coating of the ov
seeds, whether carpellary or or seminal, is, as in the Conifera, still a subject of com
tion.
CXVII. CYCADE X. 249
Leaves simply pinnate. Pinnæ linear, with a prominent midrib, -
Female scales elongated, woolly, with 2 or more erect ovules on
each side in marginal notches . . . o s e+e + + s ol Cycas,
Leaves simply pinnate. Pinus linear, with several longitudinal
sc :
on each side under the thickened acuminate apex. . . . . . 2. Macrozamia.
Leaves doubly pinnate. Pinnules obliquely ovate or broadly falcate,
with scarcely prominent veins. Cones of Macrozamia, but the
pex of the scales truncate . 20. 2 g s 9o ee ia 3. BOWENIA.
1. CYCAS, Linn.
_ Leaves simply pinnate, the pinnæ numerous, linear, with a prominent
` midrib, circinnate in vernation.— Leaves long, simply pinnate, the pinne
numerous, linear, with the midrib prominent underneath.
The genus extends over the Indo-Australian region, reaching Madagascar and the
east coast of Africa to the westward and Japan to the northward, The Australian one
or more species are believed to be endemic, but the distinctive characters are very in-
sufficiently known.
l. C. media, R. Br. Prod. 348. Trunk sometimes mig, £ to
10 ft. sometimes twice that height, rarely branched at the top. Leaves
recurved, mostly slightly decurrent on the rhachis, glabrous or slightly
ee when young, the longer ones varying from 3 to 8 inches, the
into small prickles which are sometimes very few or scarcely any,
sometimes continued almost to the base of the petiole. Cones variable
otherwise resembles. Seeds 1 to 14 in. long, glabrous—A. DC. Proa.
vi. ii. 527.
N. Australia. North-west and north coasts, A. Cunningham ; Port Essington,
Armstrong ; Escape cliffs, Hulls. :
ueensland. Burnett and Dawson rivers, F. Mueller; Cape Upstart, Burdekin
Expedition ; Rockingham bay and Mouut Elliott, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, T'hozet ;
Castlereagh bay ( W. Hill ?).
Three Australian species of Cycas have been described, the above C media, C. angu-
. 348, A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 527, and C. gracilis, Miq. in Versl. K. Akad.
Wet. Amsterdam, xv. 366, A. DC. l.c. 528; but whether these three are really distinct,
m
+ tet. ’
cir-
nes, which
X ith, , Roxb.) an ;
cinnalis, Roxb.) are distinguished most readily by the scales of their male
950 CXVIL, CYCADER, [ Cycas.
unknown in the grea ority of the Australian specimens. I have only seen tw
both i in F. Mueller 8 vcra ; in both the scales are much smaller than in the cae
cies. one, belonging to Hull's Escape “Cliff pure they are rather narrow,
1
in
1 to ui in. long, an the anther- -cells cover rather less of the under surface, not reaching
to the ,and ceasing rather lower down. ese were descri y Miquel as his
e gracilis, but there are no leaves with them. In the C. gracilis of our gardens, the
ds are small with the rhachis s furfuraceous. In Castlereagh bay specimens
similar small leaves are slightly wo ubescent; in almost all other specimens the
- aves are very glabrou e have female cone-scales of several specimens
varying much in the number of ovules or seeds they bear, 2 argi
I am quite unable to connect thes nr kane with any characters vable from the
leaves. Iti ed on resident botanists in tropical otra carefully to
co to match with accu al emale cones with the s of all these
species or varieties of Cycas, in order to determine their systemic va
2, MACROZAMIA, Min.
on the under side, with several parallel equal veins, the who'e le
RERUM: slightly twisted in some species, but not constantly so in
any one.
The genus is limited to ined d there represents the South African Ence-
rios, with which F. Mueller proposes to reunite it. The latter e! has, ae
ever, a much more rigi ie ed very bid or truncate cone-scales, which, togethé
with the geographical distribution, s to warrant the following Mique bl
Candolle, in maintainin o genera as distin Still less does it seem advisa ea
again to reduce these Ola World forms to the American genus Zamia, haracterized
the articulate attachment of t æ as well as he cones. It owever, a mue f
ul: tter to characterize the species of Macrozamia. With regard to two 9
. Paulo-Gulielmi, there can be no doubt, but the T^
ainder are very puzzling; for although we pare at ^ Mie appa rently distin
forms of fructification, and at least, twice as many marked form f foliage, ne d
ery bona matched with c eino in our wild specimens, and ver | fov have produc it
consen our garden collections. Thus, after having spent "much time over the genus,
ve really foe variable species, or what number from to re or less wei
stantly di Most if not all the Macrozamie when very jas have their le ó,
(— deniclate at the end, as fa sented by yor Monogr. Cy
r the n of Encephalartos trident
Pio nne very narrow, bier nearly terete. idi small, rarel -
above 4 in. Fruit v Wool. : J . 1. M. Paulo- Gulielmi.
Pinnæ "flat, inserte x i i margins of the rhachis, e on-
tracted at the base, the larger ones usually above 3 lings
broa nes e: io 10 in., glabrous. ‘Trunk glabrous or
rarely loosely
Rhachis of the rires. usually raised rid rin between
the run one-sc = wma cv
Eastern species, the inse iun — san
tudinal. . Points of the arc of the pi short . 2. M. spiralis.
Maerozamia.] CXVII.: CYCADER. 261
Western species, the insertion of the: pinne very oblique »
or almost transverse. Cones large, with long points to j
the upper or to all the scales . . . . . . . ...9. M. Fraseri.
Rhachis of the leaves very flat between the pinnz and often
` broad. Cone-scales very thick. Eastern subtropical à
HOW edja oo] Us TE a eTo A THO M M CM NE RNC
Pinne inserted by their broad base along the centre of the
upper surface of the rhachis, scarcely separated by a very
narrow line. Cones large, pubescent, the scale points broad :
~-and often recurved .. . . . . . . g . .. pagino 5. M. Perowshiana.
See also doubtful forms under M. spiralis and M. Miquelii.
thickened at the a x, with a short point. Fruiting cones about 4 in.
long and fully 2 in. thick, the larger scales about 1 in. broad and rather
. Some specimens in the herbarium marked “ Macrozamia tenuifola,’’ Sydney, Mac-
kay, appear to belong to the same species, so also possibly the M. tenuifolia of our
gardens, * :
parallel veins more prominent than in M. Miquelii, slightly contracted
and callous at. the base, inserted longitudinally and the lower margin
slightly decurrent, the lower pinn: much smaller and sometimes pass-
jiane on the upper side sometimes prominent, sometimes very obscure.
ale cones 6 to 10 in. long, 1j to 2 in. thick, the scales much flattened,
1
usually short.—A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 535; Zamia spiralis, R. Br.
948 (partly); Encephalartos spiralis, Lehm. ,Pugill, vii. 13.
- 252 CXVII. CYCADER. [ Macrozamia,
vi Brisbàne td Moreton bay, F. Mueller.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown Pit and others; Taylor’s Range,
Leichhardt; Nihilo vy ver, 0. “ito oore ; Springs , Wath.
This
dale inr in the imperfect tite ae our aticg sd whether i in 1 herbaria, p
UN E the
or gardens, it is not always easy to distinguish them from forms or varieties
a: or iquelii,nor to determine whether ibe. (edes are varieties or dis-
. tinct speci
Var. Poorall es, ae Mg om ie y the n of a bright red. Cones of M. spira
M. corallipes, Book Mag. t. 59 m garden specimens e Pisis is
figured as very flat, era B pinna, mobile as in M. Miquelii, but narrower. In
a powy in Kew Gardens the rhachis is narrower, and the bases of the pinnæ are losing
their red colour. M. Mac Miq. in Nieuw. Bijdr ad. 53, A cad.
58, also described from garden specimens, must be the same variety. He observes that
the red base innz is not c
8e ves small, the pinne very narrow and rigid, all erect from =
ous, and said to be so in the living state.—Dry situations, Ree y Creek, N. S,
Wales, C. Moore. A form pear due to = dry station, but a variety in cultivation
has a similar — wie =
Var. ? eylindrace isa pipám name for a small form with the narrow
foliage nearly of M. iiri entry but with a glabrous trunk and more terete rhachis.
ober ra, F. Muell. Jat oue narrow, almost as in M. Paulo-Guliel
fir [^ ET glabrous, and many of the pinne divided to below the middle into
2 branches. Cones unknown.— Castlereagh river, C. Moore; Maitland, Rucker.
3. M. Fraseri, Mig. Monogr. Cycad. 37. A western species very
nearly allied to the Jf. spiralis, and from leaves alone often very difficult
to distinguish from it. Itis s usually much taller, the trunk often attain-
ing 10 to 19 ft., the leaves are usually more ri igid, the rhachis raised
between the rows of inne as in M. spiralis, and
are also frequently shorter with a more rigid acute poin their
longitudinal veins are finer and less conspicuous. The cones are larger
ing into a narrow erect point almost subulate of 1} to 2 in. in the females
into a lanceolate point of 2 to 3 in.—Zamia s spiralis, R. Br. Prod. 348
(partly) ; M. spiralis, Miq. Monogr. Cycad. 36 (as to the Western plant
only); Cycas Riedlei, Gaudich. in Freyc. T Bot. 434; Encephalartos
Fraseri, Miq. Versl. K. Akad. Wet . Àmst. xv. 368
. viii. i
iq. in Linnea xix. 415, t . 2,3; A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 535; Encepha-
gie "us F. Muell. in doen. Pharm. Sec. Vict. ii. 90.
ralia, Preiss; Swan river, Oldfield ; King George's Sound, R. Brown;
Stokes hs Mas well.
nable to perceive any grounds for distinguishing two or more Western spe its
Odgers specimens N es which was founded - rh Oldfizldii, Miq. Nieuw. Bijdr.
Cycad. 53, or Nouv. Mater. 58; A. pO, Prodr. i. 535; Encephalartos Oldfeldii,
Mia, in Versl. K. Akad. Wet, Amst. A eA edil of leaves only, which are smaller
and stiffer, with more rigid and sho pin parri e other specimens. Some
cones that I have seen of Preiss’ 8 are nearly 1 'R. lon
Maerozamia.] ‘XVII. CYCADER. 258 ©
ey Hong: » M ay From; ii. 17 n, v. 49; or Encephalartos: Macdonelli, F
Macil Pog Miq. us Akad. Wet. Amst. xv. 376, from Reser river in Central
Australia, M‘ Sait uart, is described vil from half a dozen pinne with a Ls Src
of rite scient and thas show nothing to distinguish them from those of M. Fras
. M. Miquelii, F. Muell.; A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 535. Fronds 2 to
. 4 ü long, the base of the petigii in the a ra form densely covered with
a loose floccose wool readily rubbed e upper surface ud the rhachis
very flat between the rows of pinne and often in the low or par j in
oad; pinne usually longer than in M. spiralis, straight or fa
cadis al veins finer and less promment, contracte d; and more or less
long, 2 to 24 in. thick, the scales thickened into a Boda rhomboidal
tre
very short, ae obsolete on the tear peg 1 to Jin. long on a few
of the upper on emale cones about as long and thicker, the scales
fewer, their A ‘at least ? in. broad and } in. thick, and mostly with
the p dier | epo tapering into an erect linear-lanoeolate =
1 to Encephalartos Miquelii, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 38.
antic: Moreton bay, W. Hill; Rockhampton, Thozet.
h ypical form seems to be characterized by the woolly base of a petioles,
the broad flat diners and the thick i cones; but wm are other specimens where
these characters do not appear to be conjoined. Some, from m Queensland ind; ment
. . also from N. S. Wales, have the cones equa in most respects the eee of M. Miquelii,
= — but with no trace of the wool on the base of the petioles. ese have found their way
into some of our gardens and mu d names of 7 ac-
kenzii, and have also in our gardens been sometimes misnam raseri. Most of
9. M. Perowskiana, Mig. Cycad. N. Holl. "This is the largest and
most diner, of Australian pesti Trunk 18 to 20 ft. high and
at least 1 ft. thick. Leaves 7 to 12 ft. long, the petioles angular,
erri or d at the base; pinne 1 to 2 ft. long in the i
4 to 6 in |
diameter, the apex of the scales 1 to 14 in. broad, very eed
and produced into a short triangular or lanceolate almost obtuse poin
emale cones 8 to 16 in. long and very thick, the scales shorter id
road.—Lepidozamia Pérowskiana
1857, i. 2m t. 45 Macrozamia par te F. Mu “lL p ragm. i. 41, 943;
. DC. Prod. xvi. ii, 536; Encephalartos Denisonii, F. Muell. in Journ.
Pharm. Soc. Vict. ii. 90; Miq. in Versl. K. Akad. Wet. Amst. xv. 371.
254 CXVII. CYCADEJE. [Maerozamia. —
Queensland. Between EAN n y te bays, W. Hill ; Rockingham
bijs Dallachy ; Expedition e A. 0. G
imens occur in her m Aaa i in our Sii of two varieties, differing in the
pud or less distinctiveness of the veins d A o pinnule, and bearing often the names
idozamia Macleayi and C. Hopei, H
38. BOWENIA, Hook.
and seed on each side.—Trunk Be ponte Leav d b ipinnate, with
long petioles and rhachis, the Foe pet en reed, oblique,
without any midrib
The genus is limited t to the single Australian species, pete d from Macrozamia only
in foliage and in the absence of the point to the cone-scales
1. B. spectabilis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5898. Trunk thick, scarcely |
raised above the ground, marked with the scars of the old leaves, the
whole plant glabrous. Leaves attaining in outline a length of 3 or 4 ft.
and spreading to at least half that breadth, loosely "A me
in
primary poma clustered 3 to 5 together a little below the middle
common petiole or rhachis, with 1 or 2 Ri: ones on each side higher
up, the > achis pietà terete, each pinna often a foot long or more,
bearing 9 to 20 segments ovate or vocetur sl he or falcate
ponies a tapering into a short petiole, marked wit "numerous parate;
ps s
F. Muell. Piu v. 121; A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 534.
SPENT TM A. diste Rockingham bay, W. Hill, :
achy.
1
[
E
255
Crass II. MONOCOTYLEDONS.
Stem not distinguishable into Fe th, wood and bark, but, when
erennial, consi sting of bundles of fibres icd imbedded in cellu-
ar tissue, with a firmly adherent rind o e. with one
sheath-like cavity on one iras rbs or if ar eod the stem
eat.
the next leaf, pinnate or otherwise divided in some Palms and Aroidea,
Cpu lobed ina very Sj species, and net-veined in a few
of ders. Parts of the flower most frequently in n threes, or in
hr yir the. perianth Bee or the parts reduced in number
ion irregular, or in twos or fours in Naiadee.
Oxper CXVIII. HYDROCHARIDEJE.
males. Stamens 3 to 12 or rarely more. Anthers 2-celled. en
inferior, either 1-celled with 3 parietal opus or more or less per-
fect tly divided into 3, 6, or 9 cells. eae es 3, 6, or 9, with entire or
2-cleft stigmas. vules numerous, ascending or ndulous, ortho-
tropous or iR pA. attanhie d to placentas lining the walls or disse-
piments of the ovary. Fruit indehiscent, membranous or fleshy, ripening
under water. Seeds several or many, without albumen. Embryo mengas
the e plumule more or less lateral, the radicle next the hilum m.—Aquat
herbs, entirely submerged or the lamina of the leaves floating. [emen
undivided. Flowe rs enclosed ie young in a spathe, either of 1 to3
Caves or tubular abd 2- or 3-lobed, the males 1, 2 or more in the
Spathe, the females solita:
The Order has e ver the tropical and temperate ns both of the Now
and the Old Word gee of the oe Australian ex cies ing general area of
Order, the r two are limited to the Old
ond st oating. Leaves with a broad
dial poe ry ar 3 flo Ir Ovira and mit pcd 1. HypgocHaRis.
Tate. of radical leaves and scapes fixed to the bottom of th
aen: lamina. Flowers hermaphrodite, s
aby paitially 6- elled . 2. OTTELIA.
Nadel elongate without any lamina. Flowers unisexual.
Male flowers several in the ean exserted. Perianth of t.
Be; . .
Meli ieee crowded in a head shorter than the
pathe. Perianth of 3 se 4. VALLISNERIA.
Leaves : am vetus along the ating s stems. s. Spathes sossile,
both males and females 1-flowered . 5. Hyprmua.
256 CXVIII. HYDROCHARIDEJ. [ Hydrocharis.
1. HYDROCHARIS, Linn.
ee Ovary ‘and fruit O-celled. Styles 6, each with 2 peal)
branches.—Stems floating, me Fn pipes radical leaves and peduncles.
Leaves bearing a cordate
The genus is limi ted to a ae species spread over Europe and the S ee
regions of Asia, the pede has pity. reg presenting no apparent difference
1. H. morsus-rane, Linn. Spec. Pl. 1466. Stems Sorene resem-
Mie & the runners of creeping fe with floating tufts of radic al
Le
= th-segments white, 4 or 5 ‘lines long. outer ones about half. e
erianth nea rly the same as in the males. Fruit ovoid, somewhat 1
Reich Te under e ong.—L. o. Rich. in Mem. Inst. Fr. 1811, t. 910 4
i . 62. Ca
Que x: & bay, Bidwill. F. Moeller Deu P he has also received it — 1
from xad greed localities in Queensland. I teen es dol:
know whether there may be any reason to suppose “that it y an dedica pii
2. OTTELIA, Pers.
(Damasonium, Schreb., not of Juss.)
Flowers €— solitary and sessile within a tubular 2-lobed -
spathe. ents green, inner ones larger an jus
ike Hire 6 or more; anthers linear. Styles or stigmas 6, 2- obed.
ovate or broad-cordate lamina.
e genus is spread over tropical Asia and Africa with one American species. Of fthe —
Th
three Australian species, one is the common Indian one, the two others apparently
Leaf- lamina broadly cordate. cen tos winged od
mina n or oblong T i ged.
cdm e firm, : r periant segments — = — ;
.tent.on Ay frui ... 2. 0. ovalifolia.
1. O. alismoides. :
Ottelia.] ` CXVIII. HYDROCHARIDEJE. 257
Spathe thinly membranous, deeply 2-lobed, the lobes much longer
teh the fruit... 5... tel AS YI R5... 8 OT tener.
O. alismoides, Pers. Syn. Pl. i. 400. Leaves on long petioles
dilated and tufted at the Oe H the water, the lamina submerged or
Specimens, varying in Indian dice fo Sli ovate. Peduncles usually
long. Spathe ovoid-oblong lain 1} in. long, sant 2- ap at an
Stamens 6 to 9.—L. C. Rich. in Mem. Inst. Fr. 1811, t. 7;
Stratiotes alismoides, Linn. Spec. 704; Damasonium indicum, Willd. Sp.
Pl. ii. 276 ; Roxb. Corom. PI. t. 185; Bot. Mag. t. 1201.
bm Roper river, F. Mueller ; Creeks in the neighbourhood of Rock-
ham n, O’ Shanesy, Watson ; Keanaly district, Daintree.—The species is
"n y ode over East India.
i
2. O. ovalifolia, L.C. Rich. in Mem. Inst. Fr. 1811, 78: Habit of
0. alismoides, but the leaf-lamina ovate or oblong, 2 to 4 in. long when
h
Fe according to the depth of the water. Spathe almost coriaceous,.
- about 13 in. long, either quite smooth or with 2 or 3 slightly MCN
- longitudinal nerves, but not winged in any of the specimens seen
e erianth-segments green, 2 to 1 in. long ; inner ones pale yellow
Z2 in. diameter in the only specimens in which they are pmi
Stamens 9 to 15.—Damasonium AN ifolium, R. Br. Prod. 344;
m, Planch. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xi. 82
N. Australia. Albert river, Henne.
Queensland. ATS Bowman, Thozet; Mount Elliott, Fitzalan.
- S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown ; Penrith, Backhouse; north of Lachlan
Ae A. Cunningham iim, ri iver,
Victoria. Glenelg ps en river, Robertson ; Yarra river, Adamson, F. Mueller ;
- Lake nine, F.
W. Australi amy nbi Drummond, 1st coll.
3. O. ? tenera, Benth. pedir ovate or oblong as in 0. ovalifolia,
- but smaller, and ‘the whole plant much more slender. Spathe wily
membranous, rarely above 1 in. E deeply divided into 2 lobes whic
| Project n much beyond the capsule, forming an oblique double lanceolate
point. Capsule thin and narrow, the seeds rather large, oblon ng, the
“ae pal scarcely protruding into the cavity, the fruit bearin ring at the -
end some withered remains of the perianth, but I have been unable to
find { pig in any of our specimens; the generic identity is therefore
in some measure doubtful.
— Mictoria. Wendu river, Robertson
Pug. Australia, Drummond, Ath coll, n. 322. | 2
T VOL. VI,
258 CXVIII. HYDROCHARIDEJX. | [Blyza.
S BEVA Dg... '
Besides the Australian species, which is spread over tropical Asia, there is another |
m the Mascarene islands.
. B. Roxburghii, Rich. in Mem. Inst. Fr. 1811, 77, t. 5. Leaves -
entirely submerged, long and narrow like those of Vallisneria spiralis,
about 23 lines long, the inner twice as long. Stamens about 8, the -
filaments short, the linear anthers not exceeding the outer perianth- -
a
‘seeds not very numerous.— Vallisneria octandra, Roxb. Pl. Corom. ii. 34, -
` t. 165; Blywa octandra, Planch. Mss.; Thw. Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 332. -
N. Australia. Robinson river, Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller; Port Darwin,
Schultz, n. 423.
eensland. Water-holes, Bockingbem bay, and Burdekin river, Dallachy.
S. Australia. Waters near Lake Torrens, F. Mueller. —
Our specimens are not sufficiently perfect to show the form of the female perianth, nor —
whether it bas the three stamens mentioned: by Decaisne and by Thwaites, but which —
do not appear to be always present in the Indian plant.
4, VALLISNERIA, Linn.
or bifid. ary narrow |
cylindrical, enclosed in the spathe. Seeds numerous, cylindrical— —
Submerged herbs, the leaves and peduncles tufted at the bottom o [
water, the leaves very long, without any lamina. i;
Vallisneria. | CXVIII. HYDROCHARIDE. 259
: e genus is reden distributed over the tropical and temperate regions of the New
as di as fe d World, the Australian species vi one the one most, common over the
spir
long and narrow when the water is deep, sh btuse
9r acute and more or less serrulate at the .« a | with minute teeth, or
|
| 1l. V. spiralis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1441. Ionen pim ag empor. , Very
sometimes perhaps quite entire. Male spathes about 3 lines long, on
ovary down to the bottom to mature. Perianth very small but larger
than in the males. nnnc spathe only slightly enlarged. eh
Mem. M Fr. 1811, t. 3; Reichb. Ie. FÌ. Germ. t. 60; Hook. f. Fl.
Tasm. ii. 87; V. s spiralis is and V. na nana, R. Br. Prod. 345.
r. E Albert and Roper rivers, F. Mueller; Arnhem's Land, R. Brown.
q Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller ; een Cleveland and T"
4 m W. DR Fitzroy river, O' pcena — fee
i ictoria. Wendu ri obertson rarest Tambo, Mitta-Mitta, and Miri rivers,
P ller.
$ ^8 asmania. common in the BTN uk river, Gunn.
S. Australia. CUT river,
The Australian fbesinens I aj seen prove to be all pps I have described the
males from European ones. Brown's V. nana was founded o warf narrow-leaved
c ie ome other cou The Haves of his specimens are
as described by him mostly acute and all quite entire, but one or two are obtuse, and
larger forms fro Ne se es, Victoria, and T ia the shorter sub-
erged leaves are somet mes acute, and occasiona lly, whether Misc n or ace without
‘anther ers. Female wis dd with a jet filiform tube above the ov
cylin
herbs with —— hing stems and short verticillate ERU Spathe
ils.
.. The genus is rest C to the single species common in still and slowly
ET nu T em abi gets n regions i pe Old World, the Australian
form being the typical des NIU di de iui MES from
, l. H. verticillata, Cusp. in Monatsber. Akad. 1857. Stems
E^ throughout, much branched and Boating de. water 4 large
960 CXVIII. HYDROCHARIDEJ. [ Hydrilla.
masses VETE all in whorls of 4 to 8, except a single small sheathing
e at e of each branch and a pair only next above it, all oblong-
wr latè or broadly linea to 4 lineslong and serrulate in the
Australian as in the typical Indian form, very narrow-linear in some
siatic varieties ale ot seen; the above character taken
om urgh and others. Female spathes dg = eine
shorter than the leaves, the perianth-tube 4 to $ in. long in
Australian specimens, the outer perianth-segments nabiy 14 lines o
the inner ones shorter and narrower. ins it linear, iin few seeds.—
icula verticillata, Linn. f. Suppl. 416; Roxb. Corom. Pl. t. 164;
Hydrilla ovalifolia, Rich. in Mem. Iu Tr. 1811, 76, t. 9; Udora
australis, F. Muell. Second Gen. Rep. 16. fo
N. Australia. Gilbert and Roper rivers, F. Mueller.
Queensland. Water-holes near Rockhampton, Bowman, O’ Shanesy ; near Herbert
d pa ; Mount trs Fitzalan.
. S. Wales. Richmond river, Fawcett; Balfour's station, Leichhardt.
icem Murray river, F. Mueller.
Orpver CXIX. SCITAMINES.
in most genera one of them is saintly larger, broadly etal-like and on
the side opposed uk the perfect stamen and is t walled the /abellum.
Anthers 2-celled or in genera not incide l- iA Ovary inferior,
pers gto ith 1 or more ovules in each ate or rarely 1-celled. V
simple with a terminal entire or lobed stigma. Fruit a berry ora —
fles 7 or dy RUNE Morem Ulis. Herbi, dial! with ; P
perennial ort or a elongated unless formed
t ;
height. Leaves Grii, with long sheathing etioles, ma yi often very
large, with very numerous parallel veins di iverging fr e midrib.
owers often very showy, in spikes racemes or Raoi. on a radic
S
or icm MP or pedun
received at the — placing this porti ion ‘of th he copy in the printer's ha
the generic characters have re neces een
Asiatic specimens, an y therefore not always agree precisely with t
here referred to them À
CXIX. SCITAMINER. 961
saceve.—Inner and outer perianth more or less combined, or each
ew A hs i. Perfect stamens Pa ey d
Perianth of 2 se gments, t the upper outer one -lobed at the dis
the lower inner one much smaller ELE. Mousa.
sora . Zi — cese.— Outer perianth or Ln 3-toothed or spathaceous
inner perianth or corolla free from it, combined at the base with the filament into a
tube. e opere fenis stamen and one large otal tks lower staminode or labellum
oppos
Ps in dense spikes with xp um on a short scape
separate from the leafy stems or t
Flowers 3 to 5 within each bract, Corolla with 2 inner lobes
or petal 2. Curcuma,
Flowers vod within each bract. Corolla without inner
obes.
la-lobes as long às the tube 3. AMOMUM.
rra much longer than the lo 4. EnETTARIA.
loose raceme or ree terminating a leaty stem.
_, Labellum flat, spreading Erg 5. ArPINIA.
te bract s, terminating
say stem. fe a phe coti
Ovary 3-celled. Labellum longer than "the ‘corolla. . . . 6. Cosrus,
Ovary 2-celled. T«belhiar shorter than the corolla. . . . 7. TAPEINOCHEILOS.
. Musacem,—Inner and outer perianth more or i com-
bt or Pah 3-parted to the base. Perfect stamens usually fiv
1. MUSA, Linn.
. . Flowers usually unisexual. Perianth of 2 segments, the outer one
formed of the 3 outer and 2 of the inner parts, tubular i in the bud but
oe leaves forming a stem of considerable
Aeight. Scapes protruding from the centre of de leaf-sheath. Pora
clustered in the axils of woe coloured braets, — d a long terminal
1 M. F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 132. « A. species of a
height, very e stoloniferous, with the habit of M. paradisiaca )
which it is evidently very iei allied if really distinct. iin
262. CXIX. SCITAMINEJE. [ Musa.
3
acuminate. Flowers Bom 10 to 20 within each bract, on short dive
d obe nth (from a wild specimen) pre striate with nume-
rous parallel hgiteidinal veins, the outer convolute segment about
lł in. long and 5 lines broad if spread open, shortly 5-lobed, the 3
outer lobes lanceolate, about 2 lines long, the 2 inner ones oblong and
er shorter; the lower i
segment under 1 in. long the outer lobes narrower and more ac
than males, the i "ed lobes linear; lower inner segment narrow-
lanceolate, above 4 in. long. Anthers linear but smaller than in the
males. Style r rather shorter than the outer perianth-segment, €
each one on a fpes of 1 to 2 in. c RU 2 Straight or Highly in E
curved, 4 to 5 in. long, 4 to 2 in. iame eeds a
2 lines diameter, irregularly angular fon — ; pane pacis
broad concave hilum ; umen very white mealy
almost ~~
Que Mount Elliott; setatis and Rockingham bay, Dallachy. aad dh 8
figure, whi a: di ge thinks may hav gi pane en from p species appears
represent the aradisiaca. I fod a and Sola nie! Bde
seen any Musa n Ada teatia If they | had brought dad Mite: they would surely have
been mention "à rown, either i in the romus or in his notes on i: eogra-
graphical distribution of the genus in his Obierratisus on the Botany of Con
TRIBE 2. ZiNGIBERACEJE.—O uter perianth or calyx 3- We or
3-lobed or spathaceous; inner perianth or corolla free from it, com-
bined with the filament into a tube, the limb 3-lobed with sometimes
2 inner additional lobes or staminodia. One perfect upper stamen
with a 2-celled anther TE the style, and one large petal- -like
abellum or lower staminode opposite it and sometimes 2 short linear
staminodes (stylodes of Horaninow) at the base of the style.
2. CURCUMA, Linn.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx Fus 3-toothed; corolla-tube
longer than the calyx, the limb of 3 ou r lobes of which the upper
one is broader than the 2 others, and 2 in inner lobes or staminodes re-
sembling the 2 outer lower lobes and adnate at the base on their inner
margins ; to the short broad petal-like filament of the perfect stamen. La-
bellum broad and petal-like; two short linear staminodes at the base
PNE, USCIRE ne NT NNI NE PHI TIER, PEINE WORRIES I SEI
v.
D
_, L A. Dalla ih
_ -Barrow-pointed, often above 1 ft. long and nearly 2 in. broa
4 long as the tub
Qureuma.) ; CXIX. SCITAMINER. 263
of the style. Anther oblong-linear, the 2 cells folded round the
summit of the style and produced at the base into auricles or spurs,
ea
concave or saccate and imbricate at the base, with broad spreading
The genus is generally distributed over tropical Asia, the only Australian species is,
as far as hitherto known, endemic.
. 1. C. australasica, Hook. f.
cluster of white cylindrical tuberous roots. Leaves 1 to 1} ft. long,
lanceolate or narrow-elliptical, acute, tapering into a long Les
petiole. Seape lengthening to about 6 in. below the broad spike, whic
fr .
< upper lobe concave and
broad, the lateral outer ones and upper inner one or staminodes broadly
oblong; labellum broadly orbicular almost dapa i notched and
i and acute.
; Queensl York, Daemél, Gulliver; Cape Sidmouth, C.
dried specimens too idi crushed to admit of a careful examination of the structure st
the flower; the above description taken chiefly from that given by Dr. Hooker in
Botanical Magazine. |
3. AMOMUM, Linn.
Calyx tubular, spathaceous or 3-lobed at the top. Corolla-limb as
h e, 3-lobed, the dorsal lobe broader than the late
ones, without inner lobes. Labellum large, flat, entire or lo j
ments flat, the connective produced beyond the anther-cells into a
3-lobed appendage, the lateral lobes divaricate, the middle one erect,
entire or notched ; anther-cells embracing the style. Two small linear
staminodes at the base of the style. wm 3-celled. Style filiform,
clavate at the end, with a concave stigma. Fruit succulent or opening
in 3 valves. Seeds arillate.—Herbs with creeping rhizomes. aves
e
m
LE
P
1
on barren . Flower
sheathing scales. Spike short, with broad imbricate bracts. Flowers
usually large, one within each bract. Mes
The genus is widel d the tropical regions of both the New and the Ok
World. rhe cid ustedes Modi, which il have not seen, is believed to be endemic.
chyi, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 25. Leaves lanceolate,
; pes
very short. Bracts shorter than the calyx, a few larger vno the base
of the spike, the largest 1j in. long. Calyx about 1 in ong, —
branous, striate-veined, shortly 3-toothed. Corolla yellow, the lobes
,
264 CXIX. SCITAMINER. [Amomum.
btusel
sonne ndage shorter than the lateral ones. Capsule green,
nearly g Bajar; alves.
Queensland. v weg ars bay, Dallachy. — The above description extracted from
that given p% F. Muelle
4. ELETTARIA, White.
tubular, 2- or 3-toothed. Corolla-limb 3-lobed, shorter than
the Blader tube, without inner ems Labellum large, ‘flat, entire or
lobed. Filament flat, but the connective not produced beyond the
anther-cells ; anther-cells asbodiing the style. Two small linear stami-
nodes at the base of the style. Ovary 3-celled. Style filiform, clavate
at the end, with a concave stigma. Fruit suceulent or opening in 3
valves. Seeds arillate.— Herbs with the habit of Amomum, but usually
more slender, with smaller flowers, fewer in a looser spike.
The genus extends e So T Asia, the Australian species, which I have not seen,
is believed to be endem
l. E. Scottiana, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 24. Rhizome woody, the
involucral bracts of about 2 in. silky -pubesc tside. ts under
each flower membranous, ellucid, 9 2 to 3 in hs Calyx ‘the length
of the bracts. Corolla-tt to 4 in. long, very slender, the lo
La
than the coro la-fobes, ovate, entire. Connective not extending beyond
the apex of the anther-cells. Capsule ovate or ellipsoid, opening
tardily in 3 frag S :
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—The above description extracted from
that given "Y F. Mueller.
9. ALPINIA, Linn.
(Hellenia, Willd.)
Flowe ers hermaphrodite. Calyx tubular, 3-toothed, often spathaceous.
Foro tube longer than the calyx, the limb of 3 usual y unequal
8 bro: i .
or dbovoi
ulent or with a crustaceous or dry. pericarp, indehiscent or rarely
c 7
obscurely 3-valved. Seeds not very numerous.—Erect herbs with à
¥
j
3
hes A AS RUE T TURIS NT M RE PM.
Alpinia.| CXIX. SCITAMINEJE. 265
9
tuberous rhizome and leafy stems. Flowers in a terminal raceme
thyrsus or raceme-like panicle. Bracts usually deciduous.
A tropical genus limited to the Old World. The three v neg species, of which
I have only seen one, are believed to be endemic. The genus Hellenia, united ^
Raceme sim "t mE not produced beyond the cells.
Capsule tary ibe 1. A. racemigera.
: nicle narrow. Anther-connective produced beyond :
e cells.
Flowers under 1 in. long. Anth tive very shortly pro-
duced. Fruit hai. indehise - Bi 2. A. cerulea.
Flowers above 1 in. long. Anther- appendage obovate 2 lines s long.
Capsule ellipsoid, 3-valved . 8. A. arctiflora.
. A. racemigera, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 27. A low species.
mih long-lanceolate, acuminate, about 1 ft. s un 24 in. broad, on
a ie pulley biauriculate sheath without my Bis Age petiole. Flowers
of 4 ft. or shorter, the rhachis
2t :
3 lobes, about 4 lines ips . Corolla glabrous, about 8 lines long, the
-lobes about as long as the tube, nearly eor but the upper one more
i ter. a
concave. Labellum orbicular-rhomboidal,
ment broadly linear, $ line long; anther nearly 1 line, the connective
not produced beyond the cel Style capillary, with a minute te stigma.
Capsule ovoid, ity ` to 7 lines long, opening tardily in 3 valves. Seeds
shining, 2 to PSA cell.
Queensland. dini ngham bay, Dallachy.—1 have seen no specimen, The above
cam is an abridgment of the one given by F. Mueller
. A. coerulea, Benth. sig stems pisaia 4 or 5ft. . Leaves
ardeta often above Ì ft. long and 2 in. broad, acutely
acuminate, shortly petiolate Sm the sheath, which ends in a broad
obtuse erect auricle of 3 or flin ines. die 8 terminal, 4 to 8 in. long,
the peduncles, though short, pe 2 to 6 flowers, on th of
i to ł in. the who Imi oe much sper? A conse
r -
tube slender, 6 to 7 lines long, lobes ee i about 4 lines long,
the dorsal one scarcely broader than the others. Labellum longer than
the lobes, gens. orbieular or almost s senium. about jin. diameter.
t
LJ
266 CXIX. SCITAMINEJE. [ Alpinia.
diameter, with a brittle crustaceous pericarp. Seeds few in each
cell, dud. packed, with a small arillus.—Hellenia coerulea, R. Bri
Prod. 308,
Queensland. Shoalwater bay and Northumberland islands, R. Brown; Endeavour
river, A. Cunningham; Moreton island, F. Mueller; Fitzroy island, C. Walter; very
common "o Rie ae ham bay, Dallachy, and Rockhampton, O’Shanesy.
nter's river, R, Brown; Tweed river, very common, Guilfoyle ;
—— he anus rivers, Beckler ; Richmond river, Henderson, Fawcett.
1} in. long or shorter. Calyx about 1 in. long, narrow, dilated upwards
aa sent y 3-lobed. Corolla white, vA oatsidd, the lobes about
s long, the tube longer. Labellum onger than the corolla,
eh Lus Rockingham bay, Dallachy ity have seen no specimen, the above
character is taken from that given by F. Mueile
6. COSTUS, Linn.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx tubular, nox 3-lobed. Corolla-
tube short, the limb with 3 erect lobes bell
ib large. Filament broad and eal ike prn wit
ve and produced laterally and beyond the cells into a et appen-
dete No staminodes. Ovary 3-celled, with numerous ovules. Style
filiform, the agha dilated, flatly 2- lobed, with 2 dorsal appendages.
Capsule 3-celled, Nen loculicidally i in 3 valves. Seeds arillate.—
Herbs with an iy m and a dense terminal spike. Bracts
road, winter. ‘with 1 flower in the axil of each.
The genus is spread ov over the tropical regions of both the New and AN Old World.
The Australian species, which I have not seen, is believed to be endem
. C. Poti Il. Fragm. iv. 164. Stems sods 10 ft. high.
hana on vet = petioles, oblong-lanceolate, acutely acuminate, 4 to
9 in. long, 14 to 24 in. broad, sprinkle d underneath with appressed
hairs, the BÉ i dion pr rodu ced above the ^ ren truncate -
0
terminal appendage beyond the anther-cells. Capsule crowned by the
persistent calyx, about } in. long, opening loculicidally in 3 slits
Queensland. maim oie bay, Dallachy.—'The above description dicat from
that given by F. Mue
A el eget he Ae MEET TENE a eee ae a SCARE UE PCT S
A LOREA CE A AAN OAE NONE A NC RES PENLAN a a NEST TIS IINE T m EN
1
P
|
x
5
Tapeinocheilos. | CXIX: SCITAMINEÆ. — 267
7. TAPEINOCHEILOS, Mig.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx tubular, shortly 3-lobed. Corolla-
tube short, the limb 3-lobed, the dorsal lobe rather broader and shorter
than the lateral ones. abellu
qeu indehiscent, crowned by the pee ee coriaceous calyx,
-celled. Seeds angular, with a small arillus.— Herb with the habit of
Costus.
The genus is limited to a single species, native of the island of Ceram in the Indian
Archipelago, the Australian plant, which I have not seen, is believed to be identical
cies, :
Bracts rigid, striate, imbricate, the broad ends recurved, of a rich
crimson. Flowers yellow, scarcely exceeding the bracts. aa about
ruiting
with the adnate base.— Costus pungens, Teysm. and Binnend. :
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Kennedy, Dallachy (F. Mueller).—Not having
seen the Australian specimens, I have taken the above character from Miquel's elabo-
rate description and Rue and from a fruiting specimen received from the Botanic
Garden, Calcutta. y
Orper CXX. ORCHIDEÆ.
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth superior, irregular or rarely
regular, of 6 petal-like or green segments ee or variously
centre of the flower or somewhat under the dorsal
sepal is the column, consisting of the combined andrecium and pistil ;
at the apex attached to the dorsal margin is usually one anther, erect
268 CXX. ORCHIDES.
incumbent on or adnate to the apex of the column or to the back of the
ps So eps 2 cells on its inner face or almost marginal. In the genus
which is not Australian, and in Apostasia, there are two
appen 8 el s exsibed às aithi) n each side
nd the `
valves or longitudinal slits, or very rarely succulent and indehiscent.
Seeds m fusiform or rarel Meer resembling fine sawdust.
creeping rhizomes and (often ini je jv adherin to the sur-
face of rocks or trunks or branches o . Leaves either alternate and
sheathing at the base and so feet ‘dinnistions, on iip stems
ri
bulbs distinet from the flowering reed entire or "i d lobed (see
Acianthus). Flowering stems scapes or pe reme — renewed,
either ae directly from the Si Lars axillar n perennial
ms or pseudo-bulbs, bearing usually one or more pie rious OT
tp eect sheathing scales, either re any leaves, or when leafy
1 or 2 sheathing scales below the leaves and often 1 or more above
the: Flowers either solitary and come or 2 or more in à terminal
raceme or spike, either simple or branching intoa panicle, each flower
sessile or more ae pedicellate within a bract, but without brac-
teoles on the p
The Order is one W the most natural and sharply defined, as well as the most nume
, rous amongst Monocotyledons after Gra amine, and abundantly distributed over the
whole globe, rare mes in some high Alpine or extreme Arctic and Antarcti ic regions.
deze otti
hrydez belong to the mpi A datio Vioc e presented iu Australia by sandeha or
frequently 3s identical species. These are all tipici or eastern, some exte tending dow?
*
CXX. ORCHIDER. 269
ealand.
Australian, belonging to three Australian groups of Neottidese ; eps of these genera are
however represented by single or very en ent D the ag Pit rnt and eleven
y
the published labours 4 tpi ges the Beiträge above quoted) of the ade ar Reichen-
great is the range of variation exhibited in va precise form, ings, a
of the labellum in many of the commoner terrestrial ‘Australian’ Orci, as s i i Me. i
diterranean Ophrydes. I have therefore felt ‘obliged very much to reduce the neat
of published — of mitra, Diuris, ophyllum, Microtis, om
I must howev peri that aan e Airis iption P pee of these species is still get
from satisfact poo nem n often scarcely be ascertained accurately revon of
o
ese and some pter 1 in will be taken -" by resident botanists who have an op-
portunity of studying them in a fresh state
Trise. 1 Malaxidese.—Anther lid-like, incumbent, usually dec Pollen-
masses waxy, 2, 4, or rarely 8, without caudicles or gland. Epiphytes pope s terres-
trial with a creeping rhizome.
Epp topes longitudinal. Lateral sepals not dilated at the ;
Labellum embracing or adnate to the column at the
Column feet Leaves at or near the base of the stem.
Flo mall 1. LirARIS
" Flowers minute . . 2. OBERONIA.
ars Vogitodilil "d d spell dilated pà the base and '
with the basal crga of the column a pouch or
Pol aH bass 2, or 4 in
Labellum with a erg ad base usually — into
lateral 1 lobes. diei ue pseudobulbs bearing both leaves
and peduncles i xcept vaa sect. Rhizobium . 9. DENDROBIUM.
Labelle di as enguisaiste, a not | lobed. Leave s (o n
pseudobulbs peduncles prion’ —€— nodes of the
rhizome i 4. BoLBoPHYLLUM.
Pollen-masses 8, flowers minute |. 5. PHREATIA.
Anther-cells eed transverse. ied long. Raceme on a long
peduncle 6. PHOLIDOTA.
(The pollen-masses are yee waxy PELA Ut lant in one ARN of Galeola. r
Tame 2. Wandese.—Anther lid-like, incumbent, usually deciduous. Pollen-
masses waxy, 4 in pairs, on a single or double caudicle attached to a gland. Epi-
phytes or terrestrial with vending sy arl
prete Caudicle. single. x.
and pe re nited to x middle. AD, idt pats
owers à LJ b " LI "A LJ i >
"m ub 1. TÆNIOPHYLLUM.
970 CXX. ORCHIDEJE.
n: and petals free.
Labellum with a fleshy p eer aeni beipen or
beyond the lateral lobe 8. SARCOCHILUS.
Labellum with a hollow pipet or pouch near the b
goal Be lobed, the g with a reflexed or Md
9. CLEISOSTOMA.
Labetom 4 ‘lobed, the spur without any internal scale.
0. VANDA.
en
owers large
Labellum andi vided, the spur without any internal scale.
Lateral sepals dilated at the bas . « 11. SACCOLABIUM.
cn Samia i wars short c neeping rhizomes. "On udicl e single.
Sepals petals Labellum s ne mee at the
base, = ine ith Tongitudital rine lin Lid GEODORUM.
spur at the base, marked with cristo or — veins . "18. EULOPHIA.
um gibbous and adnate: to the column at i ` 14, DiroproM,
g sy 3. Mtae stacy lid-like, ent, cid. llen-
g at the base, separately, attached and sess hort
s or on a. short dich nam ca Terrestrial with creeping or rarely
yin tiie rhizomes or pareli: eripiat. Sepals and petals nearly pat and
Flowers often
Pollen-masses 4 in pairs, = onagland. Usually epiphytes. 15. CYMBIDIUM.
rog asses 8, on very short separate caudicles without
errestrial. Leaves long, plic . 16. SPATHOGLOTTIS.
h s
tg ate
Po en masses 8, on ort dichotomous candicle without any
and. Terres dal, - Leaves large, PM Labellum spurred,
ian ci round the column . 17. Paars.
Pollen-masses 8, layani attached to a divisible gland. Terres-
trial. Leaves large, plicate. siran T Loco con-
' mate with the column at the base . 18. CALANTHE.
Trige 4. Arethusec.— Anther ‘a incumbent, y deciduous Pollen
grimace or mealy. Terrestrial or ray epiphytes. 7 tiers in the ‘Australian genera
or sections leafless at the time of flowering
Large aor with peticulete flowers. Labellum curved round
the column. Anthe a broad dorsal pu age . 19. GaLEoLa.
be zu eh) in a simple race
Column ve a pue fen "Katha with a
thi appen . . 20. EPIPOGUM.
Column donio (longer than the an anthe er).
»pals and petals united in xime zd or tube . . . . 21. GASTRODIA.
Sepals and petals free . = . . 92. Pogonta.
Trise 5. NMeottiew.—Anther erect or bent rd, persistent but free from the
rostellum. granular or mealy. Terr dm strial herbs with simple stems s en
Corm) ba bearing 1 or more leaves or rarely leafless, and a single spike raceme
Column very long ent d Deinen, Se and petals very lo
narrow and dec Leave 1 and Eten ly Ei bbed.
Pesihe T ‘ "ü 23. CORYMBIS.
Colum with wings either very. road or produced
bow n the anther rings rostellum into lateral lobes o
nds -
Niph ps ing. Leaves petiolate. Spike slender.
ree wers reversed, the lateral sepals formiug a hood over the
... 24, RAMPHIDIA.
Flowers PM the dorsal sepal and petals forming a hood
er the column. Stigma in a deep pouch . 25, GooDYERA.
CXX. ORCHIDER. 9
Rhizome with Mines or oblong tubers or i thick clustered
b Leaves sessile, few or only on
Flowers apalki il in a. dense: spira ae spike. n: and
petals erect or spreading 2 the tips onl . 26. SrIRANTHES.
. Be ike
Dorsal sepal concave. Petals me ene vi Labellum
densely fringed on the surface...) ws « 27. CALOCHILUS.
Sepals petals and. labellum all alike and s spreading
Column-wings connected. at. the base in front . 28. THELYMITRA.
Se v and stis i os and spreading. Leteligu: with 2
obes on the cl a tuft of linear processes at tlie
base of the lamin 9. EPIBLEMA.
Flowers racemose. ral sepals narrow-linear and long.
Labellum 3- ibed r^ or near tlie base
mee ee rs Sta the vidi at the base, erect and
. . IURI
Dorsal: pal meos and incurved over the column . 91. ORTHOCERAS,
Flowers ra emnt "pine Sepals usually narrow. La-
bellum u:
Labellum dilated p enclosing om bere at the base.
Leaves flat. Flowers large. . 82. CRYPTOSTYLIS.
Tepellam Misi or —€— rarely itin t the base
Fl
Peyen: i spicae small a ie
_ entire or 2-lobed. Lee, obes of ‘the pi very e .
ave toate Noc . Micnoris.
Column short. Labellum uli, erect under the “hood-shaped
dorsal se with or without a reflexed lamina, lateral -
and petals very narrow or minute. Small plants with 1 broad
leaf and 1 ion e flower . 85. CorysanTHEs.
Column elongated (longer than the anther) semiterete or lon ongi-
tudinally winged. Ste mple, leet: li le as
leaves. Rhizome «n d ent y renew
bellum unguiculate, the ning pete or opts 8h beyond
nsertion into a basal appen
Dorsal sepal hood-shaped. Lateral sepals united at the base.
Column semiterete with an oblong stigma about the a
and 2 hatc ec ned m d above it, reis um with a
basal appendage . es . 36. PrEROsTYLIS.
Sepals ond petals all lin i
m rather broailly peltate. Column with a broad
petal like wing its whole len 37. CALEANA.
mon ha er -sha ped. Column with 1 or 2 pairs of
uricl 8. DRAKÆA,
Labeom am ze ase or not produced beyond its insertion
ont
One dito indito leaf. Lateral sepals n Petals
short. Labellum undivided without fringes o or gos calli,
but two adnate ones at the base . » 89, AGIANTRUR. .
One - € lanceolate leaf. Lateral se ei ls. o oblong, er
tate... Labellum-lamina or middle lobe very convex an
vil n . 40, EnrocHiLUS.
One to oe ovate. or r lane colate, leaves. Dorsal sepal broad,
Labellum thickened along the centre, glabrous or papillose,
without calli. Column not winge . 41, LYPERANTHUS. :
No leaves on. the flower-stem. Sep als and petals nearly
equal, connivent. Labellum with 2 sp amd raised
lines without calli. Column win god . . 42. BünNETTIA.
One broad leaf. . Lateral sepals an petals v ery narro narrow and
x i i two adnate calli at bns base
tinued in ráised lines, Column winged . . . 43, CYRTOSTYLIS.
Candi Hoeár | . 33. PRASOPHYLLUM.
Labellum
*
pro CXX. ORCHIDER.
One linear or oblong leaf. Lateral sepals as broad as or
se ader than the petals. Labellum 2 raised calli or
44. CALADENIA,
Two mo blog le leaves. Laterals sepals narrower jen the petals,
with raised calli or fringes. Column ^ ugs e . 45, CHILOGLOTTIS.
t . 46. GLOSSODIA.
6. Op se.— Anther adnate to the top eT the column over the stigma,
the qe usually voe 2 lobes. Pollen-masses 2, granar: attached by jute het
one or two glands or pouches over r the stiga, Terr. fon he brit, rhizomes with a
ally renewed tubers. Pa simple leafy. Flow
Labellum reri with 2 linear domom of the column incum-
bent on i . . 47. HABENARIA.
. Apostasies.— Anthers 2, lateral near the base r4 ie style, with a ere!
e
rudimentary or rarely p anther. Stigma terminal. n granular.
trial herbs
e Loy a d in Mg axillary. Perianth of 6
. . 48. APOSTASIA,
see " n lid-like, incumbent on the apex of
the MS which has usual y: a ae margin, usnally deciduous.
Pollen-masses waxy, 2, 4, or rarely 8, without caudicles or gland.
Epiphytes or rarely icon, with a creeping rhizom
l. LIPARIS, Rich.
(Sturmia, Endl.)
Sepals and petals all free his udo equal and similar or the
petals and dorsal sepal nar shortly iq de ve
united with the column a t the one erect or EU entire. Colu
elongated, incurved, t a apex winge nther toridal, lid- like.
Pollen-masses 4, wax oid, two cells, whic
equa pai t
are sometimes not closel contiguous. — Terrestrial or Li ge plants, |
the stems sometimes thickened at the base into ]] pseudo-buibs.
Leaves e or near the base of the stem. Flowers greenish-yellow white
or I — ed with red, in a terminal pedunculate raceme.
is widely spread over the tropical and gig ical regions of the Old World,
with one sh ul s found in both hemispheres. e Australian species are, as
far as ini all e
Sepals all narrow e a
Repais and petals 33 to 5 nés sig AM pcd pee d
white 1. L. reflexa.
Flowers yellow 2. .L. cuneilabris.
5g and petals 3 tines long. Lébellan broadly obováte- :
3. L. emlogynoides
Lateral pre broadly oblong, falcate, Dorsal viis and petals ,
onger, narrow-linear. um broadly oblon 4. L. habenaria.
t. Reg. under n. 889. s from a shortly
reflexa, Li
creeping rhizome, igkaiad at the hase, the wein pan including the
Liparis. | CXX. ORCHIDEJ. ; 273
eaves almost distichous, the 2 or 8 lower ones reduced to acute
auricles or short lateral lobes embracing the vem of the
ulate-ciliate,
the disk with 2 more or less marked longitudinal raised lines.
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls ; Clarence river, Beckler; New
England, C. Stuart ; Tweed river, Fitzgerald.
: in species.
tacts shorter. Buds rather longer and narrower. Labellum shaped
as in L. reflexa, of which this is probably a variety.—Sturmia cuneilabris,
F. Muell. l.c.
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
3. L. coelogynoides, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 71. Habit nearly of
L. reflexa, but the leaves more rigid and acute and those of the flower-
ing stems more contracted at the base. Racemes much more slender
and
than in Z reflex the flowers smalle eduncle and rhachis
flattened and almost winged in the specimens (possibly from pressure
in drying ?). Bracts lanceolate, acuminate. nd pedicels about
: b
late. Column half as long as the sepals, narrow, incurved, 2-wingea
at the top.— Sturmia eclogynoides, F. Muell. Lc.
N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler.
. 4 L.habenarina, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 131. Habit and foliage
nearly of Z. reflexa, but taller, often above 1 ft. high. Leaves several,
_ tapering at both ends, mostly acute, } to 1 in. broad, very few of them
. reduced to sheathing scales. Racemes long and rigid. edicels short,
g, the flowers much smaller than in Z. reflexa.. Bracts
_ Short. Lateral sepals about 2 lines long, broadly oblong-faleate, obtuse ;
E. VOL. VI. T
274 CXX. ORCHIDEX. | Liparis.
dorsal sepal and. petals linear, about 3 lines ns. the petals still
narrower than the sepal Labellum as long as the lateral sepals,
recurved from the middle, broadly Jesi ipia embracing and
adnatb to the column at the base, obtuse or retuse, the disk with 2
small proisinex —Ó Anther-cells at some distance from eac
uell. l.c.
other m the anther-case.— Sturmia habenarina,
Queensland. Rockinghanı mi Dalla. Very bil "alid to the L. ferru-
ginea, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1848, 55, from Borneo and Malacca, and perhaps a
variety; but that species d a dark brown labellum seating its colour in the dried
state, and from a note in Herb. Lindley, has no calli on the disk, Mein the L. habe-
narina has the labellum of the same pale yellow as the rest of the flow
2. OBERONIA, Lindl.
Sepals free, nearly equal and erect, or the dorsal one smaller and
reflexed. Petals narrower or shorter than the sepals, Labellum
sessile, concave, entire or variously divided, often cushion-like or
keeled at the base and usually embracing the column. Column a ver
short, EUN Wege at the base, the apex with angular margins.
Anther li = like. Pollen masses 4, waxy, closel
- be irs Ps in Ron f alling away in one ud sometimes oblique and
distichous, —— ant. Flowers j
dense ra arca pedicels bae the bracts sm
The genus is eren over ee Asia the Indian Archipelago — west-
ward to the Mascarene islands, and paced to the South Pac Of the two A
t
alawis, from which it differs but very little in the structure of the flowers, but th
vegetative characters and geographical distribution appear to be sufficient to maintain
it as distinct,
Bracts ovate, fringed-ciliate. We we, OION GARED S ^ 0. iridifolia..
Bracts lanceolate, fine-pointed, wis 2d odi fa boinaigos . Q. palmicola.
1. O. iridifolia, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 15, and Fol. beg Leafy -
stems very short and thick, Ay fone ening toli in. Leaves 3 to To
dele
n
2-lobed at the end, about jJ line long, Sepals smaller. Capsule 1} to
2 lines es long, prominently angled.—Malawis iridifolia, Reichb. f. in Walp.
Ann
Brisbane river, F. Mueller; Rockhampton,
Que . eapeciell? Crocodile
hs heuer Thozet, Q' Shanesy, Dallachy ; also in East India and
the Archi-
2. O. palmicola, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 24. A small delicate —
Mule species with the habit of some of the smaller E. Indian on
MEDRE E T ea a i EA A ET TN
es : CXX. ORCHIDEZX, 275
distinct whorls. Bracts "s as the flowers, Tancecldte with fine
points and often ciliate. als and petals about 4 line long, lanceolate,
fe the petals narrower qs the sepals. Labellum about as long as
sepals, with 2 broad (entire 1 lateral lobes, the middle lobe rhom-
boidal rather broader than long. Fruitin PA d. n long.
Capsule nearly 1 line.—JMalazis palmicola, F. Mu d. Fr ii. 90.
pcan, Brisbane river, Kellemay ; Rockhampton? Da tib,
N. S. Wales. On the trunks of P. Palms, Hastings river, Beckler ; M osi river,
€. Moore ; ; Bellinger range, "TF'itegerald.
I
3. DENDROBIUM, Swartz.
Sepals nearly ri in E us the lateral ones very obliquely Nei
at the base and co ection from the base of the colum
into a pouch or ew "Petals dm A nearly the len ida of the upper
sepal or rather longer. Labellum Aaa a at the end of or (in species
not Australian) shortly connate with the basal projection of the column,
laits.
at 2 top. — terminal, M like. Pollen masses 4, in
d
A large genus ranging ovér the warmer regions of both the New and the Old World,
one species coh p far AM as New Zealan 7 Of the 24 Australian species one only
as been ident fied with certainty with an exotic species, the D. hispidum of anikoro,
Secor drocoryne res d simple, elon wo: y^ eru bearing 2 or m
or Seanetied leaves at or towards the nd Race: b y terminal or or
nearly so iei only in the uppermos 13 tme iie Do ud
n D. agrostophyllum and D. Smill
Petals AN. broader be ~ the se gali, Racemes few-
n long Flowers pink or lilac.
Fini p pouch of the flower pucr a prominent spur underneath,
forming a double spur.
Petals 3 in. p ad. Labelum middle-lobe very broad
and obtus 1. D. bigibbum.
Petals 1 in. broad Labellum middle-lobe oblong, lanceo :
late, acute or mucronate . TEN CEP FO dicuphum.
al pouch scarcely gibbous on the lower. side soo s Be D. Alumner,
: Té?»
276 ^ CXX: ORCHIDER. [ Dendrobium:
tals narrower or not broader than the sepals. Flowers
Fhile; yellow, brown-red, or spotted with red.
es flat. arge species. Racemes above 6 in, and -n
be ve 1 ft. long, with numerous rather (pA flowe
Petals and sepals obtuse, very much undulate and Proc
ing.
Leaves broad. Bracts ł to j in. long .
Oe ei eer Aper rondes M TERT VY
sich pe A vedi
ji s narrow. Bracts minute . 5. D. Johan
Petals and “sepals lanceolate, pe ‘not undulate and
almost co dicas : 6. D. speciosum.
Leaves flat. p s under 6 i ing with a slender rhachis.
Stems -— stennits towards the base. Sepals an
petals with long slender points, 3 or 4 times as long
as the | ;
Stems prominently 4-angled . . i 324 . T. D. tebragomum
d robes many-angled 8. D. emulum.
Stems not much or not at all attenuate at the base 5
» Is and petal} 4 longer thas 1
the labellum. i :
Central lobe of the labellum broad, almost reniform. i
owers reddish purple. Spur conical, straight . . 9. D. esser E
Flowers yellow. gae short, b road and de Ne A jor cilicaule. E.
a
rather long nearly - aight 11. D. Moorei.
Stems rather slender, eri; with short ax <illary racemes.
Sepals and petals bro i re pees as long as the labellum 12. D. agrostophyllum.
Leaves flat. Ste ade xe d acemes several, short i
and dense. Spur ve E (Rie; longer than the lanceolate
sepals and petals 13. D. Smilliæ.
A B cd S R caue nro.
Leaves Sosa channelled. Stems short. Racemes long
R^ ulate. pues e and pa linear- tends or pete.
c Ie Wm 14. D.canaliculatum. |
Bapao p Sc tufted, short and thick, terminating in a single
arr 1 "x denen at its bas
rer tnis flat, do x —
iim and fra a . ro ae D. monophyllum.
n & hispidum.
tanta very thick echt ye tg with tuberculate ribs | | | 17. D. cucumerinum. .
JA
Sect 3. Rhizobium.— Rhizomes etse with scarious sheathing scales. Leaves | 5
dolar] n ihe ail of the sale, eth r sessile on a broad di ino
binate protuberance. Racemes few-flowered, also from the rhizome
Leaves PX coriaceous, very acute. Sepals —Ü about E
5 lines long without the spur Cops 18. D. mur E
Love very thick and fleshy, almost acute, “Sepals oblong: E
lan e, about 4 lines withont the pouch . ..19. D. rigidum. :
Leaves very thick and fleshy, o| sath Spem linear or narrow :
linear-lanceolate, 7 to 10 lines lon . 20. D. linguiforme.
Secr. 4. Strongyle.— Stems branched, usually, koen slender. Leaves distant,
terete. Racemes (few-flowered) or pedu ncles later
Sepals and di iy 1 in. long. 8 ur from 4 to E
4 as 3
eet im eT eo CELL RE
as long. Labellum ul shorter than the spell “the
middle lobe acumina qug 21. D. teretifolium.
Sepals and petals lanceolate, under gin, Spur short, t, very
obtuse. Labellum — as "E as the "me p e
lobe idi . . 22. D. striolatum.
tw
«g
-
Dewirobiun. | | OXX ORCHIDEX.
xem and petals narrow, about 4 in. Spur about half as
pint E. gellan as long as the speia the middle lobe
23. D. Mortii.
Beals | inf peial lanceolate about ii in. Spur abont as long.
abellum nearly g as the comes the middle lobe short
and broadly de ren nifor ven i094. Zeal
omplanatum, A. Cunn. in Lindl, Bot. di'i 1839, Misc. 34, from the neighbour-
hood of the Brisbane river, is described as having t the flattened stems and distidliótn
leaves of the section Aporum, kae. butas the flowers "ec never seen, and no 8
the pla of the oliage d has been p ved for comparison, it will po imposible P identity
D. Sii, F Spar M ragm, vii. n is s deer from very insufficient materials—
the Cita of a stem , with the rhac his of a few racemes from which t e flo owers are all
whi cannot distinguish from those of D. gracilicaulis. It is 13.000
fore ok e D. Fellowsii may not LL a compound of these two species.
D. minutissimum, F. Mu ragm 5, from a me locality near Botany Bay,
is sodasi by name only, and I have si d specim
SEcT. 1. DENDROCORYNE, Lindl. — Stems sim iple, elongated or short
and inifunes thickened into oblong pseudobulbs, bearing 2 or more
flat or channelled leaves at or near the end, the lower part with scarious
thin sheathing ves which usually soon wear nee) leaving annular
‘scars. Racemes 1 to 3, apparently terminal or nearly so (owing to the’
arrest of the idrain shoot), or only in the upper axils.
1. D. bigibbum, Lindl. in Past. Fl. Gard. iii. 25, f. 245. Stem
in the cultivated plant 6 to 8 in. long, slightly contracted towards Ho
base, bearing in the upper part 3 or 4 lanceolate leaves of 3 or 4 in.,
ovate-lanceolate, acute, 9 to 10 lines long and about 5 lines broad in
our specimens, the lateral ones produced with the basal projegtion of
d viti imo i an eiie peel with a conical te
middle steko fot
. Queensland. Mount — Torres Straits, Thomson.—Only known from spe-
. Cimens GUB red by Loddige
dicuphum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 98. Stems strongly
Bed. and hina sometimes 3 to nore long, rather thick, equal ` or
. Scarcely contracted towards the base, sometimes shortened into a conical
pseudo bulb. Leaves few on the upper part of the stem, lanceolate or
278 CXX: ORCHIDER, [ Dendrobium.
linear-lanceolate, 3 to 6 in. long. Raceme erect, on an apparently
terminal peduncle of 6 in. to I ft., with 3 or 4 (probably pink or
broad, the middle lobe oblong-lanceolate, acute or mucronate and not
2 lines broad ; the disk with 3 raised longitudinal lines or plates more
or less fringed or crested and extending some way along the middle |
lobe, and occasionally 1 or 2 shorter additional fringed lines.
Liverpool river, Gulliver ; and probably the same, but our specimen —
2 ;
,N. Austr
without flowers, Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 412
4. D. undulatum, R. Br. Prod. 332. A stout species growing in
large tufts and attaining with the racemes several ft., the stems often
obtuse spur. Labellum shorter than the sepals, the lateral lobes large,
‘erect, nearly flat, the middle lobe small, broadly lanceolate or oblong,
recurved and undulate ; the disk with 5 raised lines or plates of a ui
violet colour, of which 2 more prominent especially near the base
‘sometimes 7 immediately below the middle lobe. Column short— —
b
i
Dendrobium.] CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 279
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 87 ; den f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 298, Beitr.
47; F. Muell. Fragm. i. 87; D. discolor, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, t. 59.
We tanum Endeavour river, in many — vices along md coast, Banks and
Solander, R. Brown, A. Cum mingham ; Port C M'Güllieray ; Curtis island,
Thoze graye Liam, bay, Dallachy ; Port Denison, ea tzalan (pesmes 1 14 ft. long,
with n 30 flowers) ; Cape Yo enel Albany island, A.
The species is said to be a native also of Java, but only on garden ee It is
not in aided ia any enumeration of Archipelago Orchids, nor have we any extra-
Australian specimen.
ES smaller, the an deu and se - — about 2 in. long,
of a uniform dull brown, the labellum yellow ag. t. 0540.
Queensland? Cultivated by Veitch from Rorthers Moe , D. canalicu-
latim (D. Tattonianum). Of this I have only seen the plate quoted, and two loose
flowers in Reichenbach's i ae
6. D. speciosum, Sm. ee, EUIS O (the flowers grossly
misrepresented). Stems very thick and Beshy 6 in. D lft. high. Leav
few (2 to 5) distichous towards the apex of the stem, ovate or oblong,
thick, flat or slightly undulate, 3 to 6 in. long. Racemes apparently
terminal, often above 1 ft: long, the sheathing scales at the base of the
cle 1 i e
he
pouch. se E mier shorter than the sepals, nearly white
spotted with purple, the lateral lobes short and broad, the middle lobe
broader than long, very obtuse or refit. Colum n white, often spotted
with purple.—R. Br. Prod. 332; Lindl. Gen. and «d Orch. 87 ;
Reichb. f. Beitr. 48; Bot. go t. 3074; Bot. Reg. t. 1610
ort (ul R. Brown; Brisbane river, W. Hill; eat
nesy; Ri alla.
. Wales. Port sen Banks and Solander, se Woolls, Vicary ; north-
ward to Hastings river, Tozer; southward to Cape Howe, F
’ hyay ;
Nangatta niepitiius an oa river,
D. Hill oip k. Bot. d f; Ar as suggested by FM ller, Fragm. iv. 175,
a slight variety of D. speciosum, with the sepals "€ petals rene and
longer than hose P red t. n. but shorter and rather narrower than those of several
other s Spec
TD. NEA num, A. Cunn. in Bot. Heg. 1839, Mise. 33. Stems
from a creeping or tufted deeem numerous, forming sm udo-
bulbs at the base, from 1 or 2 in. to above 1 1 ft. long, very rominently
dangled, rather ‘slender in the lower portion, thickened above the
ddle or near the apex. Leaves 2 or 3 near "^ su -e idi n " n"
m or broadly dutotiiut acute, 2 to 4 in Race
leaves 1 or 2, short and loose, bearing buie ae 1 to 3 y» ptite
280 CXX. ORCHIDEZ. [ Dendrobium.
een — bordered with brownish red on pedicels of 4 to 1 in.
= rrow. Sepals from a broad triangular base of ls in.
Disk with 3 raised lines or narrow plates scarcely undulate, the central one
Bot. Re ee 1841, Mise. 2; Bot. Mag. t. 5956; F. Muell. Fragín.- i. 87.
Queensland. Dry shaded woods, Moreton s. A. Cunningham; Islands of
Morton. s Lr F. Mueller ; Rockham mpton, Bowman, O'Shanesy; Rockingham bay,
p. a s. "Wales. Hastings, Macleay, and Clarence rivers, Beckler; Tweed river,
ilfoyle
um, R. Br. Prod. 333. Stems Mu rather thick, some-
times tapering ped a long thin base wit small pseudo obulb as in
. tetragonum. aves % or near the summit, ovate or o long.
Racemes lio 3 at ihe end between the leaves, 9 or 3 in. long, the
rhachis slender, the bracts small and cA s Flowers rarely above
th me, on slender pedicels of 4 in. or less. Sepals narrow
"neeolates almost linear, often nearly 1 in. long, striate, the basal
r spur short and broad, turned upwards. Petals narrow-linear
as Ed as the ns Labellum scarce y above m. Jong; contracted
di he
.—Lindl. Gen. and EP Orch. 87; Reichb. f. Beitr. 1;
F. Muell. Fragm. i. 213; Bot. Mag. t. 2906.
Queens alunt. Brisbane river, Bailey.
. S. Wales. Vm ackson, R Brown; Blue Mountains, Miss At kinson,
Vicary; New England, C. p Hastings river, Beckler; Richmond river, Hen-
derson ; Aog: river, Guilfoyle
The figure above quoted CER the Botanieal Magazine represents the stems thicker
and shorter, and the sepals and petals shorter and broader than they are in the wild
9. D. Kingianum, Bidw. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1844, Mise. 11, 1845,
l. Stems usually 3 to 6 in. high, striate with prominent angles,
thickened at the base. - Leaves at the summit of the stem 3 to 5, lanceolate
others. Petals about as long, but narrower. Spur conical, slightly in-
curved, about 3 lines long. Labellum not much shorter then the sepals,
not undulate, the lateral lobes very prominent, almost oblong, obtuse, the
ot ae
MS See RR
Dendrobium.] CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 281
middle lobe scarcely longer, but very broad, almost reniform, the disk
with 3 raised lines or plates extending to the base of the middle lobe,
but not beyond.—Bot. Mag. t. 4527; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 60.
Queen
N. S.
sland. Moreton bay ? Bidwill.
Wales. Ou rocks and trees, Biron, Leichhardt; New England, C. Stuart.
Queensland. Moreton bay, F. Mueller. sii "i
. S. Wales. Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Lord Howe's island, €.
Moore, and others. ;
ly marked with prominent angles and furrows, sometimes
equally thick throughout, sometimes attenuate or thickened at the
ase i
middle lobe linear-lanceolete, complicate, not undulate, at least $ as
long as the sepals; disk with slightly raised lines only between the
short lateral lobes.
DA S. Wales. Trees and rocks, Lord Howe's island, C. Moore, Eclipse Expe-
tton. ,
12. D. agrosto] hyllum, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 28. Stems about
1 ft. high, rather Sender, leafy from the middle upwards. Leaves lan-
rags,
more than twice as broad as long; the disk with a raised plate or callus
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
289 CXX. ORCHIDE. [ Dendrobium.
e end and very obtuse. Petals:
rather smaller than the sepals. Labellum with a long broad claw, ex-
anded at the apex into a concave. complicate almost hood-shaped
lamina, shorter than the sepals, broader than long, entire or broadly
and shortly 2-lobed. Pollen-masses of the genus, closely cohering in
airs
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.— The species is evidently closely
allied to the D. viridiroseum, Reichb. f., described from garden specimens said to have
been brought from Java, which, however, has more acute sepals and a somewhat diffe-
rently shaped labellum.
culatum, R: Br. Prod. 333. Stems or pseudobulbs
usually rather thick and not above 1 to 2 in. high. Leaves at the sum-
coloured nearly orbicular lamine.—Lindl, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 91;
ic itr. 49; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 126; D. Tattonianum;
Batem. in Gard. Chron. 1865, 890; Bot. Mag. t. 5537.
sland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
“ Flowers fragrant."— There are no specimens —€— of Banks and Solander's plant,
bnt from the drawing in the British Museum there is no doubt of its identity with Z^
Tattonianum, although the colour of the flowers is rather duller.
. 9. MowornyrLza.— Stems usually numerous, short and
thick, terminating in a single leaf, with 1 to 3 flowers also at the apex
of the stem at the base of the leaf.
15. D. monophyllum, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 189. Stems from a
creeping rhizome numerous, erect, thick, narrow-conical, 1 to 2 ne
long, with very prominent ribs and furrows, at least when dry. Le
EV ink YS I Sl e
3
AG
PAS ET
PI ES
She EST E ee ees)
S A ss tl ee een n
Dendrobium. CXX. ORCHIDER. 283
parently terminal, oblong or lanceolate, flat, 9 to 3 in. long. Raceme
a c
also solitary and apparently terminal, about as long as the leaf, with 2
0 » : .
r 3 “yellow” flowers on pedicels of 3 or 4 lines. Bracts minute.
Queensland. On the upper branches of lofty trees, Brisbane river, Moreton bay,
A. Cunningham, W. Hill; Glasshouse Mountains, Beyerley.
N. S. Wales. i eckler.
Richmond and Clarence rivers,
16. D. hispidum, A. Rich. Sert. Astrol. 18, t. 5. A dwarf plant
forming dense tufts. Stems usually from under 1 in. to nearly 2 in.
membranous’ scarious sheaths. Leaf apparently vo ze or
. lon
s
lanceolate, prominently keeled underneath, 1 to 2 in. long. edicels
rather narrower. Petals linear, as long as the sepals, Labellum
as long as,the sepals, the lateral lobes rather broad, the middle lobe at
least as broad as long, with raised wrinkles on its surface but no raised
lines on the disk between the lateral lobes. Capsule echinate, ovoid or
globular, about 3 lines diameter.—F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 30.
eensland. On trees, Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—Our specimens are in fruit
only, but a somewhat withered flower in Herb. F. Mueller shows precisely the oy
figured by A. Richard, from the original specimens gathered in the island of Vanikoro.
17. D
A dwarf species like the two preceding, the tufted stems not exceeding
the base of the leaf and rather shorter. Sepals and petals yellowish-
white, streaked with a reddish-yellow, about lin. long. Spur sh
c
nent, almost acute, the middle lobe ovate, shortly acuminate, recurved,
with undulate-crisped margins; the disk with 3 or 5 longitudinal raised
lines or plates, even between the lateral lobes, much undulate on the
middle lobe.—Bot. Mag. t. 4619; F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 59. —
, N. S. Wales arina. trees near Brownlow hill, Camden, Woolls, accord-
ing to a memorandum received from F. Mueller.—I have seen no specimen; the above
character is taken from Lindley’s figure and descriptions.
284 XX. ORCHIDER. [ Dendrobium.
Sect. 3. Rurzoprum, Lindl.—Stems or rhizomes creeping, with
scarious sheathing scales. Leaves solitary in the axils of the scales,
: icó
r
(a rudimentary stem or pseudobulb). Racemes few-flowered, also from
the rhizome.
row to above the middle, then expanded into a broadly ovate-triangular
acute recurved lamina, very much undulate but scarcely 3-lobed ; the
disk with 3 raised lines or plates, even on the claw, much undulate on
the lamina.—D. pungentifolium, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 189.
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller; Mount Lindsay, W. Hill.
N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Woolls, Miss Atkinson; Hastings river, Bechler;
New England, C. Stuart ; southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham, Shepherd.
9. D. rigidum, R. Br. Prod. 333. Stems or rhizomes shortly
creeping, the young shoots covered by the membranous scarious sheath-
i b
in D. pugionif Raceme about as long as the leaves, the one figured
bearing 3 flowers about 5 lines long including the broad obtuse pouch.
Sepals * nish white tin with red,” the dorsal one broadly
avour river, Banks and Solander.—Only known from a s
ing the young shoots. aves articulate on broad circular scars
or scarcely raised disks at the axils of the sheaths, ovate or oblong,
mostly under 1 in. long, but very thick and fleshy. Ra
rhizomes 2 or 3 in. long, with a slender rhachis, bearing from 6 or even
fewer to above 20 flowers on filiform pedicels of 3 to 5 lines. Bracts
Dendrobium.] CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 285
minute and scale-like. eo narrow linear-lanceolate, 7 to 10 lines
long, the pouch or spur short broad and turned upwards. Petals
lobe te, ob
disk with 3 very prominent raised lines or plates, even ‘between the
lateral lobes, all three produced and much undulate on the middle
—Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 19 t. 11; R. Br. Prod. 333; Lindl. Gen. and
Sp. Orch. 85; Reichb. f. Beitr. 51.
Queensland. Mountains near Brisbane, Dallachy ; Moreton bay, W. Hill.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Caley and many others;
Hastings river, Beckler; Clarence river, Wilcox; Durval, Leichhardt ; New England,
C. Stuart; Port Macquarrie, Tozer.
SECT. 4. STRONGYLE, Lindl.—Stems elongated, branched, usually
rather slender. Leaves distant, terete. Racemes few-flowered or
1-flowered, peduncles lateral.
21. D. teretifolium, R. Br. Prod. 333.
creeping rhizome, elongated, terete, divaricately branched. Leaves few,
filiform peduncles of 3 to lin. Sepalslinear-subulate, above 1 in. Jong,
eola
eulate, acuminate and recurved, the lateral lobes very small, the disk
dotted with red and bearing 3 undulate raised lines or lates. Column
dotted with red.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 91; F. Muell. Fragm. i.
89; Reichb. f. Beitr. 51; Endl. Iconogr. t. 99; Bot. Mag. t. 4711;
D. calamiforme, Lodd. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1841, Misc. 9.
Queensland. Rockhampton, O'Shanesy, Bowman. :
. S. ales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler,
B; Port Macquarrie, Backhouse; Richmond river, Henderson; New England,
- Stuart.
__D. Fairfazii, F. Muell. in Sydney Mail, Sept. 21, 1872, 360, with a woodcut, from
Mount Tomah, appears to be a slight variety of D. teretifolium with leaves 1 ft.
long and some slight differences in the spotting and undulations of the labellum. The
flowers are also described as more numerous but not so figured
286 CXX. ORCHIDE. [ Dendrobium.
lum rather shorter than the sepals, dilated in the middle into 2 broad
cem recurved, the margins undulate-
D. Baai ilium, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1899, Mise, 32, not of R. Br.;
D. Milligani, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 88, t. 6; Hook. f. Fl. il ii. 373.
N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, PUNK Miss Tes Cape Howe, Walter.
Victoria. Rocks along the Genoa river, F.
Tasmania. On rocks Flinders A grk iny Peak, &c., Milligan, Ricketts,
species in Herb. F. Mueller, vat nim no flowers it cann etermined e
ey belong to this or to the following bind; indl. in Paxt. Fl.
Ga d i. 134 (name only) is ep rages in Herb. Lindl ingle flower mee ap
Mortii, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 214 and ii. 93 (partly). Stems _
23. D.
elongated and branched as in D sue bare but much more sle ende
lobes Tad, dis middle lobe acuminate. Column
N. S. Wales. Hastings river, Bechler; Macleay river, Fitzgerald; New Eng-
land, C. Stuart.
eckleri, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 95, and vii. 59, seems to me to be precise ely the same
as the plant originally — T him as D. Mortii, although 1 the | flowers described in
F e been from one of Bowman's Bersaker which
me to s n i stlac
24. D. Bowmanii, Benth. a elongated and branched, fee :
slender than in D. terti bii but not so much so as in D. Mortii. es
terete, 2 to 4 in. long. Flowers dakoi white, sraka 2 together
on a very short common peduncle, ae slender r pedi cels not above 8 or 4
lines long. Betis lanceolate as in D. striolatum, but the spur nearly
as long as the remainder of the seal each a 3 lines long. Pet
rather narrower. Labellum nearly as long as the sepals, the lateral
lobes broad, the middle lobe broadly heey dia TENA crisped and
slightly notched, the disk with longitudinal undulate raised n or
ates.—.JD. Mortii, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 93, at least as to the flowers,
ut not the original D. Mortii, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 214.
Queensland. On trees and rocks, Rodd’s bay, A. Cunningham; Bersaker Range
and Port Cooper, Bowman.
4. BOLBOPHYLLUM, Thou.
Sepals erect, free, acuminate, nearly equal, the lateral ones obliga
dilated at the base and connate with the basal projection of the column
into a pouch or short — Petals usually much smaller th
- sepals. Fá belin articulate at the end of the basal projection of the
umn, usually entire and contracted into a claw, Column very short,
Bolbophytlum. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 287
The genus is spread over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, one
rii found as far south as New Zealand. The Australian species appear to to be all
Bier ils reduced to a small scarcely prominent disk. Leaves |
. small, pridcgibalen succulent. Peduncles 1-flowered . . 1. B. lichenastrum.
Pseudobulbs ong. Leaves linear or pe neni succulent,
without any midrib. Peduncles 1-flowe
ra linear-lanceolate, 3 to 5 in. long. "Pidüiidle 1 to 14 in.
2. B. nematopodum,
Eos linear, very thick and fleshy, 1 1 go 2in. ‘long. " Peduncle
2 to 4 lines long, with distan à 3. B. Shepherdi.
Leaves oblong or lanceolate Ah ns 3 in. "long. Peduncle :
rcely 2 Miles long, with loosely Ove dapiiiny bracts . . 4. B. aurantiacum.
P udobulbs ovoid, ve ly wrinkled. Leaves oblong or
nceolate, with a N prominin midrib. Peduncles with a
eme o
Peduncles filiform, 1 to 2 n. long. Sepals 2 to 2} lines long,
_ ede 316 Fn og,” Lateral sepals gih dne deal one ^ ooa
Peduncles 3 to 6 in. an ai Lateral by [ts the dorsal one
shorter oo ve B. EN
. l. B. lichenastrum, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 60. Creepin ,rhiromes
forming very dense pat atches. Pseudobulbs reduced to a small scarcel
prominent circular disk, surrounded b e long frin M remains
of the scarious sheath. Leave s thick, ka otg or almost globular,
2 to ines diameter, ‘Propalasty rugose owers very
small, “ yellow, ” solitary on peduncles or e to 3 lin long,
ith 1 or 2 scarious sheaths at their base and apparently articulate
below the flower. rr ovate-lanceolate, about 1 line long, besides
y as long as the se
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abruptly contracted into a short claw, the lamina nearly Ex i
pa ee very short, with two narrow erec
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
N. S. AER Miss A kinson, Woolls ; an i o Has
Macleay, and oie rivers, Beckler. e, tiver, Leichhardt ; ra bade to uM
warra, Shepherd; and probably the same species from Grose river, R. Brown; tar
m B. aurantiacum, F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 39. Nearly allied to
B. Shepherdi, but a stouter lant Pseu dobulbs small “and voids
t
Aai i, but s showing ho re
decided angle or un at the end of th tho. basal projection of the column.—
drobium aurantiacum, F. Mue 8
Queensland. Ma bay, W. Hill; on trees and rocks about Rockhampton,
kr cron O’ Shanesy.
. S. Wales. Narvoo falls, Macleay river, Fitzgera
Mes are in some specimens rather crowded on the rhizomes, a fragment of
br s without leaves led to the mistake of describing the inflorescence as a thyrsoid
pike.
exiguum, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 72. ener: ing rhizomes “‘ form-
a carpet covering large masses of roc seudobulbs ovoid or
ade globular, oo angular and at a fresh, ve
rugose when dr lines diameter ree "wee on the pseudo*
ong, the margins Tum e midrib se cyan
filiform, 1 to 2i ong, bearing 2to 4 flowers on short filiform
Sepals iaie, 2 ines kam, the lateral ones dilated at t
Bolbophyllum.) CXX. ORCHIDEX. 289
into a short broad pouch. Petals scarcely half as long as the sepals.
Labellum nearly as long as the sepals, linear, thick and channelled,
tapering and slightly recurved towards the end.—Dendrobium exiguum,
F. Muell. Fragm. v. 95. A
N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, Caley, Woolls ; northward to Hastings river,
Beckler; Richmond and Tweed rivers, C. Moore; Bellinger ranges, Fitzgerald;
southward to Illawarra, A. Cunningham.
Var. lachyi. Pseudobulbs rather larger and more ovoid. Flowers white, the
sepals and labellum rather broader than in the N. S. Wales specimens and the petals
. rather larger, but the specimens imperfect.
ueensland. Boddüghdda bay, Dallachy. . j
` The species is very closely allied to the New Zealand R. pygm«us, but that has
depressed-globular pseudobulbs and apparently differently shaped flowers, with a more
ent spur or pouc
usually abo in. long. Leaves solitary, narrow-oblong, contracted
at the base, mostly 1 to 2 in. long, the midrib prominent underneath
in um es including the peduncle 6 high
* mg, wit
spreading, oblong, thick and ques grooved on the upper surface.
lumn short, with 2 prominent teeth.— Cirrhopetalum Elise, F. Muell.
ragm. vi. 120, t. 57.
| N. S. Wales. Blue Mountains, C. Moore; Vale of Clwyd, Vicary; Clarence
. river, Beekler; New England, C. Stuart.—Although technically approaching Cirrho-
etalum in the shortness of the dorsal sepal, this has not the peculiar inflorescence and
abit of that genus, nor yet all its essential characters.
5. PHREATIA, Lindl.
(Plexaure, Endl.)
or connivent, the lateral ones dilated at
Sepals nearly equal, erect:
he basal ar ene of the column, forming a
the base and adnate to t
oduced at the base, the membranous margin of the apex entire.
P
tichous, their persistent bases loosely imbricate. Flo
minute, on exceedingly short pedicels, in axillary racemes.
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The genus is spread over the Indian Archipelago and the South Sea Islands. The 3
ee Australian species is also found in Norfolk island. P
. P. limenophylax, Reichd. f. in Bonplandia 1857, 54 (partly). A —
ded plant, the very short stem covered by the persistent bases of the —
leaves. Leaves linear, thick and alaien channelled on the upper
side, 1 to 2 in. ien the dilated base 3 or 4 lines broad. Eger very
; Oberonia erassngcula, F. Muell. Herb. ; Zria beber i
Reichb. f. Xen. Orch. ii. 97, t :
Queensland. On the barks of Zi RO am bay, Dallachy.—This speci cies is
also in Norfolk island. I have not seen the pollen-masses in the Australian specimens —
the fowr being all too far advanced, but the whole plant, the flowers in every pa arti- P
atia to u
does not assent to the union. Lindley appears also to confounded this species
eh South Sea island one which has flat leaves ; and Reichenbach by some mistake
laces the P. tay ey nin in his group headed * foliis ri tre ;" the leaves are,
emer figu auer, and specially described by me NAA as“ carnosula, connato- |
piste, intus me longitudinali notata," precisely as in the Australian specimens.
6. PHOLIDOTA, Lindl.
Flowers subglobose. Sepals nearly equal, free. Los. smaller
reaa sessile at the base of the column, concave or almost saccate
at the base, entire or 3-lobed, the lateral lobes débil, the middle lobe
recurved. Column erect, somewhat hood-shaped at the top and wing
m font nr da rminal, lid-like, 2-celled, the valves almost trans-
asses 4, waxy, _ globular, without any ca and
rmi
often ahs broad and imbricate in the yo opis raceme,
The genn spread over East India and the AQUI) the only ye
species E pie the greater part of thé area of the genu
1. P. imbricata, Lindl. in Hook. Exot. Fl. ii. t. 198; (Jen. and SP.
Orch. 36. — short, with a few sheathing s et and a single leaf,
ulbs. af
leaf, flowering part
and 6 in. long or more. Bracts roadly ovate, obtuse or almost acute,
4 to 9 lines long, complicate and imbricate at first, d from the
Pholidota. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 291
flexuose rhachis when the flowers are out. Pedicels about 3 lines long.
Sepals ovate-lanceolate, about 3 lines; petals rather oo peri
about as long as the sepals, the concave almost erect,
bordered by the short broad. lateral lobes, the middle rohs ined than
long, the margin undulate and more or less distinctly 3-lobed. Column
about 1} lines long, the margins winged upwards. Capsule ME
about j in. rd —Bot. Reg. t. 1213; Wight e t. 907;. F. Muell.
Fragm. iv 163.
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—This species is common in E. India
and the. Fever a the Australian tpe uvae slightly in the rather larger
bracts. Dallachy describes the flowers as ye
rosie K 2. VANDER. Taury lid-like, MONS usually deci-
duous. Pollen-masses waxy, 4 in pairs, on a single r double caudicle
itiha toa gland. piers Ces or terrestrial with ssi Ap rhizomes.
7. TMNIOPHYLLUM, Blume.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, erect or connivent, connate at the
base. Labellum adnate to the column at the base and produced into a
short spur or pouch, entire (or shortly 2- lobed ?). Column very short
erect, WB. 2 teeth in front. ` Anther terminal, lid-like. Pollen-masses
E in D pairs, with a short slender caudicle. "Gland minute.—E iphy-
|. tical hats, ‘almost pineal os and leafless or with a tuft of linear leaves.
Flowers minute, in small slender racemes.
. The genus has been found also in Java and in Ceylon; the FE species is
probably endemic
T. Muelleri, Lindl. Herb, Stems dye scarcely ions 1 line
inel eniting long linear a Bl roots, Aud x r 3 filiform scapes of
Bra
Sahelian linear, as ja as the sepals, and in the only flower I could
examine appeared to be shortly 2-lobed at the end, with a minute toot
between the lobes, 2 a ouch or spur obtuse, about 1 line long.—
Sarcochilus Baileyi, F Il. Herb.
Queensland. On trees near Brisbane, y. Hil, C. Prentice, Bailey.
8. SARCOCHILUS, Br.
(Thrixspermum, Lour.; Gunnia, Lindl.)
als tals nearly equal, free, spreading, the lateral sepals
Sai more or n aes at the base and adnate to the basal projection
of the colum llum articulate at the end of the basal projection
of the obit ted any spur at its base, S-lobid.d the eee lobes
rather large, the terminal one (in the Australian s very
short and tooth-like or cushion-like, with a solid fleshy dorsal pe AA
299 CXX. ORCHIDE. leee
Pollen-masses 4 in pairs on a what flattened caudicle. —Epiphy-
tical herbs. Stems short, gionis "i with the prominent persistent
truncate bases of the leaves or leafless. Leaves flat and often falcate,
or narrow-linear, or none. Racemesaxillary. Bracts small. Capsules
usually linear or narrow-oblon
The genus is spread over East India and the Archipelago, with one New Zeala nd
nem. but the Au etg ones appear to be all endemic. Heichenbach having iden-
ified Loureiro's Thrixspermum as a species of Sarcochilus has adopted his generic
pebetivaied for the universally received one of Sarcochilus, nor can we corr
ing to the rules of etymology without interfering with T'richospermum, pony in
Leaves hiir, lanceolate or SEEN Middle lobe of the labellum
.. short and toothlike, glabro:
Lateral age adnate t the [ees only of the ro of the
ich represents a claw to the labellu
Sepals and jen narrow-linear, subulate- cies. 1 to
‘ 1. S. di eei
eph ud p? oblong, 6 to 7 lines lon ng 2. SS. fale
Lateral sepals adnate to the whole of the projection "of the
column. j
Sepals (5 to 6 di twice as ONE as the labellum. i
Pie and peta és ties ng . . 8. S. Fitzgeraldi.
als and Leve linear-oblon ong 4. 8. olivaceus.
Sepals (at bwin 5 lines) "ut little longer than the labellum 5. 8. parviflorus.
Leaves narr lear or none, iddle 1 the labellum broad
or éusbionlike and densely covered ih a white pubescence
( Chiloschista).
eaves linear. feiern qais adnate to the whole of the pro-
n of the ec
Be early 3 ume ong. Lateral lobes of the labellum
m longer than be middle lobe and the dorsal ie m
berance 6. S. Cecilie.
M oe abont 1 1 lines... Lateral lobes of the labellum shorter
an e broad middle lobe and the spurlike dorsal protu-
7. S. Hillüi.
No beris - Lateral sepals (about 2 lines) adnate only to the
ase of the prdectin of the column ee momok tay a claw T
to > the } abellum . 8. S. phyllorhizus.
divitidorus, 1 F. Muell. Herb. Stems unknown. Leaves
l. S.
oblong, 3 to 4 in. long and nearly lin. broad, flat with prominent
Scape or peduncle at 6 in. ae flowering from below the
de br CS Me A DU E E RET Po in oe oe Rese ads 2s pia eats bis =
. what mealy
N.S. W
Guilfoyle.
Sarcochilus. | CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 293
without any prominent spur or point. Labellum with a narrow claw of
about l line, the lamina with an erect central saccate lobe of about
1 line, the lateral lobes twice as long, oblong, obtuse, clasping the very
short moe Pollen-masses 2 on a short caudicle, the pollen some-
aly.
N. S. Wales. Macleay river, Fitzgerald.—l have only seen racemes and loose
leaves of this remarkably distinct species. The flowers at first sight resemble those of
Dendrobium teretifolium, but the structure is totally different.
2. S. falcatus, R. Br. Prod. 359. Stems rarely above 2 or 3 in.
high, rather stout, covered by the rigid loosely imbricate sheathing
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Bracts ovate, about 2 lines long. Pedicels and ovary about j in.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, oblong, obtuse, 6 to 7 lines long, the
lines. Labellum ascending from the end of it, the lateral lobes large,
ovate, the middle lobe very short broad and almost scale-like or
i with a thick Heshy dorsal protuberance or solid
spur; the disk with a transverse 2-lobed scale or callus between the
lateral lobes. Column short, with 2 very prominent acuminate angles.
.. Capsules linear, sometimes 3 in. long.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 142 ;
Bot. Reg. t. 1832; F. Muell. uu: vii. 97 ; Thrizspermum falcatum,
Reichb. f. Beitr. 46. :
N. S. Wales. Hunter's, Paterson's, and Williams’ rivers, R. Brown; Macleay
river, Fitzgerald; Hastings river, C. Moore; Woolongong, Backhouse; Illawarra,
unningham.,
P A. Ob
3. S. Fitzgeraldi, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 115. Stem foliage and
general aspect of S. falcatus, the leaves from 3 to 6 in. long. Racemes
. olivaceus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, Mise. 82. Stems covered
4. S
_ With the prominent bases of the leaves as in S. ,faleatus, but generally
orter, under 1 in. long. Leaves oblong, often faleate, 2 to 3in. long,
. apparently thinner than in S. falcatus. Racemes loose, of 2 or 3 flowers
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the rhachis flexuose, not exceeding the leaves. Bracts very small. Sepals
994. CXX. ORCHIDEZ. . [Sarcochilus.
and petals of oe dull end purple or - yellowish brown, 5 to 6 lines long
linear-oblong, much contracted below the middle, the lateral sepals
dilated at the faut and x ate to the whole of the basal projection of
e column. Labellum white strosko with red, — mtr: eee
between the lateral lobes. Column short, vid a long basal projection.
Capsule narrow.—F. Muell Fragm. vii. 97; S. dilatatus, F. Muell.
Fragm.i.191; Thrivspermum olivaceum and T. dilatatum, Reichb. f. Xen.
Orchid. ii. 199.
Aa geo sene Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; Moreton bay, W. Hill
S. Wale nt Hastings and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Macleay river, Fitzgerald;
Mawar, Shepher
Gunnia picta, ion pes Reg. 1838, Misc. 45 ieri ictus, Reichb. f.
Walp. A 501; Thrizspermum ` pietum, Ag f. Xen br ch. ii. 122), fo
Sydney, Hort. Loddiges iges, or rn Brisbane (Reichb. f. 3 diis not — to me ui differ
from S. olivaceus. The calli of the labellum in this as in 8. parviflorus vary from
specimen to specime
. S. parviflorus, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1838, Misc. 34, Habit entirely
that of de antler Y spe cimens of Z. olivaceus, the short stems covere
flowers, on pedicels of 2 to 3 lines. Sepals narrow-oblong, 4 to 5 lines
long, besides the narrow base of the late aa” ee riu to the Pe
i Labellum
. S. Wales. Twofold bay, F. Mueller (ui diced Qui nih ned this
pants
Victoria. Apollo bay, F’. Mueller ; Dandenong range, T
asmania. ushes and small trees in deep gullies im qt forests, Fon bay,
Black river, Circular Head, Great Swan Port, &c., es nn, Milligan, and other
6. S. Cecilize, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 49, t. 42. Stems sometimes very
short, sometimes "alongated t6 9.or Sin: “Leaves linear or narrowly
D aiias e, thick, 2 to 3 in. long. Racemes longer than the
leaves and sometimes attaining 6 to 81 ,
PUB ELTERN AE CONI ER I EN E E ER E OER E IESE CMT E AER MNA RISORSE UN AP NNER Mian, NINE Ge SRE BUNTE RENI RT a a a
Sarcochilus. | CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 295
long basal projection of the column; dorsal sepal of the same length
but narrower ; ueste s still narrower. Labellum much shorter than the
l
l with several calli, more or P adnate to the lateral lobes.—
Thrixspermum qe Reichb. f. Beitr. 71.
Queensland. Rockingham bay, pee (with linear leaves); Cleveland bay,
-Bowman (with more lanceolate leaves).
7. S. Hillii, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 94, vii. 98. Stems very short.
Leaves few, narrow-linear, bi thick, 1 to o $ in. long. Racemes very
abou e long, sessile on the very short basal projection of t
umn, the lateral lobes short, almost acute, the m obe rather
longer, broader than long, retuse, thickly covered on the surface with
white wool; the dorsal protuberance or solid s cdi «pu
longer than the quis lobes; the disk with several promin li.—
Dendrobium sg uell. Fragm. i. 88, ii. 94 ; oe Hillii,
Reichb. f. Beit
Oen (reed river, Moreton bay, W. Hill; Rockhampton, Thozet,
“Wales. Paramatta, Camden and Nepean rivers, Woolls; Hastings and
Bice rivers, Beckler.
orhizus, uell. Fragm. 1. Apparently stemless
and bie the pales yy flattened atopa roots —
the very short stock and sometimes assuming almost the spect "af
-Labellum sessile at the end of this projection or claw, the lateral lobes
small, narrow-oblong, clavate, pu ^ the middle lobe very short an
obtuse, almost globular and densely white-woolly on the inner surface
as in S. Cecilie and S. Hillii i; the dorsal protuberance very short.—
Bose» phyllorhizum, Reichb. f. Beitr. 71.
pw ens. Cape York, M'Gillivray, Daemel; Fitzroy island, Herb. F. Mueller
(collector not named).
9. CLEISOSTOMA, Blume.
Sepals and ale nearly equal, free, s rending, the lateral sepals
sometimes adnate i a basa P projection of thé c olumn. La bellum inserted
e the base of oe tine or of its basal projection but free from it, with
a pouch or spur at its base, undivided inside but with a reflexed or
horizontal ‘aes or appendage inside at the orifice, the lamina 3-lobed,
296 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. | Cleisostoma,
sheathing persistent bases. Flowers small, in axillary racemes, the
spur of the labellum rather long in the Australian species.
The genus extends over East India and the Archipelago; the Australian species, a8
endemic. :
far as known, are all er
Column very shortly produced at the base. Spur of the labellum
with the inner appendage deflexed and ciliate on the upper
or lamina side of the cavity . . . . . . . . . . . L1. Ctridentatum.
Column with a rather long basal projection. Spur with the inner
appendage horizontal and glabrous on the lower or column side
OF (NG UTR a cese ndis ib tae soos CETUR SK ny
Column not produced at the base. Spur of the labellum with the
inner appendage horizontal and glabrous on the lower or
Solum Bde OF the Office... V S TSA UU. CY.
2. O. Beckleri.
3. C. Macphersoni.
. Muell Fragm. i. 192; Sar
calearatus, F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 181, vii. 08; Sarcochilus tridentatus,
Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 500.
ne Brisbane river, Moreton bay, W. Hill, Bailey; Wide bay, Leich-
N. S. ‘Wales. Camden, Bent's Basin, Nepean river, Woolls ; Hastings and Cla-
rence rivers, Beciler ; New England, C. Stuart ; southward to Illawarra, falston.
33
kleri, F. Muell. Herb. Stem and leaves not seen, but said -
2. C. Bec
to be an epiphyte with a short rigid stem hanging from trees. Racemes
2 or 3in. long. Sepals and petals scarcely 1 lines long, the lateral
- e LI ab 14
sepals ad asal projection of the column of t 14 lines.
Labellum at the end of the basal projection ; spur narrow-conical, above
lline long, the orifice half closed transverse plat the bas
side; the lamina short and broad, the lateral lobes erect and narrow.
almost linear, shorter than the spur, the middle lobe shortly and
broadly semiorbicular.
N. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler.
Cleisostoma.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 297
3. C. Macphersoni, F. Muell. Herb. Stems short, covered with
the very prominent baie of the leaves. Leaves 4 to 6 in. long and at
least 1 in. broad, th ins not prominent except the midrib, which
forms an acute keel dadar, Spikes rigid, not longer than the
leaves, the flowers rather numerous, sessile, nd petals
and narrow. , Capsu e oblong, idis ribi — Saccolabium
soni, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 96.
8 Quee xat peace bay, Dallachy. raced has much the aspect of a small-
lowered 4 Sarcanthus, but the spur is not divided insi
10. VANDA, R. Br.
d. smooth or in species not Australian with callosities ufo the
pouch. Column short, thick, erect, with an obtuse or retuse rostellum.
in pairs or
2 deeply 2-lobed, attached to a linear or cuneate caudicle on a large
—Epiphytical nets with distichous often thick and coriaceous
or fleshy leaves. Race s lateral. Flowers usually large and show
The genu extends over E. quis and the Archipelago as far as S. China; the pij
Australian dic p is hiie the « same as an Archipelago one.
l. V. Hindsii, Lindl. in Hook. Lond ii. 997, and in Pact. _
Mag. ii. 91. Stems of andes length, with sarl canaliculate leaves
of 1 ft. or more. Racemes 6 in. to above 1ft. in length, with 3 to 10
large flowers, the spreading pedicels often 2 to 3i in. long ‘includin ng the
Ovary. Sepals and petals nearly 1 in. long, broadly obovate with sinuate
margins, contracted into a broad claw, of a pale yellow
side, white inside with purple mas slightl shaded with yellow at the
ase and with pink tovs the m A i: ab
les
the l latéral lobak short and broad, the middle lobe much longer, obovate-
oblong, emarginate or shortly 2-lobed, without callosities on the disk.
Column white.— V. uw Lindl.in Bot. Reg. 1847, under t. 59, and
in Paxt. Fl. Gard. ii. 90, t. 42; Bot. Mag. t. 4432; V. suavis, F: Muell.
F edm vii. 135, but aaile of Lindl.
Arnhem’s Land, F. Mueller ; and also in New Guinea and Jav
if the determination and synonymy are std f the
single flower and leaf in Herb. F. Muell, in which the size and shape of the
sepals, petals, and labefhuos as cos with those of indsit an o
in Herb. Lindi. as far as can. be judged from dried specimens, Lindley distinguishes
298 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Vanda.
In Herbs H ook. t qud ecimen o of V. tricolor figured in the Magazine has had at lea st
owers. It is true that Lindley, bs Folia Orchidacea, refers this to V. suavis, but
a ;
Orchideæ under the names of V. tricolor or ML suavis, and. exinde very variable both
11. SACCOLABIUM, Lindl.
Sepals and ag nearly equal, free, spreading, the lateral sepals
often more or dilated at the base and adnate to a basal projection
of the column. Labellum articulate at e base of the column or at
the end of its basal oar with a hollow spur or ara at the poe.
neither internally divided nor with any forie, appendage, the lamina
usually undivided or without n M amont middle lobe. Column
Short, erect, often produced at base. Anther lid-like. Pollen-
masses 4 in pairs (or 2 jn 2-lobed), attached to a caudicle.—Epi-
phytical herbs. Stems marked with or covered by the truncate persis-
tent bases of the beatae gx at. Racemes axillary, simple or in
species not Australian branched. Bracts small.
The genus is generally distributed over "dau India and the Archipelago. The only
Australian species appears to be endem
l.S. Hillii, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 192. Stems rigid, flexuose, several
inches long, covered with ic d glóesscins deeply — bases of the leaves.
Leaves distichous, rigid, w rominent nerves, mostly 3 to 5 in. lon
- and $ to 1 in. broad. Mets usually about the ‘enigth of the leat,
pee Brisbane river, Moreton ba an F. Mueller, W. Hill, Bailey.
. S. Wales. Clarence river, Beckler ; Tweed river, Guilfoy yle.
12. GEODORUM, Jacks.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, erect. Labellum erect, sessile
at the base of the column but free from it, broad, concave and slight d
saccate at the base, entire or scarcely lobed. "Column short, erect,
a ee
sts
da Rea ie E fae
SETS oe ee EE ee ee ee SM Ee ea OP eee ETSI ET
Geodorum.| CXX. ORCHIDEJX. 299
The genus extends over East India and the Archipelago. The Australian spe ies is
generally supposed to be endemic, but the differences between some of the species are
very slight, and require further investigation.
^ xpand (from F. Mueller's notes). Pedicels short. Bracts
linear, white. Sepals and petals oblong, 4 to 5 lines long. Labellum
broadly ovate, darkly veined, obtuse and emarginate or very shortly
inged. Pollen-masses ovoid-
pu. waxy, 9-lobed.—F. Muell. Fragm. iii. 24; Reichb. Beitr.
6; Cymbidium pictum, R. Br. Prod. 331.
N. Australia. North coast, R. Brown; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 728; Escape
Cliffs, Hulse. ;
ueensland. Moreton bay, Bernays; Rockhampton, O'Shanesy, Thozet ; Cleve-
os DAY, Bowman; Wide bay, Bidwill; Rockingham bay, Dallachy, Port Denison,
tzalan.
ind two specimens with their calli and markings the same, and it appears to me -
most probable that there is but one species in Australia, and that perhaps not really
. dilatat
13. EULOPHIA, R. Br.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, spreading, free or the lateral sepals ad-
imn. Labellum inserted at
the base of the column or its projection but free from it, produced at the
ase into a short pouch or spur, the lamina 3-lobed or rarely undivided,
the disk usually marked with cristate or bear veins. Column semi-
300 XX. ORCHIDEE. [ Eulophia.
or 2 and bifid, waxy, attached to a short mw caudicle on. a trans-
verse gland.— Terrestrial herbs, with short stems. Leaves distichous,
po or —, those of the flowering it reduced to sheathing
mes terminal or on radical scapes.
eee us is hod over tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa. The Australian
species are "both endemic.
Labellum strongly and darkly veined, the middle lobe much broader
BEEN |. 5. 5. ay he re ee VOR edere
Labellum finely veined, the middle lobe as long as broad . . . . 2. E. Feud:
. E. venosa, Reichb. f. in Herb. Lindl, An erect leafless herb, with
iu habit of Dipoi punctatum, the sheathing scales imbricate at t the
base of the stem, the upper ones distant, passing into narrow bracts,
often as long as the pedicel and ovar Flowers several in a terminal
raceme, whitish with deep red veins. “Sepals E. lanceolate, 6 to 8
lines long, marked with longitudinal somewhat anastomosing veins, the
lateral ones attached to the short basal projection of thé column. Petals
rather shorter and ig almost obovate-oblong. Labellum rather
us lobe which has besides 3 or more short undulate raised lines or
la Column half as long as the sepals, the dorsal lobe T the
sitir rather long and ovate. .— Dipodium venosum, uell. Fragm. i. 61.
. Australia. Providence Hill and Macadam Rabie: F. Mueller.
nd. Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; Port Mackay, Nernst.
ES perc x fies Fragm. viii. 30. Habit Ime dá
i with
an obtuse; the vidi 4 Might endi: lines e
tween the lateral lobes, draped or fringed and deba ipa to about half
the length of the lo Column not. half so long as the sepals.
Pollen-masses 2, liie globular.
Queensland. Mount Dryander, F'itzalan.
14. DIPODIUM, R. Br.
(Leopardanthus, Blume; Wailesia, Lindl.)
Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading. Labellum sessile,
erect, adnate to the column at its base and then gibbous or produce ed
De
Dipodium.| CXX. ORCHIDEX. 301
into a very short pouch, the lamina 3-lobed, the lateral lobes narrow.
the middle lobe longer, oblong-ovate or rhomboidal, with a hairy or.
ranous margin variously sinuate or toothed. Anther lid-like. Pollen-
masses 2, deeply 2-lobed (or 4 in pee ruri attached to separate
caudicles "proceeding e. a rather lar — Terrestrial wt -
leafy stems when present simple with. y orsa: leaves. on
long leafless scapes or rg erect axillary peduncles, with Abin
scales imbricate at the base of the scape or peduncle, the upper distant
ones passing into small bracts. Flowers rather large, ve an spotted.
Besides the two ap ip oa species which a appe ar mi =k endemic, there are a few from
New Caledonia , the Eastern Archipelago, and East I
No vien Scales not numerous, ed imbricate at cer base of
the scapes eoo e s s n n n 1 D. punctatum.
Stems rens linear-lanceolate leaves. ^ Peduncles axillary . . . 2. D. enstfolium.
D. punctatum, R. Br. Prod. 331. A leafless plant with thick
bro: roots and erect stem attaining with the racemes 1 to 2 ft., the
sheathing scales few and loosely imbricate and obtuse at the base, dis-
tant high er up. Flowers rather large, more or less red and usually but
not always spotted with purple, in a t iy bvr e sometimes ver su
short sometimes oceupying a third of ee m. Sepal s and petals
oium
the sepals, the inner face pubescent. Pollen-masses 2, deeply 2-
latéral y attached below the subulate ends of the caudicles. cft 00
. li. 92, t. 127; Bot. Reg. t. Me Py ame f. Beitr. 45; Den-
drobium punctatum, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 21,
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 623 M narrow pale coloured sepals and
petals, ier s not spotted).
las Brisba ane seal Moreton bay, F. Mueller; Condamine river, Leich-
ed yoskheniptib, O' Shanesy; Armidale, Perrott; Burdekin river and Mount
iott, Fi vá
enim a and Clarence rivers, Beckler ; Macleay river, Fitzgerald;
New ` s England, c. "Stua
aes Upper Tarts and Dandenong Range, F. Mueller; Glenelg river,
in;
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn; Port Soren and Cheshunt, in stony and moist
Faces irme r growing near Eucalypti, Arc
Ranges near Mount bn. F Mueller.
i "mre of the labellum t Leni to be very variable in shape and ex The
closely allied New Caledonian D.-squamatum differs chiefly in the more keen imbri-
cate appressed and acute cnin at the base of the stem.
l. Fragm. v. 42. ms leafy, from a few
| 2. D. ensifolium, F. Mue
. inches to rens Ift. Pigh oa the racemes. per distichous, com-
. Plicate or canaliculate, linear-lanceolate, acute, strongly keeled and
309 /— CXX; ORCHIDEZ. [Dipodium.
usually prominently ribbed on each side, 3 to 6 in. long, the pee
truncate base usually rather long. Racemes vn ys Bi Eye ncle o
tied" 6 to 8 lines long, the pees SiC aa aonik Ša etals
' rather cen i and more contracted at the base. Labellum pate A the
ath
twice as long, broad ear painaen the disk with 2 Saes. lines
between the Eai lobes confluent into 1 at bo base of the middle lobe,
and a dense patch of scaly hairs at the end of it. Column not half the
length of the pps. ux in front. E a 2-lobed, the
. 2 caudicles long and nmn
Queensland. Rockingham E Dallachy.
attached and sessile or on short iain" or on Ag Pm otomous
caudicle. ‘Terrestrial herbs, with creeping or id tuberose aceti
or rarely e Lig het Sepals ind petals nearly Sa] free and spreading.
Flowers o
15. CYMBIDIUM, Swartz.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, e spreading. Labellum sessile,
free, articulate on the Lor of the column, or very shortly adnate to it,
concave, entire or 3-lo dinis erect or slightly incurved, semi-
terete, etimes Sily winged. Anther lid-like, very concave,
more or less 2-celled. Pollen-masses 2, usually 2-lobed (4 united in
pairs), sessile on a somewhat triangular i Bus usually epiphy-
tical. [em often short and slightly swo dien into pseudo j^
elongated, keeled, striate. lowers not small, in loose racemes pedun-
culate in the lower axils, the peduncle often long with sheathing rigid
gsr at the base. Pesci usually small.
Ke ud , as at present understood, comprises tropical and subtropical species, both
of the "T. and of the s Old "World, but chie fg from the latter.. It has not, eb en been
jec recent revision. The Australian species appear to be all end
Labellum RSP with 2 longitudinal raised pubescent or pam n
[oce on the disk . 1. C. canaliculatum.
La mt lum 3-lo T: without "longitudinal plates. Leaves very long
and mostly 1 in. broad `. RS /..* 2. C. albuciflorum.
X bellum undivided without longitudinal plates. «cos he noii Bi C..euave.
C. canaliculatum, Prod. 331. Leaf-stems or pseudo-
bulbs usually 2 to 4 in. long. Justin elongated, narrow, heeled; tl chan-
nelled above, striate, the upper ones often 6 in. to 1 ft. lo ong or even
more, the lower ones short. Racemes from the wie axils often
Cymbidium.] CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 303
long including the peduncle, the sheathing scales at the base rather
rigid, the bracts small and spreading. Pedicels } to 1 in. long. Sepals
and petals oblong or lanceolate, 5 to 7 lines long. Labellum rather
shorter than the sepals, distinctly 3-lobed, the lateral lobes decurrent
omg the claw, the middle lobe broadly ovate or almost rhomboidal, as
ong as the lower part, for on the upper surface; the disk eda
the lateral lobes with 2 longitudinal raised lines or plates slightl poi
bescent or shortly ocu Dela mn about as long as the lateral lobe
slightly incurved, with 2 narrow longitudinal ee cM Gen. so
Sp. Orch. 16 64; Bot. Mag. t. 5851; — f. Beit
Á str Fitzmaurice river, V; Mue
ibo y Broad Sound, 2. Brown í Cape York ign Magazine) ; Her-
bert's Creek, Eps = ; Cape river, Fitzalan ; Burnett,
H nter's river, A. Cunningham; Richmond river, Fawcett ; also
in Mitchells and. Leichlard?s collections.
el per's a ek (F. Mueller), the d not n.
margins according to th. t. Mag.; yellow,
Motehed with m hisein t * vf oe the labellum dull white sadi with red.
2. C. albuciflorum, F. Muell. Fragm. i.188. Stems or pseudobulbs
often 1 ft. lo ong. Leaves attaining 2 ft. or more and often 1 in. broad,
keeled underneath, channelled above, and striate. Racemes including
the peduncle 1 to 2 ft. long, axillary, with "cin scales at their
^t Bracts small, at length spreading or reflexed. Pedicels rather
igid, 3 to $ in. long. Sepals iid petals gree niea mac about 5 lines
eb rather brown outsi e, more obtuse than in C. canalieulatum
pepak broadly oblong, the petals rather narrower. "Tabellum nearly as
as the sepals, red at the base, yellowish above, 3-lobed as in
: canaliculatum but without the longitudinal plates of that species, of a
rather thicker consistence and not quite so broad. Column with a pro-
minent angle in front, the apex trunca
Que Syrup Moreton bay, W. Hil; ficüdéghun bay, Dallachy; Mount Dry-
S deg F'itsals
: es
rather more dense than n C. canaliculatum, the sheathing scales at the
green blotched w d petals scarcely 5 lines lon
rather acute. Lh um A ae: ea in C. canaliculatum ape 2
towards the base, undivided or obscurely sinuate 3- lobed, e di
tate longitadinal p but fy obe along the centre, Colum
With 2 narrow w wings. Capsule ovoid-globular, Gui lin
eb Gen. and Sp. Orch. 164; F. Muell. Fragm. i. 15; j " Beichb. f. f.
AS.
Queensland. Moreton. bay, C. Stuart. Some far advanced specimens from
hampton, 7 ijo D Dallachy, with smaller flowers may belong to the same Medis.
S. Hu Wei ri ver, Brown; Paramatta, ; ward to
inn river, Dicküt 3 ; southward to Illawarra, Shepherd.
304 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Spathoglottis.
16. SPATHOGLOTTIS, Blume.
Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, aee Labellum articulate
at the base of the column, concave or saccate at the base, deeply
8-lobed, the middle lobe contracted at the ba and bearing prominent
tubercles or calli. Column erect , free, more or less dilated or 2-winged
wards. Anthers terminal, lid- like, 2-celled. Pollen-masses 8, of
which 4 usually smaller, waxy, with very short separate caudicles with-
out any common gland. — Terrestrial herbs with subterranean tuberous
rhizomes. Leaves usually long, plicate and strongly ribbed. Racemes
on erect scapes, leafless except sheathing scales. Bracts usually rather
rge.
lar
The
MIS Tut. €— allied to one ranging over the Archi ipela
l. Fragm. vi. 95. "Tubers small. _ Leave
is dispersed over tropical Asia; the only Anstralian species perhaps.
ago.
cate sid Jesi ri be ; Scapes cre or aom a short
raceme of “purple” flowers. Bracts lanceolate, abou t lin. long;
KESAN about lin. Sepals and etale about 5 lines long. Labellum
about as long, very short and concave below the lobes, the lateral lobes
cami La slightly spathulate and incurved, the middle lobe scarcely
EA mran, -e or emarginate, contracted much below the
not much € than the sepals, slightly dilated upwards.—Bletia
. Le
Que imi berto bay, Dallach ek near the S. plicata, Blume (S.
ddkcind, ‘Gri if ), but the flowers are rather smaller, and the shape of the — lobe of
the labellum different. The few flowers seen were, dove nt in a good st.
17. PHAIUS. Lour.
~ Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading. Labellum broad,
produced into a spur at the base, erect and convolute round the column,
entire or 3-lobed and more or less spreading at the top. Column semi-
puces elongated. Anther lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, nearly equal
or 4 shorte T, waxy, attached to the branches of a dichotomous caudicle,
but no gla sind. Trj strial herbs, the leafy stems short and thickened
into pseudobulbs or almost stemless. Leaves large. Scapes radical,
tall, erect, leafless except sheathing scales imbricate at the base, distant
on the stem and passing into the bracts. Flow wers large and show
over tropical and subtropical Of the two Aaii
species or de Me is the same as an Archi ipdladé obe, one, ‘the other may be endemic,
but is not sufficie own. -
Sepals and petals ras inside 8€ TQUE © be el E Hi randifolius.
Sepals and petals yellow mmda . $2.0 xi x ioi» ernaysi. -
; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Oreh i do Stems
. P. grandifoli
tufted usually thickened jas short pseudobulbs at the base, bearing 2 —
a
Y
v
M CES
Phaius.] CXX. ORCHIDEJ. 305
or 3 oblong or ovate-lanceolate leaves often yxp 1 ft. long, narrowed
into a long petiole. Scapes radical, 9 to 4 ft. high, bearing a loose
raceme of large showy flowers. Sepals nid petals broadly lanceolate,
1i to near 2 in. long, pras utside, cinnamon-brown inside. Labellum
Mag. t.1994; Phaius australis, F. Muell. F ragm. i
Muell. Fragm. iv. e P unis F. ‘ual Ph enS ET 19.
Queensland. More or and island, A. Cunningham, M'Gillivray ; Booking
ham gà a: A. Cunningham, D allachy ; prs Elliott's island, Burdekin Ex MAAE
- S. Wales. Macleay river, Fitzgerald; Tweed river, Herb. F. Mueller
2. P. ornaysli; Ronl. ; Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1873, 361. me:
stature foliage and inflorescence of P. grandifolius, from which it is 0
to be distinguished by the colour of the flower of a pale yellow inde,
ihe labellum also yellow edged with white. The spur of the labellum
. appears in the two flowers accompanying the wild specimen to be rather *
straighter than in the common species, but curved in the cultivated
plant. Reichenbach refers it to P. Blumei, distinguished by the labellum
acute not notched in the centre, but this appears to vary much from
2 to specimen.— P. Blanes var. Bernaysti, Reichb. f. in Bot. Mag.
Z Moreton bay, Bernays.
18. CALANTHE, R. Br.
. Sepals and petals nearly equal, free, spreading, Me lateral sepals
sometimes shortly adnate to the labellum at the base. Labellum con-
nate at the base with the column in a sort of cup, u saalis produced into
a ppor rat the base, the lamina spreading, lobed or undivided, the disk
t
Richer" lid-like. Pollen-masses 8, tapering to the base and there
fixed to a divisible gland — Terrestrial DP saman. or nearly so.
1 "White or
he genus di d tropical Asia and the islands of the Pacifie, with one
E Mexican me. Pago sig eret species extends over the Arinae and ne
1 East Indian Peninsula.
1 C. v ratrifolia, Asap in Bot. Reg. under n. 573, ‘Rhizome
3 sory hber] with fre of 2 or 3 leaves, sometimes forming a very
. Short ‘stem or pseudobulb at the base. Leaves 1 to 2 ft. long, ovate-
Bine. plicate undulate and deed ribbed, tapering into a petiole
which is 8 again dilate ted at the base Scapes us onmi
306 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Calanthe.
outer leaf, 2 to 4 ft. high, the flowers rather crowded near the summit.
Pedicels spreading, 4 to lin. long, recurved after flowering. Sepals
and petals white, obovate-oblong, gently 5 lines long, the petals usually
broader and more contracted at the base than the sepals. dabe um
much longer, the spur cn hes n.long and usually pubescent, the
imina rn lobe d with the middle lobe deeply bifid, the 4 lobes SUME
and sometimes nearly equal, ee variable in breadth as well as in the
M. pd. to which they are divided, the callosities of the disk
ellow. Capsule obovoid-ob Am ADM li in. long. —Bot. Reg. t. 720;
ot. Mag. t. 2615.
iconsland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F.
Hastings Dye. PENA ; Richmond river, Henderson; Tweed
sive Guilpoples Wc arra, A. Cun
Th tralian specimens, pen uting the australis, Lindl. Fol. Orchid.
Ciitho, Bor 8, foren generally to have the lobes of the labellum rather broader than
In
TRIBE 4. AneTHusex.—Anther lid-like, incumbent, usually deci-
dk "Pollen granular or mealy. Terres trial or rarely epiphytes.
Stems in the Australian genera or sections leafless at the time of
flowering.
19. GALEOLA, Lour.
(Erythrorchis, Blume; Ledgeria, F. Muell.)
a a ar pow aey — in length, didum or open,
dors
incurved round. "the eu n p lateral lobes f> ti short and erect or
with 2 raised longitudinal lines
Anth like, incumbent, with a broad flat or convex dorsal appen-
dage, 2-celled. Pollen granular-farinaéeous or almost waxy, in ly
2-lobed distinct masses, without any caudicle or gland.—Leafless epi-
ed
&
©
3:
owers in terminal usually pendulous panicles. |
the branches and panicles small or large, but always concave and half- .
stem-clasping 1
Besides the Australian species, one of which is closely allied to a Javanese one; the pr
re bes or three others from East India, the Archipelago, and ue obi m New Cale-
genus appears to have been quite corredtty. referre d by chenbach Li
tho ulscla of Loureiro, and I should also concur,in the retention nt Cyrtosia, Bl., a8 —
istinct.
Bracts scarcely lin. long. Labellum pubescent inside betwee
the raised lines which end in a transverse callus. Pollen at g
s . 1. Q. cassythoides.
Bracts 1102 in. . long. Labellum glabrous Between the raised
lines which converge into one, we lamina on each side — :
with diverging lines fringed with small pene hairs, . 2. G. foliata...
Galeola.] CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 307
to the stems of tree throwing out adventitious rootlets at the nodes
pci the bracts, eee in long pendulous panicles. Flowe
a brownish or go ellow, in short racemes or branches of th
panicle, quite glabrous - en Bracts at the base of the pedicels
and branches ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 2 lines jong and those of the
flowerless stems scarcely 3 lines, Pedicels and ova ary 3 to 4 lines. Sepals
5 to 6 lines long, oblong-lanceolate, the dorsal one incurved, the lateral
ones slightly fale ate; petals as long as the sepals but linear. Labellum
white with transverse coloured bands, scarcely so lon pals,
sessile, very broad, erect, concave, " almost convolute, pon! 3-
lobed, "the baci jd lobes or obtuse angles short, erect and e e, the
middle lobe very short and broad, spreading, Sulat crie po of
the erect part with 2 raised longitudinal A eddie by a broad
consistence mpl as waxy as in Dendrobium.— Dend
. Cunn. in Lindl. Bot. Reg. under n. 1828 ; praia RN F. Muell
Fragm. i. 239, ii. 167; Erythrorchis aphylla, F. Muell. F ragm. ii. 167.
- Queensland. Moreton v F, Muell
N. S. Wales. Hastings n Moke, Beckler ; New England, C. du!
& The species is very closel the Javanese G: altissima, which, judging
Eom Mae's e's figu mul decr —- (onde Erythroreli has the same pollen; but
nee specimens, to be sufficient differences in the flowers to
E big distinct s ; Well pmi e Caroi not as species. I have only seen the
ses in one flower, e they were certainly very much like those of a
hey are distinctly feeribig. as waxy by F. Mueller, and by Blume in
ips as “ solidiuscula
consistence of bracts rather than of true leaves. Sepals and pe
. long, the petals much narrower than the. sepals.
roadly obovate, more contracted at the base than in G. cassy-,
| w, f dong wading) 3 diverging on the lamina. Anthers with the broad
^ppendage of G. cassythoides but flatter, and. the e med
308 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [Galeola. —
gm anular, in two masses deeply divided into somewhat distant oblon
bes, giving the mass somewhat of a horseshoe shape. Capsule 7 we
ttn long. Seed cce —Ledgeria foliata, or Erythrorchis foliata, F
Muell. Fragm. ii. 167.
Tg eensland. Pine river, Fitzalan; Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
. S. Wales. Clarence river, C. Moore (in fruit
This fine species has S z pollen figured by J. D. Hooker in the Cyrtosia
CErythrorchis) Liündleyana, Ul. Himal. Pl. t. 22, and A different wm that of G.
cassythoides; but AN R ng this apparen y i important differen wu d e ae
species, which would hee hnically place them in different huc of the A r, it is difficu
not to regard them as congeners, especially as both appear to have the Muss
winged seeds, and probably the same remarkable habit.
20. EPIPOGUM, Gmel.
coral-
nding or erect, with a few scarious scales, not green. Flowers
Rat o (or aa pink Di in a terminal raceme usually nodding or
pen 1
- apes very few species scattered in few individuals over a ee part of the
Old World. The only Australian one is also in adiuti) Asia and Afric
. E. nutans, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. i. 177. Stem ascending,
ke a thick rhizome, 6 to 9 in. high, with 2 or n mpty scarious bracts
besides those which subtend the pedicels, all pate anopin, acute, 9
or 4 lines long. Flowers white, on short pedicels in a raceme occupying
the greater part of the plant. “Dorsal sepal and petals inndeolate nearly
Labellum
Sess: d base enclosing the column, as long as the sepals,
broadly ovate and very concave, entire, the spur about 1 line long, the
obscure rows of papille along the centre. Appen at
the end of the anther as e as the anther itself.— Galera nutans,
Blume, Bijdr 415, Coll. Orchid. t. 52, 54E; Podanthera pallida, Wight
Ie. t. oh at hace much al petit in all its parts than the Austra jan |
imen); E. Guilfoylii, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 30 :
aD re Wales. Tweed river, Guilfoyle, the specimens agreein precisely with
e of thos India Baber the pela appears to be wide [Y scattered, asit
hak also end fondi in tropical Afri Ww
2]. GASTRODIA, R. Br.
Gastrodia.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 309
base of the column.—Herbs parasitical on roots, leafless and not green.
Scapes simple, erect, with short loosely sheathing scales. Flowers
white, in a terminal raceme. |
Besides the Australian species which is endemic, there is one in New Zealand; and
na from the Indian Archipelago and East India have been recently associated
with it.
j . Ico-
nogr. t. 5; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 384; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 31,
E 126 (the stigmatic protuberance overlooked by the artist); Reichb. f.
itr. 44, |
Queensland. Moreton ba , W. Hill. : i
N. S. Wales. Port J aned to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A, Cunningham,
and others, * Dry rocky situations and sandy forest grounds," A. Cunningham.
| . Victoria. Mountains of Upper Barwan, Apollo bay, M‘Alister river, top of Mount
William, F. Mueller. ;
: asmania. Not uncommon in dense humid forests, J. D. Hooker.
99. POGONIA, Juss.
The genus is a widel -spread one, having been originally foun
Species. The section X 7 :
dim "a à; the Archipelago; the
Over tropical Asia and the Mascarene islands as well as those of the Archipelago;
310 CXX: ORCHIDER. [.Pogonia.
opel frm or section Vegeta, with leafy flowering stems, is North American, with
UNO u
the middle i lobe paries at the base, the disk pápillose -o ridad. uniflora.
owers 2 to 6 in the raceme, 7 to 8 lines long. Labellum shortly
18-Jobed, the middle lobe broad at the base, the disk bearded .. 2. P. holochila.
Flowers 2 or 3 in the raceme, nearly 1 in. long. , Labellum "we
entire, broadly obovate, the disk smooth . . . . EXPE M Dallachyana.
F. Muell. Fragm. . 201. Flowering stem ve
what broader or MAE Tane est Labellum nearly as long as the
sepals, 3-lobed, the lateral Tobes a triangular and obtuse,- .the
middle lobe at least as lon , ovate-oblong, obtuse, much contracted at
the base; disk with a papi lose line, narrow and double at the base, ex-
panded u upwards and extending partially on to the Bonis lobe. Column
very slender at E; base, broadly 2-winged upwar
. Queensland. df uen bay, Dallachy.
ies F. Muell. Fragm. v. 200. Flowering $ stem
the sepal
broadly ovate, shortly sinuate-3- lobed, the lateral lobes broadly rounded,
the middle one smaller, rather broader than long; disk with a bearded
line extending to halfway along the middle uM Column slender,
very shortly winged at e apex.
ueensland. am bay, Dallachy.—With a very few specimens are 80
Rockin 4
of the young leaf- € ih the leaf as yet mity developed to judge of its m
E
but apparently co:
3. P. "memet F. Muell. Herb, Stems about 6 in. high, with
2 or 3 long loose sheathing scales. Flowers 2 or 3, on short pedicels :
crowded at the end of the stem. Bracts linear. "Sepals sa said to
reddish, nearly 1 in. ae narrow- lanceolate, Rx the petals 1
rather shorter and narrower. Labellum about long, broadly |.
obovate, quite entire, contracted and embracing de ae n at its base;
the disk without any raised papage or [ER lines. Column 3 to i 1
lines long, dilated and winged at t
Queensland. Rockingham jur ju
TRIBE 5. NeoTTIEX.—Anther erect or bent forward, persistent but —
free küni the postali sessile or stipitate. Pollen granular or mealy, |
TERASS ENE ORE S ET e el bh
3
P yo : OXX. ORCHIDEÆ. 311
lor 2 masses in each cell, with or without ? caudicle. Terrestrial
ehs with simple — (excep t Corymbis) bearing = or more leaves or
rarely leafless, and a simple spike raceme or roule
the ch CHAT given ot the following genera I have rarely m d the number of
pun "aeui Eu -- pollen- Cp DIS for the cohesion is brink i so slight that, in
where I thes been sh A abas perro cesi S E oe Qu TI:
23. CORYMBIS, Thou.
(Corymborchis, Thou.) T
Sepals and petals cma equal, linear and dilated above the middle,
all spreading or the orsal one more erect. Labellum about as long,
r, in 2m
terrestrial herbs, with a fibrous rhizome.
eaves large, stron ly ribbed. Flowers in short — somewhat
. The genus extends oid ropical Asia and Africa, and appears also to be re Hots esented
yam The Australian species extends over the Indian oy and perhaps
The imi column in this genus is said to elongate on the itt
Of this the dried specimens shew Rot Ihaven eoa seen the co doe a Uis T
ger than the petals of the sa. aes [s or variety. Possibly | dir n dari dos have
in some error derived from the comparison
Mauritins s pation with ts cr iota of other species.
1 ratrifolia, Reichb. f. in Flora 1865, 184. Stems erect or
somewhat pian attaining 3 Š to 10 ft. Leaves distichous, oblong-
u me ering ng as
gated afterwards, persisting on the oblong capsule
5
after the sepals and peta tals have fallen. — Corymborchis venateijolio,
Blume, fc 195, L vi 3.
Queeen am AM Dallachy.—Certainly the er species as the
me gathered b by "Cuminjel in iw Philippine inden which appears to extend over the
: Indian. Archipelago, and even to be identical with one gathered by Frita Ms "Muell ient St.
car 8 in Bravil, but well —— by Blume from Thouars’ o
— species, which eiiis above 2 in. longe
312 ` CXX. ORCHIDER, [Ramphidia.
24. RAMPHIDIA, Lindl.
Mr leafy stem. Flow wers small, in a slender terminal poin
he genus is spread over East ise and the idees Sta the only putes species
having Snak the range of the g
1. R. tenuis, Lindl. in Journ. Linn. Soe. i. 189. Stems ascending to
from 6 in. to 1 ft. Leaves on "Peur petioles, dilated at the base into
a broad loose scarious sheath of , the lamina elliptic-oblong to
1} to 3 in. long, pA pent 2 or 3 Ex empty
sheathing-bracts above the leaves. Flowers very small, senos
B or 4 in., the bracts almost subulate, the ae a as enu
the lateral sepals, saili oblong, very concave, very obt tuse, the mar-
gins and end inflexed, entire or ed crisped. Anther and rostellum
about equal in rie dede and half as ed as the labellum.
Queensland. Mackay and Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—lhe s pecimens
et precisely P ie one op ARNa dede by ds i the Philippine
25. GOODYERA, R. Br.
Dorsal sepal and petals erect connivent and often connate ; lateral
sepals as long, spreading. Labellum sessile, igh lie op the column
and sometimes adnate to it at the base, concave or almost saccate, aie
or divided into two lobes. Anthers erect. Pollen-masses granula j
attached to long caudicles.—Terrestrial herbs, with a creeping rhizome
and weak ascendin leafy stems. Flowers in ’ terminal spikes, loose in
the AUS species, dense and one-sided in the typical northern
ones.
The genus is po distributed over the ieipiodl and temperate r pae of the Old
World. Ofthe two Australian ib etin one appears identical with an Asiatic one, the
other, as far as Ai is endemic
Rostellum divided into 2 long is lobes oe. appendages at HT
the bere. Sepals and petals 3 to 4 line 4 1. G. viridiflora.
anceolate, undivided, with a fer ike appendage on :
each side » the base, Sepals and petals 14 lines long. ia. polygonoides.
Goodyera. | CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 318
G. viridiflora, Blume, Orchid. 41, 9 C. Stems ascending from
i in to 1 ft. Leaves on rather long doi dilated at the base into a
oose scarious sheath, the lamina: ovate-lanceo ate or ovate-oblong,
o 3in. long; and usually 2 or 3:empty scarious bracts above the
sss — rather distant, in a spike i , the bracts
ranous, subulate-acumina as as os ovary.
Dorsal ivi and petals 3 to 4 lines long, the ab pin d more
cave, rather copiously fringed inside with short cilia near the base.
m e
ong acuminate anther, stigma pouch-like, almost truncate. -— Neottia
viridiflora, Blume Bijdr. 408; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. il Georchis
cordata, Tunt Gen. and Sp. ‘Orch. 496 ; Georohis viridiflora, F. Muell.
C quM viii. 99.
dint; ‘ 1 repens Gs ras
identified the specimens with the G. Aceh Lindl., en Sikkim, which only differs
z the leaves being rather more cordate at the ben and it also a es to be identical
2. G. bip deg al F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 99. piema from a creep-
aceme. Leaves
ing rhizome ascending, about 8 in. long includi
Erst above the nog scarious sheath, pd a eg 1} to 3 in.
ong. se loose, the flo mall on ovary attenuate up-
wards. Bracts lanceolate, about as long as "On ovary. Sepals and
v
petals about 14 lines long, TOR or ovate-lanceolate, the sepals acute
al. L abellum not very
lanceolate, undivided, with an almost au -like pend e on each side
at nad base on the margin of the membrane connecting the stigma and
Seems nsland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.—A si single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller.
> "soe of the a d is that of Bhomboda, Mut the gla pu or crest. jo appen-
eri
: dagos a t the bas the rostellum those of some species etæria (Eteria or
d Blume ; ; n the ecc, pz Je the. mine uera 28 es of those two
genera. Neither n these technical characters "a
the typical Good; Sos but pro bei ably a general revisi n good oe woul
| quire the extension of the genus even beyond the limits proposed by Blu
96. SPIRANTHES, Rich.
= Dorsal sepal and petals erect, connivent or slightly coherent in an
Upper lip or galea, or the ends alone spreading. Lateral sepals free and
more spreading, all nearly equal. Labellum sessile or nearly so
Vitis the column by its broad base, undivided, often dilated at the
314 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Spiranthes.
Flowers small, spirally arranged in a terminal spike. Stems leafy, or
sometimes at the time of flowering with sheathing scales only.
A considerable genus generally diffused over the temperate and tropical regions of
the globe; the ouly Australian species has a wide range over Asia and a part of
rope,
1.
a cluster of thick fibres or oblong tubers. Stem glabrous below the in-
mg
iis dilated near the base but not saccate. Labellum as lon
8
late crisped or almost fringed lamina. Anther scarcely acuminate but
much longer than the rostellum.—Wight Ic. t. 1724; Hook. f. FI.
oy ii. 15; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 476; Neottia australis, R. Br.
rod. 319. ;
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller; Armidale, Riley.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Woolls; Blue Moun-
tains, Miss Atkinson; New England, C. Stuart; Macleay river, Fitzgerald, Clarence
river, Beckler; Richmon river, Fawcett, but in most places said to be very rare, d
ictoria. Mitta-Mitta, Broadribb and Snowy rivers and Lake Omeo, F. Mueller ;
Portland, Crouch. :
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn ; Cheshunt, Archer ; Swanport, Story.
The species is also in New Zealand and in a great part of tropical and temperate
Asia, extending to some parts of E D
B
27. CALOCHILUS, R. Br.
Dorsal
broadly lanceolate, spreading ; petals much shorter, broadly falcate.
Labellum as long or longer, undivided, contracted at the base, uet
1 rmi
tubers. Leaf usually solitary, long and narrow, but usuall
8 T
erect almost leaf-like sheathing bracts on the stem. Flowers few in 9
3
ax E ac Mfr
^
1
Calochilus. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 315
terminal raceme, ate or yellowish, with more or less of purple espe-
cially the labellum
The genus is limited to Australia. In the column it is nearly allied to Thelymitras
but differs widely in the M nth.
we dente Column-wing quite open in front, with a Pu
side within ira anterior angles or lobes . 1. C. campestris.
Aster Mir rostrate. Column-wing aal y with a ‘gland on
y side as in C. campestris, and open in fro t, but connected E
y à transverse raised line across the base je i = ellum . . 2. C. Robertsoni.
Andi very obtuse, Column-wing without any gland, o open in
ront. Labellum with 2 short MP pa inramarginal e erect
es or auricles near the base . . : ; 3. C. paludosus.
F. Mueller r to sy nak : ph? wis S pei
the name of Ls "Rugs j a
C. campestris, R. Br. Prod. 820. Stem usually rather stout,
ie: under 1 ft. to in o 14 ft. high, with = rather long leaf and 3 to
flowers, but sometimes with the Tmbit o C. paludosus. Sepals in iie
typical form 4 to 5 lines long, the petals much shorter. Labellum } in.
or more, obovate or “obovate-o oblong, the margins and surface
covered with long purple fringes except near t where (i
ame typical form) there is a raised plate or thickened :surface quite
smooth and extending more or less along the centre of the ow part
of the labellum, and the end is produced into a linear or lane
smooth often flexuose point varying muc olumn-win
an 4
rostrate upwards.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 459; Bot. Mag. t. 3187
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 15, t. 106 A; Reichb. f. Beitr. 21; C. herbaceus
Lindl. l.c. :
Capea Shoalwater bay, R. Brown (belonging probably to the var. grandi-
a).
.N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown n, Woolls. TS
atthe tay a ky Ca s Woo Inorth, Lira — Sorell, Archer; Huon river,
odia wey vend Mi igan; ; Southport, C. Stua
iflora. Flowers 1 to 3, aedi = nin nde common form, and altogether
e m
r^ Fd
2. C. Robertsoni, Benth. A stout species, with the habit of the
arger specimens of C. a but the leaf usually.broader. Sepals
acuminate, fully }in. long in the specimens seen; petals also acuminate,
more than half as peas abellum fringed all over, the terminal smooth
point short. Column-wings with a more or less distinct gland on quem
side in front as in C. campestris, but the i wings connected at the
316 CXX. ORCHIDEJX. [ Calochilus.
base by a transverse raised plate across the base of the labellum, of
which T see no trace in the two other species. Anther shortly and ob-
tusely rostrate.
Victoria. Heaths on Glenelg river, Robertson; Mount M'Ivor, Herb. F. Mueller ;
Bendigo, Oldfield; and probably a specimen from Dandenong, F. Mueller, with the
flower too far advanced for examination.
3. C. paludosus, R. Br. Prod. 320. Usually more slender than
C. campestris, with a long leaf and only 2 or 3 rarely 4 flowers, often
long; petals not half so long, strongly veined. Labellum covered wit
the long fringes or cilia, shorter and much crowded towards the base,
sho i
neither acuminate not rostrate.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 459; Endl.
Iconogr. t. 14; Reichb. f. Beitr. 22.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, A. Brown, Woolls; Hunter’s river, R. Brown;
Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson.
28. THELYMITRA, Forst.
rather short, very broadly winged, the wings either reaching to
the base of the anther with an erect usually thick entire lateral lobe
or appendage on each side of it, or dilated at the end and united
where they are united and sometimes are produced into a short tooth
nective produced into a broad appendage sometimes elongated and
entire or pruy bifid; pollen-masses granular, withou
very small caudi
One of the Australian species extends over New Zealand, New Caledonia, and the
to New
land; the genus is otherwise endemic in Australia. It is remarkable for the labellum
perfectly resembling and taking its place as one of the petals, and quite detached from
the column, from which it is separated by the annular base of the wing.
Thelymitra.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 317
Cucullaria.— Column-wing produced behind and beyond the anther into
a ot Hie. over it, rino lobed or fringed at the t
Hood with the 2 weien lateral lobes penicillate RA a tuft
of cilia). Flowers blue, pur ple or white i
Hood wit Kia, DEN P or Dcum anes between the peni-
cillate ones and shorter than the
Middle lobe of the hood crested on the LOI ANN UL M Z T. ixioides.
Middle lobe of the hood smooth on the back . . T. canaliculata.
Hood with 1 entire or bifid lobe between the penicillate ones,
usually longer than them, broad and concave.
Hood E crested on the back. Leaf very broadly lan
. T. crinita.
Hood piii on the back. Leaf linear or linear-lanceolate. -
Tall robust plant. Leaves usually rather broad. Middle
d Hu pige ricis a 4. T. aristata.
Plant usually slender, with narrow leaves. Middle
e hoo " — notched and entire 5. T. longifolia.
|... Hood with the 2 reme ots teral lobes cristate, but "without tufts ^
; of cili ja yellow, often spotted with purp
| Leaf villous, broad iddle lobe of the hood M od oe cris
1 tate at the end, and a transverse crest inside at the 6. T. villosa.
i Leaf glabrous, diy Middle lobe of the hood 3- ‘fid with ut fant
i the internal crest 7. T. tigrina.
E deeply ringed with linear lobes, with a ch a ‘lub-shaped appen-
age on
Dorsal sppendage of the hood crested at "m end. Perianth-
- _ Segments narrow-lanceolate 8. T. stellata.
Fonal appendage of the bond: d tnbéfoular or notohed at f
end. Perianth Me eda EE lanceolate 9. -1 ar
Macdonaldia.— Column-wing broadly pie behind the ant.
much s shorter e it, and not hood-shaped. Slender flexuose herbs, with the habit of of
antenni
i Two e "ei Tia hes of the ies column-wing prominent
and denticulate e or fringed. Flowers pink 10. T. carnea.
Column-wing broad dly truncate, slightly. sinuate, but the lobes
scarcely prominent. Flowers yell . T. flexuosa.
Sr Bia —Column-wing not produced behind the anther, but with 2
prominent ed ira bes as long as or longer than the anther, and often connected
t beh
by a short
Habit of nk carnea ds or Lateral lobes of the wea
long, erect, "y. uA thulate 2. T. antennifera.
Habit nearly of T. ca Flowers deep-coloured (purple or red Di '
Latera Tobes of ve: t rid oblong, erect, curved, denticulate,
not spathulate. jm
_ Leaf-sheaths glabrousa:; jcaic 262 ehh anaes d4.: 7. Macmillani.
Leaf-sheaths pubescent . ses os o . 14 Rri 0
Habit of T. izioù
ioides. Flowers blue
pos lobes of the an. lon nger t than the anther, involute . 15. T. venosa.
Lateral lobes of the column not dag mee anther, sig or
lanceolate, convolute or thickened . . . 16. T. cyanea.
Secr. 1. Cucuntaria.—Column- -wing roduced behind and beyond
the author into a broad hood over it, various 5 lobed or ux. at the i
., l. T. ixioides, Sw. in K. Ahad. Stockh. Handl. 1800, 998, t. 3 L, a
în Schrad, Neu. Journ. 08, t. 1 L. Stem ically en 1 f. "high, with 1 1
318 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Thelymitra.
~ the var. a of T.
folia. Sepals petals and labellum elliptical-oblong, 9 to 10 lines long in
the common Port Jackson variety, smaller in others especially the
oad wing e
incurved point much longer than the rostellum.—Sm. Exot. Bot. i 9,
. 205. Re Be. i 314; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Hinh. vis 22.5 ped f PL
Tasm. ii. 6, t. 103 B; Reichb. f. Beitr. 7; 7. , and
2 juneifulia, Lindl le.; T. lilacina, F. Muell., Tenis d by E in
Linnea xxvi. 242 to 7. vana gs
— Archer's
ales. Port ppg R. Brown, Sieb oe = Wools, and others; New
k Maa
- Gipps Land, Walter; near Brighton, seca F. Mueller.
Lees Abundant throughout the Qoia J. D. Ho oker, and others.
alia. Swan r A" mmond, Maxwell; Upper Kalgan river, Monje-
rup Meg: wd F. M e Maxwell and Peronjerup ranges, Oldfield.
i
t possibly on the living plant characters ieee te found to connect them
rather with T canaliculata than with T. ixioides. SS certainly include T. cam,
nulata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 49, Gen. and Sp. Orch.
2. "T. canaliculata, R. Br. Prod. 314. Seep and few — small
flowers of the «ern. narrow-leaved forms of 7. iaioides, and the floral
characters the same except that the vène "be of the column-hood is
broader, more external, and though much er pie has no dorsal
rest.—Lindl. Gen . and Sp. Orch. 522; Reichb, £. Beitr. 7. i;
ing George's , Soun
station is given in nthe Prodromus as (T) by some mistake, probably typographical. The
speci Herb. Brown and Aue win George's Sound. T.
ame oie which further suia e of the fresh plant may prove to be a variety
a yo
a, R. Br. Prod. s14, eic, i. Beitr. 7, 7, from Port Jackson, R. Brown, with
as some T like 7t canali
distinguished from the Arii ye ie: want of en; crest on the back of the central lobe
of the column-hood, and this crest-is not-figured in the plate of T. ixioides in Fl. Tasm.
I have not been able to examine Brown's s imens of T. media, but in all those resem-
bling it both fim Port Sadaka and his Bene asmania I have uniformly found the
syo epipactoides, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 174, from Port Philip, which I have not seen,
would appear from the character given to be a broàd- leaved "s of T. ù or of
E canaliculata.
Thelymitra.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 319
T. campanulata, En dl. in Pl. Eje, ii. 14, which I have not seen, is. referred by
Reichb. f. Beitr. 55, to T. canalicu
crinita, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 49, . and Sp. Orch, 521.
-- above 1 ft. high, the leaf Rete or very broadly lan-
ceolate, 13 to 3 i ng. eme loose, — rather large blue
wers. Sepals and petals varying to 2 in., usually obtuse.
Column-wing produced behind and beyond the anther into a broad
hood, the 2 extreme lateral lobes as in 7. nt forward and
penicillate but shorter than the centre, eaa is bebadiy: 9-lobed as in
that species but very densely cristate on ack with shortly linear
uy or calli.—Exndl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 14; 7 ovata, F. Muell. Fragm.
W. Aus .- Swan river, Drummond, 1 , Preiss, n. 2194; Vasse, Gordon,
and iy iris x King George's bt F. Mue ller ; Lake Mae Muir.
F. Mueller appears to have — ed his T. ovata from the colour of the tuft of
ciliæ on the lateral gru of the col dur violet instead of white, which, however,
appears to be a very inconstant fem
aristata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 521: Usually tall and leafy,
lie ee leaf linear-lanceolate, rather broad and sometimes very long,
and two of the empty sheathing bracts long and loose with leafy points.
E several, like those of the Y iuh forms of T. ixioides and " . longi-
Co
F. Muell. ; T. angustifolia, asm. n 5, not of R. Br.
Victoria. Wendu vale, ion ot Adamson ; Darebin Creek, F.
e me
mania. Circular Head, & 1 Gunn; South Huon river, Oldfield; Southport,
€ WARE Rocky Cape, Eoi arbour, Milligan
S. Australia. Mount Gambier, Rivoli og Bogle ranges, pics
ustralia. Evian river, Drummond, 1s coll.; Kal lfeld; be-
en Esperance bay and Russell Range, Dempster. These se iras specimens which
darti the T. macrophylla, Lindl. Swan. Riv. App. 49; Gen. and Sp. Orc
Seem = connect cw species with the typical T. as lia, according to Reichb.
Beitr. Preise’s n. 2187, referred by Endl. i nem Preiss. ii. 14, to hi lla,
is not " be distinguished from T. erinita.
5. T. longifolia, Forst. Char. Gen. 98, t. 49. Stature and dye
„Varying more even than that of T. irioides. "What we may consider
the d form is rather tall, with a long narrow leaf and a raceme of
rather large flowers nearly represented by T. nuda and 7.
ata, but none of these in the dried sta well ‘be d into
distinct varieties, and none of them show any dienen in the periant
from e colour variously ue, lilac or
o pink, epo re produced behind and over the ics into a broa
*
E CXX: ORCHIDER. : [ Thelymitra.
hood, usually conspicuous for its dark colour, the 2 extreme lateral
lobes — ate as in T. iaioides, but bent forward and shorter than the
broad which is entire donde or shortly 2-lobed with the
margin NU and smooth.— 7. Forsteri, Sw. in K. Akad. Sto ckh. Handl.
1800, oy and in Schrad. N. Journ. i. 57; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch.
520; T. nuda, R. Br. Prod. 314, Lindl. Lies Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. v.
t. 103 A; "Reichb. f. Beitr. 8; T. pauciflora, R. Br. l.c. Reichb. f. l.c. ;
T. arenaria and T. — Lindl. le. 519, 590; T. graminea, Lindl.
Swan Riv. App. 49, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 591.
veneni m Endeavour river, Banks and Solauder; Port Bowen, R. Brown
Archers station, Moreton bay, Leichhardt ; Piokidohini bay, Dallachy ; Atia
iti
n.
Brown, Woolls; New England, C. Stuart
Victoria. Wendu Vale, Robertson; and numerous stations kr Melbourne to the
uev M dg ite and the Murrumbidgee, F. Mueller, and oth
Port Dalrymple, 2. Brown; abundant i ddugbént a Colony, J. D.
Hooker, eri sda others.
. Australia. Mountains around St.Vincent’s Gulf, F. Mueller, Behr ; Spencer's
Galt, ur ucl er.
tralia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; enge vine
id is some confusion about Brown's T. angustifolia and T. canaliculata, owing to
having in the first instance given the former nani met plant he after-
wards published as T. canaliculata, and in r ifolia is marked (J)
T Ja and T. canaliculata (T) for tropical Australia ; whi is herbarium
shows that it is T. angustifolia that ought to have been marke nd T. canaliculata
m King George's ld have been P en sp
[Do ifolia have the central Awa sometimes slightly denticulate,
showing an approac this respect to T. a, but n all i ;
the other hand, some of the New England aiy AEE specimens of T. longifolia
have the lamen erty nearly of T. aristata, spe * at all the column-hood. A few spe-
cimens from n ing George's heme F.M , and a very few from other localities,
have the contral lobe of the column-hood wir diainotly 2-lobed, but are not other-
wise differen
mes in a loose raceme. Sepals and P acute, usually nearly
1 in. lon deuda pro osd behind n the anther into
aa F Beir F. Mu ell. Fr ragm.- v. 94.
Swa r, Drummond, 1st coll. ; my Range, F. Mueller ;
Pere p» 4 Knights ; pum to | sd bay and C ape Le Grand, Maz well.
. T. tigrina, R. Br. Prod. 915. Stems slender, attaining about
1 ‘i the leaf very narrow idr channeled Flowers small, 2 to 4 in the
raceme ‘‘ yellow and spotted.” Sepals and petals abii B lings long.
. Column-wing broad, produced behind and beyond the anther, the ex-
POUR
CENSENT ASI
EPOR ee a ee ee
Thelymitra. | CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 321
treme lateral lobes oblong, densely papillose- er but not with the -
white cilia of the penicillate species, the three middle lobes broader,
shorter, fringed with similar papill or calli. B FF Gen. and Sp. Orch.
ype
z W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Ji Swan river, Drummond, 3rd
coll. n. 308
Mond ge.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll.
9. T. gent lutea, R. Br. Pr e^ 915. A stout glabrous species of
1 to 13 ft., rarely ine and more sle pen ogee ovate- — or
oblong- lanceolate shortly wena 2 to ong. Raceme of few
rather large flowers epals and petals diy oblong-laneeolate,
acute or shortly acuminate, usually ab in. "3n or rather more,
yellow with dark brown spots. Cotati) seal y short bolos the
ther, the wing produced behind and beyond the anther into a broad
hood nearly 3 lines lon deeply cut into a fringe of long linear lobes,
ale d on the back in a centre, and with a dorsal
^H Ds Onkaparinga, F. Mueller.
W. Australia. Kin ^ ix Sound, R. Brown; Swan river, Drummond, 1st
coll. ; i Vasse eh ow eg.
e front vi dew it must ha en thick d cl eid ; in the finished vitis
E. int tish it is represented as flatter more deeply 2-lobed and
denticulate, Reichenbach f. therefore, thinking that Drummond’s pl cribed 55
Lindley, in which the a age is entire, must be ging distinct, has, Beitr ie
Characterized it as new under the name of enthamiana. Brown’s own s
has the un - far de "add for examination, em ien from c Papin. King, labelled ty
Brown as T. fusco-lutea, appears to me without doubt to be the
finishe
Sect. 2. MACDONALDIA. —Column-wing broadly [e behind
p.38
plant. Probably the dorsal appendage is variable and its shape figa in aac
drawing.
_ ihe aka ‘but much shorter than it, and not hood-sh
arnea, R. Br. Prod. 314. Stem slender, often flexuose, from
10. Tc
2 seal d E to near 1 ft. high, with 1 to 3 pink flowers, the zs narrow-
$822 CXX, ORCHIDER. [ Thelymitra.
‘the wings very broadly t pai cate and connected behind the anther but
shorter than it, the 2 bitene lateral lobes short broad and ee oe
the intermediate 2 lobes very broad and scarcely prominent. Ant
connective produced beyond the cells, but broad and obtuse. pes
Bai and Sp. Orch. 519; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 5, t. 102 B; Reichb. f.
9.
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls.
Victoria. Wendu Va le, Robertson ; Port Phi illip, C. French.
Tasmania. Hobarton, ‘Gunn; Georgeto own and Cheshunt, Archer; Southport,
C. Stuart.
S. Australia. Lofty Range, F. Mueller.
11. T. flexuosa, Endl. I Stirp. Dec. 93. Stems slender but usually
wiry and aoe 6 to n. high. Leaf narrow-linear, rather thick,
and the t bracts sometimes leaf-like. Flowers l or 2, yellow,
a
in front a loose cup nearly 4 line long, the sides broad and rounde
almost into lateral lobes. Anther produced into a broad thick pubes-
cent appen ager: Maidenia Smithiana, Gunn, and M. concolor, Lindl.
Swan Riv. App. 50, t. 9 B, Gen. and xo n Orch. 985; Endl. in Pl. Preiss.
ii. 4; Thelymitra Smithiana, Hook. f. Tasm. ii. 4, t. 101 B.
Victoria, Port Phillip, €. F "rench ; Mount Abrupt and ^e Creek, F. Mueller.
ia. Circular Head, Mrs. ‘Si th; Georgetown, Archer; ‘Southport, C.
cag
w. alia. Drummond, 1st wed 8rd coll. n. 309; Albany and Upper Hay
river, F. * Muslar, Thistle Cove, Mazw
SEC BIAURELLA, Lindl. RM eui: not produced behind
the emm but with 2 lateral erect lobes or HU ren longer than
the anther and often connected by a short crest behind it
A9. T. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 4, t. ae A. Stems erect,
e
broadly spathulate Ad n pendages, gre than the anther, very
obtuse or emarginate. Andes produced into a broad thick concave
appendage, beak reins very obtuse, rugose-pubescent outside.—
Macdonaldia antennifera, Lindl, me Riv. App. 50; Gen. and Sp. Orch.
985; Endl. in Pl. Preiss. i
Victoria. Wendu Vale, bots dens Allitt; Port Phillip, Gunn;
- ághton, F. Mueller; Grampians, S. Fisher
4
i
Thelymitra. | CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 323
Tasmania. Georgetown, Archer.
S. — á Bey nme bay, Whittaker ; ; Tamunda and EPE F. Mueller.
W. Austr ing George's Sound to Swan river, Wakefield, F. Mueller,
fa, lst boll. Ath coll. n. 230, 5th coll. n. 116, ens 2181, and many others ;
dii ard to Bremer and Esperance bays, Maxwell, D
. 13. T. Macmillani, F. Muell. Fragm. v. bx Habit and foliage of
T vds ib put perhaps nearer allied to 7. variegata. Sepals and
petals about 4 in. long, appar ntly deep coloured (ut p). Colum
wing awo into 2 lateral 1 divergin obes as long as the anther,
an ctoria. Port Phillip, M ‘Millan; a AES specimen in Herb. F. Mueller.—The
Species requires further investigation and may prove to be an abnormal form of one of
the allied species or possibly a hybrid.
14. 'T. variegata, Lindl. in s Benth. Stem not very stout, 1 ft.
high or rather more, with 2 to 4 large flowers. Leaf with a villous
sheath, the lamina usually glabrous, linear, much dilated at the base
and often undulate. Sepals and petals lanceolate, shortly Mum
dark-coloured p varieg gated. Column nea rly
la:
aldia variegata and M. spiralis, Lindl. Swan Riv. "i 50, Gen. and
Sp. Orch. 385, 386; Thelymitra gerplarseian F. Muel Fragm. v. 97.
W. Au strali ver, d, 1st coll. ; Kalgan river, Maxwell.
form spiralis is fp sages a distinct vant ero ndulate or bid. "base of the leaf
occurs in some of the larger as well as in the sail er and more slender specimens.
15. T. venosa, R. Br. Prod. 914. A of some of the rather
larger forms of T. imioides. Stem 1 to 2 ft. high, with a long narrow
af and a raceme of 6 to 10 blue fob abe Sepals and petals I to 2 in.
P long, veined as in 7. ixioides. Column broadly winged, with 2 long
_ linear obtuse erect lateral lobes, not connected behind the anther and
more or less spirally involute. Amnther scarcely acuminate, shorter
than the c olumn-lobes. Ma edonaldia i ndl. Swan Riv. App. 50,
iy e
Anthér acuminate and often Midler amit eo. E Lindl.
Swan Riv. App. 50; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 886; Thelymitra venosa,
L i Ye
324 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [ Thelymitra.
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 4, t. 109 A, as to the Tasmanian plant, not of
E.B r
(T EE vacet Cireular Head and Rocky Cape, Gunn; Jeny and Port Sorrell,
Archer; Macquarrie Harbour, Milligan; Southport, C. Stu
Hooker reduces this to the Port Jackson T. venosa, but it appears to me sufficiently
distinct in the smaller flowers, the. acuminate anther, acil differently shaped lateral
lobes of the column.
29. EPIBLEMA, R. Br.
Sepals and petals all pes equal and T de hi Labellum ungui-
culate, the claw with 2 erect thick lobes, the lamina ovate, concave,
with a tuft of linear processes on the di ane near the base. Column Mel
short, with erect petal-like thin lateral lobes or appenda
nected behind the anther. Anther erect or aight bent jae "dió
cells distinct, with a short recurved point. Apa granular.
— short.— Terrestrial glabrous herb, with the habit of TAelymi-
Leaf narrow-li Flowers few in a terminal raceme.
mu genus is limited to the single species endemic in Australia.
l. E. grandiflorum, R. Br. Prod. 315. Habit of the slender forms
of Thelymitra ixioides. Stem erect, 1 to 14 ft. high, with one long
narrow linear leaf and 1 or 2 smaller des leaves or sheathing scales.
IT 2 to 5, Pow in a short raceme, the bracts shorter than
Mich s ss united under the labellum ^ a broad base, and the
peta e ovate-lanceolate. Labellum as long as the sepals, the claw
a u "dinis long, the 2 appendages erect rounded and closely parallel,
the processes of the disk of the labellum long, slightly clavate, ascend-
ing, % age mes one or two of them deflexed and clasped by the
appends f the claw. Lateral eppence es of the column broad,
ap s ars 2 lines long.—Lindl. jen Sp. Orch. 523 ; Endl. in
is c "bond Reichb. f. Beitr
€ King George's cds A R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Baxter;
Swan river, n Drummond ist coll., Preiss, n. 2219 ; Cape. Le Grand, Maxwell; Lake
Muir, Muir
90. DIURIS, Sm.
Dorsal sepal erect, rather broad, closely embracing the column at the
base, the upper part open ; lateral sepals preuding or d almost herba-
chao nati the T. lobe iudi contracted at the ase,
w
cR. at AY RO PIE LE E EEEN PE T A
E uM E c Ria i i Id.
aBiuris.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 395
cells occupying nearly the whole inner surface. Rostellum 2-fid,
shorter than the anther. Pollen-masses granular or mealy, wit out
any distinct caudicle.—Terrestrial glabrous herbs, with underground
tubers. Leaves narrow, few at or "ear the base of the stem , with a
rs
close over the column, make it appear as if the petals were outside in
æstivation, and they are sometimes so dena but in the bud the esti-
vation is quite normal with the sepals outsi
The genus is limited to Australia, and cannot be confounded with any other, although
the species are ies difficult to distinguish from dried specimens which do not show
their real c
Er Apt (the lateral lobes b. to the base), with 2
gitudinal raised lines on the mi lobe.
ae, sepals usually much di c "e di Lee
owers white . : P e. 1. UA AND
Flowers bluish pur rple 2. D. punctata.
Lateral dej ied usually scarcely longer than the petals. Flowers
yello T NE otted or blotched with purple 3. D. aurea.
Lebéllim 3 3- fd (the la ateral lobes pen » from above the base)
with 2 longitudinal raised lines on the middle lobe
rael Jongifudi xf dtd 2 the j^ bellum at some distance
Lateral Jotos vf p teli as long as or more than half
s lon middle lobe. Dorsal sepal err as
Lateral sch ot he petal 4. D. palustris
min s the much longer "od b. e - a 4 ee D 4
ral sepals scarcely so lon eem D. maculata.
Lateral chee “a the labellum rales ‘thal alf » “Ion ng ‘as the
be. Dorsal sepal usually shorter than the
vel um.
Raised longitudinal lines of the labellum T srar” Macon ER PERTE
Raised longitudinal lines crenulate or cri . . 7. D. palle
Raised longitudinal lines glabrous a oth pos BD, react
Raised longitudinal "un closely contiguous so as to appear like
oe canalicu „and uniting in a single one about the
mi ie
Up avena Ai 9. D. setacea.
2 : rem rere : «S er D emarginata.
a vy raised longitu
LI lateral lobes r Eds dr pi dus perri lobe.
Flowers yellow often viti purple spots . 11. D. sulphurea.
Labellum lateral lobes nearly as long as "the iniddle lobe. ure
Flowers purple often mixed with bufFcolour . . . . . . 12. D. longifolia.
Labellum lateral lobes much shorter than the middle lobe. ;
Leaves filiform and habit of D. setacea. Flowers yellow . 13. D. pauciflora.
om the sma owered specimens of
narrower and one of them often nearly as ren as dis stem below the
396 CXX: ORCHIDER. AM
about j in.; dorsal sepal and labellum nearly equal in length an nd |
shorter has the petals. Lateral lobes of the column more frequently |
dentate than in D. e but variable.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. -
509; B f. Beitr. 13.
Que and. Port PA owen and Shoalwater omms: R. Brown; Brisbane river,
Cs apart Cunningham ; Rockhampton and vicinity, Bowman, Thozet, ME
Daliad Downs, Law; Wide bay, Bidwill ; em Sand Bowman ; Rockingham bay,
allachy on J
Port Macquarrie, a aega Tweed river, C. Moore; New Zea- ;
land, D jeder Ole river, Wilco ,
ingle specimen from Warwick in n Her b. F, Mueller has tent; long pr con lateral
sepals, Rar the rest of the he: very siia the colour not m oned ; other dirin
er, an ;
lateral spes pode lin.long and rather broad. He lateral lobes of the ee E
riable
are very v n their ‘venation, sometimes broad at the apex and many-nerve
o
the column, one may e bud ov erlap t the lábelluin and the other be wholly inside, one ;
with the nerve reaching almost to the apex, T eive with it visible only halfway up. —
2. D. punctata, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 19, t. 8. Stems 1 to 2 ft. high,
or even more. Leaves usually 2, eer 8 to 6 in. long, with 2 empty -
sheathing bracts above them Flowers 2 or 3, blue or purplish, often ~
dotted but not blotched like several of the yellow species, the acuminate |
bracts often but not always exceeding the ovary. Dorsal sepal in the -
typical form broadly ovate-oblong, 7 to 8 lines long; lateral sepals
exed, very narrow, nearly 2 in. long. Petals broadly elliptical-
a near y 1 in. long including a claw of about 2 lines. Label
about as long as the dorsal sepal, "divided at the base into 3 lobes, the -
middle lobe obovate-oblong, the lateral ones about one-third as long,
oblong-falcate, varying in breadth, entire or crenulate; disk of the
base; the 2 lateral ones ending somewhat abruptly and sometimes :
ormin gan acute tooth below the middle of the lobe, the central one -
not so prominent or obscure at the base, but dinida further along
the lamina. ien lobes of the edum as long as the anther, lanceo- |
late with undulate ther
a domat, iy in Sc rad. Neu. Journ. i. En R. Br. Pr od. 9er
Muell. in pere xxvi. ur
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 166, and Fl. Mixt. n. 627,
and many TO. or river, Wilcox ; Nangas, M Arthur ; Mudgee, Woolls; on
the Murrumbid
Victoria. Port Ph billip, Gunn, F. Mueller; Wendu Vale, Robertson; Yarra,
- Mount Alexander, Mount Abrupt, F. Mueller ; East Gipps' Land, Walter.
E
j
Diuris.| CXX. ORCHIDER. 327
Var. minor. Under 1 ft. high, with secun im the middle lobe 5 fn labellum
more DERE s —New England, C. Stua Clarence river, Rile
Var. ipie obs sepals 4 at dev) 3i in. E —Mudgee, Taylor.
I hav unable to ascertain for what reason Smith's name and figure have been
ignored by “all anys writers.
3. D. aurea, Sm. Exot. Bot. i. 15, t. 9. Stems 1 ft. high or more.
Leaves eiit not very long. Flowers 2 to 5, yellow or more or less
blotched or tinged wit brown. Petals obovate-oblong or elliptical,
column falcate, obtuse, sometimes irregularly toothed, the wings almost
“pens od at the base with the vus lines of the "Jabellum.—R. Br.
Prod. 315; Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 509; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 172;
Reichb. f Beitr. 11; D. spathulata, B. in Schrad. Neu. Journ. i. 60;
D. oculata, F. Muell. Fragm. v. rie partly ?
Queensland. Gainsford, hoi
- Wales. wiih Jackson, R: p ET vbi Port Stephens, Lady Parry ;
ie England, C. Stuart ; Clarence river, Wilco.
Var. obtusa. Petals Eis ovate or iM very obtuse; Sus ‘sepal broad.—
Hunter's river, Herb. Lindley and Hooker ; Port "Jackso n, Woolls
4. D. palustris, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 507. Very near D. maculata,
but usually a smaller One with finer leaves, the stem rarely much
middle lobe near the base of its lamina.—Hoo Tasm. ii.
toria. Wendu Mana Robertson ; Mount iiia F, Mueller ; ; Bere. Burra,
Hinteracker ; Ararat
asmania. Marshy around near Hobarton, Circular Head, &c., Gunn, and others.
S. ralia. Onkapari nga I" aker; Bugle Barossa and Lofty ranges, P*
Mueller, York Peninsula, Fowl
acula m. Exot. Bot.i. 57, t. 90. Rather a — slender
species, usually under i ft. high. Leaves narrow. Flow n long
pedi cels, yellow, much spotted or blotched with brown or Pirie and
the petals, under ect rigid and embracing
the column at wih eet ovt nhi ubi dum opes at the top; lateral
328 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Diuris.
sepals sis oie recurved, narrow, rarely exceeding the petals; petals
ovate, rigid dark-coloured claw. Labellum shorter than the
dorsal Wet 3- 3-lobed from above the base, the lateral lobes large and
ually as long or nearly as long as the broad middle lobe, the 2 raised
pm of the disk ending usuall rominent angles or "teeth a little
above the base of the middle 1 ner Eaton lobes of the column often
toothed.—R. Br. Prod. 315; Bot. "S r Ta Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 507; Hook. f. FI. Tasm. ii. 6, 4B; Reichb. f. Beitr. 11;
D. pardina ‘and D. curvi ifolia, Lindl. du id Sp. Orch. 507.
Ec Rockhampton, Thozet.
- Wales. Port Jackson, R. o wn, iis n. 165, and many others; New
Victo du
Cove, F. lieri ; Grampians, Fisker.
s - eem nia. Very abundant in pastures and loose forests throughout the colony,
ET Bugle Barossa and Lofty ranges, F. Mueller; York Peninsula,
Var. concolor. Flowers Le not at all or parels ^ tted. iie equalis, F.
dc
ATE
e
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 8, e 105A; T. Muell. Fragm. v. 173; aar f
Beitr. 19; D. lanceolata, " Lindl. Le; : dn Schlecht, Linnea, xx. 572.
island. Armidale, Perrott
. 8S. ‘Wales. Port Jackson, EC Brown, Woolls; in the interior, M'Arthur ;
Macq sides Pda and vale of Clw wyd, A. Cunningham
Wendu Vale, c4 Portland, Melbourne, and ge med loca-
ities, = Mueller, and others. E. Gipps ' Land, Walter ; ; Gram mpia
ant in isl vei in many paris of the wes H D. ‘Hooker,
and other 7
a Australia. Mount Gambier to St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller, Behr, and
ot “ih
e
pubescence of the lamina, sometimes are much rourided, incurved at the en , almos
meeting, the puLescent centre of the lamina very narrow. The latter form characterizes
Diuris.] CXX. ORCHIDE. à 329
the D. lanceolata, Lindl.; but I have found many intermediates with slight differences
in other characters variously combined. ;
D. pallens, Benth. A small Pun very nearly allied to D. pedun-
eulata, but distinct as far as I am able to judge from dried specimens in
e la
obes still smaller in proportion than in that species, the raised lines or
plates of the disk converging and ending in a single line along the
cg but fringed with small calli instead of being pubescent or
ciliate,
N, S. Wales. New England, C. Stuart.
D. abbreviata, F. Muell. Herb. Habit rather more of D. maculata
than of D. pedunculata, to both of which this species is allied. Leaves
rather narrow. Flowers pale-coloured when dry, more or less blotched,
i t
o
column at the base, oval-oblong and op u art. Labellum
3-lobed from above the base, the lateral lobes small, triangular or lan-
ceolate, faleate; the middle lobe much longer, bro u con-
obe, quite smooth and glabrous. Lateral lobes of the column acute,
entire or denticulute, the wings continuous in front with the raised
i
Queensland. Armidale, Perrott; Darling Downs, Law; also a specimen from
Port Bowen, marked D. dubia, in Herb. R Brown, appears to be this species.
N. S. Wal New England, C. Stuart.
- 9. D. setacea, R. Br. Prod. 316. Stems under 1 ft. high. Leaves
usually very narrow-linear or filiform and rather short. Flowers 1 to3,
lobe, the labellum being thus characterized as bicarinate by Brown and
unicarinate by Lindley. Lateral lobes of the column narrow acute,
as long as the anther.—Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 508 ; Reichb. £
. Beitr. 12; D. filifolia, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 51, t. 8 B; Gen. and Sp.
330 x CXX.. ORCHIDER. [Diuris.
Orch. 510, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 11; D. carinata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 510; cu Le.
. Aus Ring. Ge un. Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, and
many others ; d thence to Swan ver, Drummond, 1st coll. n . 842, 843, Tu cul n.
823, Oldfield, a d'others : p. tward 16 Esperance bay, Cape 2t ird and C
Maacwell.—1 have not seen Preiss's specimens, but there i very little dahi of Asc
having been rightly referred to this species, readily Paid by its foliage.
0. D. emarginata, R. Br. Prod. DLP. Allied to D. setacea, but a
stouter and taller plant, "usually 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves narrow-linear
but not subulate, the empty sheathing bracts long and broad. Flowers
several, distant from each other in a loose raceme, but on erect edicels,
larger than in D. setacea. Lateral sepals 2 to 1 in. long ; petals rather
shorter, elliptical, contracted into a short claw; dorsal sepal shorter
than the sepals, firm at the base and embracing the colu umn, open at the
top. as abe lum as long as the dorsal sepal, the lateral lobes broad, en-
tire or toothed, from m Àj! to $ as long as the middle lobe, and the double
f. adu Wi D. Drummondii, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 51, Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 5
wW. in sene zn King George's Bound R, Brown; Lake Muir, Muir; Gordon.
Ka Kalgan, Vasse nes Oldfield ; : Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., and perhaps
o ldfiel
bas river, d, the specimen very imperfect.
D. laxiflora, Lindl. igor Hin App. 51, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 510, from pie river,
, appears t o be a rather slender drawn up state of marginata,
he han go are not ien enough for d I have not aee those o
RU ora by Endl. in PI. Preiss.
R. Brown jvídeslly derived his name from an — of the petals d keen
ages he fully des iA Fa his notes, but of which I can find no trace in the mens
of his a labelled as - emarginata, of the | mado Probably the emargi-
siis n was acc ey eR specimen described on r spot; the dried specimens
Ty ios Mbit vith his description, as well as with Drummond's describe
byl Lindley, aoe here as in D. setacea Lindley regarded the labellum as unicarinate,
the wings joining at the base in ge
with the central keel of the Tabellura.. Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 5 509;
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Diuris.] CXX. ORCHIDEJ. 991
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. a y 204 A; Reichb. f. Beitr. 19; D. oculata, F.
pg in Linnea, xx
. Wales, Ini pe s river, R. Brown; Port Jackson and Bathurst,
Woulse New Engl and, C. Stu
beg ctoria. Glenelg river, pens Port Phillip, Gunn, F. Mueller; Little river,
e:
Tasmania. Common in many parts of the colony, J. D. Hooker, and others.
. Australia. Mount Gambier, F. Mueller.
The Victorian plant originally described by F. Mueller as D. oculata, is certainly the
D. sulphurea, with the quem Pane Leer the dorsal sepal, and with a single central
ridge, The very similar D. a s, however, in several collections under the irem "
D. oculata, F. Muell, and is eer bably the | one described under that pace ot the
menta, v. 173, with the double keel or 2 longitudinal plates.on the labell
12. D. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 316. Stems from under 1 ft. to
considerably p% that height. Leaves linear, narrow or broad, one
often but not always ver y long. Fl usual] 3 to 5, variable in
size but edis large and dark-coloured when dry, described when fresh
E ipto and buff. Petals oval or ramen Mein often 3 in. long
ding the claw; lateral sepals as long, “linear or dilated above the
ovate, entire; middle obe contracted into a car, with a pet! promi-
gat ‘raised line along the centre.—Lindl. and Sp. . 009;
eichb. f. Beitr. 14; D. porrifolia, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 51, Oai and
Sp. Orch. 511; Endl. in Eh Mp ii. 12; D. corymbosa, Lindl. Ice. ;
po f FI Taam. i d id ; F. Muell. Fragm. v. 172.
endu Vale, p r uw. esi F. Mueller ; Portland, Allitt ;
Goan seis gen E. Gipps' Land,
Tasmania. Port Dal rymple, A pas common in the northern parts of the
island, 5 "p. Hooker, and other
"Australia. Mount Gon er, and around St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller *
. Australia, King. George s Sound, pn "wl arvey, p — ; thence.
Vasse and Swan hay. mmond, 1st coll. n Eh " 58, n. 2 and others;
arte river, Oldfie'd ; casts to Bremer s gis
larger and
the Western specimens (D. corymbosa), Lin e flowers are
the lole se. labelium Mara broader than iu the itu and Victoriun ones, in
others quite as small or smaller.
13. D. pauciflora, R. Br. Prod. 316. A slender ux of 6 in. to
lft. resembling at first sight the var. concolor of D maculata. Leaves
very narrow not quite so fine as in D. setacea. Flowers 1 to 9,
with a single PEDEM raised line not reaching to half the n of
- the labellum.— Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 610; Heichb. f. Be
W. Australia. King cd s Sound, R. Brown, who gathered several specimens,
-
382 CXX. ORCHIDEJX. [ Diuris.
but I have not seen it in any other collection. Bauer's Port Jackson plant of - same
name, referred to by Reichb. f., l.c., is probably the yellow variety of D. maculat
81. ORTHOCERAS, R. Br.
Dorsal sepal on incurved, hood-shaped; lateral voie narrow-
linear, lóng and erect; petals sho rt, erect, narrow. Labellum 3-lobed,
e middle lobe eni and contracted at the base, a thick calls on the
disk between the lateral lobes. Column very short, with lateral erect
lobes not connected behind the anther. Anther erect or slightly in-
several sessile flow
The genus is SU to ee single Australian species, found also in New Zealand.
O. strictum, R. Br. Prod. 317. Stem DEM, erect, 1 to 13 ft.
high. Leaves abvoral near the base, linear, a in. long, or one or
two outer ones short and ico and 2 or 3 long sheaths with short
erect lamin:e above the . Flowers distant, erect, in an interrupted
ceeding the ovary, sometimes much longer than the dorsal sepal.
hog run broad and very concave, much incurved, acute or obtuse,
n. long, greenish or white outside, brown purple or yellowish
inside lateral sepals antenna-like, slightly clavate ri
long ; petals thin, not 2 lines long, truncate notched or toothed at the
en
the middle lobe twice as long and ovate, the callus between the lateral
lobes broad and prominent, but variable in shape. Lateral lobes of the
column often ae as Te p the petals. eia Tre and Sp. Orch.
512; Reichb. f. Bei pueri Lindl. Le.; Diuris No tit
tain. Rich. Fl. Nova “del. 163
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the en D ay R. Brown, A. and R. Cun-
ningham, Woolls, and others, but said to be very rare; towards ilsva; A. Cun-
ning)
rece
Dandenong, F. Mueller; Glenelg valley, Robertson.
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Muell, Behr; Spencer's Gulf, Wilhelmi.
The New Zealand plant does not appear to me to differ in the slightest particular.
32. CRYPTOSTYLIS, R. Br.
, extende
Column | exceedingly short, the wings Tomiie Marty distinct auricles or
connected into a "qnem beaks behind the anther, the margin toot thed or
pemes CXX. ORCHIDEX, 333
ged. Anther erect against the back of the stigma or bent forwa: ig
e
ovate to lanceolate. Flo owering aos le geni. be earing 2 or more erect
sheathing scales or empty bracts. Flower rather large, green with a
brown red or purple labellum, several in a a otini raceme. Bracts
esides the Australian ha > which are all endemic, there are two or three in E.
Indis and the Archipelago. "The genus is es allied to Calochilus, differing in the
rhizome and foliage, and in i dd labellum not fringed.
..— Labellum hina ds co with reflexed sv hen fully out, the disk
with a double raised line dilated i rominent thick lobes
tat the end. 2" r bent forki, gn Dd column wings con-
nected behi
Leaves oblong or acdsee Eastern sa pie . a. . 1, C. longifolia.
C. ovata.
Leaves ovate or broadly oblong. Western specie 2.
Labellum lamina concave. Anther nearly erect, the column-wings
Labellum lamina tf broad, with a broad membranous longi-
tudinal deg plate 3. C. erecta.
Labellum lamina linear, w without any longitudinal plate. or raised
line 4. C. om
beyond them almost to 4 e end of the lamina which is obtuse or
e
2 additional short raised iin parallel to the two principal ones,
the disk veined but not so strongly as in C. erecta, Anther bent for-
ward, almost hood-shaped, with a small dorsal recurved point near the
apex. Column-wing broad short and irregularly lobed toothed or
| ORA. 4 shortly continuous behind the anther.—Lindl Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 445; Bauer, Ill. Orch. Gen. t. 17, 18; Endl. conog, t 17;
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 9, t. 108 A; Malazis subulata, Labill. Pl. Nov.
Hu ii. 62, t. 919; Crypt € Reichb. f. Beitr. 15.
934 CXX. ORCHIDEX. [ Cryptostylis.
T Glasshouse — F. Muell
- S. Wales. Port Jackson, 2. Brown, ponis Woolls; Hastings river,
Beaten; ; Tweed river, i Nom M'Leay ri river, Z'itzgerald ; Pennant Hills, A. Cun-
ningham; Ashfield, Ramsay; Maneroo, Mrs. Calvert.
e Portla nd, Dan denon "Buil Creek, Snowy river, &c., F. Mueller.
ania. Port Dalrym . Brown ; Cir cular Head, hn; ; Port Sorell,
Garretts Suge rloaf, Meander river, Archer ; Oyster Cove, Milligan; Southport,
tuart; N. Huon river, Oldfield.
Labillardiére having placed the qae in a genus with which it has no con-
nexion, there seems to be no sufficient reason for substituting his specific name founded
upon n the ipee not upon the real ipi of the sepals and petals, for the one so gene-
rally adopt
2. C. ovata, R. Br. Prod. 317. Habit inflorescence and flowers of
C. longifolia, from which this oae is d to be distinguished ex-
cept by the larger broader leaves more strongly ribbed, E
those of Alisma m varying ioi vate to oblong an
long. Labellum the same as in C. longifolia, or the -en central luis
figure of C. longifolia in the Fl, Tasm.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 445;
Re amt f. Beitr. 15; Endl. in Pl. Prins: Wed.
stralia. King George's Sound, R. Brown; Stirling Range, Mazwell, P.
Podi towards Swan river, Drummond, A. C. Gre regory; Hampden, Clarke.
3. C. erecta, R. Br. Prod. 317. Closely resembling C. lon dri in
habit leaves, inforescen nce and perianth, but usually rather smaller i
g ex
jagged lateral pia iot EANN behind the ather which is m
erect than in C. longifolia and shortly rostrate. —Lindl. wee and Sp.
bon 446; Reichb. f. Beitr. 15; F. Muell. Fragm
. S. wales. Port Jackson to di Blue Mountains, n. dus gy Cun-
aee Woolls, Daintree, Miss Atkinson, Pegal ld.
4. C. leptochila, F. Muell. Herb. More slender than the other
species, our specimens 6 in. to 1 ft. high, with smaller flowers in a rather
dense raceme. af ovate on a short petiole. Perianth of C. longifolia
but sho lum with the short broad v of the other species,
iiA contracted above it into a loneg-linear rather thick chan-
nelled
amina of 3 in.; a thick longitudinal ed line or plate alon
the centre of the broad base (which is veined only in the other species)
ceases at the contraction, and the lamina has only two rows or in
rupted lines of scarcely prominent ealli or dark thick s ots (at least in
the specimen: examine olumn-wing with 2 pare denticulate lobes
interrupted behind the nearly erect anther as in C. er
puce _-
Cryptostylis. | OXX. ORCHIDEE. — 335
. S. Wales. Springwood, Ji. Cunningham, a single specimen ; Kurrajong, Mrs.
Tedin two siad specimens.
93. PRASOPHYLLUM, R. Br.
Flowers reversed. Dorsal sepal lanceolate or broad, concave, usually
arched over the column and sometimes adnate to it at the e ensis
sepals as long or longer, lanceolate or linear, free or more or les
ort
Flowers expe! coloured, often pale or greenish yellow, coe e
humerous in a terminal spike, vis
as to appear very spreading orr
des the Australian species there are pu in New Zealand, one of T appa-
rently identical with an Australian one. The habit of the genus and many of its
characters are ey are of. Microtis from which it differs in the revers = omer, ‘the more
The lateral sepals in two or three instances have been described as 2.dentate. I
have never found them so, and believe the error to have arisen either from a slip of a
on referring to lateral sepals instead of the lateral appendages of the column, or the
Writer to have meant the lip composed of the two combined lateral sepals.
Secr. 1. Euprasophyllum.— Labellum sessile at the base of the column.
Flowers ey above 3 lines long. Ovary elongated, narrow.
zr ants. Lateral sepals connate at least in the
Labellum with a broad gibbous thickish base, the inner
late broad, eger — reaching beyond the
ind. Leaflamina lon 1. P. australe.
Labellum with a pecie narrow but obtuse base, the inner
p broad, but commencing only about the middle.
eaf-lamina very short and erect . 2. P. flavum.
Labellum slightly contracted at the ba se, "the inner plate
covering the greater part of the surface with its broad
detached margins. Lukasia lng . . . . . . 8&.P. datum.
species rc P brevilabre.
Labellum gradually curved; Western species 11 5. P. hians.
336 CXX, ORCHIDEÆ. [ Prasophyllum.
Lateral sepals free or very shortly connate at the bas
Labellum obtuse at the base or slightly sumteabted but
not gibbous. rene s eies,
Labellum with the recu end ovate or oblong, un-
dulate, much. broader ded the Wicked d inner plate 6. P. patens.
Labellum with the recurved end line rah not
much broader than the guide inner pla 7. P. fuscum.
Labellum with a gibbous base protruding been ‘the
late als. Western ptt . 8. P. eyphochilum.
Flowers under 3 lines long. aei narrow-oblong, Slender
Western species with numerous eei
rly Ww un d TA ovale.
Lateral sepals subulate, twice as fud s as i petals . « s 10. P, macrostachyum.
Sect. 2. Podochilus.— Labellum obtuse at the ni on a short distinct horizontal
claw, but continuous with it and the base of the colum:
Lateral sepals not saccate at the base, usually conna
inner, pate. of the labellum deep and copiously fringed on
all Western s . P. Fimbria.
fmi oie: of the labellum iad l “Small Eastern species . 12. P. striatum.
Late saccate at the base. Western
Lateral sepals adnate at the base to eve Sebel anton of
the column, otherwise free 13. P. parvifolium.
Lateral sepals connate, the sa ceate base enclosing the basal
projection of ag column but free from
Flowers under 24 lines. he pose and peii of "y uni-
orm colour and m most] » 14. P. pliierisn
Flowers 3 lines dd Den. sepals broad and white,
contrasting Sih the T acute is SM
nd p 15. P. cucullatum.
Secr. 3. iiis sium. —Labellum obtuse or contracted es a claw at the base,
articulate on a horizontal claw-like basal projection of the column, and usually move-
able. Stem slender, the leaf almost or quite reduced to a rer fe bract. ers
very sm
Labellum neither Pingo nor ciliate
Lateral se very gibbous at the base. cte
ce Tang as long as the anther . 16. P. nigricans.
Lateral sepals narrow, i gibbous. Loin narrow.
anther. Rostellum very short.
Flower dark coloured, about 1 line long 17. P. rufum.
Poo epe long as or longer than ‘the anthers. Rostel-
lum
ers.
Lateral seht of the column 2-fid or 2-dentate.
Flowers pale, nearly 2 lines long . 18. P. brachystachyum.
Lateral appendages of the column entire and i long.
Flowers dark- eerie 14 lines long . . 19. P. despectans.
fri
Labellum ciliate « or fringe
La E es ong. peret - the upper haif with long hairs.
epe 2 bo gib at the rg sea
lait bre to 24 Moos. Labellum equal or dilated
towa
. 20. P. fimbriatum.
amor sepals psi 3 lines. Labellum tapering towards
« 0 21. P. Archers,
an ‘broadly ovate, fringed - or ciliate with long hairs.
Lateral sepals not gibbous at the base . . 92. P. intricatum.
PURA UR ovate- iun bordered pt very "short cilia. Ve
teral sepals scarcely gibbous at the base 23. P. Woollsii.
TORRA I
Prasophyllum.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 337
Sect. 1. EuPRAsoPHYLLUM.—Labellum sessile at the base of the
column.
: chb. eitr. 17; P. lutescens,
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 514; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 10, t. 110 B.
Victoria. Wet places or in water, Portland, Robertson, Allitt.
Tasmania, Adventure bay, Nelson (Herb. R. Brown); Rocky Cape, Gunn;
Flinders island, and Oyster Cove, Milligan ; Southport, C. Stuart. ,
plate commencing from about the middle, the oblique margins phe
in the centre and dying away before the end of the lamina ral
. N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Blue Mountains, R, Cunningham ; Ber-
nma, Miss Calvert; towards Durval, Leichhardt ; New England tuart.
asmania. Cheshunt, Archer; Oyster Cove, Milligan; Huon river, Oldfield;
Southport, C. Stuart.
often long but very variable. greenish, nearly sessile in &
Taceme or spik 8 in. or even longer. Ovary e . )
338 . CXX. ORCHIDEJX. [ Prasophyllum.
ying the greater os of the surface, its free margins broad,
sed: united a litt
e very s dort column free, we ero obtuse, as long as the anther,
the outer margin thickened an oblong gland-like
So ning Anthe ond A. "dé 8 s long, 1 acuminate rostellum
m. S. Wales. Port Mackie son, E. duis Sieber, n. 167, Wis ae ie
Victoria. Port Phillip, F. Mueller E, Gipps’ Land, T: Mueller, Walter.
i Ci m her
tralia. sol Géorge's Sound, R. Brown, »2 sailor; and others; Swan
W.A
river, Pron
narro ; ?
Swan Riv. day: 54, Gen. oxi Aor Orch. 515; P. RS Reichb. f. Beitr. 16; F.
Drum j Reichb. f. Lc acrot 3 s
‚rather short. Ovary obovoid or oblong, narrower than in P.
but much shorter than in P. elatum. Dorsal sepal under 4 lines long;
pes rather shorter narrow and acuminate; lateral sepals longer and
tid than the dorsal one, united almost to th Labellum
appearance to the whole labellum ; t margine much pautas i ne
y as broad as thé erec
i al
| ery shortl fl
plan of the column adnate to the stigma rather high up, entire,
outer margin without any appendage.
Queensland. Archer's station, Moreton ba;
N.S. Wales. Hastings river, ” Bee 3^ € i
Moe swamps, F. Mue ller ; E. Gipps' Land, Walter.
Tasmania, Rocky Cape, Gunn; Southport, C. Stuart.
ERI T Beitr. 59, d Stem 6 in. to 1 ft. "E e
rat er-
ar their line of junction; petals at least as long as the sepal ait
more dilated n most other species. Labellum sessile, rather
broad at the base but xa gibbous, recurved above the mi e
margins undulate, the. inn er pla ate much narrower forming a longi-
tudinal central thickening, ending at the bend or a little beyond it
Prasophyllum.| XX. ORCHIDER. 339
in a thick bepillesestringed callus. Column rather long, the lateral
Shpondagpa adnate ne side, falonte, acute, entire. Anther short.
alia. ee odi s Sound, F. Mueller; Harvey river, Oldfield ; also
i Disha collection, but our specimens too much injured for positive identification.
6. P. patens, R. Br. Prod. 318. Stems usually tall but varying from
1 to 3 ft., the length of the eaf also. very variable. Flowers usuall
smaller than in P. elatum, larger than in P. fuscum, of a iud uma
green, the labellum bordered with white, but neither the size nor the
shade of colour constant. Ovary obovoid or sho ortly oblong. Sepals
lanceolate, acute or obtuse, pepe 4 lines long, = lateral ones quite
free, the petals of the same length but more obtuse and much more
petal-like in consistence. deut as long as the fines sessile but
oblong, o
almost lanceolate, but always shows a conaibh [Mnt N of a: e
argin, the inner plate not very nrg ae much narrower than the,
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Gen and Sp. Orch. 513; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.
l, t. 111; Reichb. T Beitr. 19.
Queensland. Armidale, Perrott
ales. Port Jacks on, 7 Bro Woolls, and others; in the interior,
Non as, JM Arthur ; Mudgee, Taylor; New iE ey Q. Stuart; southward to Two-
. fold hey and Mürniy river, F. Mueller.
oria. Wendu Vale, Robertson; mouth of the Nano Allitt; Port Phillip,
Gunn ; ci lng Cobras mountains, Wimmera, F. er.
Sheng a. Abundant in moist ground throughout “the island, J. D. Hooker and
à X3 Australia. From Mount Gambier to St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller and many
. others,
P. tru m, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 513, Host, t: f Tasm. ii. 12, t. 109, dis-
q tinguished t oy [^ slightly prominent lateral tooth o column appendages and by the
. inner plate of the labellum terminating abruptly a lite Rug the bend and not dying
on the amina, does not appear to me to be separable even as a mar dai for
differences in these respects may be observed almost from specimen to specia
um, R. me n d. 318. A very variable nei neca
E lateral sepals nearly as iln narrow, free or in Sealy connate sd
1 " emit etals rather shorter » "a labels = m ae
E e sepals, narrower than in P. patens, the erec very concave,
E but neither gibbous at the base nor ‘clawed, the et cà very
Dx
slightly raised margins towar
tani
Loi sain’ ! snis
940. . CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [.Prasophyllum.
narrow lanceolate ; the inner Tei not distinct at the base, showing
d of the erect part and thence
continued to near the end of the laikini in a thick voe Ae illose centre,
leaving a very narrow plain oie. m or occupying vids breadth ;
nd
TI
‘the breadth however of the erect part and its esas abrupt or
ualinto the narrow lamina very variable. Lateral appendages of
the column ein tn d ovate-oblong, entire or irregularly 2-dentate, the
outer margin often ilated at the base. Anther eom as long as the
. Tasim ii. 12,:t. 112 ; Re ichb. n Beitr. 18;
RE alpin m, R. Br. Prod. :818, Lindl. l.c. 515; Hook. f. te ii. 12, t. 112;
Reichb. t Beitr. 19; P. affine and P. rostratum, sva
V qe and. Jucbef! 8 Prem Moreton bay, Lathes
S. Wales. Port Jac n, di Brown; Bathurst, Wool ; Emu plains, A. Cun-
ning New England, C. re
oria. Port PR Bobertson ; trae oa Grampians, Munyong mountains,
Gips puer F. Mueller; Murray river,
nia, Table mountain (Mount Wellington), R. Brown; Rocky Cape and
Hampshire h hills, MR.
P rod Pine Forest, Behr; from various localities on St. Vincent's Gulf,
grandi iflorum, flowers 4 to 5 Lows AA m" with the narrow petals and sepals
P peculiar labellum end of P. fuscum.—Mudgee, Woolls ; Pine Forest, Behr.
sts are erred £u in distinguishing two species, but. m as i the cha-
ois at the base, hoge y T Se as free ; Ar cen in Hook. f. l. c. ii. i3) s Ses
character. € y F- Esch ds P. alpinum has a strong smell of Hyacinths, and
P. fuscum is inodorous. But the Mediterranean Orchis vow ora, for instance, has
three varieties, a sweet-smelling, a deett et and a — e, which in
"s on
` the fresh state I sot unable otherwise to distiigiiak: The first of the flower of a
ane cette P. fuscum, o fa light green in P. alpinum, appears also to be very
: inconstan
"8. P. liihechlsiá, Benth. Stems 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaf-lamina
slendet, sometimes short as in P. brevifolium, sometimes elongate d.
ary
the rather rostellum. Anther shorter than ‘die Miro shortly
and obtusely acuminate.
1
i
i
I
Prasophyllum.| CXX. ORCHIDEJE. 84
W. Australia. Darling range, Collie; Swan river, Oldfield; King George's
Sound and adjoining districts, Oldfield, F. Mueller, Muir.
P. ovale, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 04, Gen. and Sp. Orch, 510. Stems
rather slender, above 1 ft. high, the leaf-sheath and ‘lamina a
otherwise free, the petals scarcely shorter. Labellum sessile, the erect
portion about 2 lines long, concave, of nearly equal breadth or ed
Australia. Swanriver, Drummond, 1st coll. i
Var. triglochin, Reichb. f. Beitr. 60. Leaf-lamina short. Flowers scarcely 2 lines
long, the lateral sepals quite free from "e base, the inner plate of the labellum ending
nd.
less abruptly.—W. Australia, Drummo
10. P. tachyum, R. Br. Prod. 918. A slender plant
usually not so tall as P. ovale, but sometimes much resembling it or
usually rather distant in a long spike. Ovary narrow-turbinate or oblon
Lateral sepals about 2 lines long, lanceolate-subulate, acute, broad and
shortly united at the base (or sometimes quite free ?); dorsal sepal as long
or rather shorter; iderably shorter, lanceolate, acute. Labellum
W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, F. Mueller ; Swan river, Drum-
mond, 1st coll. ; Gordon river, Oldfield.
t x
rot. 9. Popocuitus.—Labellum obtuse at the base, on a short `
distinet horizontal claw, but continuous with it and with the base of
the column. T
P. Fimb :
and size of flowers of P. elatum, but with a very different pus
middle; petals not nearly so long, linear. La long as the
Sepals, truncate at : à distinct narrow horizontal claw of
about 4 line, the lamina broadly oblong, slightly contracted at the bend
ll. P. Fimbria, Reichb. f. Beitr. 60. A tall species with the habit
942 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Prasophyllum.
second plate with scarcely prominent entire margins. Lateral appen-
dages of the column falcate, as long as the rostellum, with a small
booth on the outer margin,— P. giganteum, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 12, not
Li d
ustralia. King George's Sound, F. Mueller; Kalgan river, Harvey; Swan
river, i nh mond; Gordon, Harvey, Swan, and Murchison rivers, Oldfield; Swan
river, Preiss, n. 2215.
12. triatum, R. Br. Prod. 318. Stems an exceeding 6 in.,
the loaf-eheath rather long, the lamina subulate. Flowers about the
size of those of P. patens, in a raceme of 1 to Di in. Ovary oblong-
cylindrical. Lateral sepals united to near the end, narrow, acuminate,
about 3 lines long; dorsal sepal rather shorter, narrow, concave; petals
nearly as long as the sepals, lanceolate. Labellum fully 2 lines long
val-
oblong, concave, the lower half erect, the upper half recurved, with
undulate margins; the inner plate broad i n the lower half, reduced
A ;
aye s. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, A. Cunningham,
F. T be perl
13. P. parvifolium, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 54, Gen. and Sp. Orch
517, Stems slender, 9 in. to above 1 ft. long, the laf above the middle
of the stem, with a short slender y Flowers resembling those of
: striatum, in a loose raceme of 2 t narrow-oblong.
Sepals about 34 lines long, the Jatera o ones ii diluted
nate to t
but otherwise free, the
d Au. Beas river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2220; Cape Leuwin,
oe
14. P. gibbosum, A. Br. Prod. 318. Stems from under 6 in.
near lft. long, the leaf-sheath long, with a narrow linear nets
Spike rather ense. Lateral sepals united into a lip of about 2 lines,
obtuse, very concave, projected at the base into a sack or short and
very obtuse e spur; dorsal sepal as vens obtuse, nearly similar in texture
to the lateral ones ; petals nearly as long oblong-line ar, tapering into 8
w. Labellum nearly as long as ther sepals, y fies Han or linear-
Prasophyllum.] CXX. ORCHIDE. ; 943
ho Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, also in Drummond's collections,
n. 5006. :
. P. cu
probably a varie
of 1 to 14 in.
of P. gibbosum, but the broader white lateral sepals with their saccate
Caudicle very long.—P. gibbosum, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 13.
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 443 ; Preiss, n. 2211; Gardner river, Maxwell.
I have great doubts whether this be really distinct from P. gibbosum, f Brown's
it.
specimens look very much like
SECT. 39. GENOPLESIUM.—Labellum obtuse or contracted into a
claw at the base, articulate on a horizontal claw-like basal projection of
the colümn. Stem slender, the leaf almost or quite reduced to a sheath-
Ing bract. Flowers very small.
ry closely
pe and pro-
y prove to characterize varieties
h a
. "ud oes l-
rather than species, or even to be individual, although mostly verified on pe dni
tipped wi 1 about 1 line long, broadly
pped with eg gland, the dorsal sepa u ": b pus
anceolate, acute. Labelium articulate at the end of $
Projection of the column and said to be moyeable, ovate or ovate-oblong,
about 1 line long, almost acute, slightly contracted at the base; the
344 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Prasophyllum.
inner late ce occupying about 3 of the breadth and extending to
the en appendages of the column almost as long as the petals, |
acutely ibd « at e end. Rostellum rather long. Anther shorter, with
short fine inflexed point difficult to see and sometimes wantin ng.—
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orc 513; mane f. Beitr. 19.
N.S. Wales. Port Jac Woo
Tasmania. Oyster Ceres Mitigan; Southport C. Stuart.
S. Australia. Port Lincoln, 4
the inner ' plate with raised margins Pei ng t e greater part of its
breadth. Column very short below ther, the lateral appendages
about is line long, Msn te or 2-fid. er mucronate, rather long
Stigma much shorter, with a minute rostellum.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 513; Reich. 1 f "Beitr. 20; P.nudum, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zel. i. 242,
Fl. Tasm. ii. 14, t. 113 (partly).
Queensland. Rockingham bay, DEM,
E: = Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brow
Wilson’s » Promontory and W detai Port Wi Roten the lateral appendages of
the feat almost ———— . Mueller ; Station Peak, Fullag
Tasmani t, Archer
Var.? mue wih a MEAM aolum, but the small narrow sepals and pet tals
poe to ut ather those of P. rufum than of P. nigricans.—Port Jackson, Woolls,
The gon is also in New Zealand. ^ Genoplesium Baueri, R. Br. Prod. 319,
Reichb. f. Beitr. 21, of which no specimen appears to have been preserved, is founded on
asophyllum, and appears to me rather to belong u^ me aj iig ge than to the following
ed, re-
Lig in e species correctly as to the po gs, E the Zia apait ana T
18. P. brachystachyum, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 513. Nearly
allied to P. migricans, with the same habit, but raat known by its
much hehe lighter coloured flowers, whi h A re again distinguished
of P. rufum chiefly by their siz ize. ikes 1 usually short and
e acuminate, but with-
out the distinct f igricans, scarcely dilated or slightly
gibbous at the babes poen sepal shorter and broader, but not nearly
so broad P. nigricans. Labe articulate on a short basal pro-
I
inn of the column, lanceolate, neither ciliate nor fringed; the inner
plate forming thick raised lines within the margin. Column about as
1
COURS TRENDS AENEAM A CIE
Prasophyllum.] CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 345
long below the anther as the anther, the lateral appendages of the
column unequally 2-lobed, the inner lobe usually acuminate, the other
0 d
Tasmania. Circular Head, Rocky Cape, Hampshire hills, &c., Gunn.
P. nudiscapum, Hook, f. l.c., from Hobarton, seems to me to belong to this species
rather than to P. rufum, although in some measure intermediate between the two;
the flowers are however too far ad ] to determi tely th ions of t
rts.
Ls E
19. P. despectans, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 13, t. 113 A. Stems
afidon leafless except a sheathing bract of about 3 in. below the spike.
Tasmania. Sandy soil near Hobarton, J. D. Hooker; Cheshunt, Archer; South-
port, C. Stuart.
about
6 to 8 in. high, with an erect leafy braet above the middle. Flowers
nate, striate. Labellum articulate at the end of a basal projection of
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, Woolls.
21. P. Archeri, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 14, t. 113 B. Rather taller _
than P. fimbriatum, the leaf reduced to a sheathing bract with a short
erect almost subulate lamina close under the inflorescence. Flowers
spike rarely 1 in. long. Ovary oblong, recurved. Lateral sepals nearly
3 lines long, of the shape and with the basal dilatation of those of
P. fimbriatum; dorsal sepals and petals shorter, ciliate. arti-
culate at the end of the basal projection of n, oblong-linear
and fringed with long hairs as in P. fimbriatum, but more tapering
346 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Prasophyllum.
towards the end. Column fully 4 line long below the anther, the
lateral appendages longer than the anther, bifid, the outer lobe coloured
like the petals, the inner lobe thin white and rather shorter. Rostellum
shorter than the anther. |
Tasmania. Cheshunt, Archer ; Oyster Cove, Milligan.
C. Stuart in Herb. F. Muell. A slender plant,
r pa
Tasmania. Southport, C. Stuart.—The analytical details given as those of P.
nudum (P. rufum, Br.) in Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. t. 113, appear to me to have been
drawn from a flower of the present P. intricatum, but I have not met with any speci-
men from which it can have been taken. :
23. P.W.
above 6 in. long, the leafy bract smali and distant from the inflo-
eria Wales. Blue Mountains, Miss Atkinson, a single specimen in Herb. F.
ueller.
34. MICROTIS, R. Br.
opened out near the stem and continued in a closed sheath down the
tem. Flowers small, gre r whitish, usually numerous in a ter-
minal spike, to a bend immediately above the ovary the
Mierotis.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 947
The genus extends to New Zealand, wie in a single species to New pneter = :
Indian Archipelago, and S. China, Of ‘the six Australian species, one
New Zealand, another is the same as the. pire ck ie one, the iade ae a8 -
endemic. The hab = the genus is that of the small-flowered Pras
liar — s the same; it differs chiefly in the small rostellum oo eral appen-
dages of the oat umn per the want of any long caudicle to the pollen-m.
si sepal bro i and very concave; lateral sepals recurved.
at
ate.
Flowers above 1 line long. eon m with a tubercle or callus
on the disk near the end, the margin usually cris . 1. M. porrifolia.
Flowers scarcely 1 line. Labellu oie Lore callus on dio
the disk except at the base. Eastern s species ; 2. M. parviflora,
"um about 1} lines. Dorsal sepal not so broad as in the fore-
g- Labellum entire. Western species 3. M. media.
ice) sepals revolute. Dorsal sepal acuminate, contracted at the
base. _Labellum broadly ris fang r frin, ged .. 4. M. alba.
“orm sepals spreading: but not recurve
sepal very broad and ota 'Labellum entire, broad,
DM quadrate, not callous. Flowers about j line long . . 5. M. atrata.
Dorsal sepal not much broader than the lateral ones. abe um
contracted in the middle. Flowers about 1 line long . . . 6. M. pulchella.
porrifolia, Spreng. Syst. iii. 713. Usually tall s stout,
e
ruin but sometimes slender with the flowers distant in a long spike.
“ee
TE
i
S
Hook. f. l.c. ; M. frutetorum, Schlecht. Kinrise; axi
Queensland. Burnett river, F. Mueller; Moreton bay, C. Stuart. :
S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mou ntains, 2. Brown, A. Cunningham,
wi
Wels and others; New England, C. Stuart.
ct From Vale, Robertson, to IM Land,
oria. Portlaud, Allitt, and Wendu Vale,
F. Mueller, and in many other collections from various parts of the Colon
T Abundant throughout the island, J. D. Hooker, and óthetk
oe rom the Murray to St. Vincent's Gulf, J^ Mueller, Behr, and
othe
, The species is also in New Zealand, and «a to be = commonest form in South-
Eastern Australia, not extending to the tro pu Pa Mueller proposes to unite it with
the ud following ones under the name o
M. parviflora, R. Br. Prod. 321. A more slender species than
" porrifolia, the leaf and especially the sheath much narrower, the
flowers smaller and less crowded in the majority of specimens although
348 CXX. ORCHIDER. Mierotis.
sometimes this character is reversed, as in beri described by Bro
both species having varieties or races ; with crowded and with sweated
inflorescences. Dorsal sepal broad, obt tuse, concave, scarcely above
anther.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 395 ; Endl. E t 15; Bot.
Mag. t. 2377 ; Hook. n Fl. Tasm. ii. 25; Rein hb. f. Beitr.
Quee NETS Port Bowen, R. Brown; Waist river, F. dd weenie
and veigiborool Bowman nO Shanesy ; Moreton bay, €. Stu
. S. es. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, E. Bro y others;
Macleay m oro t New En à C. Stuart; also in Teihana? 8 4 collet,
Gipps’ Land, nf Mue
Mian à abr Hea da
Var. densiflora. Flow umerous in a dense spike of about 2 in., the dorsal
sepal i broad ; [perhaps a a e distinct species
ustralia CM ond, Ath or 5th coll. n. 117, and perhaps the same from
King George' 8 ode iste
s Caledonia, ol bena f ope aan and South Sanna
is ps only tropical ‘representative o of the F. Mueller unites it with
porrifolia as h is; and Woolls, th p supplied the Muellerian Rude
p" very specime oth species, also suggests that they may n
u 8 ot
really distinct. They appear, however, at any rate to be well-marked varieties. The
minute differences in the form and the calli or papillose protuberances of the labellum
may very often be eis tue ui and those above described in the two species must
not be ino um asc
M. B. miana, Reichb. k Beitr. 24, from Sydney, R. Brown, does not appear to
me to b ime from M. parviflora
the rather narrow leaves of the larger specimens parviflora, but
the flowers are considerably larger, much recu pao. Dorsal pin ap
not very broad and somewhat Seded at t r in
shape to that of M. alba § Ap linge de long ; ‘fon ‘sepals duh and
revolute; petals still shorter. Labell ually narrow, trunc
retuse, the margins entire or slightly sri Column ’ with promi-
nent auricles.—Lin . and Sp. Orch. 5 par Mag. t. 33785
reor f. Beitr. 23; M. Brownii, Reichb. f. Bei
Australia. King George's Tor R. B pira “ham um Blackwood rivers,
Oud Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; Mürdhin river, Oldfield.
This, the Western representative F the two preceding species, appear s to have been
pues by Lindley in his M. rara, and forms part of F. Mueller’s above- mentioned
4. M. alba, R. Br. Prod. 321. Stem usually tall, often above 1 ft.
high. Leaf with a long sheath and the lamin a often exceeding PS
spike.: Flowers numerous, much incurved, county white ‘phen
MATE IET VENAE C ET
í
;
-
Mierotis.] ` CXX. ORCHIDEX. 349
faleate, acute, concave but less hood: sha Apes than in M. Perera
and contracted at the base, 14 to 2 lines = or in some
pa arts, and yo. a pair of marginal calli below it. Column with
very prominent narrow auricles.—Lindl Gen. and Sp. Orch. 396;
up ja Beitr. 23.
tralia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, R. Brown, Oldfield,
FL Mueller oe others ; sere in to Esperance bay and Cape Le Gran d, Maxwell;
Swan river, Dr "ummond, 1 coll.
e specimens from various collectors have smaller flowers, with a narrower
5. M. atrata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 54, Gen. and Sp. Orch 395.
The smallest of all the species, NET only 3 to 4 in. high and rarely
exceeding 6 in., of a bnght when fresh, but usually dryin
gang p especialy the flowers. Leaf usually short, but the long sheat
almost to the inflorescence. Flowers minute, in a rather dense
ie of 3 to 13 in. Dorsal Ton concave, very obtuse, about j line
ta
=
strie.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 6; M. minutiflora, F . Muell. Fragm.
i. 90.
Victoria. Portland, Allitt ; near og Adamson; Grampians, F. Mueller.
stralia. King George's Sound, R. Brown; near Perongerup an d Mount
: W. Au
. Clarence, F. Mueller ; Sieh river, Drummond, 1st coll, n. 852, Preiss, n. 77408.
6. M. pulchella, R. Br. Prod. 921. Stem slender, under 1.ft. high.
Leaf narrow and short. Spike not dense, rarely 2 in. long, the bracts
very small and the pedicels AK short, the flowers arog of a yellowish
1 - d " r
bearing a - oblong thickening towards the end. Capsule ovoid.—
Reichb. f. Bei
Ww. vba pet George's Sound, R. Brown, mmond, n. 307
` Lindley does not appear to have examined this very distinct species, of which there
950 — CXX. ORCHIDER, [ Microtis.
is no specimen in his herbarium, but only a tracing of Bauer's drawing of it; the
Eastern specious he mistook for it appear to me to be referrible M. porrifolia.
9
85. OR saan TEN R. Br.
hor
or duos into a large concave débil in or fringed lamina closely
reflexed. Colum n short, erect, variously: thickened under the stigma
Flower solitary, sessile within the leaf or very ate ‘pedicellate, pe
small subtending bract usually close to the leaf.
The genus is also in New Zealand and soe "rad I ipelago. The Australian
mos are all - emic. lcannot a v h Reichenbach f. in reviving Salisbury's
name of 9 e und of. prio of general publication. It has been univer-
sally rejected as havi n suit pitoogl? described a d figured, and falsely charac-
zed from the éuipeetión of a drawing of Bauer's with Brown's name attached to it,
s was well known at the time, and was published on authority which could not be and
was not denied. In the following descriptions ave been obliged to take from
Bauer's m ished drawings some details which it was impossible to verify from dried
cimen
Dorsal pu with a narrow linear claw as long as the eal
lamina. ae without basal spur, the tube broad,
lamina very shor 1. C. unguiculata.
Dorsal "on gradu wm contracted towards the base. Labellum
slightly 2-gibbous at the base, the lamina large, reflexed, con- i
e denticulato, or fringed - . 2. C. fimbriata.
Dorsal sepal with a broad base. "Labellum 2-spurred at the base,
broad an Mai ee boue with a irem recurved con-
vex margin . 8. C. bicalcarata.
1. C. unguiculata, R. Br. Prod. 328. Leaf rather more ovate than
in the two following species. Ovary rather long. Dorsal sepal abruptly
contracted into a linear claw of 2} to 3 lines erect at the base and then
much incurved, the lamina nearly orbicular, concave, about 3 lines
diameter ; lateral sepals and petals — GÀ ar, sometimes nearly as
long as the dorsal one but variable. Labellum rather longer, the tube
ovoid, oblong, incurved, somewhat inflat de not unlike that of the
corolla of pi species of Digitalis, the orifice very shortly and pe mc
expanded into a denticulate lamina, with a "v ngitudina. broad
line inside. Column very short. simie he wings qao a lower
oblong reflexed lobe, as in several. species of sitate —End). Iconogr.
t. 18; Corybas wnguiculatus, Reichb. f. Beitr.
N. s. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. we
I have only n" three specimens of this species, all very small, one in Herb. R.
Brown in the same sheet as one of C. bicalcarata (referred by Reichenbach f. by mis-
take to C. pruinosa, C unn;) the two others in Herb. A. Cunningham, also mixed with
TUO ee ee ee s
Corysanthes. | CXX. ORCHIDEX. ; 351
the very distinct C. bicalearata, a specimen of which was unfortunately sent to Lindley
under the name of C. unguiculata, and represents it in his Herb. where the true plant
2. C. fimb 1
A small qeu, usually drying black, rarely 2 in. high including the
rbicular-cordate, about 1 in. diameter, usually thicker
B veins
but longer than in C. bicalcarata, Labellum-tube much narrower than
conspicuous, the lamina reflexed, very large, varying however longer or
shorter than the tube, concave with inflexed fringed margins, the disk
reticulate and hairy inside along the centre. Column very short, much
thickened under the stigma, but not winged.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 393; Hook. f, Fl. Tasm. ii. 10, t. 117; Corybas pruinosus and
C. fimbriatus, Reichb. f. Beitr. 42, 43.
R. Brown, A. y oth
Cunningham, as, quoted by Lindley, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 393, distinguished two
species, C. fimbriata, with a much incurved obtuse galea, and C. nosa, with a more
erect mucronate galea. In the dried specimens those with an erect galea are quite as
obtuse as the others, and in that state it is impossible to distinguish two distinct forms.
The specimens of Corysanthes were a much mixed in Her unningham, two or
even three species laid down on the same sheet, and none named by him C. pruinosa.
. . Labellum lamina rather shorter and denticulate only, not bordered
by long cilia or fringe, but the teeth very variable. C. diemenica, Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
ch. 393.
Victoria. Port Phillip and Sealer’s Cove, F. Mueller; Wendu Vale, Robertson.
Tasmania. Common in various parts of the island, J. D. Hooker.
S. Australia. St. Vincent's Gu
W. Australi
y
ubulate, sometimes minut
_ in the upper part, incurved and concealed under the dorsal sepal, taper-
852 . CXX. ORCHIDER. —
S
t. 88 incorrect as to dota - Reich.
etn Brisbane river, Moreton $65 ^s phe ican acto: Thozet.
Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunni ingham ; Paramatta and Cur-
Hati Soole.
Salisbury's above quoted plate contains rude copies of Bauer’s three figures of the whole
plant, with analytical details inc onr ers rrowed. er Salisbury’s story of the
withered sp ecimen from Lady s garden, and the dried specimens, of the two other
ction or not cannot m e Positively ede, but if SA existed,
die an observer to have eere the tu rs nature of the labellum, dd to have
so grossly misdescribed seh erg m characters which he had misun erstood from a .
asty inspection without study of Bauer's original Peles n as he had mistaken the
. colouring which was there only indicated by Fm
36. PTEROSTYLIS, R. Br.
its insertion on the claw into an — ge eit er very short an
o inde or longer linear incurved and forked or penicillate at the end
with a tuft of — or more sete or cilia. Column AEE within the
E anular.— Terrestrial bebe with small underground tubers.
eaves ovate, in a tuft at the base of the flowering stem or in à
c: tuft or at a jm mig time of year, the stem-leaves either
scales. Flowers sati green o often ti tinged or streaked with red or
pedicels.
dorsal sepal, it [o con tee t ura to describe them separately for 3
of
«
The tie is chiefly Australian; one of the Australian species extends into New —
cu dl M a ue pu MER E -
Pterostylis.] CXX. ORCHIDEJ. 353
Caledonia, another into New Zealand, where are also a or six species not Australian,
the remainder of the genus is strictly ‘endemic in Australi
da 1. Antennszea.- Lower lip erect, the lobes or their points embracing the
g à
d ae —F lowers Met x (usually above 3 in. and never under 4 in.)
solitary sep and very rarely 2). Labellum-appendage linear, penicillate
fen) ith 2 or 3 Dristlo lees lobes at the end (the cilia very rarely and abnormally de-
Labellum-lobes narrow. Flowers above 1 i ong . 1. P. ophieglossa
"Labellum-lobes short and broad. Flowers n rs lin. long 2. P. concinna,
Labellum beea at the end.
Fi 1 in. long or more. Lobes of ve lower H lanceo-
late with an acute sinus t the
Flowers erect, curved only at or above the
Labellum very obtuse. Galea slightly i erar the
point obligue . . P. curta.
Labellum acuminate. Galea much curved at the
middle. The point horizonta 4. P. acuminata,
Flowers much curved below the middle so as to appear
— the point reflexed . 5. P. nutans.
Flowers 4 to 3 in
Lobes of the lower lip lanceolate, with an acute sinus
between them 6. P. pedunculata.
Lobes of the tied lip ‘separated by a broad truncate sinus
with an inflexed tooth . P. nana.
Leaves crowded at the eie of the flovering-stem, passing gra-
ually into stem-leaves or sca
Flowers (of P. nana) 4 to 3 in. ‘Lobes of the lower lip trun-
oes mone ated by a pi sinus, with an inflexed lobe or ab
jid 8. P. pyramidalis.
Foren x in. or in ' Lobes of the lower lip lanceolate,
d ute sinus.
Flowers glandular papilloso oe pac a ade A P aulis
Flowers quite glabrous outside 10. P. furcata.
Lower leaves reduced to scarious scales which pass into linear
or lanceolate scales or e es, the largest either subtending
the edicel or next to
Points of the se als. strai
Labellum énding in filiform ach — at the end.
Lower lip truncate between the ; 11. P. grandiflora.
Label: deed witha slender
point. over bg notched or we an MU sinus be-
tween the ]
Leaves — ancenhte Flower above 1 in. long se P. _
Leaves ve Flower under 1 in. long 3. P. pracox.
up LT poi Flower in. long d
te between the lobes . 14. P. obtusa.
Ponts: of ü the pul and of = lower- rli lo lobes recurved i in o
posite directions. Flower large 15. P: recurva.
Series 2. Parvifloræ.—Flowers 2 or- more very ra dy only 1.
bellum-appen-
dage ioe entire Aad oak 2 or 3 ied: Stems leafless at the time of Maris, except
empty sheathing bracts.
Sepals with ts points. Labellum shortly —— at Pen base,
I with fu dae appendage between the lobes . 16. P. om
354 CXX. ORCHIDEZE. [ Pterostylis.
Me acute -— very ves oe Labellum-appendage
hort and narrow, with 2 or 3 17. P. parviflora.
Bids: d kde "Tateliam-appeniage very “short obtuse and
Toi n . - 18. P. aphylla.
Secr. 2. Catochilus.— Lower ibo; refleced from the base or recurved from
middle, the short or narrow. Labellum-appendage entire and obtuse, tir ra
almost obsolete
Flower large, solitary. Labellum —— or filiform,
bearded with long hairs, glabrous at the
Leaves broadly lanceolate, crowded at the ase of the stem,
diminishing upwards . 19. P. barbata.
Leaves short eene acuminate, nearly equally distributed |
along the . 0. P. turfosa.
Flowers several under i in. long.
a radical sep persistent or fading away before
ring, those of the stem reduced to scarious sheaths.
Sepals all obtuse, the in lip shortly 2-lobed 21. P. mutica.
pak va ae or rarely Sog fine Tms the lower lip
. . 22. P. rufa.
Stems RIAM vithout a radical rosette,
-Leay r linear- = eolate. Column-wings nearly
pecie. . 23. P. longifolia.
cm lanceolate. Column wings with an “oblong lower
lo estern specie . 24. P. vittata.
. ANTENNRA.— Lower lip of the flower erect, concave, the
iN eem ng over the galea and embracing it by their: points, which
often extend far beyond it.
SERIES 1. GranpiFLor#.—Flowers large and solitary at the end
of the scape or stem, or very rarely 2 (only 2 biflorous specimens seen
out of many hundreds). Labellum oradin at the base into a linear
appendage, curved up at the end and there terminating in 2 or 8 bristle-
like lobes or ïn a tuft of cilia (penicillate).
1. P. ophioglossa, R. Br. Prod. 326. Leaves in a radical rosette,
shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly oblong, obtuse or mucronulate, 2 to
y sede aa iy! bach i the transverse veinlets usually uniting in
ards
as long as the labellum, reflexed lobe of the wings oblong and obtuse,
the erect lobe smaller lanceolate and acute. "adl Gen. and Sp. Orch.
391; Reichb. f. Beitr. 35.
A Port Curtis, R. Brown; Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller,
Fitzalan, Bailey.
i EENT E E E E T I ETE Saree E " =A
WIRE. TEN re ee LER ee REOR a a Pe S EUR a Oe SOE ee ENS § SS ee ree EIE RET a Ray
Se ee ee RE E
ae
ee ee ee TS ET AEREE
=
| Var
long points.
Pterostylis.) ; CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 355
. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Harvey, Woolls.
We have also what appears to be the same species from New Caledonia.
2. vie ge Ti . Br. Prod. 326. Nearly allied to P. ophioglossa,
but a smaller lant. Leaves s radical, under 1 in. long, ovate or broadly
Beitr. 34, nor are they represented in the excellent t figure above mentioned, ‘The plate
in Bot. ? id t. 3400 appears to me rather to represent one of the long-flowered forms
of P. curta
3. P , R. Br. Prod. 326. Leaves in a radical rosette, usually
on long petioles, ovate or broadly elliptical, 5- to 9-nerved, from under
li ps to 1 ng. Scapes 1-fowered, usually about 6 in. high, with
1,20r3 Ls loosely sheathing empty bracts ee the one subtend-
ing ibo terminal pedicel. Galea erect, about 11 in. long, ac by bit not
acuminate. Lower lip cuneate, with roadly p e ch not so
surface pape the basal appendage linear curved and penicillate.
Colum o 8 lines long, with the basal projection rather long; wing
with an bd pe oblong and obtuse, the uppe r lobe short and
broad with a narrow point at t
Orch. v Hook. f. h. Tasm. ii. 18; Bot. “Mag. t. 3086; Reichb. f.
oe |
Port Jackson, Caley, A. Cunningham, Woolls ; Liverpool, Leich-
hen “yore Day F. Mueller.
endu Vale, Robertson; Meibourne, Adamson; Darebin Creek, Mount
eller.
Diis E F. Mu
4 ia. Port Dalrym Brown; common in UI P places, J. D. Hogar,
asmani e, B,
S. Australia: nl Ti and Bugle ranges, F.
? grandiflora. Flowers above 2 in. long, the lobes of the lower lip ending i in
aaa Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller; also in Leichhardt's col-
. S. Wales. Paramatta, Woolls.
n P. R. Br. Prod. 326. Leaves in à falios) tae
ovate or broadly ape, and 5- : Topervad as in P. curta, aw d form
A A9
! 356 "CXX. ORCHIDEE. .— [ Pterostylis.
of which this species closely resembles. Scape 1-flowered, 6 to 9 in.
high with 1 or rarely 2 empty sheathing bracts besides the one em-
bracing the tetuiinal pedicel. Galea 1 to 1} in. long, erect but much
OW
lip narrow cuneate, contracted into a claw, the lobes lanceolate and
pe into long fine points embracing the galea. Labellum oblong-
inear, tapering to a point. Column with a short basal projection,
lower lobe of the wings broad and obtuse, upper lobe broad and scarcely
prominent, with a — a at the front er —Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 391; Bot. Mag. t. 3401; Reichb. f. Beitr. 36.
"A Wales. Port J ee to the Blue Pin qd R. Brown, A. Cunningham,
000L8.
ntans, R. Br. Prod. 327. Toast in a radical rosette, petio-
late, ovate or elli al 3 to 1din. long. Scape 1-flowered, Gin. tol
high, usually with a single long cox S^ sheathing empty bract penn
; e under the terminal pedice alea nearly 1 in. long,
flow ate in front; lowe
bord id br ral cu neat the lobes long and lanceolate, tapering
into long points em i
z 5 5 urga long, the eed smooth but sometimes minutely ciliate,
appen age narrow-linear, curved, penicillate. Column ? the
s xe af the galea, the wings w with a broadly oblong obtuse lower "lobe
and only a hi small upper lobe or tooth, the stigma usually long and
conspicuous.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. ser 891; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii.
18; Bot. Mag. t. 3085 ; Reichb. f. Bei na
Queensland. Brisbane river, Moreton vage
eer > MI Port Jackson to the Blue Pose H R. Brown, Caley, Sieber, n.
5, and man
Victoria. Portlan d bay, F. Mueller ; E. Gipps’ Land, Walter
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, Paterson ; common in shady paces in a poor soil,
. D. Hooker, and others.
S. Australia. Mount Gambier, F. Mueller.
6. P. pedun R. Br. Prod. 827. Leaves in Poa rosette
on ether long petioles, ovate or broadly oblong, 4 to 1 in. long, thin
and usually 5-nerved. Scape 1-flowered, under or over 6 in. high, with
2to4 oo sheathing empty bracts besides the one subtending the
i h
-
var appendage rather long, B dde dilated at the end pe
s with a long almost hair-like fux the lower lobe ee
broadly lanceolate, tins —Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 391; Hook. É
Fl. Tasm. ii. 19, t. 114 A; Reichb. f Beitr. 36.
Pterostylis.] CXX. ORCHIDEJX. 357
N. S. Wales. Cudgee, E. Cunningham; Grose river, Miss Atkinson, apparently
oe wg species, although the basal appendage of the labellum has no tuft of cilia at
e end. ^
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple,2. Brown ; abundant in shady places, J. D. Hooker,
and others.
usually only 4 in. and rarely 4 in. long & single empt
eathing bract, which as well as the one subtending the terminal
pedicel is usu o te and spreading than in P. pe lata
e
Galea as in that species but little above 4 in. long, erect, abruptly
curved towards the end, but obtuse or scarcely acute in front. Lower
tooth, the lower lobe oblong and obtuse.—Lindl. Gen. . Orch.
391; Reichb. f. Beitr. 37; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 19, but not the plate
114 B, which may perhaps have been taken from P. concinna.
Victoria. Wendu Vale, Robertson ; Port Phillip, F. Mueller.
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; Woolnorth and Circular Head, Gunn ;
Bagdad, Miss Forster; Oyster Cove, Milligan; Southport, C. Stuart.
ustralia. ount Gambier, Mrs. Wehl. :
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond (doubtful); Blackwood river, Oldfield ;
Monjerup, F. Mueller; Upper Hay river, Miss Warburton.
8. P. p idalis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 388.
Very closely allied to P. nana and the flower almost identical in size
na, and t
P. pedunculata in which the lanceolate bases of the lobes are separated
= by an acute sinus.— P. barbata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 5, not of Lindl.
eichb, f.) |
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond ; Gordon river, Oldfield ; Lake Muir, Muir.
9. P. cucullata, R. Br. Prod. 327. Usually a low plant, rarely
much above 6 in. with a single large flower. Leaves crowded at the
base of the stem and sometimes s iris rosulate, often larger than in
any other species, ovate or oblong-elliptical, 1 to 3 in. long, passing into
_ lto3 empty almost leaf-like bracts, the one subtending the terminal
_ pedicel very loosely sheathing, ovate-lanceolate, above 1 in. long. Galea
ye CXX. ORČHIDEÆ. €:
. , . i . ii. 19, t.
P pou s Beir, 36; P. dubia, R. Br. rod. 328, Lindl. Le. ; ;
Victoria. iu Phillip, C. French; Brighton ENS Gulliver ; Gipps’ Land, P.
lle
Tasmania. Port zm R. Brown; common on poor soil in shaded places,
J. ^e Hooker and other
ustralia. Mo sas round St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller.
2s rown's specimen of P. dubia, from Derwent DW is a very inepti one, but
ears to be a wicker tate of P. cucullata. e Tasmanian specimens distin-
guished by Lindley as P. scabrida ; the leaves are ges s and the Mot. wae what
different from the ubl luxuriant habit of P. cucull ata, but the two forms pass too much
into rent other to p^ distinguished as varieties.
10. P. furcata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch, 390. Very near P. cucullata,
and perhaps a variety only, with a similar large erect. solitary flower
from within a large acuminate loosely sheathing bract, but the lower
e
rinse is penta? gea. outside, and the lobes of the lower lip end
in longer fine points embracing the galea. The ow hys of
he flower is ihe same as in P. cueullata.—HM ook, f. Fl. . 20.
Victoria? Some Jail from Plenty Range, F. Mueller, seem arida rather
. to this ice me x
rh rt Soroa and Deloraine, met Chudleigh and
Cebin 3 prr ia p t ; Hampshire Hills, Mi illiga
P. dubia, Hook. f. Fl. Ta asm. ii. e , t. 115, seems to belong to ais species rather
than to P. Far to which I would is Brown’ 8 specimen so named.
however, perhaps varieties only of one speci
R
ive the stem, lanceolate, acuminate e aif ees
bom the beet elias ing the terminal baer ove 1 in. long,
abruptly or forward about the middle, the na as well a
dorsal sepals in front in short points; lower sa sigas the entire
rt br sadly CUN fully 4 in. long, truncate as in P. na P. obtusa,
Dinag a very broad straight and scarcely notehed kajie between the
lobes, which are very shortly dilated at the base, tapering into lon
linear at the aie; tapering into a long filiform glabrous point some-
what clavate at the end; the basal appendage linear, curved, penicillate.
ra E an,
ery
Pterostylis.] CXX. ORCHIDEZX. 359
Column-wings with an erect linear acute lobe at the front angle, the
lower lobe oblong, obtuse.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 387 ; Guillem.
Ic. Pl. Austral. t. 6; Reichb. f. Beitr. 39.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Caley, Woolls. '
19. P. reflexa, R. Br. Prod. 327. Stems slender, 6 to 9 in. high,
glabrous or min tely scab
rosette of radical leaves at the time of flowering. Leaves or empty
scales lanceolate, erect or slightly spreading, acuminate, under 1 in
long in the typi , and none usually s g as the bract sub-
tending the terminal pedicel, more leaf-like and longer in some ieti
App. 53;
Orch. Gen. and Sp. 888; P. pyramidalis, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 5, not
of Lindl.
a ee ar ee Mere ee
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls, and others; New England, C.
Stuart ; Mudgee, Taylor.
Victoria. Grampians and Wimmera, F. Mueller; Little river, Fullagar; East
Gipps’ Land, Walter.
S. Australia. Mount Lofty ranges, F. Mueller. : :
Ww. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2203, and others ;
Vasse river, Oldfield ; Hampden, Clarke; Grenough Flats, C. Gray.
m the typical form the flowers are not very large, and the labellum has a long fine
int, :
. another, that I have been unable to sort the specimens into distinct varieties. It is
possible, however, that their study in a fresh state may point out more appreciable
. Characters.
Pls from which species this one may be mos readily
. distinguished by the narrow leaves smaller flowers and broader sinus
; i rianth.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.
. li. 91; Disperis alata, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 59, t. 210; P. alata,
. Reichb. f. Beitr. 70. 3
360 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Pterostylis.
Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller; Wendu Vale, Robertson (the speci-
Victoria.
mens in fruit et UN and ee doubtful).
Circular Head, Gunn; Hobarton, J. D. Hooker; Flinders island,
. obtusa
about 6 in. high, without xis Ta leaves at the time'of
ing scales. Galea lear 3 to near lin. long, besides the point hich
E 9, t. 116 €; ae f. Bele.
N. s. wW Wales. Port Jac kson, R. odis Woolls ; New England, C. Stuart.
oe Common in the northern parts of the island, J. D. Hooker ; Southport,
^ Stuart,
15. P. recurva, Benth. Stems 1 to ll ft. high, rigid, 1- or some- —
times 2-flowered, without any radical rosette, the lower leaves aer 4
to small scales gradually i increasing to linear or linear-lanceolate leaves
of 1 to 2 in., the bract subtendin, ng the pedicel more lanceolate and
sometimes shorter. Galea erect, above 1 in. long, not very broad and
not much curved, the dorsal sepal as wellas the petals ending in re-
curved jeune apparently kefal rk in length; lower is as long or que
thanthe a, narrow vided tothe middleinto lanceolate lobes
erect an embracing the eren ie recurved at the end and wna i
in pie points of 2 to 6 lines. Labellum pg sear towards the en
but obtuse, the basal appendage linear, elongated, curved, bifid and
patiki. at eis end, but the tuft consisting of very ’ few cilia.
N. Australia, Drummond; Upper Hay river, Miss Warburton. —A well-marked
species, of which l liowever I Mere seen but very few. specimens.
SERIES 2, Parvir LORE. —Stems leafless at. the time of flowerin
a different time of year, or i contemporaneous M a agat branch
of the rhizome. owers under 4 in. lon ore in a raceme, very
rarely. reduced to 1. Pes Nobel of the belli short, dut of |
with 2 or 3 teeth or
P. Daintreana, F. Muell. Herb. Leaves (only seen in an im-
per state) like those of P. parviflora, small, ovate, in a radical rosette
the side of the scape or flowering stem. Scape slender, above 6 in.
AAT TIT CURE PPS
=
uet CXX. ORCHIDE È. 361
the galea. Labellum narrow, obtuse and entir , Sagittate
at the base with obtuse auricles and a small obtuse entire appendage
between them ol reaching to the end of galea, the wings
very broad with a small point at the upper front angle, the lower
slender portion of the column bordered by narrow wings, the stigma
scarcely prominen
N. S. Wales. Nod Sydney, Daintree, very few specimens in Herb. F. Mueller.
17. P. parviflora, R. Br. Prod. 327. Leaves in radical rosettes
appearing at a diferent time of year from the flowering stem or if con-
temporaneous in a tuft by the side of it, ovate, under 4 in. and often
only 1 in. long, on a rather long petiole. Scape slender, 4 to 8 in. long,
with 2 or 3 empty bracts or small etie leaves and a raceme of
2 to 5 small flowers. Gale ea much NINOS xd 5 lines long, do
Qucensiand, Brisbane at and seg island, F. Mueller.
N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, 2. Bro Fools; Aitken Creek, A, Cunningham.
Victoria. Wilson’s Puente F,
nia. Port entis R. Ses; "Hio river, Oldfield; Hobarton, J. D.
Mer pree t, Archer
18. P. aphylla, Lindl Gen. and vd Orch. 892. A smaller but rather
stouter pH « than P. parviflora, with the same foliage according to
Archer and C. cna but the Beal tufts entirely gone at the time of
owering. Stems 3 to 5 in. high, with 1 to 3 flowers, which, when
more than one, front each other in a peculiar way as d ribed by
C. Stuart and even apparent on dried specimens, but of which 1 see
basal appendage of the labellum obtuse and undivided in the dosis
N withoüt even the 3 short points figured by Fiteh.—Hook. f.
m. ii. 22, t. 1 *
Tasm: river, Oldfield; "pound Head, Gunn; Cheshunt, Archer;
= river and plain i Southport, C. Stua
T. 2. CATrocnILUS.—Lower zn i the perianth very spreading
or retinui from the base, or recurved from the middle, the lobes short
362 CXX. ORCHIDEE. [Pterostylis.
or narrow. Basal appendage of the labellum-lamina entire and obtuse,
or sometimes almost obso
19. P. barbata, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 388.
Stems 1-flowered, fro ader 6i arly 1 ft. high. Leaves
crowded at the base of the stem, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute
or shortly acuminate, 3 to 1 in. long, sometimes extending halfway up
the stem, sometimes almost rosulate at the base, passing more or
B
®©
B
c
o
B
iq]
points ; lower m linear, p spreading recurved or reflexed, the lobes
TOW us de points. — Labellum 4 to ii in. long,
linear-terete or filiform, Banat with long yellow lah except at the
end, where it bears a broad glabrous nearly square complicate entire
or toothed appendage, and at the base where it is glabrous, thickene
the lower part of ‘the column very narrowly winged.—P. squamata,
Lindl. Gen. and Sp: Orch. 388 ; Hook. f£ FL Tasm. ii. 90, t. 116, not
of R. Br.
Victoria. Wendu Vale, Robe dier. :
Tasmania. Common in sandy s L4 JD. Hooker and others.
s. o apu acres Mount Lofty Made F. Mueller.
tralia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; King George's Sound, Muir ;
7. (Stem F. Mueller.
The species is also in New Zealand,
P. turfosa, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 5. Stem short, slender,
135 2d Leaves short, linear, dioa, ‘all nearly SM and equally
distributed along the stem, the upper one or bract subtending the
terminal pedicel rather larger than the others. Galea erect, much
like that of P. barbata but with a long filiform point, the linear lower
lip also with long points to the lobes. Labellum linear-terete, bearded
with long rid hairs as in P. barbata, the end unknown, being broken
off
w. tralia. Stirlin bine Had n. 2632.—1 have not seen any specimen ;
the above character is taken írom a sketch and description sent to me by Reiche nbach
fil, and drawn up by him from the only known specimen now in the pa Herbarium
21. P. mutica, R. Br. Prod. 328. Leaves in a radical rosette at the
base of the flowering stem sometimes but not usually withering away
at the time of flowering, ovate, very s geng petiolate or almost sessile,
mostly $ to fin. long. Ste m 4 to Šin, high, with 1 to 5 empty sheath-
ing bracts, ‘besides Es subtending the pedicels, all obtuse or the
Pterostylis. ] CXX. ORCHIDER. 363
upper ones acute. Flowers 5 to 10, in a slightly spiral spike. Galea
broad, much incurved, obtuse, a out 3} lines long; lower lip little
more than 2 lines lon; and at Eva as broad, concave, reflexed, with
Queensland. Brisbane te Moreton cng F. Mueller, Meca pe
ales. Port Jackson, R. Bro Woolls, and o ther ; Emu plains, 4. Cun-
sitom "jg England, C. Buari y did to Illawarra, Busbhseie y Gabo island,
endu Vale, ope Melbourne, Adamson ; Darebin Creek, Mount
Disappointment, Grishin 8, F. Mue
Common in sei past ures as well as in Pa oes sandy soil, J. D. Hooker.
S. Peut, y Mount Gambier and Rivoli bay, F.
22. P. rufa, R. Br. Prod. 997. Leaves in a radical rosette at the
base of the stem, but most frequently withering away before the flower-
ing, ovate, obtuse or acute, } to lin. long. Stem 6 to 10 in.
it t
duced in front into a fine point 10 lines long in the typical form, very
much longer in some varieties; lower lip on a rather long basal p ro-
por of the column, reflexed from it, broadly cuneate, 3 to 4 lin
column | narrowly winged.—Lindl. Gen. an gd Orch. 390; Hook. f.
Tasm. ii. UO WES 116; Reichb. f. pis
Queensland. Rockhampton, Thoze
rt Jackson, emos R. Brown, Woolls, and others; New Bog
N. S. Wales,
laud, €. Stuart ; Darling river, Dallachy ; Upper Bogan and Lachlan rivers, F. Mars
ictoria, uray river, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy
Tasmania, Port pis ae ; Meander river, C. mesi.
S, Australi Mors and St. Vincent's gulfs, F. Mueller.
W. Austr
, The s vg ies nies ak | in stature, in the persistence of the radical leaves, in the
size of the flowers, and especially in the length of the eps The Movie are
es principal formi bir apt cute be distinguished mostly as species, but which pass
ri
adually into each o
P. gibbosa, R. Br. Pd. ner Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 390; Reichb. f. Beitr. 41,
964 CXX. ORCHIDEJ. [ Pterostylis.
from Port Jackson, appears to me to be merely a tall-growing luxuriant state of the
Loup short- m nted fo:
river specimens have the sepa'-points Seid 4 in. long, and i o specim n Her
F. j^ one rii: Queensland, Bowman, the os er ae Salt Cade preter
F. Mueller, these points vary from 3 to Spade 1 in. in length.
23. P. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 327. Stems rather slender, but
often 1ft. high or rather more, without any radical rosette, the lower
leaves reduced to short sheathing scales, those at and above "the middle
of the stem linear or linear- lanceolate, acute or acuminate, from under
1 to above 2 in. long, very (REM sheathing at the base. Flowers 3 to
7, in a terminal raceme. Galea 5 to 7 lines, more or less incurved above
, acute or with a
short point in front; lower lip reflexed, 4 to 5 lines long, oblon n8,
process at the end, the basal R very shor übt use an Pal y
erect. Column-wings very broad, nearly mure or ER hatchet-
shaped, the EUM ‘ciliolate or entire.— Lindl. Sp rch. 388;
i ok. f. Fl. Tasm. ii, 22, t. 117; Reichb. f. Beitr
S. Wales DRE ackson to the Blue Mot € vee [650 Sieber, n. 160, A.
and "ya Cunningham, and care others ; Illawarra, Backhouse.
ictoria. Forest Creek, Mount Disappoi lota; Wilson’ 8 Vct depart Nangaita
range, &c., F. Mueller ; Grampians, Fisher; E. Gipps' Lan "i vet :
RM. , Common in dry soil in forest land, "D.
S. + Mount Lofty range, between Mount ponas and Rivoli bay,
F ale.
"The species varies much in the length and breadth of the leaf, in the size of the
flowers, he length of the lobes of the lower lip and the precise form of the heme
especially of its terminal appendage, and it seems sometimes Malo f io pass into
P. vittata.
24. P. vittata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 58, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 389.
Allied to P. longifolia and like that phere without any rosette of “radical
leaves to the flowering stem, but usually a stouter and much more leafy
iem Stems 8 in. to above 1 ft. high, often angular in the dried state.
ves lanceolate, narrow or broad, ‘acute, usually clasping the stem —
ah rounded auricles, the lower one or two reduced to sheathing
es. Flowers in a more compact raceme than in P. longifolia, the
bracts more leaf-like. Galea 5 to 6 lines long, broad, very much
curved near the base and above the middle so as to be quite helmet-
1
|
,
K
- Pterostylis.] .CXX. ORCHIDEE, 365
Shaped, with a short point in front directed downwards ; lower li
rather broadly ovate, voe than the galea, concave, recurved, with
short acuminate lobes ellum on a rather long claw oblong, about
2 lines long, slightly o and emarginate or 2-lobed at the end,
e margins ciliate, the basal appendage n more than an obtuse
thickening of the base of the un ina, and usually with a thick seta or
linear tooth on one or both margins just edes the base. Column-wings
with an oblong lower lobe — vows at the end, hien rà of the
dl. in Pl. Preiss
S. Australia? Some specimens from ande le range, F. m "E p in e i.d
barium sors others of P. longifolia from Third "Creek, under the name of P. pri
sima appear to np se fad a vittata.
ustralia, Drummond ; King George’s Sound and rr
districts, Maxwell, Poe $ "2201, 2202, Muir, ‘Miss Warburton; ; Vasse river, Oldfield ;
Hampden, Cla ~~
Thay a hea e to ascertain whether the form of the column-wings be as con-
sandy y distinct om that prevailing in P. longifolia as it appeared in the few flowers
exam
37. S CARDAMA, R. Br.
The genus is ie to Australia. Allied to Drakea, it is readily known by ne
large e pet allike wings of thè column, — a kind of pouch open or closed by
elastic wittons of the lid-like labellu
Spe bed the labellum and lateral iod inserted at the base of the :
n . 1. C. major.
Claw « of the labelicm and lateral sepals inserted at the end of a basal
projection of the c n. 7
Leaf narrow linear. "pan ERES ee
Leaf o ovate or lanceolate. Western species oe e nigrita.
l. C. major, R. Br. Prod. 329. Leaf radical, linear or narro
lanceolate, 9 2 to ái in. long. Stem often above 1 ft. bi h, with a singlo
closely appressed empty s seva bract below the midd dle, and 1 to 4 red
owers on very short pedicels, the subtending bracts 2 to 4 lines D
Dorsal sepal narrow-linear, rather thick, channelled, erect or incurved
366 | CXX. ORCHIDEJX. eee
the cavity ape on the under side. Column 4 to 5 lines long, bordered
on each side from the base to the anther with a petal-like coloured
.G
ing
and Sp. Orch. 429; Hook. f. Fl. Tas 18, t. 107 A; Reichb. f
Beitr. 44; Caleya major, Endl. [e feas t. 8.
Queensland. Moreton bay, F’. Mueller
Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Backhouse, Woolls; Blue Mountains,
Maw Aiii; New England, C. Stua
Mount Sturgeon, Mount Abrupt, Latrobe river, F. Mueller; Mount
Wiliam, ‘Sullivan; e Land, ter.
ocky Cape, esas oY Archer ; Southport, C. Stuart ; South
Hoo Oe N. W. Bay, Milliga
C. minor, R. Br. Prod. 329. Leaf radical, narrow-linear.
ster about in . high, without any or Aro rarely w with a single T
empty br bra Ag nl the middle. Flowers 1 to 3, much smaller than in
C. major, on longer pedicels. Sepals p petals linear, nearly equal,
4 to 5 lines base the dorsal one often dilated above the middle and at-
tached as well as the petals immediately above the ovary, the lateral
sepals however dtsehéd to the extremity of the basal projection of the
column on each ud of the stipes of the labellum, which is linear and
incurved. Lamina of the labellum peltate and convex, but narrower |
than in C. major, and tuberculate on the surface, the upper lobe obtuse
or shortly Sobad the lower lobe or appendage very short. Column
about as long as t the sepals, the broad wing adnate also to the basal
projection, which is at least half as long as the column itself and nearly
erect whilst the column is more TOR e whole forming a broad
sac or pouch. COE Gen. and = Orch. 199; M f. Beitr. 44.
N. S Port Jackso Brown; New England, €. Stuart (a single
H saorane in Herb. `F. Mueller differing i in “some slight Se dien from Brown's and
adn. Hobarton, Gunn.
C. nigrita, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 54, Gen. and Sp. Orch. 429.
Leaf radical, small, ovate ot broadly lanceolate Stem about 6 in.
high, wit thout any empty braet, Flowers 1 to 3 , on pedicels of 4 to 1 in.
Sepals and petals linear, about 5 lines long, the dorsal sepal closely -
appressed to the column and a pparently n e to it at the base, the
etals very narrow, the lateral sepals attached as in C. minor to the ex-
tremity of the basal projection of the column. Labellum with a claw of
at least 3 lines, the lamina peltate, — es convex, tuberculate 0n
the surface, the upper end or lobe twice as long as the lower lobe or
appendage, both ends ibo] or emarginate in the specimens ; examined.
Caleana.) CXX. ORCHIDER. 367
Column nearly as long as the sepals, the broad wing adnate to the basal
projection which is at least 2 lines long and forming a broad sac as in
C. minor.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 11.
W, Australia, Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 864.
38. DRAKA, Lindl.
(Spiculea, Lindl.; Arthrochilus, F. Muell.)
Sepals and petals linear, the dorsal sepal erect, the lateral sepals
and petals spreading or reflexed. Labellum articulate at the base of the
gel distinct and nearly equally 2-valved. Pollen-masses granular
ti : B Y . «d
?
herbs, with small underground tubers. Leaf solitary at or near the base
of the stem, usually broad, or none at of ering. Scape
n
raceme, the subtending bracts small and narrow. Labellum almost
hammer-shaped and very irritable. Ovary straight or recurved, more
or less reversing the flower. í:
The genns is limited to Australia, and is nearly allied to Caleana. The three species
form one well-marked genus, the differences between D. (Spiculea) ciliata and the
onginal D. elastica correspond to those which distinguish Caleana major aud E
Labellum articulate at the base of the column, without any inter-
vening projection. Column with 2 pairs of auricles. Stem with
1 leat. - Flowers several: > o 05 08 Gh ce a es o E
Labellum articulate at the end of a basal projection of the column.
Lateral sepals adnate to the basal projection of the column. Stem
eafless. lowers govOuL: (oW ee o opo si mis
Lateral sepals free from the linear basal projection. Leaf radical,
- Flowers solitary 200974 Boe Qm ori A
1. D. ciliata.
2. D. irritabilis.
3. D. elastica,
368 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [Drakea.
recurved auricles, with a short triangular lobe at the base of each on
the upper side. Stigma without - or only with a very short terminal
point.—Spiculea ciliata, Lindl. iv. App. 56, with a woodcut,
Gen. and Sp. Orch. 428; Endl. in a Pl Preiss. ii. 10.
WV. Australia. Swan river, wiesen. 1st coll., 4th coil. n. 325.
Queensland. Brisbane river, Misit bay, Y. Hill, F. didis C. Prentice;
resign bay, Dallachy.
C. Prentice collected in June, 1867, a specimen with bis maya An oo proceeding
from a taft “of lanceolate leaves 2 or 3 in. lo ong. These may have been the or eei
leaves of the plant, which appear usually ata different t time of year fr gai the flower
but in this instance the plant had probably aia abnormally at the feafing time.
3. D. elastica, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 55 with a woodcut, Gen. and Sp.
Orch. 428. Tat " radical, broadly doe gules etl or almost is cn
attached, broadly ovate but very convex and the sides emis y
y
folded back so as to conceal the under sicko the upper surface covered
with short thick hairs or calli except the smooth tip, the lower lobe
or appendage solid and fleshy, half as long as the upper one. Column
e as long as the sepals, abruptly incurved in the mid le, wi
w wings produced into auricles at the base and somewhat
dilated under the anther, the basal projection of the column sup we l
the labellum about 3 lines long and linear like the claw. ; Rostellum
PETRE D US,
t ats RETENIR ER
nl ML MEC lr didus
EA LE dicus
| On s cures Sepals pe points," “Labellam i broader than
Drakea) —— .CXX. ORCHIDER. 369
the stigma erect and sometimes nearly as long as the anther.—Endl. in
Pi. ine ii. 10.
W. ralia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; Cape Leschenault, Oldfield ;
King George's Sound, £F. Mueller, Muir ; known under the name of Hammer Orchis.
39. ACA, R. Br.
o
the petals, sessile or Me 80, salda the margin entire, the disk
smooth or pee ose, with or without 2 a nate calli or tubercles at the
base. Column erect or es semiterete or 2-winged. Anther
broad, erect, 9-celled, with broad outer valves, the connective some-
mes produced into a sho int; pollen granular, but less so than in
Besides the Australian 5s s whi ni are gern mic, there is one from New Zealand.
The ge enus ig otv allied to Caladenia, but without the calli and fringes to the labellum
of "ha genus, a different olii and the pollen in two at least of its species appear to
be of the m solid consistence of that of hilus.
Pem m Muret Sepals with fine points. Labellum oblong-
a ate.
Flowers rt ith a filiform point of T PRI
ipli o À Dorsal sepal De with a z VOR |
"duda 3 to 10; Dor áal sepal with i oint ander 9
Dorsal ques ovate-lanceolate. Labellum with 2 deco lines
on the surface 2. A. fornicatus.
eve shpal lanceolate, ‘contracted at the base. Labellum
mooth on the surface 8. A. exsertus,
4. A, viridis.
* A. caudatus, R. Br. Prod. 991. Stems slender, sometimes fili-
rarely above ] in. long. Flowers 1 to 3, of a dark colour, on sho
E pedicels within small bracts, Dorsal sepal tapering into a filiform point
aj —Lin
. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 397 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 25, t. 119; Reichb. f
itr. 26.
varyi ng from 4 to ae : in. long, not very broad in the lower part,
ig contracted Again the base; lateral Xp shorter, filiform,
Pparently more granular than in the two following species.
VOL. V1, : BB
370 CXX. ORCHIDEJZE. [ Acianthus.
Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A, Cunningham, Woolls ; Blue Moun- |
wins, M Mus Atkinson. 4
ania. Common in moist shaded woods, J. D. Hooker.
2. A. fornicatus, R. Br. Prod. 321. Stem Slender, 6 to 8 in. high.
sepal ovate-lanceolate, 3 to 4 lines long, erect, incurved, concave, acute
and the midrib produced intoa fine Sis of 1 to 14 lines ; lateral 'sepals
nearly as long but linear, with a long point and angular toothe
on each side of the point, close together or ihórdy united ph the
labellum ; petals lanceolate about half as long as the dorsal sepal, with -
a short point. Labeilum much shorter than the dorsal sepal but variable
ar in A. exsertus. Anther with a very short point. Pollen
etica (in the ibe d 4 in each cell, of the somewhat solid
consistence of ZEriochilus but obtuse at the base, and perhaps puri
Aes at a later a Stigma very prominent. —Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
rch e Endl. Iconogr. t. 16; Reichb. f. Beitr. 25.
Que and. Brisbane river, Morvton bay, F'. Mueller ; reb die bay, Dallachy;
Mount W ate Thozet.
N. ales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 159, and others.
F. Mueller, Fragm, v. 96, unites this and the following species under the name of
A. Brunonis.
3. A. exsertus, R. Br. Prod. 821. A slender delicate plant, much
MT uy A. fornicatus, but smaller. Leaf deeply cordate, ovate or
jene and often sinuate as in that species. Flowers rather smaller,
3t e raceme, ys „ponen very short. Dorsal sepal slightly
ineurved, concave oe w and m uch ontracted at the base about
rotruding forwards Nod ine dorsal sepal. Pollen of A. fornicatus.—
Lind en. and R Orch. 397 ; Hoo . f, Fl. Tasm. ii, 25, t. 119;
one e Beitr. 25. .
N. ales. Port Jackson, Bauer, Woolls, and others ; Blue Mountains, Caley;
New MA C. Stuart
Victoria. Wendu river, Robertson; Seeler's Cove, F. Mueller; Portarlington,
Acianthus, | CXX. ORCHIDER. 371
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn; Cheshunt, Archer; Southport, C. Stuart;
Um" St
faceres Lofty Range, F. Mueller,
. „Some specimens from Port Phillip, F. Mueller, have very much reduced e
either with much enlarged or with very small bracts, all probably abnormal stat
viridis, Hook. . Fl. Tasm. ii. 372. A small grim the e corinne
ow the m
long and very obtuse. La 2 lines lon ng, | essile, rhomboidal,
paneave, slightly undulate, e ed with 2 calli at the 1 base but I could
t clear rly see them in the only flower I could examine. Colum
t as in Caladenia, Pollen not seen
pip. Base of Mount Wellington, Gunn, Oldfield.
40. ERIOCHILUS, R. Br.
Tec or very n
Anther erect, not mucronate, 2-celled, the outer valves large, folde
over and concealing the small inner valves; pollen at eMe powdery
granular but much less so than in crm and usually seen in 4
distinct and almost smooth masses in each cell, contracted at one end
into points or short cau dde .— Terrestrial glandular-pubescent or hairy
rarely glabrous herbs, with small underground tubers. Leaf solitary at
the base of or higher r up the stem, ovate or ficit. Flowers pink or
white, 1 or more nearly sessile on a scape or peduncle, without empty
bracts above leaf, each flower subtended by a short loosely sheath-
ing ovate bra
The genus is pd to Australia. In all the flowers examined in which I have
found the pollen-masses still in situ, their consistence has been much more solid and
less granular than in any of the allied genera except Acianthus. F. Mueller, however,
odas n the fresh state no difference between the pollen of Hriochilus and that
eat t ie Mite 2 Sanaian pub Labellum without :
broad. Ste andular-pubescent. um withou dione t
lateral lobes, iu midi rs ovate-oblon "e 5 tern species. 1. E. autumnalis.
Labell llum with small erect lateral lobes, the middle lobe nearly
estern species.
Leaf maeri Stem villous i 1 un UN scaber.
‘ Leaf narrow. Stem glabrou . 8. E. tenuis.
o lef mae Sh way up the stem, "Plant nearly glabrous. Western
Labellum middle-lobe ovate-oblong. Flowers rarely above 3 . 4. E. dilatatus.
BBZ
372 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. Eriochilus
meine ee —Án " — more Y
than . 5. E. multiflorus.
l.E E ossis, R. Br. Prod. 323. A ae plant, rarely ex-
ceeding 6 in., more or less glandular-pubescent. Leaf f radical, ovate,
ers , usually dying away before the time of flowering, but occasionally
still persisting at the base of some flowering specimens. Flowers pink,
solitar ee or 2 or3 rather distant, the subtendine bracts loosely stieathises
1 to 2 lines long, and no empty ones on the scape lower down. Dorsal
sepal see slightly incurved, narrow-lanceolate, wl scarcely con-
tracted at the bas e, 3 to 34 lines long; lateral sepals ha If as long m
very acute, ellipticadstaaioeolite! contracted into a distinct often "glen
stipes ; petals dete shorter than the dorsal E linear or ue
cde
Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 26, t. 120.A ; Epipactis eueullata, pud PI. No v.
Holl. ji. 61, t. 211, £ 2; :” Eriochilus "Pucullatus, Reichb. f. Beitr. 97.
Queensland. Bri T ER ne ae Moreton bay, W. Hill (with smaller ^ ers).
S. Wales, Port Jackson,. R. eo ese oe frequent in the “doling? A.
Cunningham ; f i England, Leichhar
di Wale e dw Phillip, R. Brown; from the Yarra to
Gips band, E Mueller and 4
Tasmania. Port Dalrym a R. M common in open and somewhat dry |
ground throughout the island, J. 1
S. Aus tralia Near Mount Burken, E Mueller.
E. scaber, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. v and Sp. Orch. 427.
Closely allied to Æ. autumnalis, usually but n t always shorter, not so
slender, and hairy with Ava transparent h Leaf radical,
i. erwise with the same pr veia ons. Labellum- di eget pro-
duced into small erect rounded lateral lobes, the lamina or middle
lobe almost orbicular, very convex and ensely er . Column not
e 1
anther. Pollen-masses Dtm and m contracted into caudicles as —
in Æ. pec mnalis.— l. Preiss ;
W. Australia. bie Hayn iver, Miss gelo; Perongerup, F. Mu eller; —
Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2207. (whic I have not seen) ; Murchison
river, Oldfield Y 1
E. Lindleyi, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 10, from Swan river, Preiss, n. 2206, which :
have not seen, is distinguished by the shortly pedunculate less ern flowers, but re A
=i only a slight variety of E. scaber, to which it is reduced by Reic chb. 3
. E. tenuis, Lindl. — Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch A. 427
inue very slender, 3 to 6 in. high and single-flowered in ui the T
Eriochilus.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 373
specimens seen. Taif radical, but much narrower than in the two
pour dire lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate and almost obtuse.
` Dra , acute lower o ize
ct smal f the size of
sepals and petals not so broad, and the lateral lobes of the labellum
carcely prominent. Column on on the angles as 8
valves of the anthers as in Æ. sea E Pl. Pre
W. Australia. Swan river, ERU 1st coll. ; King George's Sound, Muir.
4. E. dilatatus, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 53, Gen. and Sp. Orch. woe
Stem glabrous or nea arly: s S0, usually rather above 6 in. Leaf at
or Py 3. resembling mon of E. autumnalis. Do nia pal 3 to 31 lines
long, oblong in the upper part, contracted below the middle ; lateral
8
claw ; pon about as long as the domal sepal but narrower.
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nvex and. recur T ube iani pak Column jii r winged nor
ie Paten valves pubescent outsidb, minutely ciliate on the
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tralia. Swan river, Mangles; Cape Leeuwin, Collie; Kalgan river and
bis E gre ell.
latifolius. Rather larger; leaves lanceolate. Flowers 2 to 4 and rather longer.
E atl Lindl. H. ce—Swan river, Mangles.
Var. brevifolius. Leaves smaller, ovate-lanceolate.—S wan river, Drummond; Mur-
kison iia OL ib ld.
t ig or more, the flowers more numerous and rather smaller,
sometimes above 10 in the spike or raceme. Labellum with very small
lateral lobes or teeth at the end of the claw, the lamina or middle lobe
ceu much € than broad, and usually as long as the claw.—,
Endl. in Pl. Preiss
W. Australia. ries river, Drummond, Preiss, n. 2190; Forest Hill, Muir.
41. LYPERANTHUS, R. Dr.
Dorsal sepal broad, concave, erect or incurved over the column ;
lateral ne and petals narrow, erect or Pn t all — ec ual
middle lobe ovate or sicher del recurved, the claw or disk between the
lateral lobes longitudinally thickened in the centre, the — of the:
lamina or middle lobe papiliose. Column erect or incurved, not winged.
unther terminal, erect, 2-celled; pollen-masses, gran nular. Terrestrial
herbs often drying black, with small ages ice tubers. Scapes
Ll
374 CXX. ORCHIDEJE. [Lyperanthus.
tems ta more-flowered, either with one radical leaf and 2 or 3 almost
len liae mpty bracts, or with about 2 stem-leaves. Bracts usually
rather Aen and leaf-li
Reduced to the two fo iine species, both of them csse in Australia, the genus
appears more eii distinct from Caladenia, with w roposes to
unite it. It differs in the broader r galeate upper sepal, is ven of calli on the labellum,
and the wingless column, and i in habit the single empty of Caladenia is replaced
- by 2 or more | omewhat leaf-like br. T 8 at ata
s however th wu sepal, the wo on the labellum, v the winged column
aladenia, and are correctly transferred to that genus. w-Caledonian speci
pl one from the Auckland inita require fur "ther i a to determine theit
Leaf radical, dac oec with 2 or 3 empty sheathing-bracts.
Flowers 2 to 4. bellum lamina fringed 1. L. nigricans.
pre usually 2, ue elliptical or Taneotates » Flowers 3 usually i E
ore than 4, Labellum lamina not frin nged SU, L. ellipticus.
l.I. nigricans ans, R. Br. Prod. 325. Stems Kir a few inches to nearly
1 ft. T rather stout, the whole plant drying black. Radical leaf
(X4, and s ;
Pen ok. f Fi im ii 16, t. 106 B; Reichb. £ Beitr. 33; Caladenia
^ aparece E f. Beitr. 67 ; Leptoceras pectinata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss.
not of Lindl.
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. Cunningham, and others.
Victoria. Between Melbourne and iy ver F. I gt Creek, v
ia. Forest near George Town def
This appears vió ls one iet Hint species which, like some of our European terrestrial
Orchidez, have a wide geographical range, but are often very rare in each locality.
2. L. ellipticus, R. Br. Prod. 325. Stems erect or decumbent, 6
to 9 in. high, without any radical leaf, but usually with 2 narrow-ovate
elliptical or Mali i acute or acuminate leaves gter up, both very
variable in 1 to lj in. long when broad, longer w en narrow.
Ylowers more bud and nearer together than in Z. nigricans A ng
Lyperanthus. | CXX. ORCHIDEX. 375
spreading or recurved. Labellum abov f as long as the sepals, with
a short broad erect concave claw, the lateral lobes obsolete, the middle
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, apparently rare, Caley, A.
Cunningham, Miss Atkinson, Daintree, Fitzgerald.
49, BURNETTIA, Lindl.
Anther erect, 2-celled, the outer valves broad; pollen-masses granu-
ar.—Terrestrial herbs with small underground tubers, leafless at the
üme of flowering except empty sheathing scales. Leaf solitary at a
different time of year. Flowers few.
, ihe genus is limited to a single species endemic in Tasmania. It is very near Cala-
denia, with which Reichenbac roposes to unite it, but from which it differs in
habit and in the longitudinal plates on the labellum, as well as in the consistence of the
Perianth and its more connivent segments. i
l. B. cuneata, Lind
iin. high, with several sheathing empty scales, the lower ones short
and imbricate, the upper ones distant, loose, often 3 in. long, o gute
png into the acute bracts subtending the pedicels. Leaf (whic
Tasmania. Rocky Cape, Gunn; Woolnorth, Oyster Cove, Macquarrie Harbour ;
Milligan ; Southport, C. Stuart.
376 CXX. ORCHIDER. [ Cyrtostylis.
43. CYRTOSTYLIS, R. Br.
Dorsal sepal linear or linear-lanceolate, erect and incurved, concave;
lateral sepals and petals very narrow , spreading, nearly equal i in length
to the dorsal sepal, or the petalo shorter. Labellum with a short claw,
flat, undivided, entire, with 2 calli at the end produced into raised
ved, win
Anther terminal, erect, 2-celled; pollen-masses granular distinctly
cohering in asses.—Terrestrial F pae rbs. Leaf solitary at
the base of the stem 4 ies broad and spr reading. Dies e without any
empty bract, usually bearing a raceme of leveral flower
Besides the Australian species there are two in New Zealand. n genus is very
near senes nia, with which Reichenbach f. iiei it. “The habit is more that of
1. C. reniformis, R. Br. Prod. 322. A small delicate giai
plant. Leaf SUB icu or reniform, radical, sessile, the lamina
varying from under $ to 14 in. diameter. Scape from under 2 in. hig
and 1-flowered to 6 or 7 in. with 4 or 5 pale red iiim Bracts sub-
tending the Verdi ey broad loose and truncate, or rarely acumi-
nate. Dorsal sepal 4 to 5 lines long; lateral sepals ui especially the
petals often — nd very narrow. Labellum nea pid " long as the
dorsal sepal, Ls emarginate or with a short point, the medial
and many others; southward to Twofold bay, F. Mueller.
ps — Wendu Vale, Robertson ; Portland, Allitt ; Station Peak, F.
Pee wee oe Common in open and somewhat dry ground throughout the island,
ooker
S. Australia. Encounter bay, Lofty Ranges, and other localities, F. Mueller,
"m
r. Huegelii. Bracts mig acuminate and the labellum usually narrower. C.
mcg ari in PI. Preiss.
. Aus King George! s Sound, Collie; Vasse river, Oldfield ; Upper Hay
river, beds Clarke; Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 862; Rottenest island, Preiss,
n. 2204.
44. CALADENTA, R. Br.
M RE PEE NIE VP RERO
Caladenia.} CXX. ORCHIDER. oe
lateral lobes when present d the middle lobe or upper part of the
einne labellum recurved, t Ari re often fringed e or aT zs
into a point. Pollen-masses granular.— Terrestrial herbs, usually
len, with small underground tubers. Leaf solitary, linear-lanceolate
or oblong, from within a "anm sheathing scale close t und.
Flowers solitary or very few in a loose raceme, on
leafless except a small narrow gemi scale or empty wor about
the middle, and a similar bract under each pedicel, and in one species
the radical leaf and empty bract are deficient. Flowers sou erect,
variously coloured.
Besides the Aust ipe species which are all endemic, there are three from "New
Zealand, or two onigi r the C. bifolia to Chiloglottis. The ¢ genus is a difficult -
one, not only as to the ene o of t Sinita to be assigned to species, especially
from dried specimens, in which the precise e of the labellum tan cen not be ascer-
pem : : itrary. V ight almost
equally well does generically some of the fo owing sections, sapeciallf ‘Leptoceras
nd Pentisia, or with Reichenbach fil. add to them by the in incorporation of Glossodia,
and some others.
Secr. 1. Leptoceras.—Sepals acute or rather obtuse, the dorsal one erect or in-
curved aid concave. ee erect, linear-clavate, longer than the sepals (not exceeding
them in the other sectio
depen much longer than the EPE Labellum not — the
18 2 to 4 row alli
Petals réther longer Tha the sepals. Lalellum. very broad,
nged at the end, the disk without calli .
1. C. Menziesü.
1:6. NEF
Secr. 2. Shen hilus.— Sepals eia or Si acuminate, the dorsa
incurved a meave, erect behind the co or refleced with it. peur ped,
with deeply veloiiead diverging veins, oa ided o or with @ very 8 and obscure
n scarcely eic Labellum on a short claw, not
ged; calli in 2 rows, the lower ones linear-clavate, the :
3. C. Cairnsiana.
up Sori
Sepals shortly ac ninate. — Labellum on a lon ng claw, ‘not
fringed; calli few long and clavate, the lower re con 4. C. multiclavia.
Sepals ee all reflexed as well as the oiii.
Labellum on a short c beer rv short, Ir and :
Mad crowded . . C. discoidea.
short points, the dorsal one
» Onda i in acuminate, with o lp pr
isk with 2 or more rows
ie incurved, Labellum inconspicuously veine
Papal polit usually long. Lateral lobes of the e fringed
oothed, sometimes passing into t e middle lo i
afi ow-linear. Calli of the labellum in 2 rows . 6. C. fllamentosa.
Leaf linear-lanceolate. Calli of ~ label i in 4 to 6 rows - C. Patersoni.
Sepal-points n sually long. args f the labellum very
prominent = entire ; calli in es h Prot ,
Leaf narrow-lin Eastern specia. -o n er nne S C. clavigera
378 CXX. ORCHIDEJ. [ Caladenia.
Leafovate-lanceolate. Western species . . . . . . . 9. C Drummond.
Se ppt usually short.
oblong or lanceolate. Labellum sessile, broad, undivided, :
fringed wi th 4 to 6 irregular rows of calli. 10. C. hirta.
Leaf narrow-linear. Labellum o a distinct claw, the lateral
a po
the claw all c ded pom ones MORE the centre F
of the disk 11. C. Reet.
Leaf narrow- oblong or Janceolate, ` Labellum « on à long
the : ateral lobes narrow fa'cate; one long clavate cis at
the top of the claw, vay : shots r linear ones, and 2 lines of
small ones on the middle lobe . . s : 12. C. Barbarosse.
Secr. 4. Eucaladenia.— Sepals acute or obscurely acuminate, rarely obtuse, the
sal one usually erect and concave. Labellum inconspicuously veined, the disk with
d or more rows of calli (sometimes arranged or united at the base almost in a semi-
circle).
dete large, erudi Labellum -— —— 3- semis the
calli alm semicircle . 13. C. flava.
hie.
Leaf oblong or lanceolate. Labellum deeply 3- — oP —
calli in 2 short rows, more or less converging
circle.
Calli all free. . ‘ & us vl. icu dd. D. leifoba.
i B: 15. C. reptans.
Leaf very long. La bellu m with the lateral lobes small, ‘the
calli short and thick in 3 m the rest of the disk covered
Sepals WP De s $ in. or more. Middle lobe of the
abellum etd UU. PU 16. 0. snaveblenk.
dg c and polais little m u » than ji in. Middle lobe of the
abellum usually toothed . . 17. C. serrata.
Leaf narrow-linear. "Lapis with the lateral lobes broad and
obtuse.
Sepals and petals € usually 6 to 8 lines “~~ Calli
of the labellum in 2 rare — in 4 rows . 18. C. carnea.
Sepals and oeiia much contracted at the ba ase,
usually ers ines ees Calli of the.labellum much
irregular rows 19. C. testacea.
Pu ua Saree dines: Labellum with the lateral ‘lobes falcate,
almost acute ; - phori rt, densely crowded 20. C. congesta.
Leaf none on the fl ring s stem er llum "with the lateral
nd lo ee fi fente, alpes acute ; calli ear dante, in 2 rows . 21. C. aphylla.
PR cr in HN or slightly hairy.
Labellum breadly sessile, lateral lobes kio and obtuse,
middle lobe anoeolate calli in 2 ro
af lanceolate-linea astern species © © > . 22. C. cerulea.
Leaf narrow- fon estern spec 23. C. Iri
Li with a lon linear-cuneate iiim: lamina ovate, ob-
pa obed ; 5. Ped nd crowded . . 94. C. deformis.
Leaf l eolate, silky- Dooa. Flowers large. Labellum
cu eri, equally 3-lobed; calli in about 4 row © : 26. Q. sericea.
Sect. 5. Pentisia.—Sepals and JE ese obtuse and nearly equal and all sprata
Labellum and column very short ; small and numerous in longitudinal row
Flowers blue. Labellum broadly ovate, undivided . . 26. C. gemmata.
Flowers (yellow ?). (EIEEE "— ovate, » almost acuminate,
obseurely 3-lobed + « « 27. C. ixioides.
Caladenia.] CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 879
Sect. 1. LA TAROURAD, R. Br.—Sepals acute or rather obtuse, the
do or one erect, or incurved and concave, the lateral ones spreading.
Petals erect, si eri nou aai Wu than the sepals.
av ate, more or less bees Rak vA A or 4 rows. Co
father broadly winged.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm, ii. qi t. 121A ; Leptoceras
Menziesii, Lindl. € and TE ie rad Endl. in Pi. Preiss. i ii. 6;
Victoria, qid anie; "Aj ce river, Robertson; Bunip Creek, F. Mueller.
S. Australia. Guich , F. wo y
Aus stralia. Kin oe ges "f s Sound and adjoining districts, Mot € Obs elt
a n.2213, and several others; Eun. river, Oldfield, Preiss, n. 2212 ;
mon 359.
Brown distinguished two species, C. Menziesii, with short leaves and two rows of
calli to the labellum, and €. macrophylla, with long leaves and four rows of calli.
r to me to be at all me gga by any constant difference in the foliage, in the
8 (iem of the calli, or in any other
2. C. fimbriata; Reichd. f. Beitr. 65. Glabrous or sax! 80, 6 in.
to 1 ft. high. Leaf Sene z us ‘small and -rarely above 1 in. long,
ovate-lanceolate or obl ong. deg usually 2 or 3, rather distant on
erect pedicels of 3 to 2 in. ` Dorsa sepal oblong-lanceolate, a cuminate,
concave, erect, about 4 lines dias itera sepals about as long, lanceo-
late, acuminate, spreading or re ; petals erect, line a r-clavate,
longer than the sepals but not near em so long as in C. Menziesii. abel-
um half as long as the sepals and broader than l ong, truncate and
fringed at the broad end, consisting of the very broad lateral lobes,
with a very small short and broad middle lobe, either set or slightly
fringed or toothed, the disk without any calli—Leptoceras fim
and Z. ^ ectinata, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 53; en and 2 Or 416.
W. Australia. Swa r, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 856.—This is only species
ilvai a calli on the label, bat it is evident! y foe dy P llied to C. ensien to be
Seuerically separated from
Sect, 9. PALEBOCHILUS.— Sepals obere or iq nn agement
the doni one incurved and concave, erect behind the or
flexed with it. Labellum broad, with deeply coloured diverging iple
380 CXX. ORCHIDEX. | [ Caladenia.
or forked veins undivided (consisting entirely of the lateral lobes) or
with a very small and obscure middle lobe.
hn mpi F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 31. Stems Dairy, rather
tender, about 6 in. high in the specimens seen. Leaf lin Flowe
sol Sepals and petals € linear, about 5 lines Tong not Mon
used into depen cem with dark purple lines. Labellum about as long
as the sepals, on a very short claw, broadly ovate, consisting chiefly of
the broad lange lateral: lobes $5018 marked with on) Ts ae
curved vd the base, broadly winged upwards
tralia. North of qeu tuse F. Mueller.
Crow
. Aus eritis, Drummond, ~ Reic 'henba: = on iet here € is um-
mondi n. 440, which, angu in Herb. "Laudi. r represents a form of s e" ter.
r. brevicuspis. Points of the sepals much shorter, the dorsal s
d the petals less dilated than i - un prin! & Tx the s at the bos, of the labellum
free or nearly so, long and cl. —W. A lia, Drummond.
. C. Sere Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 52; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 498.
and
A pe pics dt Bo or near the centre, thick, lenf or
, the lower ones often lon Aen clavate. mbi narrow an
ieutred at the base, broadly "aped in the upper half.—Endl. in Pl.
"gl L87
7. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll—I have not seen Preiss’s
icem
$
Caladenia.] CXX. ORCHIDER. 381
undivided ; the disk with calli more or igs distinctly arranged in 2 o
more longitudinal rows.
6. C. filamentosa, R. ma ie 324. Stature sp inflorescence of
the typical €. Patersoni ery nearly allied to af narrow-
linear, Sepals with the te MS C. Patersoni, but usually rather
o
margins more or less fringed but usually smaller and narrower, the calli
varying in thickness be always in 2 rows only along the disk.— Hook. f.
- Lasm. ii. 27, t. 121 B; Reichb. f. Beitr. d C. filifera, Lindl. Swan
pp. e , Gen. d Sp. Orch. 421; Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 8; Field
Sert. Pit C. denticulata, Lindl. ll.ec. ; Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 9.
= 8 Wate Mudgee, Woolls.
mania. Port Dalrymple, Paterson, R. Brown ; ; George Town, Archer ; South-
zi “C Stuart.
Australia. voli bay, 7". Mueller
w^ Australia. ED George's Soand and adjoining districts, F. Mueller, Muir,
and others ;* Swan riv t, Drummo nd, 1st coll.
Var. pallens. Pilies apparently rn ee quinte of he Sir sedi not so d nor so
fine as A the ordinary C. filam —Swa r, Dru 2, Mylne
The entosa may be, as su e ed ra ; V. Modos one of the nume iei is rm
of C. Patersoni, chiefly prev: alent in wW. pEi bnt the Ppa constant reduc-
tion of the calli to 2 rows is accompanied by a difference i iage which may jus tify
_its retention as a species, subject, epe to further Y ERR of living specimens.
í ©. Patersoni, ; R. Br. Prod. 324. More or less hairy and from
under 1 ft. to near 2 ft. high, the upper portion and flowers often
à pa ale aid hiss outside and aoa or. ane a i dae the calli and end or middle
lobe of the labellum usually ày sometimes the whole 'disk of a rich purple. The
989 CXX. ORCHIDEX. ' | Caladenia.
following are the — forms this species assumes, regarded by Lindley and others
fend distinct mab t passing too gradually into each other to be clearly marked out
dri
a T bellum with broad lateral usually pale- pama deeply fringed
i the middle lobe ovate, dark-coloured ; calli very numerous in several rows.
Sepal ints v ei long, especially i in the Western specimens. C. dilatata, R. Br. Prod.
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 422; Hook. f. Fi. Tasm. ii. 27, t. 122 B; Reichb. f,
Beitr. 82; C. fila mentos E a lc. 421, not of R. Br.: € longicauda, Lindl. Swan
Riv. eu 52, t. 8 A ur» and S p Or ch. 4 422; Endl.i n PI. Prei
N. S. Wales. Port Bekil iod Blue sans Woolls ; New Engl and, C. Stuart.
Victoria. Melbourne and Yarra Yar Adamson, Walter ; from the Grampians
to Gipps’ Land, F. Mueller, and others.
Tasmania. Circular Head, Gunn; forest lands near Cheshunt, Archer.
ce n age ein e Range, F. Mueller.
. Australia. g George's Sound to Vasse and Swan ri — d, 1st
coll., yal 129, 439, 440, veas. n. poci —— Td many other ~ Apparently a
com stern species, know e of “Spider Orchis,” an mi pa ally with
remarkably pe e ran to the ME. ei ik ecd » 8 of the labellum fens p ad,
and mudh fi
Vart Labellum usually ovate with fringed margins gradually tapering into
the broad recurved erenulate undu ^ or shortly fringed apex or middle lobe, the
lateral lobes bat little prominent or quite obsolete. Calli of the disk very prominent or
it by F. Mueller, pow critically working up 1n their native country, where alone it
can be ascertained how far hybridism may rts contributed to the Soto of different
hir 8 or s tesa — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 28, t. 123
. S. Wales. Cle ‘Wools ; Mri lisse river, Rf Mueller.
Victoria. Grampians, F. Mueller ; Beatie Hinter
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, Paterson (E. Brown); eei dm throughout the
island, J. D. Hooker.
S. A Several specimens from the neighbourhood of St. Vincent's Gulf,
F. Mueller, and others, belong to this form
Mi llida, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 421, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 28, from Circular
M c is a slight, variety of C. Patersoni, with a paler ea fringed labellum.
C. p» and €. tentaculata, Schlecht, in Linnea, xx. 569 and 5 ould appear, from
the diii ions d to be among the innumerable forms et by this species.
; Lindl. Gen. and T Orch, 499 Stature
always clavate at the end; petals shorter and not clavate.
der 4 in. long, the broad yellow lateral lobes quite entire, the purple
middle lobe either entire or slightly crenate towards the base; calli in
about 4 rows as in C. Patersoni.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 28, t. 222 A.
N. S. Wales. Near Bathurst, A. Cunningham
oe Ballarat, Glendinning ; Malden , Mrs. Ne
Circalar Head, Gunn; fan river, odes Flinders island, Mil-
HJ
Caladenia. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 383
9. C. Drummondii, Benth. Our specimens small, the leaf broader
for its length than in any other species of Caladenia, ovate-lanceolate, :
$in. [43 and 1 in. broad, but not yet og developed. Fewer solitary
arly of C. hirta, about 4 in. pv inclu & ine the point which is shorter
than or snout as long as the dilated part, dark-coloured with the dilated
argin whitish, Labellum nearly of C. clavigera, closely sessile, the
ond.—Without much of character in Ba f
flower, this species differs fee ‘the whole pem; in the p of its leaf. nly
known however from two specimens of Drummond's in Her ooker.
10. C. hirta, Lindl. Swan Riv. . 59; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 421.
Very hairy and often above 1 ft. hi i "ho root more creeping than in
most species. Leaf oblong or lanceolate, 2 to 4in. long. Flowers 2 or
more or less pink. Sepals and petals 3 3 to lin. long, irregularly
acuminate, but the points much shorter than in €. Patersoni, and always
` shorter than the dilated portion. Labellum at least half as long as the
sepals, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate , obtuse, undivided but more or
less fring He c the middle u wards, contracted and erect at the base,
recurved towards the ang cali linear, more or less regularly placed in
6 rows. Column winged upw wards. Anther with a prominent
pnt —Endl. in Pl. Pow ii. 9; c. mollis, Endl. ia 8, according to
gp f.
tralia. river, Drummond, 1st coll.; Toodyay and Kalgan river,
Ouid; ‘stirling range, P Mueller ; West Mount Barren and Salt river, Maxwell ;
also Preiss, n. 2213 and 2218 (Reichb. mu fs
e
Flower solitary from a sheathing ose of 4 or 5 lines. Sepals and
1 line, the lateral lobes very large pr ác lig ue, not fringed,
i f ne arly $ in., the middle
lobe much smaller, recurved R EE go and eilai or frin
with short calli; one large long callus between the lateral lobes at the
top of the claw, and small obtuse calli compactly crowded along the
de anther, Column lon, incurved, broadly and shortly winged under
e an
Australia, Roe.—Only seen in Herb. Hook. Allied to C. Barbarosse, but
me in End and very much in the labellum.
sse, Reichb. f. Beitr. 64. Stem hairy, 6 to 10 in.
"à d pers tuis or ions ine, attaining about 2in. Flower
solitary from a loosely sheathing Sepals and petals 6 to 8 lines
884 — CXX. ORCHIDEZ. [ Caladenia.
ong, linear or a ame eg ers into a short point, of a pale
colour with a dark central line. Labellum with an unwinged channelled
claw of about 2 cag the lateral lobes linear-falcate ‘und erect, the
-middle lobe twice as long , broadly oblong, recurved, the margin fringed,
oblong ca Column d from the middle or: Ant
without any pee
SEC OPE CIE —Sepals acute or obscurely acuminate,
un iuc not € into a distinct spa the dorsal one usually
erect and concave but sometimes not very different from the others.
Labellum miian Ra veined; calli sometimes in 2 rows either
arallel or short and almost joining in a semicircle, sometimes irregu-
arly arranged in 2 to 4 rows or crowded along the centre
13. C. flava, R. Br. Prod. 324. Hairy, more akain than
most species and meni low, parie iets 1 ft., the under Toun
e af
less Bi "eii 6 a more or less distinct reddish fins or red blotches
along the centre. Petals still shorter, pale yellow or whitish and more
‘red in the centre. Labellum 3 to 4 lines long and broad, with a very
onverging into a Ace te Column winge m the base. Anther
with a long point.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 418; Endl. in Pl. Preiss.
ji. 7; F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 83; Reichb. f. Beitr 29,
w. Australia. King George’s Sound en adjoining district Menzies, F. Mueller,
€ npe others, and thence to Swan , Drummond, 1st coll. n. 827, Preiss, n. —
220!
Caladenia.] OXX. ORCHIDEJX, 385-
broadly ah ag ara near the base with $ few marginal calli, the
a
calli of the d linear-clavate, rather long, in 2 is converging row
sometimes vedi ming a semicircle, sometimes rather longer an
more parallel. Colusin shortly and mter M inged at the apex.
Anthers with a long point. hind. Ge . and Sp. Orch. 419; Reichb.
f. Beitr. 30, 64; Hook. f. Fl. T i 98; C. mollis, Lindl. Swan Riv,
an Riv.
App. 51; de and Sp. Orch "H9. C. " elongata, Lindl. S
App. 52 ‘Gen: and Sp. Orch. 419.
wi Cape How we Muel
Vendu Vale, eect, yrs Adamson; Mount William, F.
Meli "ie p F'ullagar
Dalrymple, R. Brown; Woolnorth, Circular Head, and Georgo-
i ua Australia. St, incest s Gulf and neighbouring mountains, F. Mueller and
o .
ustralia (usually with rather larger flowers). King George's Sound, F.
Meler ind others; Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 838; Preiss, n. 2184, Old-
M Var. re de di Leaves almost linear.—Upper Hay river, Miss Warburton ; deni
uir,
longer rows . ochreata, Lin cc., fro ummond, ig cal, e :
similar variety, with the middle lobe orenulate only, not t prominently fring
€. ochreata of Endl, Pl. Preiss. ii. 8, are referred by Reichenbach K to he
ginata
typical c. latifolia
15. C. reptans, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 52; Gen. and Sp. Orch. 419.
A ad ike flowered species, with apparently a creeping underground
Stem, in other respects closely resembling €. latifolia, of which it is
a variety. Leaf oblong or lane eolate. Sepals and petals of
C. latifolia or rather more obtuse; labellum contracted into a longer
in: rming 2 short converging rows placed in a semicircle or
almost transvers
W. Australia. ps ver, Drummond, 1st coll. SE oer = Beitr. 64,
refers also to this species c Pre and C. nana, Endl. in Pl. Preiss
_16. C. suaveolens, Reich). f. Beitr. 67. Glabrous and usually 1 ft.
high or rather more. Leaf linear or linear-lanceolate, 6 to s in. long,
and often 2 or 3 empty sheathing scales on the stem. ge rs 2 to
rather distant, almost sessile within eet RE bracts fh to $ in. :
Dorsal sepal lanceolate, acuminate, incurved, concave, $ to nearly lin.
long; lateral sepals and petals nearly as long, linear, spreading or re-
curved. Labellum not half so long as the sepals, the erect part bre
386 CXX. ORCHIDE. [ Caladenia.
with a pom point.—Lyperanthus suaveolens, R. Br. Prod. 325;
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 392; F. Muell. re v. 98; Reichb. f
Beitr. 32; ` Caladenia sulphurea, A. Cunn. in vs Nos. Wales, 361.
Leptoceras ‘sulphurea, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 4
N. S. Wal Port m to the ewe Mountains, * Bins Woolls, A. Cun-
ningham, and others ; dinh -— c - Stu
ria. East Gi
deer Conni Milligan,
17. C. serrata, Reichb. f. Beitr. 67. Nearly resembles C. suaveolens
in habit and foliage, but usually a stouter ve taller plant. Leaf
broadly linear, often above 1 ft. long. Flowers 4 to 6, “ greenish out-
side purplish ‘pink shed the labellum véllesich towards the t tip."
Bracts above 1 in. long, finely acuminate. Sepals shortly —
the dorsal one lanceolate incurved, concave, 6 to 7 lines long; the —
lateral sepals and petals narrower and rather longer. Labellum Mores
than half as long, the lateral lobes erect as in C. suaveolens, but rather
C the middle lobe more lanceolate, the margins usually undulate
crisped or shortly fringed ; ea linear, in 2 rows along the centre, =
smaller ones in several rows on the remainder of the disk. Colum
oss Anther acuminate. riri serratus, Lindl. Gen. and Sp.
Ned Il in Pl. Preiss. ii. 6.
r, Drummond, 1 Cape Leschenault, Oldfield ;
King Bersa Sound, Mie; 1 / Mar Wulgenup, Pree n. ? 2189, F. Mueller t ^
18. C. » R. Br. Prod. 324. Slender, usually under 1 ft. high,
sparingly lterar or "nearly glabrous or glandular papillose. Leaf narrow-
inear, o ong. Flowers l to 3, pink in the typical form, often
. longitudinally veined and ond with transverse bands of a darker
hue on the labellum and column. Sepals 6 to 8 lines long, or in some
98; Arethusa catena Exot. Bot. t. 104; €. alata, R. Br. Prod.
324 Pi fam. i smaller Borers) ; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 418; Hook.f .
ii 90, t. ; Reichb. f. Beitr. 29; €. angustata, Hook. .
re and. Keppel and aci id bays, R. Brown; from cries to Wide
bay in gr T" Yee Leichhardt, F. Mueller, and others ; Rockhampton, O'Sha-
nesy ; Nerkool Creek, Bowman ; Deng Downs, Law; ount angi 5
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown and many others;
northward to dum river, Henderson; New England, C. Soari; southward to
M bay, F. ller
From the Glenelg to Gipps’ Land, F. pm idum and others.
Tasmania. Abundant throughout the island, J. D. Hooker and others.
. Australia. From the Glenelg to St. Vincent's Gaur’ fi sist localities, ,F-
Muller and dades; Kangaroo island, Waterhous ;
Caladenia.] CXX, ORCHIDEA, 987
Var Flowers white. I can see no other difference. C. alba, R. Br. Prod.
823 ; ima Gen. and Sp. Orch, 417; Reichb. f. Beitr. me des Jackson, R. Brown,
Wool s, A. Cunningham, and a few of the southern speci
Var. quadriserinte. Labellum with 4 rows of calli; i pink.— Between Rivoli
bay and Mount Gambier, F. Mueller; Sout Monts Tasmania, C. Stuart.
19. C. testacea, R. Br. 4 A slender plant with narrow
linear leaves, very much revelling Ke smaller specimens of C. carnea,
and united with that species by F. Mueller. Sinks and petals narrower
and more contracted at the base. Tabelluia with the lateral lobes less
m
n
rch. 420; Reichb. f. Beitr. 30; C. gracilis, R. Br. Lc. ; Reichb. f. l.c. ;
E Le. 423; C. angustata, Lindl. l.c. 490
Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains R. Brown, A. Cunningham,
Woolley an
Vi ora ag "Port Phillip, Gunn. :
Port Dalrymple, A. Brown; Southport, C. Stuart.
20. C. congesta, R. Br. Prod. xen A slender glandular-pubescent
or nearly glabrous prre allied to €. earnea ue sily teem intend
af n
by the labellum. s 9 in, to 1 ft. high LÀ rrow-linear
lowers 1 or 2, Me pote and petals narrow- isolé, acute, EA to
1 in. long, the dorsal sepal erect incurved and concave. Labellum fully
half as long as thé sepals, narrow, contracted into a claw, 3-lobed, the
r
N. S. Wales. Near Sena A. Cunningham ; in the interior, M*Arthur
br Mg rtg Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; open forest land, Cheshunt, and Port
rrel, Arch
W. Aus tralia ? Swan river, Mangles in Herb. Lindl.—Perhaps not really be-
longing to this species.
21. C.
ening 1 Vive arising from a rather large ovoid eA ido
‘leaf at all at the time of flowering, and with only I or 2 short
Eos scales at the base, and no empty bract higher up except a small
one at a short distance from the flower (subtending the pedicel).
- Flower solitary, slightly papillose or quite glabrous. Sepals an and petals
narrow-lanceolate, acutely but very s shortly acuminate, tapering at the
ase, 2 to edel l in. long, the dorsal one erect and concave. La-
bellum more than half as long as the sepals, contracted into a claw,
the lateral lobes erect incurved almost acute. the middle lobe longer
Eitbeolate and recurved, en margin entire; calli rather long, linear-
avate, numerous or few, in 2 rows sometimes not extending >e a
‘the lateral sor: eden | voitehdigr halfway along the middle lobe lobe
W. Australia. King Georgea Sound, Harvey; Hay and Kalgan Sia, F.
Mueller ; near ac Thrcs-miles Pista, M acwell; Forest Hill, Muir. se
L3
388 CXX. ORCHIDEZ. [ Caladenia,
22. C. cærulea, I. Br. sien TEE A smaller plant than C. deformis,
more glabrous, the py brae
with the solitary i vr of that pie Leaf linear or linear-
as lon but narrower ; ; petals both narr and iE Labellum
more t T half or nearly as long as the bern sepals, broad almost from
the base ; lateral lobes broad, erect, obtuse, wit transverse bands of a
darker hue, middle lobe lanceolate, almost eke entire or slightly
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North of Wombayne river, ellen.
TES, Bauer (Brown, Reichenbach jil.).—I have seen no Tasmanian speci-
mens; there are none in herb. R. Brow
23. C. saccharata, Heichb. Beitr. 63. Very nearly allied to C. eerulea
and pnn only a local form of it, the structure of the flower a mehr
the same. The leaves are rather longer and narrower and t 8
and s epals s also longer and narrower, the colour of the flowers, Sitabty
Hak ot O aeria , whic h in the East has not the extended range of
C. deformis, that a further examination of fresh flowers may prove it
to be really distinct.
. Australia, Drummond, m coll. n. 824,
24. C. defo nly
slightly m and pedes iih above 6 in. high. Leaf linear , some-
times rather long. Scape with a single blue flower — tl an in
recurved,
more or less fringed on the margin, the lat eral lobes arcely "prominent
or quite obsolete; calli of the di sk oblong prn ear a xk ift tly clavate,
very numerous and er owded, sometimes coveri whole of the
ength. i
short.—Reichb. f. Beitr. 29; C. barbata, Lindl. l.c. 418 .
Tasm. ii. 29, t. 123 B; C. unguiculata, Lindl. Sw. Riv. App. 51; pent
es Sp. Orch. 418; Éndl. in x TTA it el
N, S. od ales. Near Albury, B
Victo Portland, Allitt ; Port Phill and fasiri Gunn, Adamson; Nan-
Mas unes and Geno river, F. Wohin; Green; Bins Pura, Hin
acker.
asmania Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant throughout the island, J. D.
Hooker ; Flinders ret a Milligan.
r From the AAT to St. Vincent's Gulf, F. Mueller; York Penin-
sula, Fowler ; Biscuit flat, Schul:
n the stem smaller and more erect but.
Fy ee PES eR See Tey RIPE RUN ee ee TINO REESE S E
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CAE, E E AE EEE N EAEE EAE RI IP Te a T EEEE EER E EN ee E T IE A ee EE ERU SE n
Caladenia.| CXX. ORCHIDEX, —— 389
W. Australia. Point Henry, F. Mueller; Lake Muir, Muir; Swan river,
_ Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2191. ` À
| Var. albiflora, Flower white, with the lateral lobes of the labellum rather more
] prominent.—S. Australia, F. Mueller.
. 25. C. sericea, Lindl. Sw. Riv. App. 52, and Gen. and Sp. Orch. 418.
Usually softly villous, the hairs especially on the leaves shorter more
at least half as long as the sepals, contracted at the base, cuneate up-
wards, nearly equally 3-lobed at the end, the lateral lobes erect, shortly
0D10] incu , In
‘ ?
b, the lowest ones sometimes united in linear or oblong plates.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll, also n. 119; King George's
Sound, Muir; Upper Hay river, Miss Warburton,
Secr, 5. PexTISTA.—Sepals and petals nearly equal, all obtuse and
spreading. Labellum and column very short. Calli of the disk small
and numerous, in longitudinal rows.
As observed by Reichenbach fil., this section in its perianth connects Caladenia with
Glossodia, but the calli of the labellum are entirely those of the former, without the
remarkable basal appendages of the latter genus,
26. C. gemmata, Lindi. Sw. Riv. App. 52, and Gen. and Sp. Orch. 420.
Loosely hairy and 6 to 8 in. high when 1-flowered, rather taller when
2-flowered. ‘Leaf ovate or ovate-lanceolate, rarely above 1 in. long.
Flower rather large, of a soft deep blue. Sepals and ges broa y
and
j : ther
. With a prominent point.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 8; C. pellita, Endl. l.c.
— (Reichd. f). |
. _ W. Australia. King George's Sonnd to Swan river, Drummond, Oldfield, F.
Mueller, and others, Preiss, m. 2193 (mixed with Glossodia Brunonis, according to
Reichenbach f.) aswell.
27. C. ixioides, Lindl. Sw. Riv. App. 52, and Gen. and Sp. Orch. 420.
Closely resembles O. gemmata in habit stature and size and general
structure of the flower, and possibly a variety only, but the flowers
(from the dried specimens) appear to have been yellow, the labellum is
. Not so broad, more acuminate and sometimes obscurely 3-lobed, and the
calli of its surface are more prominent, almost lin
. W, Australia, Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll.
390 CXX. ORCHIDEJ. [ Chiloglottis.
45. CHILOGLOTTIS, R. Br.
Anth
erect, 2-celled ; pollen-masses granular.— Terrestrial herbs, with small
underground tubers. Leaves 2, radical or nearly so. Scape 1-flowered,
des the two Australian "eue which are endemic, there is one from the Auck-
ew
Dorsal sepal 5 to 6 lines long, much contracted at the base ; lateral
sepals linear-terete. Calli of the labellum slender, scattered over f
ie woi 1. coUa kho uud Odie
Dorsal sepal 8 to 9 lines long, not much contracted at the base;
lateral sepals linear. Calli of the labellum thick and crowded E
alban the conie s 9 o |n E sx or Kas 2. C. Gunnu.
: 1 EJ
' 1. C. diphylla, R. Br. Prod. 393. Radical leaves 2, from ovate-
elliptical to oblong-lanceolate, usually acute, 3 to 13 in. long, contracted
into a petiole of 2 to 8 lines. Scape from 3 to 6 in. meh bearing
e one sub-
ess in 2 rows, and 1 or2 att
P
Holl. t. 8; Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 886; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 29.
Reichb. f. Beitr. 27; Caladenia diphylla, Reichb. f. Beitr. 67 ; Epipactis
reflexa, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 60, t. 211, f. 15 Aeianthus? bifolius,
R. Br. Prod. 822; Reichb. f. Beitr. 26.
Queensland. ` Brisbane river, Moreton bay, F. Mueller.
. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls ; Clarence river, Wilcox. his
Victoria. Wilson's Promontory, F. Mueller (without flowers, but probably t
ia. Shaded places, Woolnorth, Circular Head, &c., Gunn, Archer; South-
port, C. Stuart. d
The calli of the labellum vary much, the slender clavate ones are ‘sometimes limited
to a broad tuft or patch at the base of the lamina, sometimes extend over a great p a
i Chiloglottis. | CXX. ORCHIDEZ. 391
of it and descend along the claw, the thick ones are usually few and the 1 or 2 in 3
reflexed ones are often = prominent ; sometimes also there are a pair of small ones
near the base of the claw:
2. C. Gunnii, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 387. Often a smaller plant
than C. diphylla, but not so slender. Leaves rather larger and broader,
sometimes nearly 2in. long. Scape usually short, but in some
r
ani ed Circular Head, Cheshunt, Hobarton, Gunn,
Ar cem ied idi Mentem Ln ' C. Stuart; summit of Ben Lomond, at an elevation'
of 5000 ft., Milligan
5
2
E
P
Sp
46. GLOSSODIA, R. Br.
i» and petals nearly equal, quim Labellum sessile, undi-
26 not fringed, without calli or plates on the disk, but, at its base,
metimes nite into 1) linear clavi: calli or appendages ere
eun the column and from half to nearly its whole length. Column
erect, often incurved, 2-winged. Anther erect, 2-celled, = outer
small point. Pollen-masses granular.— Terrestrial herbs usually hairy,
iim small underground tu bers. Leaf solitary, oblong or lanceolate,
within a scarious sheath close to the ground ; flowerslto 2 on an
iin scape, leafless except an empty sheathing bract at or below the
"ép and a similar bract under each pedicel. Flowers erect, blue or
he genus is limited to Australia. It is closely allied to the section Pentisia
Caladenia, but the peculiar position and form of the calli, constant in all the species
and probably performing some special function in the fertilizing S eiue oe justify its
tan as a soo us, rather than merging it into nia, as pro vomit: by Reichen-
2.
Secr. 1. i bescent base. Column-
wing not at Pr or pen em virus pire ate base e the anthers. Eastern
Sepals and petals 7 to 10 lines i Labellum- d l
"= um-appendage single :
dilated and 2-dentate at the PUDE major.
Sepals and petals 4 to 6 um long "Labellun-appendages 2, linear. 3
clavate, scarcely united bé base . G. minor.
Bac eutheran VIRUS HU M — a roe C p ex-
tending Sos the anther d forming a hood over
Flowers usually 2, dee blue. hoes shorter ha the a
Dixiclate 6 Büne : E G, Bronis.
392 CXX. ORCHIDEZ. [ Glossodia.
— usually solitary (reddish-purple ? nip. as onde as or í
longer than e esc oblong, sine aera . 4. G. emarginata.
Secr. 1. EvaLossopia.—Labellum with a broad biconvex pubescent
base. Column- -wing not at all or scarcely extending above the base of
fhe anther:
long. Losf oblong or lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. viele: rst 6 in. to 1 ft.
high with 1 or rarely 2 blue flowers. Sepals and petals oblong-lan-
ceolate, obtuse, 6 to 8 lines long, not blotc a Labellum not. half so
— as the cots, ovate broad biconvex and oe with white hairs
inajor, ’ Reichb. f. Beitr. 67.
T1 sland. Moreton bay, Lei arde; Armidale, Parrot
. S. bares $e Jackson to the Blue Mountains, R. pus n, Sieber, n. 162,
Fi Mixt 9, 9, and m any others; in the N.W. interior, Pastry Ren England, e
Stuart ; and stan n T wofold p , F. Mue lor
Vict r, Robertson ; Portland, Ain; oig Phillip and Melbourne,
very — FM = d others; Ballarat t, Glen
Du mon in poor sandy soil rage iin Heer colon ny, J. D. Hoo
s. diuisio Encounter bay, Whittaker; Bugle and Lofty ranges, J’. ucl.
2. G. minor, R. Br. Prod. 326. Hirsute with long eae are
‘mixed with shorter sometimes glandular ones as in but
pen plant. Stems rarely above 3 or 4 in. high and on Jom
l-fowered. Leaf lanceolate, the meli sheathing bract usually
a Poyet blue. Sepals and petals oblong-lanceolate, 5 to 6 lines
ong. Labellum about j the length of the sepals, broad, biconvex
and pu spen with white hairs or papille im the lower half, the
keine upper half triangular, acute, flat, glabrous, the basal calli
Ll pening 2, lines siege fattened clavate at the end, sear shorter
rtly united at the base. Colum — i e
zi as ‘the telom Asc winged but the wing not mera on
Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 423; Reichb. f. Beitr. 34; Caladenia
minor, Reichb. Beitr. 67.
Queensland. Archer’s Station, Moreton bay, Leichhardt.
. S. Wales. Port Jackso; n, È. Brown, Sieber, n. 161, and others ; New England,
Q, San — to Twof ld bay P e Mue lien
a. Genoa river, towards Nomi reni F. Mueller.
more dei tw o bd red spe ns from ai acd localities I have only seen
ie " a
one, in herb. F. Muell., frons Twofold b ter, ‘with two flowe
Sect. 2. ELEUTHERANTHERA, Endl. cues um narrow and gla- |
brous. Column-wing extending beyond the anther, adnate to it along
the centre, and forming a hood over it,
Glossodia. | CXX. ORCHIDER. 393
G. Brunonis, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 16, and in Pl. Preiss, ii.9. A -
pubescent or softly hairy plant of 6 in. to 1 ft., with 1 or 2 ncs i y
es
disk, but at its base are 2 long thick linear obtuse calli often as long
as the lamina, sometimes united at the base, erect against the column
Column half as long as the sepals, with a broad wing produced beyond
At Anther-case pubescen it, shortly acumi-
nate.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 424; F. Muell. Fragm. 83
Caladenia Brunonis, Reichb. Beitr. 67.
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Oldfield, F. Mueller,
and many others; Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; | ees bay and Gales brook,
Maxwell,
hes G. emarginata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 424. Nearly allied to
G. Brunonis, with inm same habit and foliage, the | scape however more
frequently 1 l-üowered, the flower usually larger, not so blue in the
dried state, and ec tun by Oldfield as rose-coloured. Column with a
hood-shaped wing extending beyond the anther as in that species.
Labellum more tabs ed, often E the column, broadly oblong-
linear, very obtuse or truncate and u sually emar nate, the basal calli
or appendages nei slightly clavate, about as Tm as the labellum.—
Nec emarginata, "Reichb. r. 67.
Australia. Swan river, Penis ond, 1st coll.; Vasse river, Pries;
Tes AS and Vasse rivers, Oldfield ; Greenough "Flats, O. Gray; Lake Mur
Trise 6. Opurypem.—Anther adnate to the a of the column
over iie stigma, the cells usually forming 2) lobes sehe asses 2,
granular, attached by caudicles to one or Je glands or pouches over
the stigma. ‘Terrestrial herbs; rhizomes pes annually renewed
tubers. Stems mate, leafy. Flowers spicate,
47. HABENARIA, R. Br.
Dorsal sepal erect, very concave ; lateral sepals free, connivent or
Reg ; petals entire or bipartite, u usually connivent under the
rsal sepal. a d or rarely entire, with a spur or pouch
at the base. Column very short, with 2 anterior linear-clavate processes
lying on or vérgally eesti to Ae base of the labellum. Anther erect,
with a broad connective and marginal cells, but the connective usually
8o vi that the erect diverging cells appear disconnected. Pollen
granular in 2 masses in each cell, each ems with a caudicle attached to
à gland or an appendage of the stigma opposite to the cell, and more
or less confluent with Sic entesirin] herbs, with underground usually
ovoid tubers, Leaves alternate on the stem or 45 m near the base.
iion spike.
Flowers several or many in a
394 | — CXX. ORCHTDER. [ Habenaria.
A large genus dispersed over the warmer and temperate regions of both the New and
the Old World. Of the five Australian species, two are East Indian, the other three,
r as known, endemic.
h
narrow-linear lobes. Anther-connective as high as the cells . 1. H. trinervis.
Leaves narrow, near the base of the stem. Petals undivided.
Anther-connective very much shorter than the cells.
Lateral lobes of the labellum long and very narrow-linear like
aves narrow-oblong. Spur of the labellum above 1 in. long 2. H. elongata.
ves linear. Spur of the labellum under 4in. long. . . 8. H. graminea.
Lateral lobes of the labellum lanceolate-falcate ; middle lobe
linear. Spur longer than the sepals . . . . . . . . 4. H. ochroleuca.
Lateral lobes of the labellum very short and broad or quite
obsolete, rarely shortly acuminate; middle lobe oblong or
. Is... . . 5. A. wanthantha.
1. H. trinervis, Wight Ic. Pl. t.1701. Stems erect, leafy, 1 ft. high
or rather more. Leaves ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 4 in.
i ved.
2. H. elongata, R. Br. Prod. 313. A rather stout species, above
1 ft. high. Leaves oblong, 2 to tin. long. Spike rather dense. Dorsal
the spur. Labellum lobes very narrow-linear, the middle one above 3 in.
long, the lateral ones rather shorter; the spur at least 11 in. long,
thickened beyond the middle. Anterior processes of the column clavate
and cristate.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 317 ; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 15;
Reichb. f. Beitr. 6.
N. Australia. Arnhem S. bay, and islands off the coast of Arnhem's Land,
abundant, R. Brown.
Queensland. Rockhampton, O' Shanesy.
Habenaria.| CXX. ORCHIDER. | 895
vided into 9 narrow-linear lobes about as long as the sepals; the spur
the st
from each other by the very short connective and rostellum.—F. Muell.
Fragm. vii. 16. ‘
Ne wc Rockingham bay, Dallachy—The species is also in Khasia and
lhet.
Var. arnhemica. Habit and foliage of the typical form, but the flowers much smaller.
Galea 14 to 14 lines long, slightly recurved and acute ek a broad base ; lateral sepals
rather longer, the spur not 3 lines long and scarcely thickened beyond the middle.—
. Herb.
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 162, 188, and with still smalier flowers,
Port Essington, Armstrong.
linear, as long as the sepals; spur longer than the sepals, much ant.
shortly clavate at the end. Anterior processes of the column very
shortly adnate.—Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 323; Reichb. f. Beitr. 6.
N. Australia. Islands of the North Coast, 2. Brown. '
F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 16. Stems slender, often
ceolate and acutely acuminate as in ned. ers y llow, in a
rather dense spike. Dorsal sepal and petals erect, obtuse, about 3 lines
long ; lateral sepals nearly the same length, qui e from the spur
es.
H. graminea.—H. propinquior, Reichb. f.
Queensland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
TRIBE 7. AposTAsSIEJ.—Anthers 2, lateral near the base of the
style, with a dorsal rudimentary or rarely perfect anther. Stigma
terminal. Pollen granular. Terrestrial herbs.
48. APOSTASIA, Blume.
(Niemeyera, F. Muell.).
Sepals and petals 3 each, nearly equal and similar, spreading or re-
p :
curved, the labellum similar to the other petals. Anthers 2, oblong-linear,
attached near the base of the style, erect and embracing the style, with
390 - CXX. ORCHIDEJE. dinis
to
| Flowers small, yellow, in imps or rekon spreading
racemes in the u
Besides the Australian Spiel which appears to be endemic, there are two or three
— allied to it in East India and the Archipelago
1 stylidioides, Reichb. f. in Herb. Kew. An erect glabrous plant,
with ipi stems of 6 to 8in. Leaves almost grass-like, linear, taper-
ing into long g qon, RPM, sheathing abeat bases covering the stem,
in
varying from ith 1, 3 or rarely more nerves pmen
"nderneath. Racemes shorter than the leaves, slender but rigid.
Bracts lanceolate, 1 to 2 lines long. Ovary nearly 3 lines long at the
e owering, elongated but still vety narrow when in fruit.
ditional staminode of that species, except that in some Aves I find the style abortive
or nearly so, and n: as it were by a staminode. e dorsal points of the pe tals
i appear sometimes on puis sep
I have follo wed B Brown in considering the group of Apostasi iew as a tribe of Orchideæ
Orpen CXXI. BURMANNIACEÆ.
- Flowers hermaphrodite, regular. Perianth superior, porini
tubular or campanulate, usually 6-lobed, the 3 inner lobes often smaller
d,
sometimes wanting. ens 8 or 6, inserted t nd
shorter than the perianth rs 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 3-celled
or with 3 parietal placentas, the ovules very numerous. Style single,
with 3 short branches stigmatic at the clavate or dilated ends. F
a capsule opening in loculicidal slits or valves. Seeds minute, the
bryo appare mogeneous.—Herbs, often slender. Leaves entire,
radical or nearly so, rarely alternate along the stem, sometimes all
reduced to small scales h wers term solitary or several along à
i nal,
2-branched rarely 3-branched rhachis centrifugally Solent each
flower opposite to a small often minute brac
~ A small tropical aipee. usually ee ay nting swamps or wet places, or decaying €
table soils, common dec and Old World. The only Australian genus
general range o. of the C
Burmannia,| CXXI. BURMANNIACEE. . 397
l. BURMANNIA, Linn.
(Gonyanthes, Miers.)
radical leaves or all the leaves rarely reduced to scales. Flowers
sessile or pedicellate Rind the branches of a forked cyme, reduced
sometimes to a sing:
The s is common to the Si and the Old World. One and m ~ the
nu species have a wide range over East India and the Archipe
— leaves lanceolate. Flowers abigo in a once-forked cyme.
anth at lea st twice: ^ MN
small. v solitary o or few. Perianth
with vm wings a as bead di as long
disticha, Linn. Spee. mp Stems ia or scarcely branched,
2 ft chi
1. B.
erect, glabrous, attaining 1 to . Leaves chiefly radical, sessile,
sheathing | at the base, iC acute, spreading, all under 1
1, B. disticha.
2. B. juncea.
E including the wings about 4 in. lit and deti
the 3 outer lobes ovate, concave, not half so long as t
«del i h
d in. road
he e, the
va rt pedicel; inner lobes of the perianth
oblong-linear, from half as ck to nearly as long as the outer ones.
Anthers immediately under the inner lobes, the cells small, separated
by a prominent connective, the dorsal appendages nearly as long as the `
cells. Capsule usually occupying about half the length of the era
but sometimes continued higher up, opening at the "Er between the
ridges with a — to splió transversely as observed "d Threda ue
v Corom. Pl. t. 2 ^ B. distachya, R. Br.
. Austr iverpool river, Gulliver.—A pring Ls specimen with only
3 vem which however are Tib those of j^ disticha.
N. es. Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls; New England, C. Stuart ;
il river, Beckler ; "E of swamps, Tweed iones Q. Moor e, Guilfoyle.
muncea, Soland. in R. Br. Prod. 265. Stems very sie na
Medie filiform, 6 in. to ale 1 ~ high. Leaves few at the base of the
| Stem, linear-filiform, ł to4in , and sometimes one or two smaller
p es ‘hi igher up, but the stem pickin with only a few small distant
. Scales, Flowers sometimes only one at the end of the stem, sometimes
*
*
398 CXXI. BURMANNIACEZ. [ Burmannia.
in a once-forked cyme with 2 to 4 on each branch, all on short slender
pedicels. Perianth including the wings about 3 m ong and qui
when in fruit, the outer lobes broad and only ? line long, the
inner nee Ani minute 3. the flower examined, the dora wings rounded
at bot at a little distance below the inner lobes.
Ovary athe bei occupying about half the length of the tube, the
capsule usually opening by a transversely oblique fissure.
N. Australia. Port Essington, Armstr
Queensland. Endeavour river, ' Banks iia f Solander.
This species is scarcely to be distinguished but by z Stal 8 stem and narrow fili-
form leaves from the B. pusilla, Thw. Enum. Pl. Ceyl. 325, or Gonyanthes pusilla,
Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537, t. 38. It is also very closely allied to the
common Indian B. eclestis, Don, with which Banks and Solan er's specimens are lai
down on the same sheet i in the roses aint as one species, the leaves aia
Orper CXXII. IRIDEZE.
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or irregular. Perianth superior,
with a short or distinct tube, the limb of 6 petal-like segments, the 9
inner ones sometimes very small. Stamens 3, inserted at the orifice of
the tube or base of the outer segments, or rarely (in Campynema) 6
fertile or (in Diplarrhena) one reduced to a barren filament. -Filame nts
free or united in a tube. Anther-cells 2, riem erect, opening out-
wards. Style more or less divided into 3 lobes r bran ches, usually
stigmatic at the end and sometimes broad wif eee: -like. Ovar
: l ? :
chous, sheathing and laterally flattened at the base, produced into a
linear lamina laterally or vertically not horizontally fattened so that
the inner edge is towards the stem, the outer edge a continuation of the
k
bract of the same node, not in its axil. Perianths in the ens
'The Order is generally dpi over the sd d dis Old World, more abundant
ified in South
Africa. Of the seven genera here d four are endemic, one, Li ibertia, extends
yer t New Zealand and extratropical South oo the rg orca is a solitary oda tm local
*
SESS SES TURCO IU ae eee ee ane RE ON Se ee PIRE ERE AE RI I E YT ERE S
CXXII. IRIDEX. 399
e peculiar inflorescence of the fl d Iridee d
generally noticed. 1t is a kin e, each flower terminates an axi j n
ü y the development v an axillary bud between the subtending bract and t
flower, which becomes o to the bract. of the same node. As these subtend-
ing bracts are not ^x posed d unilateral as in the ordinary forked cyme, but alter-
nate Qus the branc e rhachis assumes a zigzag not a scorpioid character.
Stam
Rad with 3 large outer and 3 very small inner seg-
ments. — tig ger than the anthers, with 3 broad-
ne g lam
Spike or cluster Morale and tesa or rarely lateral also.
h
Only two anthers 1. DiPLARRHENA.
Spike Tolita ary and t erminal, ‘the outer bracts enclosing 2
_ Sessile spikelets. Three anthers 2, PaTERSONIA,
Perianth with 6 nearly roa pr spre readin ng segme ents, St yle
divided into 3 oblong petal-like “ener opposite to Be
arching over the anthers 3. Monza.
Perianth Mig 6 spreading segments. Style shorter than ‘the
stam
dilate n he end or acute.
Periti segments nearly equal. Outer bracts erect and -
close
Filamen nts fr free. Ovary and capsule omnes sessile or
y 4. ORTHROSANTHUS.
Filaments connate below the middle or to the top. Ovar ry à
and capsule obovoid or globular on long M pons oH > 5. SISYRINCHIUM.
ler or rarely
nearly equal to the inner ones, Bra <a ms nous :
SPS o. ANM ay TRE . 6. LIBERTIA.
Stame
Perianth- -segments nearly equal .
esides the above, several South African j Titli hive adcaatoually been found to have
Sadaned eg i ardens. Amongst them F. Muellers collection — 'richonema
ocho er, Watsonia angusta, Sweet, Sparaxis tricolor, Bot. Mag., and Iris
spuria, Hus, var. halophila.
1. DIPLARRHENA, Labill.
Perianth slightly i irregular, divided to the ovary into 6 segments, the
three outer erect at the Le
EN petal-like laminz jours the sti igmas arger fd) the
ers. Capsule oblong, acutely 3-angled, locuicidlly 3-valved, the
perio somewhat coriaceous. . Se eds orbicular, flat. —Herbs with a
very short rhizome or leafy base. Leaves TM os radical, long and
Sir ne erect, simple or branched. Flowers rather vedi pedis,
si ike or baceous
"i e genus is (mail to ae ae "idis
Stems 1 to 2 ndn high. icem — pras ti in. broad. s
white . . . 1. D. Morea.
400 CXXII, TIRIDEJXE. | Diplarrhena.
Stems above 2 ft. high. Leaves ! to ed in. broad. TAn varie- :
gated blue and yellow . . 9. D. latifolia.
1. ut Morza, Labill. Voy. i. 157, t. 15. pis labrous in all
its parts. Rhizome or leafy base of the stem short, Leaves c iefly
adeil, SAT very flat, 1 to 2 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines broad. Stems 1 to
9 ft igh, w with a few shorter leaves. Tos ides i ik
those of Patersonia, but not composed of 2 spikelets, two
outer bracts rigidly WE ira prominently striate, 2 to 25 in. long,
acutely acuminate, keeled, with narrow scarious margins, the inner ones
membranous or scarious, au one as well as the second outer one
opposed to a flower. Pedicels slender but shorter than the bracts,
carrying usually the top of the ovary to the level of the bract, and
rod. 304; Hook. f. FL. T
Miaka ae, Vahl, Enum. ii. 154.
N. Sen Wales. Cape Howe, C. Walter
ria. Wilson's promontory, and caer ee between Mount Barclay and
Mount | ae F. Mueller
Tasmania, Labi ‘lat “hère; Port A" R. Brown ; abundant in good soil
me the Pie * D. Hooker and o
Leaves rather Hos and shorter, but very different from
a ‘of — beris "d flower white as in tha typic indi form.— Western Mountains,
nn.
more viet (Oldfield); “ variegated blue and yellow" (06. Stuart),
the dried specimens oe a bluish tinge in the whole perianth which
pit never do in D. Mor
OU. ran ui n Sun of the way up to the summit of Mount Lapeyrouse,
2. PATERSONIA, R. Br.
(Genosiris, Labill.)
Perianth regular, with a revere tube and 3 outer broad spreading
segments, the 3 inner ones ve mall and erect or almost obsolete.
Filaments united middle or almost top into a tube;
etii oblong or lanceolate, the cells usually separated by a narrow
ranous conne liform, longer than anthers,
sully constricted or articulate either near the base of the anthers or
top, and often. bent down or breaking off at the consttiolign,
Patersonia.] CXXII, IRIDEX. 401
the 3 stigmatie lobes obovate-orbicular. or pide omg oblong, contracted
and united in a cup or narrow and free at the base, retlexed on the
style in the bud, spreading bagas st in fower. faite
sessile within the bracts, linear or oblong, 3-angled, opening loculici-
ally in 3 valves.—Herbs with a perennial short rhizomé. Leaves in
ing a single oblong or lanceolate terminal spike, with two outer bracts
enclosing 2 sino ac each with 1, 2 or several flowers and as
many m Ss searious bracts, each braet of the
_ The e genus E ti se ra-tropical Australia, or scarcely crosses the tropics
the East coast, and is readily yon from m others by the infloresnonds, a as val
as by seu er aes
first b n
e the third te also without a flower opposed to I have not, howev it ia
my A shad to dissect a sufficient number of spikes to dio how far these ditiesetioes may
speci
Quite glabrous. Outer bracts of the spike prominently striate.
Perianth-tube exserted. Stam sing tube short, trifid . . 1. P. glauca.
Quite glabrous. Outer bracts ooth or cim. urely striate,
Perianth-tube not exserted. Stan iaat S tube short, trifid.
ges any. much Due than the leaves. Soutb-eastern
EF —
Sca Ua isit ‘shorter than the eared We stern spec $ P, occidentalis
Glabrous or the leaves hairy on the edges. Outer dias gea
) ely stria Staminal-tube long, undivided.
Quite glabrous. Leaves under 3 lines broad. Outer bracts
2 fo 24 in. long, acute, prominently keeled ii Yeli
le.
ienige PT idol cob wx. V REM MS.
5. P. zanthing.
ricis v^ AM at on the edges. ‘Outer bracts usually of a
br
rown.
Tall stout plant. Leaves 4 lines broad, with prominent
usually e margins. Outer bracts of the spike broad . 6. P. limbata.
Low hing, i plants. Lan lline broad or less. Spike
Usually” glabrous. Leaves rather thick, — bor- `
dered. Scapes gla —- dox 1 ft. bigh . 7. P. juncea.
Slightly hairy. Habit of mca. Flowers white . 8. P. Maxwells.
es hairy, opp dere Scape woolly, u in. 9. P. pygmea.
Leaves Woo hairy . Seape woolly. Outer brécts
dark and ibo ta Foki uide with deciduous wool |
i ort.
in
Leaves about 1 line broad. Eastern species. . . + +
402 ; . -OXXII, IRIDEX. [ Patersonia.
Leaves about 2 lines broad or
Leaves woolly on the edges j
Wool of the spike dose. ET Tik y. Eastern species. . 11. P, sericea.
. Wool of the Espaini copious but loose. Western species . 12. P. lanata.
Leaves woolly all over Lee the base. Western sies . 13. P. rudis
Leaves glabrous or hai he Pa ase
ter
puer or pale, stro ae i e, e, glabrous or ih silky
ai minal-tube (always "S long and u
Outer br 3i in. long, silky-hoary. Stem wa piee Leaves
glabrous, 3 lines broad 14. P. macrantha.
iu bracts a about 2 in. long, silky- hoary. Stem elo ongated.
Leaves glabrous or haj e edges, 2 lines broad or xn ess 15. P. glabrata.
Outer [ien about 14 in ag cps glabrous, glaucous. Stem v
red I es 1 line broad, the margins prominent, in $
16. P, Drummondü.
Outer Pacis lt 014 in. Ie long, the 2nd conspicuously higher
d than S very
fria — congaed. luae es J rigid, Taig at the i
base. S . 17. P. inaequalis.
Stems very e alas iosi bulbou ug. Lenves rass-like, gla-
Adam t the mw 18. P. graminea.
gulis s RT . 19. P. babianoides.
uca, R. Br. Prod. 3 ceedingly short, clustered
idi me, with a few outer cad ee scales, graduall
passing into erect rigid leaves, the longest from 3 t ong and 1
nearly 2 lines broad, rather less flat than in P. A oni ge the
dg no ned. capes usually eb shorter than the leaves,
inner ones at dese daolit , scarcely more t an 11 Staminal
column short, divided t o shout the middle. Style slebtly "ihiekened at
the end, the "exordio ovate, but I do not find the fringes of E cilia
figured by Endlicher from Bauer’s drawing.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii.
34; -Bot. Mag. t. 2677 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1182 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 90;
T Sragilis, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 13, t .95 F. Muell. Fragm.
N. S. W Hunter's river, R. Brown; New England, C. Stuart.
T MEE river, F. Mueller. r
Dalrym mple, R. Brown; ; abundant in wet peaty soils in the
iis parti “ob the’ island, J. D. Hoo. ,
d scapa, Sweet, Fl. Austral, t. 90. A glabrous plant like
P. ilem and P. occidentalis, but the leaves usually shorter, and whether
short or long the scape almost Avin still longer. Leaves flat and the
margins often nerve-like „asin P. occidentalis, of which this may be a
_variety. Scape eR thickened and striate close under the spike,
but. the outer Sot fully 14 in. long, quite smooth or very obscurely
Patersonia.] CXXII. IRIDEX. 403
striate. Spikelets with 3 or more flowers each. Ovary with a few
hairs towards the apex. Perianth-tube slightly hairy at the base
ey pene gi the bracts; outer segments ovate-elliptical, acute
abou long, the € about 1 line long, narrow-lanceolate but
appearing villae when shrivelled. Staminal column divided to about
e middle. Si Mode: abiti the middle.— P. bicolor, F. Muell. in
mg be dior!
Port lip, R. Brown; near Portland, Robertson ; ree tes and
Glee rans and ks mE: range, J/. Muelle er; ken ls Wilhelmi
mania
s. Pens alia. “Onkaparinga and Lofty riers F. igi
end me of longiscapa was originally pr ku sed k m for = iy sear of the
The latter, however, has the foliage, the smoot er bracts, the pubsooent apex of to
ovary, and the shorter perianth-tube of P. occi sare whi i s may prove to
me "eid as doubtfully suggested by R. Brown i in his n
cidentalis, R. Br. Prod. 804. Stems very short, the whole
pane eh mee except the ovary and perianth. Leave s rigid, sent
ongest often above 1 ft. long and usually 2 to 3 lines [peel
varying from er shorter to rather longer than the leaves, dilated
and striate under t Outer bracts 14 in. long or rather more,
prominently or rather obscurely keeled, the striæ scarcely or not at all
conspicuous, the inner membranous bracts often slightly exceedin
Rete near the base of the anthers.—P. sapphirina
Reg. 1839, t. 60 (passing S An in M dram for P. Me.
Genosiris occident, alis, d uell. F
W. Australia. Kin akin ae iut ucky bay, R. Brown; King George's
Sound and adjoining distict, "iiad, F. Mas. and others, and thence to Swan
e iig se mmo »
atifo olia. Tdv 3 to 4 lines broad. Flowers very numerous in the spike.
; Oldfield.
Var, ? angusti olia. Leaves under 2 lines broad. Poss ibig a distinct species. P.
tenuisp patha a P. tu toan, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 31.—Swan river, Preiss, n. 2338;
Mu fohisóni Peng Oldfie
Var. iA sigs o¥ T "Muell. Fragm. vii. 32. Inner segments of the perianth subu-
late. —Cap well.
= epidural is pont a Mia "et and appears to be common in West
Diesingii, E an in P Ys _ ii. 30, from Swan river, n. 2356, has the
Uhknown to me: all are described as Aerea nd are on y distinguished from eac
. Other and from P. occidentalis, as far as the disguósos extend, b: y slight differences in
. Stature, in the proportion of iiri scape eee the foliage, in the = r the keel of
404 ; CXXII. IRIDES. [Patersonia.
the bracts, and in the equality or inequality of the ribs of the leaves, all of which are
very variable in the ra "x occidentalis. No mention is made of the flowers, stamens,
or style of any one “of t
4. P. umbrosa, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 31. Stems short, with the
- short scales outside the leaves more numerous than in most species, the
whole plant glabrous except the perianth-tube. Leaves usually very
; hen above 2 ft., n nder 3 lines broad. Spike " in. e
mpressed, the outer bracts acuminate and acutely keele
pce cars or ga: obscurely striate. Perianth blue, the tube cod derit
longer ome the bracts, slightly silky- pubescent, the outer segments
above lin. long, the inner ones linear-subulate, often 2 lines long. |
‘Staminal-tube rather long and slender, the fi aments scarcely free
immediately under the anthers. Style showing no articulation in the |
specimen examined, the limb shortly campanulate below the division
into perie laminze.— Genosiris umbrosa, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 32.
tralia. King iain s Sound, Preiss, n. 9348, F. Mis. ; Middle Mount |
Barren, poire also in
| xanthina, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 914. A glabrous plant, with
ine Tie the long leaves, the long acuminate much compressed acutely
smooth outer bracts , and all the E floral characters of
P. umbrosa, but the flowers are said to b yellow, and the buds show
none of the blue ME of all the allied species. The perianth-tube in the
Specimen examined was rather shorter and more hairy than in P. umbrosa,
and the inner ae nts not quite so narrow, but I could detect no.
other difference, and the plant may is a variety only of that ene
Genosiris wanthina, F. Muell. Ade i, 93.
W. Australia. Geo Oldfield; Busselton, Pries (mixed with P. o
dentalis).—There are aiin Trid t ia which the same species appears to include eee
flowered and yellow-flowered varieties,
slender, the filaments very shortly free at the apex. St ns emt
nearly at the base of ^ anthers, the stigmatic lamine stipitate oval-
oblong.
W. Aus King George’ s Sonnd and adjoining districts, Baxter, Drummond,
Preiss, n. 2549, v "Mueller ; Champion bay, Oldfield.
| P. juncea, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 58. Almost stemless and quite
glabrous, or the young leaves slightly ciliate. Leaves in dada
À
a
E
4
be
E
Patersonia.] CXXII. IRIDEX. 405
tu
} line vite prominently striate, very shortly dilated and sheathing at’
le base. Scapes slender, as long as or longer than the leaves, quite
glabrous. Spike about 13 in. long, like that of C. pygmea rather narrow,
, W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., n. 772, Preiss, n. 2352; Vasse
river, Oldfield ; Stirling range, F. Mueller.
pee. Leaves nearly 1 ft. long, and scape still longer.—Cape Naturaliste,
dfield.
P. Roei, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 31, which I have not seen, is probably the same
species. :
8. P. Maxwelli, F. Muell. Stems slender but short as in P. pygmea.
. Leaves strongly ribbed, with a prominent nerve-like margin, slightly
o
lin. long;
Sty e
ro
Staminal tube slender, the filaments scarcely free at the E
axwelli, F. Muell.
articulate at the base of the anthers.— Genosiris Mi
viL Si:
W. Australia, M'Callum's Inlet, Maxwell,
us wool. rac 1
ong, narrow, acute, brown, rather smooth and shining, with very fine
obovate, ł in. long, the inner ones minute, tami unn
rather long and slender. Style apparently articulate near the |
the anthers.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. i. 32; Genosiris pygmea, F. Muell.
phim Drum coll. n, 770; Gordon river, Preiss
` i mond, 1st . ^, ; Go river 1
v. t ee: Boemie Bae and adjoining districts, F. Mueller, Oldfield, and
others; Salt river, Maxwell.
406 : CXXII. IRIDEX. [Patersonia.
P. longifolia, R. Br. Prod. 303. Very near to P. sericea, but
3 ime scarcely above 1 line broad, sometimes very long, sometimes
not much exceeding the spike. Scape 3 to 8 in. long. Spike smaller
than in P. sericea, the outer bracts often not much above 1 in. long, but
in SA respects like those of that species drying black, covered when
young with a silky wool, and prominently striate when the wool wears
T €—— longifolia, F. Muell. F UAR vii. 35.
Wales. Grose river, R. Brown; Hunter's river, Oldfield ; Port Jackson
Bins Mountains, 5 Moore, Vica, inni others ; Cape Sturt, ackliouse.— Perhaps
á icity of P. s
. P. sericea, R. Br. in Bot. Mag. t. 1041, Prod. 303. Stems
scarcely any. Leaves radical, Tur erect and rigid, ' rarely above 2 lines
broad, the edges very woolly at the base when young. es shorter
times very minute Blamante at E shortly free but at len h often
wer. le joi
wv
ions "Por Bowe Brow qoem inna F. Melle; ; Wide bay,
Leehharde; ¢ Clason Mountulca: fpei Dawson river, Woolls.
. Wal on, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 196, and others; New Eng-
land, "O. Stuart 3 Dana ce river, Mod sire river and Mount Mitchell, Beckler ;
southward to Twofold ke F.
Victoria. Ge ver and Maná "Wellington, F. Mueller
Var. ^ egi eae diis fully 3 lines broad.— Blue idani Fraser.
, Edw. Bot. Reg. t. 51, seems to represent a glabrous state of P. sericea,
it is ety ‘not the P. glabrata, B. Br.
dark-ooloured and striate as in J . sericea, but rarely much above
Flowers usually numerous, the wool of the ovary and of the
Dade of f the tube loose and very co . Perianth-tube not exceeding
the bracts; outer s ts of the li very broad and rounded, of à
deep weise ; inner segments small, obovate or oblong naa
cape sli E mu: .—Sweet, Fl. Austral. t. 15;
uell. Fragm. vii. 3
w. ace Lucky E ER. Brown, and probably the same locality, Baxter.
Var. Jatifolia. Leaves 3 lines broad.—P. pannosa, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 29.
i
Patersonia.) CXXII. IRIDEX, : 407
13. P. rudis, Zndl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 29. This species is again
closely allied to °P. sericea, het a coarser ibt; usually larger in al ^
tes and uppe
onn of the scape and on 9 margins of € leaves near the base, si
flowered spikes with dark-coloured prominently striate loosely woolly
outer bracts the same as in the three s species.— Genosiris
pond F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 35.
W. Australia. Pret river, S EIER 1sf coll., n. 774, Preiss, n. 2347.
14. P. macrantha, Stem very short and thick. Leaves
above 1 ft. long, about 3 pm broad, neither very rigid nor marginate
like those of P. limba ta, the keel often but not always woolly at the
base. Scape flattened, above 1 ft. Meer in our specimens, s, silky-pubes-
cent under the spike. Outer bracts about 3 in. long, very slightly
Debs t, the upper
lines broad, finely
the stem, rather ev, rarely exceeding the leaves, either quite gla-
brous as well as the spike, or the upper par rt silky-hoary with a very
long, vi
narrow, pale-coloured and often slightly s silky -hoary, PME, striate,
with broad scarious margins. Perianth-tube shortly exceedin,
bracts, thinly und at the base as RA as the ovary; outer segments -
of the limb about $ in. long in some € above 1 in. in others ;
Staminal column rather Ay ng and slender.—Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 7
Genosiris glabrata, ; F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 35; P. media, R. Br. Le.
Queensland. Shoalwater " R. Brown; Moreton island, F. Muelle:
.N. S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown and others . Hastings "em Clarence
rivers, agg Mov Kaigani Q, go rt; Newcastle,
pai Peak, F. Mueller ; entrance to om river, “O. Walter.
species varies: s much i in the length of the stem, in that of the oner bracts, and in
ihe Ete or pubesce ote na Mid ur acts, —R. Brown's P. media only differs from his
glabrata in the latter respect.
16. P. Drumm F. Muell. Herb. Stems very short. Leaves
epe but very flat, glaucous, often twisted, the thickened nerve-like
argins ciliate towards the base when young, the longest 6 to 8 in.
408 x CXXII. IRIDEX. vac
nerves. Flowers blue, avem but so on injured by worms in the
specimens examined that I have been unable to ascertain the structure
of the — ic the anthers and large reflexed stigmatic lobes
quite these o
wW. waa Vica Swan river, Drummond.
17. P. inzequalis, Benth. Stems lengthening to 1 or 2 im. and
covered with the closely imbricate distichous bases of the leaves, which
are rigid, erect, under 1 ft. long, 1 to 14 lines broad, very strongly
striate, and loos sely silky- -woolly towards the hys on both surfaces.
prominen t base so as to give the spike an puerta gibbous as rate
Flowers few. Ovary somewhat hairy. Perianth-tube glabrous, about
as ser " hend bracts ; outer segments of the limb obovate, 3 in. long,
the very short, broadly obovate or orbicular. Staminal
a: o pee, the filaments very shortly free at the apex. Style
articulate at or about the m
W. Australia. Stokes Inlet, Maxwell,
18. P. graminea, Benth. Stems exceedingly short, “con ge on the
rhizomes, the outer brown scales and bases of the s thickened
almost into bulbs. _ Leaves very narrow, flaccid, eati veined,
young ” Seap slender, terete, Pasi 1 ft. long, covered at the base
with a white cotton wool, glabrous from the middle upwards. Spikes
9 to 10 lines poe the sa brat inserted above the lowest, but not
so i semen re at t as in P. inaequalis, both of them finely ribbed.
open, but in the bud the pinihit column is very s short, the st
articulate at the base of the anthers, the stigmatic lobes ‘dilated at
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 196 and 5th coll., n. 326.
| - babianoides, Benth. Rhizome short with the stem and
leaves deer bulbous at the base as in P. graminea. Leaves l or
nly n. long, 3 or 4 lines broad in the middle but tapering
torson] CXXII. IRIDEÆ. 409
ments of the limb large and obovate, the inner ones small, with subu-
late points. Mugen. very shortly united. Stigmati c lamina of the
style broad, but not d.
bong river, Drummond, 1st coll., n. 160; Hampden, Cla
3. MOR ABA, Linn.
Perianth regular, divided to the ovary into 6 segments spreading
almost or quite from the base, " nearly eae ual or the inner ones rather
narrower. Filaments short, free; anthers pm Style Japy divided
into 3 oblong or w aris vaia ike branches, opposite to an arching
over the stamens. Capsule oblong ov oid or Senses opening in
3 valves, the perioalp Or AME or thick.—Herbs with a thick o
short yes e and fibrous roots. Leaves mostly ayt cal. Stems erect, |
without any or with oe or two leaves, renda the bracts subtending
the branches of the inflorescences. Flowers usually rather large, pedi-
cellate, in spikes or clusters, solitary within the subtending bract, each
ower opposed toa bract on the same node, the outer bract of the spike.
usu send longer SR the subtending one.
e genus is opie South African, the ool Australian hiie as far as
pe
Th
pyi in Lord Howe's island, The limits o of the genus som eiut un-
certain, and F. Mueller proposes the unitin ‘the : e :
ever, as to most species, MS marked, especi diy as to the for he qe ay it is
1. M. Robinsoniana, F. Muell. Fragm. 153. Rhizome very
short. Radical leaves attaining "n or 6 ft. in "length and 2 to 4 in. in
or cluste sym er
©
=
branches oblong-spathulate, obtuse, about 4 in. ten. Capsule above
l p sy long, 3 in. broad, cor iaceous, » the fruiting pedice
opposed bradtic-iivie iana, F. Muell. 1.c.; G. Benn. in |
Chea 1872, 3
N. bore, FA —Known as the “
ding FI is eet le. is Lord Ho scade sre ied genus, die habit i is that of the st
allied Pardanihas Chinensis 1 the lowers nearly those of Morea iridioides.
410 CXXII. IRIDER. [ Orthrosanthus.
4. ORTHROSANTHUS, Sweet.
Perianth regular, with a short tube and 6 nearly equal spreading
segments. Filaments short, free; anthers oblong, the cells contiguous.
Styles or rek branches linear, ‘almost filiform, Free dilated and
denticulate at the end, shorter than the anthers and alternate with |
he Capsule sessile or nearly so, oblong, 3-a aed opening. loculi-
cidally i in 3 valves.— Herbs with a "perennial short rhizome. Leaves
present) opposed each to a flower on the same n
The genus is limited to Southern and Western Australia. It is been generally re
fe isyrinchium, but besides jaa. t stamens and the very different capsules, the
inflorescence gives ita a ve ery distinc
Spikes with several (more than s pus the M bracts
usually brown-scarious at the end. Capsule obtu
Plant glabrous usually tall. Spikes all eai or both sessile
and pedunculate in the same bract 1. O. multiflorus.
Plant low, the leaves woolly on the edge when; young. Spikes :
ew, all Potion. or vsp one sessile 2. O. Muelleri.
e en
Leaves 2 to 24 lines broad. Outer bracts of the spikes white-
scarious at the ui capsule shortly and obtusely acuminate 3. O. laxus.
Leaves 4 to 1 line broad. pus rmost bract green to the end.
Capsule distinctly pex
Lim 1-flowered, v bel sumeroas, ‘all more or less s pedumculate,
m tall. Leaves long . de Wf PO TR
l. O. multiflorus, Sw t, Fl. Austral. t. 11. ppv ve
4, O. gramineus.
one u ually sessile Meus each bract along the main rhachis =
acinidint ied by 1 others within the same bract, but on rig! 1
peduincles often longét pu the canal ot bract. Outermost bract o
at the top; inner ones entirely ous. tabs about 1 m
long above the ovary; segments of the limb een pem 2 in. long, the
outer ones rather kartonok than the inner. ary contr
s. Aiii alia. T we ER. Brown, Baxter, F. Mueller ; Portland and
Cape Nelson, Allitt. ll
W. Australia, Cape Naturaliste, Oldfield; Scott's brook, Thomas river, M:
:
:
2 outer bracts, the second as well as the inner r membranous ones diner
mE Mur
CERA
ONT
Pies.
Orthrosanthus. | CXXII. IRIDEX. 411
Var. hebecarpa. Capsule villous. —W. Australia ? Herb. Hooker.
the short diagnosis given is insufficient to distinguish it either from O. multiflorus or
O. Muelleri, Benth. A small slender species, the stems rarely
1 ft. high, glabrous or slightly woolly towards the base. Leaves
shorter than the stems, 1 to 14 lines broad, woolly on the keel and.
inner margin when young. Spikes 2 to 4 on the stem, all pedunculate
or the lower one sessile, resembling those of O. multiflorus in the brown
scarious apices of the bracts, but rather smaller. Flowers usually 3 or
4inthe spike. Capsule obtuse, not longer than the bracts.
W. Australia, Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll, n. 767; Stirling range, P.
Mueller. i
3. O. laxus, Benth. Quite glabrous, the rhizome sometimes slightly
elongated. Leaves 2 to 14 ft. long, 2 to 24 lines broad. Inflorescence
W., Australia an river, Drummond, 1st coll., n. 769, Collie, Preiss, n. 2230 ;
aeu river, Oldfield; Stirling range, F. uéller; Swan river and Bremer bay,
axwell,
4. O. gramineus, Benth. Quite glabrous. Leaves 6 in. to near -
1 ft. long, not 1 line ‘and mostly not above 4 line broad. Stem scarcely
exceeding the leaves, the leafy bracts at the base of the peduncles in
and lanceolate. Spikes 1 to 3 on each stem, on long peduncles, eac
ith 2 y ex
n. 2229,
5. O. polystachyus, Benth. Quite glabrous. Leaves 14 to 2 ft.
long, 2 to 3 lines broad. Stems attaining 2 to ., the inflorescen
acu striate, :
and broad. Spikes usually many within each bract, all shortly pedun-
culate and 1-flowered, each with 2 unequal bracts, the longest not } in.
ong. Flowers blue, apparently rather smaller than in 0. multiflorus.
Capsule glabrous, obtuse, longer than the bracts. — .
W. Australia. Probably Swan river, Drummond, n. 206 and 357; Cape Natu-
raliste, Oldfield; Warren river, Walcot.
412 CXXII. IRIDEÆ. [Sisyrinchium.
*5. SISYRINCHIUM, Linn.
subtending the cluster on the main axis, the second outer bract and the
inner membranous ones each opposed to a pedicel within the cluster,
fruiting pedicels exserted from the bracts.
e genus is widely spread over North and South America, one species also found
in various districts of the Old World, but in maay places introduced. pane two Aus-
n ones
1. S. Bermudiana.
2. S. micranthum.
1. S. Bermudiana, Li»; Cav. Diss. vi. 346, t. 192. A perennial
with erect stems of 6 in. to 1 ft., prominently 2-angled or 2-edged, or
with 2 narrow acute wings sometimes broader under the bracts. Flowers
2 to. 6 together MGR 3 or 4) in a terminal cluster, the filiform
pedicels almost concealed within the 2 outer sheathing braéts, of which
the outermost one often ends in a leaf tip exceeding the flowers, but
occasionally both are nearly equal. Parinath blue, the segments 3 to
4 lines long '
À very common North American species also indigenous perhaps in some parts of
Western Europe and an introduced colonist in many other countries. It is said to be
well established in some part of N. S. Wales and Victoria.
*2. S. micranthum, Cav. Diss. vi. 345, t. 191. A slender annual,
not above 6 in. high, the branches flattened and 2-angled but not
two from lower axils., Outer bracts of the cluster $ to lin. long.
Pedicels very slender. Perianth- segments about 14 lines long. Staminal
tube about half that length.— Bot. Mag. t. 2110.
A South American species, introduced as à weed into several parts of Queensland
and IN. S. W'ales, and now said to be exceedingly abundant about Brisbane and
Port Jackson,
6. LIBERTIA, Spreng.
(Renealmia, R. Br: ; Nematostigma, Dietr.).
Perianth regular, divided to the ovary into 6 nearly equal spreading
segments. Filaments free; anthers linear-sagittate. Style shorter -
Libertia.] .CXXII. IRIDEX. 413
than the filaments, with 3 linear-subulate spreading branches, stigmatic
and minutely toothed or fringed at the end. Capsule ovoid or globular,
3-valved, the pericarp thin. —Herbs with a short often very short lea
base, and grass-like flat leaves almost a: thou “ee distichous.
Flowering stems erect, "uk or branched, with 1 or 2 leaves below
in
o New quib d m— South America, one of the
«The
Australian species iis id the same as a New Zealand one, the other — The
enus is reduced by F. ueller to Sisyrinchium, in which Brown An the first in-
stance placed his three species; but besides the differences indicated in his Adden
and recognised by subsequent so UM rvers, » M inflorescence gives it so distinct an aspect
that I am unable to concur in
Fl t paniculate, the roni iden 1 to 11 ft. high.
Akay segments about 4 lines . 1. L. paniculata.
Sian clusters few or solitary, he Alowering-stem. "under 1 ft. :
Perianth-segments 2i to 3 lines lon . 2. L. pulchella.
aniculata, Spreng. ie i. 168.. Rhizome m leafy base of
the stem very short. Leaves almost radical, grass-like, flaccid, ? to
1} ft. long and mostly about 3 lines broad. Stem 1 to 1l ft. h gh, with
sometimes a short leaf below the nnna Panicle oblong loose and
S Nat occupying often half the stem, glabrous as well as the whole
RE slightly glandular-pa scent. Bracts membranous-
kanion, the lower ones rather long and acuminate, those subtending
the flowers 3 t es long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute.
as in the non-Australian species. Filaments dilated at the base but
not united. Style column very short, with 3 linear-subulate spreading
branches, minutely fringed at the end. Capsule a 3 to 4
lines diameter. —Sisyrinchium paniculatum, R. Br. 3 ell
Fragm. vii. 91; Renealmia paaa R. Br. Prod. pte Nemato-
stigma paniculatum, Dietr. Sp. Pl. ii. 510.
"S. Wal Port Jackson and A A s river, R. Brown; Saee Mountains
Woolls, Miss Atkins on; northward to a river, Beckler; New England, C
Stuart ; pe fae to Illawarra, A. Cunningham; Twofold bay, E “Mueller; ,
Howe, C. Walter
Victoria. Bovey: and Genoa rivers, F. Mueller.
. L. pulchella, Spreng. Pet i.169. A much suae plant than
L. reet e the losh base of the stems more slender but often elon-
gated to from 1 to 3 in. and Slightly branched. (3. gt s rarely 6 in. long
and 2
to 3 lines broad, often not above that size. Scape or
414 CXXII. IRIDEJE, ges
membranous, striate, acuminate, the subtending ones 4 to j in. long,
the inner ones smaller. Pedicels filiform, 2to Lin. long, often glandular-
Songer filiform, very shortl dilated at the base. Style of L. pani-
lata. Capsule about 2 lines diameter, opening to the base in three
‘anes which often retain pw see s long alter they open.—Sisyrinchium
pulchellum, R. Br. Prod. . Muell. Fragm. vii. ; Renealmia
pulchella, R. Br. Prod. Addend: a; Nematostigma peen Dietr. Spec.
Pi. ii. 510; ; Libertia Laurencii, ' Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 34, t. 129;
L. micrantha, A. Cunn. in Hoo k. f. Fl. N. Zeal. i. 259.
x Wales. Grose river, 2. Brown; Blue Mountains, C. Moore ; Port Jack-
oolls.
toria. Upper Targil and Upper Latrobe rivers, Mount Baw-Baw, sources of the
fox. &c., F. Mueller
asmania. Abundant in various parts of the Sag, ascending to 4000 fi. J. D.
Hooker, and others
The species is alo i in New Zealand. fad common Tasmanian form described by
Hooker as L. Laurencii, gon rather large flowers, the perianth-segments about 3 lines
long; but some y entm specimens, piali. from dins river, Milligan, Brown s
own, and some of the New Zealand ones have them remarkably small, the perianth-
segments scarcely 2 lines long. The majority of the New South Wales and New
Zealand ones are more or less intermediate in size.
7. CAMPYNEMA, Labill.
Perianth agni divided to the ovary into 6 ma equal segments
— oo e base. Stamens 6, the filaments free; anthers
openi nde but sagittate with short obtuse brin at the —
Styles 3, gie from the base, rather thick, obtuse and stigmatic at
the e nd, at first connivent, at length spre ading. Capsule chad or
i y code more or less
the
developm ment, at first terminal but seg. opposed to a linear bract
by the develop of its axillary shoo
e genus is endemic in Tasmania, with exceptional characters, to whatever Order `
it may be ascribed. Brown, Judging from Labillardiére’s figure and description, place ed
it amongst anomalous genera at the end of Melanthacee, from which it differs essen-
tially in its Lo inferior o ent iid t dde a character to which less importance
was then ait than has since been attributed to it. Lindley enumerated 3 Kei
Amargllidea, ad which Kunth appears to have advisedly expunged it, as it appe?
in his index, but not in the text of his fifth volume. F. Mueller refers it without es
Campynema.] — CXXII. IRIDEJE. 415
tation to Hypoxidea, although the seeds have not the crustaceous testa nor the pro-
jecting hooked Aium peculiar to that suborder or tribe. It differs from all the above
ns wo important SD ers—the anthers opening outwards, and the centri-
fuga Satoreecenoe, 1 in both of which it agrees with dide amongst which it appears to
me to constitute an reno hexandrous genu
Plant of 1 to a narrow linear or hires HN leat — . 1 C lineare.
Dwarf Mihi, vidi Mid 2 oblong lanceolate short leaves . . 2. C. pygmea
C. lineare, Labill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 93, t. 121. Rhizome very
ion, with rather thick fibrous roots. - Stems slender, varying from 3
higher up. Flowers either solitary and terminal or 2 to 4, the lateral
ones opening later on short or long peduncles, the d one becoming
opposed to a linear bract. erianth-segme nts ovate or ovate-lanceo —
, the tips long cohering but at length recurved.
Ovary smb Mero or almost linear. Capsule when fully WRF
jin. long, tapering towards the base.—Ho ok. f. FI.
Pm glana pon eee. Syst. vii.
Macquarrie Harbour, Recherche bay, &c., ascending to
4000 ft, Paws Miloun, pde C. Stuart.
2. C. pygmeeum, . Muell. A small stout plant of 1 to 1} in.
Leaves usually 2, atid g-tadiousiatey obtuse, recurved spreading, $ to
iin. long and 2 to 3 lines broad. Flowers 1 or rarely 2 on a stem not
exceeding the leaves. Ovary shortly turbinate but the structure the
same as in C. lineare, of which F. Mueller thinks it may be an alpine
ariety
Tasmania. Summit of Mount Lapeyrouse in the tufts of Donatia, Oldfield.
Orper CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ.
Flowers hermaphrodite, regular or oblique. Perianth superior, with
or without a distinct tube, the limb of 6 coloured or peta al-like segments,
Ovary inferior or rarely halt copies ribs oe Nes with eral Scilly nume-
rous rarely only 1 or 2 ovules in each cell, amphitropous anatropous or
a
416 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE.
rarely ness eM attached to an axile pipeanis, or. rarely the ovary
reduced to 1 the abortion of 2 carpels or by the obliteration of
the erc iri ruit spen a XT E opening loculicidally either
t di s, rarely succulent and
indehiscent, or bursting I Seeds albuminous, ri a smal
or linear embryo, the radicle near to or more or less distant from the
hilum.—Herbs rs a perennial short or tuberous or A Snir rhizome
-or bulbous bas o e es werd demie or nearly so, the "sheathing
ulbous,
8 bn d lien over the warmer and nace regions of the
TS Pn Iac mre Nee
e
Orchidete in their lepide: (s: sip oblique flowers, from Jridew and Bwrmanniacee m ——
their centripetal not enint inflorescence and in their stamens, from Taccacee 1
the majority of Orchi and Burmanniacee in their axile placentum, from Dioso ——
ride in their he rapt f foor, and in all cases there are other characters either
less constant or ọf minor i a. |
Amongst these pion + ge NUM TS, or denies have been s supposed to to be
distinctly secti cds equitant leaves and f ype tomentose flowers, but
Hamodorum
p in some aaron quit t in Vellozie i jha loner included in
eec. ; shia valli the greater porti ^
yllid æ, would exclude Heemodorum itself as being triandrous; but although Iridee
e almost anive i ous and Amaryllidee hexa , this n
single or double, if relied upon absolutely, separates the Orders much less natural
he difference in inflorescence wherever i e rtained, accompanied as 1
an apparently constant difference in the anthe en " florous,
be some of the above mentioned characters m alled in
aking therefore the Amaryllidee h ne Order, it would include be-
id. i
sides the five tribes or suborders here enumerated, which are all common to À
well as the Old World, the — which are con ned to America, except à single
Afri ican species and the A/stremieriec, all American, in which however the secondary
orescence appears to be centrifi “gel
CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. 417
— Tree 1. Heemodoreee.—Perianth glabrous, divided to the ovary into distinctly
2-seriate segments. rogos very idio gany laterally niite or terete. Inflo-
rescence compound or rarely nang re
Stamens 3. Ovules 2 in each cell. Cap almost superior,
e. ow 1. Hamoporvum.
s 6. Ovules 1 to each carpel, t the ovary often 1-celled. Nut
inferior, fidokiisant, l-seeded. Flowers small . . 2. PuLEBOCARYA.
i E 2. Conostylese.— Periant th plumose-woolly or tomentose outside, the tu
iy. continued arvis the ovary, the lobes nunáre a 1-seriate. ne mas very ind.
nul beue flattened or fd nflorescence compound simply racemose or capi-
tate, rarely 1-florous. Stamens 6.
Pieni Lyra, ii el into 2 erect flat appendages above ie
of the a s. E ules ner. Flowers UN
he in a] ead o t mall cj 3. TRIBONANTHES.
many M a cell, not in Capsule openin in 3 valves
at the apex. Flowers in beads or cymes, rarely solitary . . 4. Cowosrvuis.
Perianth tubular, the limb equal. Ovules several, in 2 rows
in each cell, the ovary adnate at the angles only. Flowers in
short unilateral racemes on a branchin : 5. Buancoa.
Perianth long, tubular, the limb very ns more re split on the
lower side. Flowers in unilateral racemes or spikes on a
dic peduncle.
Ovules many or rarely 2 to 4 in ipu cell, Capsule 3-valved
at the apex. Wool of the perianth red qn d w. . 6, ÁNIGOZANTHOS:
1. MacROPODIA.
Trise 3. Htypoxidese.—Perianth hairy or rarely glabrous. Stigmas or stigmatic
lobes large, free or connate. Ovules many, in 2 rows ws in each cell. Seeds with a crus-
taceous testa, sal Ow oduced into a hooked beak. Leaves horizo flattened,
channelled or t 73 in a simple spike or raceme or
Flowers sessile within sheathing » imbricate bracts in a dense
Spike. Vise usually with a long tu OPES
fono solitary or few in a loose aig ore raceme. Perianth
vided to the ad into irae segmen cV
8. CurcuLico.
9. Hrroxm.
Trine 4. Agavese.— Perianth glabrous. Stigmas small. Tall often woody y plants
not bulbous. Leaves horizontally flat, channelled (or terete?). Infloresce
pound.
yn leaves very numerous. E large, "x in a a
pound head or thyrsus . i
eæ.—Perianth glabrous. Stigmas small. uii coe
Trise 5. Euamarylli
Ma pit is fat, avid or terete. Flowers umbellate or rary solitary
on le
. 10. DoRYANTHES.
is rs large. Ovules several, in 2 rows in each cell 11. Crivum.
yum. MT below the middle by a cor
ary ed, kie kie: in each cell. Leaves broad, with
distant primary
Ovary 1-celled, d " | ossi Leaves 3 narrow v with close veins,
ith distant t primary veins 5
. 12. Evrycwes.
. 18, CALOSTEMMA,
VOL. VI. EE
418 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDE X.
. Hzmoporex.—Rhizome or base of the stem short and
Mack oon fibrous roots and sometimes covered with the brown
sheathi ing bases of old leaves so as to resemble bulbs. Leaves mostly
radical, with distichous sheathing bases and long laterally flattened or
terete lamine. Drs often with a few short leaves. Flowers gla-
brous, in cymes or panicles, De reduced to a simple raceme.
Perianth divided À the ovary into 6 segments in 2 rows. Ovules
1 or 2 to each carpel or cell.
1. HZEZMODORUM, Sm.
Seeds , flat, with a wing-like margin, Dey attached to a
Mena ice —Erect iro Red herbs, ase of the stem or rhi-
zome sometimes thickened and enclosed in the persistent sheathing
base of the leaves so as to r vol narrow bulbs, the fibrous roots
ro please ie thick — spongy and often red. Leaves ety the
The ince is iid to str lia.
Flowers in pom globular or oblong heads on dwarf stems
under 6 in.). Leaves nearly te
Leaves “thick and short. Flow riim — Perianth- i à
segments nearly equal. Tasmanian spec 1. H. distichophyllum.
Leaves slender and long. Flower-heads oblong, usually two,
ter perianth-segments shorter. m species . 2. H. brevicaule.
Toros Vy edite above 3 lines long, in clusters of 2 to 40
peus peciit and on the pedicels narrow, not sca xe
D singly onem in a Lire ong qnid 8. H. sparsiflorum.
Flo
e e.
Stout Pint of 2 to 3 ft. Outer pernticiegnente
more than 1 the length of the inner 4. H. spicatum.
Slender plant under 1 ft., oblong- bulbous at the base.
Quter perianth-segments i as long as the inner . . 4. H. brevisepalum.
vendi € nd on the pedicels broad with scarious
Tall ved Bracts at least $ as long as the flowers.
Flower-clusters several doen m branches of an
nicle . : è
6. H. paniculatum.
iaa i ll
Hemodorum.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. 419
7. H. laxum.
H. simplex.
9o
ower-clusters solitary or few on long peduncles
Flowers (dark red, livid or black) above 3 lines long, very
numerous, in dense terminal corymbose cymes. Leaves
Perianth-segments nearly equal.
Flowers (black) tisnally in 2 or more distinctly peduncu-
ate compact cymes or heads. Western species . . 9. H. simulans.
Flowers (greenish purple) forming one compact compound
inal cyme. Eastern species
2to3lines broad . . . . <. + .10. H. planifolium.
Leaves slender, terete. 204 vos s) sos 1e M teretifolium,
; *3 M 1 +
uter
Flowers (red ?) ina compact compound terminal cyme.
Tropical species
8 SES A ER NR CUP I DIE UE SIDE
Flowers about 2 lines long, green or yellow, in panicles or
corymbose panicle . . - +. + « + + + + + 18. H. subvirens.
Leaves flat, rigid, and glaucous. Flowers loosely racemose
along the branches of a spreading panicle . . . . -
Leaves slender, terete.
Flowers very shortly pedicellate along the branches of a
spreading panicle. . . . ak us . . 15. H. parviflorum.
. Flowers my: sessile along a simple rhachis . . . . 16. H. leptostachyum.
Flowers singly pedicellate in a diebitetiodi panicle . . 17. H. tenuifolium.
14. H. ensifolium.
loose sheathing bracts of 4 to $ in. Flowers not many i a com act
terminal head scarcely $ in. diameter. Perianth shortly adnate at the
base, the segments oblong or lanceolate, about 2 lines long and a
nearly equal. Filaments as long as the perianth, with small anthers.
pes almost entirely superior, deeply tridymous.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm.
ii. 35.
Tasmania. Heathy ground near Port Macquarrie, Milligan.
H. brevicaule, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 64. Stems not above 6 in.
h d ith the broad sheathing bases of the leaves
sometimes splitting into fibres. Radical leaves with a terete slender
amina, sometimes 1 ft. long or even more; leaves or bracts under the
in one two or three dense oblong heads of ł to lin., the bracts
Within the head small. Inner perianth-segments in some specimens a
little above 2 lines, in others nearly 3 lines long, narrow and obtuse,
the outer ones 4 to 4 shorter. Filaments thick, nearly as long as the
,N. Australia. Se
Liverpool river, Gullivér. pa
420 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDER. [Hemodorum.
3. H. rsiflorum
species, with the habit. and 1 folia T: of H. laxum nd a ‘similarly divari-
cately branched panicle, but the flowers smaller, on pedicels longer than
th
rently sina smaller than in H. laxum, but not seen ripe.
Australia. Drummond, n. 58.
4. H. spicatum, R. Br. Prod. 300. Stems simple, attaining 2
3 ft., — at the shortly thickened base by the short broad Ticats:
ing ‘bases of ne leaves, but loosely so and not so bulb-like (in the
ML seen) as in H. Ureeisepalum. and H. simplex. Leaves from their
short sheathing HE tapering into a long very narrow linear-subulate
lamina. Flowers b i
Aidisiita! bay, R. Brown; King George's e and aedi dis-
Poul "Preiss, n. 1423, pos and others; Swan river, ce 1421
river, ldfield. —The roots are said to be eaten by the native
5. H. brevisepalum, Benth. Stems dabik i rather slender, under
1 ft. high and enclosed at thè base in the closely-pressed mem mbranous
sheathing bases of old leaves, forming an oblong bulb as in H. simp
Leaves tapering into linear-terete lamine, usually longer than the stem
Flowers in distant pairs along a simple rhachis as in Æ. spicatum, but
fewer, as large or rather larger, and the outer segments broadly ovate,
very shortly a acuminate and only half as ie as t the é
W. Australia, Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n
6. H. panicula ;
and perhaps a variety rine It a pears ; to be a still aller of ou
rgins. Perianths rather larger, the outer segments rather shorter
and considerably broader than the inner ones. seem dl. in Pl. Preiss. ii.
15? partly.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st. coll. n. 742; Murchison river,
Oldfield.
H. strictum, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 15, from Wellington asia, probably belongs 10
H. paniculatum, as well as Preiss's n. 1425, from Victoria distric
TUM
ae
Hemodorum.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. 421
7, Hh laxum, R. Br. Prod. 300. Stems rigid, 1} to 2 ft. high.
Lower leaves 10 in. to above 1 ft. long, rigid, striate, thick or some-
. W. Australia. King G 's Sound, A. B zu " Mueller ;
Veo ond sckwood amr, Cites ai Ges tate ae i
8. H. simplex, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 44. Stem rather slender,
l to 14 ft. high, not much thickened at the base but covered with the
broad membranous sheathing bases of the lower leaves, so as to form a
bu ry ,
radical ones sometimes short sometimes 6 to 8 in. long; those of the
very broad at the base, the inner much convolute. Capsule 3 to 4 lines
broad, but not quite ripe in the specimens seen.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st. coll. ; Kalgan river, Oldfield ; Lake
T.
H. polycephalum, Endl. in Pl. in Preiss. ii. 16, from Swan river, is probably founded
on specimens of this species with more than one head of flowers, those which Lindley
described having had mostly only a single head.
9. H. simulans, F. Muell. Fragm. vii. 117. A stout rigid species,
one of Drummond's specimens above 4 ft. high. Leaves flat, rigid,
the end of the stem and of 1 to 3 long peduncles. Bracts linear or
narrow-lanceolate, without scarious margins. Perianth about 4 in.
base. Filaments not longer than the anthers, which sometimes do not
teach to above half the length of the perianth, although sometimes
nearly its length.
uL; DATAE Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., also n. 310; Murchison river,
This was considered by Lindley as the same as the Eastern H. planifolium, and in-
deed is scarcely to be distinguished from it except by the usually more promi-
t * x
422 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. [Hemodorum.
nently veined leaves, and by the flowers in more compact heads or cymes, but usually 2
or more such heads on unequal peduncles, instead of forming together only one terminal
compact corymb.
10. H. planifolium, R. Br. Prod. 300. Stems from a thick base
2 to 3 ft. high, scarcely "branched below the inflorescence. Lower or
radical leaves long, grass-like, flat, from under 2 lines to nearly 3 lines
broad, the upper “ones few and short. Flowers numerous, of a livid
purple c or greenish at the base, in short forked racemes or cymes col-
ected in a compact more or less cor ym bose donee but usually looser
than in H. coccineum. Bracts narrow, subulate-acuminate, usu rally
longer than the pedis Perianth-segments Hidat or linear-lanceolate,
obtuse in the bud, appearing acuminate when open the margins
being involute, about 5 lines long, the outer ones scarcely shorter than
the inner. Stamens much shorter than the perianth ; anthers linear,
t as the filaments. Ovary wholly in ferior, the summit
«idend only 3 Y protuberances. Capsule more than half superior,
tridymous, 4 to 5 lines broad.— Bot. Mag. t. 1610.
N. pau to the Blue Mountains, R. Brown, Sieber, n. a
and many others; iude and oe rivers, Beckler ; Clarence river, Wilcox
New Tires Leichha rdt, C. Stua
The speci n some manner in inflorescence, Pad innen compact or spreading,
the Wltimaté 1 totns fow and long or numerous and sh
ll. H. teretifolium, R. Br. Prod. 300. Stature re eera and
flowers rocissa those of H. planifolium, but the leav om a short
sheathing base very long, slender, terete, or nearly ex boit 4 line
mero
allied species. Perianth-segments narrow and about 5 lines long, the
outer ones scarcely shorter than the inner as in H. planifolium.
N. NV. Port Jackson, R. Brown; Illawarra, A. Cunningham, an imper-
fect specimen, but apparently the same as Brown's plant.
12. H. coccineum, r. Prod. 300. Stems from a thick base 2
to 3 ft. high, not Hatchet bite the inflorescence. Leaves at the base
of > stem 1 to 2 ft. long, flat, 2 to 3 lines temet very finely striate,
he upper ones few and short. Flowers numerous “red” but drying
black, in dense cymes forming a compact bhitihal à compound m ose
pa nicle. Airi ual linear, the outer sie es thick d and di-
a
or didy mous by a rtion of on
tralia. E d he du of Carpentaria, R. Brown, Henne, Gulliver ;
Upper sae am river, F. M
nsland. Cape Yor is yo ivray, cures Veitch; Albany island, F. Mueller ;
Vittioy island, and Monit Elliott, — ; ngham bay, very abundant, Dallachy;
Cape river and Glenella creek, Bowm
:
j
.
,
1
;
Hemodorum.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDER, 423
13. H. subvirens, F. Muell. Fragm. i. 63. A tall species. Lower
or radicle leaves longer and more flaccid than in H. coccineum, 3 to
lines broad. Flowers numerous, in a rather looser and more spreading
corymbose panicle than in that species. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate,
nearly as long as the flowers. Perianth scarcely above 2 lines long,
reenish aphan to F. Mueller’s notes, somewhat yellowish when
y, the outer segments narow lanceolate acute, the inner ones rather
rate and more obtuse but not lon
N. tralia. Rocky hills Be ay’ Vira river, F. Mueller, a single a
adios in ieri Hosket E represe ted in Herb. F F. Mueller nd one of H. coccineum,
which, though resembling it in habit, ‘his alle “different flowers
14. — F. Muell. Fragm. i. 64. A rigid glaucous
ngos, 2 ft. high or more. Leaves rigid, with long open sheaths, the
ceolate, obtuse, scarcely 2 lines long, the outer ones quite as long as
the inner. Stamens about as long as the perianth. Castle nearly
in. broad.
N. Australia. M'Adam range, F. Mueller; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 522.
-oblon es
ns shorii = € "mi "peri ianth. Capsule although
nearly ripe not idis 3 lines diam
N. Australia Brunswick bay, eme coast, 7 Cunningham ; Port Darwin, Schultz,
n. 723.
p sinple or Ter n below the uir sip tu 5 e Hr . high.
N. nae Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 659.
A. Cunn. Herd. Stems 1} to 2 ft. high. Radical
17. H tenuifolium,
and lower leaves with a rather broad short sheathing base, very long,
slender and almost terete, about j line broad. Panicle loosely divari-
424 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJX. [Hemodorum.
eate, the ultimate 1-flowered saris much longer than the flower,
ra
the same length, the outer almost membranous with a broad base, the
inner ones of a thicker consistence, pone orbicular, contracted at the
base and of a deeper colour when dry. nts attaining nearly the
length of the perianth ; anthers ovate, ond “slightly exserted.
Queensland. Peat and boggy ground, shores of Moreton bay and island, A. Cun-
ningham, F. Mueller.
Wales. Duval, Leichhardt.
2. PHLEBOCARYA, R. Br.
Perianth persistent, divided to the ovary into 6 nearly equal seg-
ments. Stamens 6; anthers erect, on short filaments, inserted at the
base of the segments. Ovar inferior, more or less 3-celled when very
mop a vare = seed. Testa membranous; albumen fles
Herbs sually more or less ciliate with long haits. Leaves long
TTO ass- ke. Flowering stems slender, shorter than the
leaves usually forked or TE gabe divided, with a compact or
loose cyme of small flowers at the end of each branch.
i: genus is limited to West Australia.
Leaves flat, ciliate on the margin only, and vigi tap "ass with-
ther-connective not niet than the 1. P. ciliata.
Leaves flat, hairy on the whole surface. er-conn ine shortly E
pre uced beyond the cells . 2. P. pilosissuma.
Leaves terete, filiform, sparingly ciliate _Anther-connective much :
produced beyond the cells ; . 8. P. filifolia.
l. P. ciliata, R. Br. Prod. 301. Rhizome short and thick. Radical
Ec with pem black rigid emp bases, narrow-linear, $ to to 13 ft.
long, 1 to 2 lines broad, rigid or rather flaccid, promin wall? striate,
more or oes State with lon ng cilia usually distant and sometimes
only to n young leaves. Flowers mostly about 2 lios long,
the vidc Mu sais usually rather dense at first € of about
6 to 12 flowers, each on a very short pedicel in the axil of a linear
bract of 1 to 2 lines ; as the flowering advances the ankle of the
cluster sometimes le hen to r lin., the whole inflorescence
asas a n Mes niga always iil pe Te than the leaves. Perianth-
ments lanceo ate, evidently spreading when fresh although almost
erar erect in the dried specimens. Filaments very short;
anthers oblong, the connective not produced beyond the cells. Ovary
at the time of flowering 1-celled, "ih.
central placenta at the base of the cavit , upon wee are seated 3 erect
oie ovules, but I have occasionally found a persistent axis in
EE E ML. abe LEE MUR Ime TIE TOC IST ONE AES 2 ng LAT AUTO ee ara ha
T "
»
bn]
Phlebocarya.| CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 425
Fg
in the specimens examined.—Endl
, W. Australia. King George's Sound, R. Brown, F. Mueller; Capel and Vasse
rivers, Oldfield ; Hampden, Clarke.
Var. levis. Leaves rather long, broad, and rigid, with very few cilia only to be seen
on the young leaves, which, however, I have never found to be absolutely without any.
—P. levis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 43; Endl. in. Pl. in Preiss. ii. 29.—Swan river,
Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 1558; Capel river, Oldfield. i
9. P. pilosissima, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 23 (as a var. of P. ciliata).
Leaves erect, rigid, mostly under 1 ft. long, flattened but under 1 line
0
Flowers about 2 lines long, the segments narrow but obtuse. Anther-
connective produced beyond the cells but not so much so as in P. filifolia.
Ovary in the flowers examined completely 3-celled, but the dissepiments
very thin and readily disappearing as the flower withers.
3. P. fili ul
Leaves filiform, terete, not conspicuously striate, glabrous except a few
long cilia near the base, the longest above 1 ft. long. Panicle loose
and few-flowered, shorter than the leaves. Bracts small, lanceolate
Perianth about the size of. that of the two preceding species, but the
segments narrowly acuminate. Anther-connective p reap pro-
. Ovary more or
less completely 3-celled, with one ascending acuminate ovule in each
cell,
W. Australia, Drummond, n. 207, and 368.
IBE 9. CowosTYLEX.—Rhizome short with fibrous roots, the
base of the stem short and sometimes covered with brown sheathing
bases of old leaves so as to resemble bulbs, or shortly branched and
densely tufted, or rarely elongated and proliferous-branched. Leaves
e at the base of the flowering stems, with distichous sheathing
bases or densely tufted, the lamina long, laterally flattened or terete.
i u rin
a in lis
breviscapa) the limb continuous with the tube, regular or oblique, the
lobes usually appearing uniseriate and almost
Stamens 6. ` Stigmas very small at the end of a filiform style. :
' The Australian genera are all endemic in West Australia, but. some South African
and American genera are referrible to the same tribe. _
426 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Tribonanthes.
3. TRIBONANTHES, Endl.
Perianth persistent, more or less woolly, deeply divided into 6 seg-
ments nearly equal wm C erect at the base and connivent or
cohering into a short hen spreading. Stamens 6; filaments
broad, lining -— ae “tube and usually vva ^: it, produced
beyond it into 2 oh ges; anthers
channelled lamina. Pie. emma or € in : terminal cyme or
head. Bràsts lanceolate or ovate, usually acuminate.
The is limited to West Australia. ig species appear to be very variable
and difficult to j distiagruluh by positive shia
ess ie cm n pede on ig back yes longitudinal
nt laminæ. or more, sessile. Perianth-
Hm ents glabrous insi cem 1. T. brachypetala.
RATAA flat on the back. ` Perianth- „segments
oolly on both sides.
Rara feitar isoa as ong as or longer than the anthers. ;
solitary within a broadly-ovate bract; nm
usually glabrous slong the centre outside $3, 4 Ton
owers 2 or more, sessile or nearly so. Bracts ovate or
lanceolate . 8. Tia
Flowers 2 or more, distinctly pedicellate E T. poche
Filament-appendages much shorter than the anthers. eng
solitary or several, on mien ay than the o 5. T. longipetala.
i ypetala, Lindl. Swan Riv. Pa 44, Stems thickened
into bulbs at the vee often gres 1 ft. high, more or less woolly i in the
upper part. Leav to 4, with broad s Eres ases, tapering into
very narrow vw terete but usually "rines A lamina, the lowest
sometimes 6 in. long, but sers? very much shorter. Flowers 3 to 6
e
2 obovate ap dages longer on the an ther, each with a und
appendage divided into 4 longitudinal lamine. Protruding apex of
the capsule 3-valved.— 7. odora, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 28.
s Swan river, Drummond, 1st eei Canning river, Preiss, n. 2394;
between Swan river and King George’ 8 Boi; Harv
Endlicher does not explain upon what grounds he proposed to suppress Lindley’s
names for this and the T. longipetala,
ATES
Specimens. Bracts 1 or 9, broa
HB CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. 427
uniflora, Lindi. Span Riv. App. 44. A slender specie none
t specimen: s above 8 in. high i dl many not above and less
vis than the others. Tabors of the rhizome with loose Baie ests s
coatings. Leaves slender, nearly terete. Flowers solitary in all our
diy ovate, membranous almost scarious,
the outer one with a short or long green point. Perianth-segments
3 to 4 lines long, more or less woolly on the upper surface and some-
the back, e ending in points. by. MESE inlength. Placentas
des the ovary.—7. violacea, Endl. in
wa : p ver, perg e coll.; Vasse river, Mrs. Molloy;
ong Mo mie i dei and Melvill e, Pris n. 1562; King George’ s Sound,
Muir; Kalgan river, Oldfield; Cape gen xwell.
short appendages to the filaments pe by Lindley, were probably injured
AU specimen he examined. I find them about equal to the anthers in Drummond's
as well as other specimens, but irregular.
S- T. » Endl. Nov. Stirp. Dec. 97, Iconogr. t. 109. “Ste
usually Sage 1 ft., woolly in the upper part. Leaves usually ace
and not so slender as in 7. brachypetala. Flowers 2 to 6 together almost
sessile in a terminal head or dense cyme. Bracts ovate or lanceolate,
dag
but sometimes a double keel a T the centre of the filament before it
= gy sane into 1 or 2 small intermediate teeth or lobes.
stralia. King George’s Sound and adjoining districts, Huegel, Oldfield,
ru Mueller Muir; eastward to Bremes and South-west bays, , Maxwell.
4. T. variabilis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 44. Stems often 1 ft. high,
woolly as in the allied species. Leaves ta ering into a rather thick
almost terete lamina as in T. australis. Flowers 2 to 6 together or
sometimes more, in a terminal dense corymb, pe iani but the
pedicels shorter than the ovary. Perianth-segments oblong, as long as
or Aa than the n woolly on both sides. Filament-appendages
quite petal- x
W.A river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 764, Helmich ; Vasse
"Y doy; Tunc flats, C. Gray; Busselton, Dreisi. — Perhaps a variety pi
[o australis.
5. T. longipetala, Lindl. ing
several oblong or globose tubers anie eden in membranous
coatings. Stems usually 2 to 1 ft. high, vadit |
- Leaves nearly terete, rather thick and not long. Flowers solitary or in
428 €CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [ Zribonanthes.
a loose cyme of 2 to 6, ew Pane as long as or longer than the ovary.
Bracts lanceolate or lin Perianth-segments 5 to 7 lines, usually
about 6 lines long, narrower than i in the other species, densely covered
on both sides vl a white cottony wool, the- short erect bases distinct
dd to the base of the anthers. Placentas pendulous, not half the
length of the cells, Rand sape Mg several rows of ovules.—
T URSE Endl. Pl. Preiss
W. Australia em river, Drum on 1st coll. n. 763, 764; rue n. 1561;
Upper Hs rived F. Mueller, Miss Warburton; King George’s Sound, Muir.
4. CONOSTYLIS, R. Br.
almost Eigen or 2 inner ones rather smaller. Stamens
anthers oblong or linear, the cells at the base or to t iddl
Ovary inferior or > para pr d 3-celled, the summit conical, taper-
ing into a filiform style, with 3 mall adnate terminal stig
Ovules several often numerous in each cell, crowded on a more or less
stipitate placenta attached above the middle of the cell, and usually
but not always in its inferior or adnate portion. Capsule opening locu-
licidally at the free conical apex in 3 coriaceous valves, the style itself
often persistent and splitting almost to the end. aves in distichous
or crowded tufts on a short rhizome or tufted or taone tian ded
stem, linear, sheathing at the base, the lamina laterally flattened or
` terete. capes from the centre of the leaf-tufts more or less tomentose
woolly, bearing 1 or more short sheathing bracts. Flowers usually
of a dull dibus; more or less plumose-tomentose outside, in a termina
head rarely lengthening out into a shortly dichotomous cyme.
The genus is limited to West Australia,
` Szcr. 1. Brachycaulon.—Perianth divided to the ovary into 6 spreading seg
ments. Anther Pe magi net, pendulous from a short connective. Placentas Aven
with few ead ovul:
nsely tufted SEE plant. Flowers in send heads almost :
moe or on very short scapes within the leave . 1. C. breviscapa,
a Perianth more or less tubular above the ovary, the lobes all
equal or 3 inner ones Mille. Anther-cells adnate to the connective » least to the
middle. Placentas recurved, dilated, with several peed refleced from the under sur-
face. (Perianth usually wit, with long hairs mixed with the plumose tomen
nce virer or loosely hairy inside, with equal dis and
Say terete, not striate. Flowers 2 or 8 together within
several scarious bracts almost ssi within the leaves. . 2. C. vaginata.
aves flat. Flowers in globular
Leaves with thick margins, teenth ciliate. Scapes short, ie
í ith 2 large concave keeled bracts under the head . . 8. C.petrophiloides.
ded A CXXIII. AMARYLLIDER. 429
small. oon in the adnate e part of the ova . 4. C. setosa.
, Bracts
small, FARM Aib i the adnate part of the ovary . 5. C. aurea.
an
t er, with Mo id
Leave
LA bordered by few or short setz. Perianth- segments
carcely longer than the free part of the tube 6. C. melanopogon.
Leaves bordered by long spreading setze. Perianth-segments
l h nme free part of the tu
Leaves mostly 6 in ong or more and 1 line broad, usually
iw the sca . X. C. setigera,
eave r2 in. very narrow or r subulate-acuminate, ;
sh 8. C. psyllium.
h pem
Leaves terete or slightly fla flattened.
eaves hirsute all over upwardly sapra hairs . . à C. villosa.
Leaves white with a close tomentum . . 10. C. Drummondii.
Secr. 3. Euconostylis.— Perianth more or less tubular above the ovary, the lobes
all equal, — Anther-cells adnate to the connective at least to the middle. Placentas
mi or less stipitate but scarcely recurved, covered all over in front with numerous
Es 1. Involucratse.— Perianth with long scarcely denticulate hairs or sete
vito a any tomentum. Scapes short, Leaves long. Flowers capitate with lanceolate
Leaves very narrow but flat, with rarer strig . . . . . 11. C. involucrata.
Leaves terete, smooth . oles 20139, 0 tán.
Series 2. Proliferze.— Perianth shorty p ose-tomentose, Stems proliferous or
stoloniferous, Leaves P ADT lex pis ae RC. ve o tufted, usually
ite when young (except in C. gladiata), pe ay [rers labrous.
Dui densely tufted agi with rather large — I
almost sessile within the | :
Leaves ri igid, glabrou us, 2 to 3 lines broad . 13. C. gladiata.
eaves flaccid, white when young, not above 4 line broad — . 14. C. seorsiflora.
quais near er terete, short, and rigid. Flowers in pedunculate
Sca TT not longer than the leav Sm Ro x o oes. Ds. De O
Scapes many dis as long as the small leaves . . . . . 16. C. stylidioides.
Leaves flaccid, v t, green grass-like or
ite only when ve ung, bordered with a few distant
setze, bove 3 or 4 in. long. Scapes long. :
Flowers in a dense head. Perianth 4 to 5 lines pe 20. . 17. C. prolifera,
lowers in a c raceme. Perianth 6 lines lon . 18. C. racemosa.
Leaves flat, narrow, and rather ne, mostly RAV 6 in. long.
5 Flowers capitate on lon : i
eaves ver npe en ibus and scarcely osing :
the ERN tum ha old . 19. C. candicans.
d tomen tose-pubescent when young, soon becoming ai
in iab from the fi is
Leaves rarely above 1 ins "ined. depen uer 1 ft. aie m C. Preiteis.
Leaves 2 to 3 lines broad. Scape .. C. bracteata.
Series 3. Normales.— Peria lumose-tomentose, rarely with longer
hairs mized. Stem short, rarely ser lp Leaves usually dim lahrous
except marginal sete. Scapes lowered, much shorter than the leaves
or very rarely nearly as ru
430 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [ Conostylis.
Perianth-lobes scarcely DE và m free part of the tube.
Leaves subterete, rush-like, 209798, 0. filifo
Leaves flat but very ttov, ` wide lon isi rigid distant sete . . 24. C. je eret
Leaves fla " rigid, = v much thickened nerve-like ma rgins
and distant pungen 25. C. bromelioides.
Leaves flat rather "rii "the margins not prominent, with dis-
tant rather rigid setze 26. C. aculeata.
Perianth- om twice or three times as long as the free puto of
K e. -Leaves flat, rarely almost terete, with few
Sapes eir as long as the leaves. Flowers in a globular
ad.
Leaves rarely above 1 line broad. Stems usually po 91. C. Preissü.
Leaves 2 to 3 lines broad. Stems v ET short. Scap
. 22. C. bracteata.
jr ae not half so long. as the leaves
Flowers few in a loose oblong panicle. Perianth with -o
sie intermixed with the crim um . 27. C. laxiflora
Flowers numerous in a branching c . 28. C. cymosa.
Flowers capitate. Perianth divided Miet to the ovary.
Leaves mostly 2 to 3 lines broa 7. « « « 29. C. serrulata.
Leaves ÀJ to 14 lines broad, or Mui émis 2. . . 80. C. cariina.
3. Androstemma.— Perianth tubular above the ovary, the lobes all ae
Secr.
and narrow. Filaments erect, hoa much longer than the anthers. Ovules r
‘numerous, bordering a peltate
Dwarf vga tufted plant, with 1 " e solitary flowers almost
sessile within the leaves, surrounde by short scarious bracts. 31. C. Androstemma.
ECT. l. Bracuycauton.—Perianth divided to the ovary into 6
senting. segments. Anther-cells distinct, pendulous from a short
connective on sliort erect filaments. Placentas small, with few reflexed
Mies
foe culiar anthers and perianth of this plant might have afforded grounds for
a ing it as a distinct genus of a value at dius equal to that of Androstemma.
1 Brown, Prod. 301. Stems very short and
brita , densely covered with tufts of distichous leaves, with brown.
sheathing "bases, the lamina flat, rigid, 6 to 8 in. lon and 1 to 2 lines
broad, striate, glabrous, without marginal cilia opes very short
amongst the leaves, with a dense globose head of sessile flowers.
racts lanceolate, the - inner ones linear. Ovary narrow-turbinate,
pam outside, loosely so insi
ong bis aring at first sight sessile and erect at the mouth of the tube,
but the cells are really distinct from € ver m and pendulous from
de Australia. ym Brown, = rege Xi same locality, Barter.
T is also in Cunningham" 8 e bud marked as m $. W., Australia, Fraser, but n not
in Cunningham's handwriting, and the specimen = in fact be of Baxter’s collecting.
Conostylis. | CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 431
I have seen it from no other locality, but Schultz, Syst. vii. 294, evidently saw the true
plant in Sieber's herbarium, and has correctly described it.
middle. Placentas recurved, dilated, with several ovules reflexed from
the under surface.
2. C. vaginata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 23. Stems densely branched,
forming tufts of 2 to 4 in. covered with the sheaths of old leaves.
Leaves linear-terete, rush-like, channelled along the inner or upper
side but not otherwise striate, 3 to 5 in. long. Flowers 2 to 4 together,
‘sessile in little heads surrounded by imbricate scarious bracts and borne
on very short hairy peduncles within the upper leaves. Perianth about
J in. long, softly hairy outside, glabrous or slightly hairy within, the
lobes narrow linear-lanceolate, about as long as the free part of the
tube. Anthers longer than the filaments. Placentas in the adnate part
of the ovary, projecting and dilated, with 3 or 4 ovules pendulous from
the under side; the free summit of the ovary conical with a filiform
style-—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 853.
W. Australia. Upper Kalgan river, Oldfield, F. Mueller; towards Cape Riche,
Preiss, n. 1383, and probably the same neighbourhood, Baxter, Jud. n. 444;
West Mount Barren, sspe,
W. Australia. Flats on the Phillips river, a single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller.
4. C. setosa, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 44, t. 6. Stem very short..
Leaves flat, rigid, finely veined, often nearly 1 ft. long, 1 to 2 lines
| r
shorter than the flowers. Perianth 10 lines to 1 in. long, very densely
silky-woolly outside with long hairs plumose at the base, |
hairy or woolly inside; lobes about as long as the cylindrical tube, all
452 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Conosty/is.
arrow-lanceolate and nearly equal or 3 inner ones rather smaller.
Bisaia all equal, the filaments slender, erect and at least as long as
e small narrow anthers. Placentas in the adnate part of the Dy
dilated, with the ovules reflexed from the under surface.—End
Pl. Preiss. ii. 17.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 1408.
5. C. aurea, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 44. Stem or rhizome short.
Leaves flat, rigid, prominently veined, often 1 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines
Ac ripis
WV. Austr Drummond, 1st coll. n. 750, 759, Preiss, n. 1381,
1382, and eR gare nd Cage Naturaliste, Oldfield.
6. C. melanopogon, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18. A low species, but
the pre” ga lees omg branching and elongated to 2 in. or rat ther
more.
to 14 lines broad, striate, glabrous except the margins vem has
~ bearing 1 or 2 bracts,
the upper one rodica into a Mond point. Flowers 6 to 105 in a termi-
nal head, the subtending bracts narrow and short. Perianth plumose-
woolly outside, with longer keo often turning to a dark colour, more or
less hairy or woolly inside, about 3 iu. long; lobes about as long as the
free part of the tube, but irregularly separating, the three inner ones
shorter and more petal-like than the outer. Anthers oblong, on rather
thick geome any the 3 inner ones much shorter than the outer. Pla-
centas in the adnate part.of the ovary, projecting and dilated, the
ovules iot numerous, reflexed from the under surface ; conical apex of
the bc. is and narrow.
er, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 754, Preiss, n. 1387 ; Kalgan
in d near MR sea, Moon ets of Stirling bes F. Mu eller ; Perongerup, Mrs.
Knight.—V ery near [/ setigera, but without the long sete to the leaves of that specioh
and the perianth less deeply divide
Var. major. Perianths 7 to 8 lin long. Vasse river, Pries; Swan river, Helmich.
. ©. setigera, R. Br. Prod. 300. Short leafy stems much branched
in rote tufts. Leaves rather flaccid, flat but very narrow and grass-
D
PED A ara
"gd CXXIII, AMARYLLIDEJ. 433
ta
like than the outer. Filaments shorter than the anthers, M opposite
the inner perianth-lobes shorter and inserted lower down than the
others; anther-cells free from the middle. Placentas in abi adnate
E of the aiti kea with rather dev ovules reflexed from the under
Astrol. t. 29 (not good); C. emula, Lindl. Swan
Riv. App. 45; “Endl. in Pl. Preiss. i i90.
iai King George’s Sound, pgs , Baxter ngham, F.
Mueller ; thence to Swan river, Drummond, 1st i n. » 15, 3771 ioe n. 1390 ;
eastward to Cape Arid, Maxwell.
C. cmd. „a in Pl. Preiss. ii. 20, from Swan river, Preiss, n. 1392, only differs
from cre on C. setigera in the purplish tinge assumed by the external wool o
the peria as assimilis, Endl. l.c., mod wm not seen, must also, from the character
given, be e a "E variety of C. setiger
stralia. o Mt nidi n. 1391; dial plains south of reg range,
Pk Mes Box vale,
silla, Endl. is 20, gore pet from C. psyllium, as "e discolor from C. setigera,
in the buie tinge assumed by the external wool of the peria
. C. villosa, Benth. Stems very short and tufted like those of
C. seti era, Leaves 6 to 8 in. long, under 1 line broad, flat and thick or
sometimes almost terete, striate, “ciliate and hair all over not on the
é ite-woolly, shorter "m the leaves.
Flowers = to 20 in a terminal globular head. acts small and nar-
Tow. Perianth 5 or at length 6 lines long, ase vulir. outside,
woolly eium inside; lobes n narrow, about as long as the tube and ovary,
| the 3 inner ones r rather smaller a nd the 3 inner stamens shorter than
the others as in C. setigera; n adnate almost to the base.
Placontas in the adnate i of the ovary, dilated, with several ovules
. reflexed from the under surfac
W. Australia, Drummond, n. sit.
1 0. C. Drummondii, th. Stems short, densely tufted. Leaves
3 lues orc or scarcely compressed, rigid, scarcely mes i to 9 in
OL
494 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Conostylis.
long, covered with a close oam tomentum and a few longer appressed
hairs intermixed, especiall he younger leaves. Scapes mue
shorter than the leaves, Dae woolly. Flowers sessile in a terminal
head, with a membranous bract Dao in a long leafy point either
ires as gà under the head or lower down on the scape. Perianth
Anthers rain e M filaments short. Placentas prominent from the
adnate part of the ovary, dilated, with reflexed ovules on the under
side.
WV. Australia, Probably to the eastward of King George's Sound, Drummond.
SEcT. 3. EvcowosTvLIs.—Perianth more or less tubular above the
ovary, the lobes all equal. Anther-cells adnate to the connective at
least to the middle. Placentas more or less stipitate but scarcely re-
curved, covered all over in front with numerous ovules, and always in
the adnate part of the ovary.
x Se Pood Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 23. Stems very short.
ft. lon mB € Fiet fiot l line to 2 lines in
loosely ciliate near the base. pont 2 to 3 in. long, mad tae
1
ous. Flowers in heads or spikes not very compact an J
sometimes forked, not very numerous, d by dien James
mts ate x eafy bracts the outer ones often oni as orr long
. Australia. UR 1st coll. n. 756, Preiss, as mn gru
Cape pe Natur 7 ey dd Para but not terete leaves
mond, 1 n. 756; Hampden, Clarke, both with rather bresdo M
or 3 acuminate brown bracts, and heads a opn flower ve Wm
TO ee ee ee IERI tt mn
VETE E SERIE MR, TIER NIIT RR
| W. A
. Band plains, Old
Conostylis. ] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDER. 435
long, rather narrow, shortl pamp tontor merum more or less
villous inside, the narrow nd least 9 times as long as the short
free portion of the ps be. An iet es on short filaments, all equal.
Ovules very numerous, covering the stipitate placentas.
W. Australia, soli y to the eastward of dis George's Sound, Drummond.
14. C. seorsiflora, F. Muell 158, viii. 19. A dwarf
Species, stoloniferous or voliferonsly b Grohe forming dense tufts not
exceeding Baby ves very densely ufte |. very narrow linear,
leaves, sometimes very short, tomentose, with 1 or 2 broad agen iret:
w.A stralia. King George's Sound or to the eastward, Baxter; W. end of
Sting 1 Range F. Mueller; Gardner and Oldfield rivers, Maxwell ; Toodyay rivulets,
dfield.
tiuscula, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 18. Stems probably
5. C. tere
proliferous. Leaves dens i tufted, ita, bu terete and white-tomentose
^
arro ind m more acute.
W.A a, Oldfield. Described only from the fragmentary specimens in
herb. F, Alves id requires further investigation
eana A the o shorter ones often nearly glabrous and
striate. vog closely giis in globular heads, on a loosely tomen-
tose peduncle of 3 arising from the centre of the prin cipal
. covered with numerous ovules.
Australia. Near Oolingara, Murchison river, forming dense tufts on rocks and
[ field.
FF?
436 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [ Conostylis.
17. C. prolifera, Benth. Stems slender, ped branched.
Leaves in — tufts, narrow-linear, versi uy flac , tapering into fine
iei varying in le ength from 1 to3 or 4 n., gla hut; striate, bordered
y fine distant rigid cilia. Scapes longer akon the leaves, loos sely villous
with plumose hairs, bearing 1 or rarely 2 distant linear or acuminate
bra Flowers sessile in a terminal globose head, the outer bract
uminate, usually but not always longer than the head. Perianth
campanulate, 4 to 5 lines long, piunga teed outside, glabrous or
slightly hairy between the stamens inside, the lobes longer than the
free part of the tube. Ovules rather numerous, covering the small ovate
aD d placentas.
tralia. Swan river, Drummond; Murchison river, Oldfield.
18. C. racemosa, Benth. Stems slender and proliferously branched.
Leaves densely tufted, narrow flaccid an tone e, resembling those
flat, the outer ones of the tuft or near in the upper tufts short,
but some much elongated, attaining caca the lower tufts
above 1 ft., varying in bre fro o near 2 lines, covered with
a white tomentum concealing the veins p often ciliate on the mar-
ins, at length becoming s Mida nearly glabrous and showing à
ew strie. Scapes or peduncles usually longer 2a the leaves, with a
linear or linear-lanceolate bract e or above the middle. Flowers
to 20, almost sessile in a globular head, either ye se or rather loose
it
linear, on very short filaments. Ovules numerous, hein the short
ore: ntas.— C. albicans, " "Oui Herb.; €. propinqua, Endl. in Pl.
oo STA
w. tralia. Swa Drummond, 1st coll., Oldfield; abundant on the
poky att pes banks “of lone: Mund: A. Cunni ingham, Drummond, Preise,
* vas laptoph yl/a. Leaves very densely tufted, narrow, with lon E pointe dw z 2
n. long. Scapes often bearing 2 or 3 pedunculate heads of —Swan
Deus mond ; Champion bay, Oldfiel eld.
90. C. dealbata, Lindi. Swan Riv. App. 45. Very nearly allied to
C. candicans and perhaps a variety — ' it with €. Preissii and
Monast e id
DE M AE I EA et ae SERRE TER Re TR RET NE ERU.
a IEEE EEE A PI VI SS PEEN RE EE ee
Conostylis. | CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 437
C. bracteata, Endl. Stem less elongated than in C. candicans. Leaves,
although still densel tufted, more normally distichous, fr and
more rigid, tomentose pubescent and rather white all over when young,
but soon losing the tomentum. Scapes about as long as » the leaves.
sui the free part of the tube. Ovules numerous, covering the short
plac
w. MORSU Swan river, Drummond, 1st co
C. b acteata, Lindl., Swan Riv. App. 45, from "a same collection, —
established on vigorous d s of C. disliens, with the foliage nearly glabrous, Fin
eran EN j is hr . long, and the outer bracts under the flower-heads rather more
assa; gemir bee nope from the edit five or six species,
fina an cte
21. C. Preissii, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18. Stems usuall ety
Sn pile Leaves from distichous sheathing bases, flat, - 1 ft.
ong, rarely above 1 line broad, rather thick, glabrous, Wine in
rather loose ibina head, branching out saeua into a close cym
the bracts short and narr ow. Perianth about j in. long, plu umose-
tomentose outsi i with mixture of longer hairs, glabrous or very
slightly hairy inside? ; lobe narrow, nearly twice as long as the free
of the tube. Ovules numerous, covering the stipitate placentas.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 753, Preiss, n. 1384 ; Southern
river, joues n. 1386.
C. festucacea, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18 (Preiss, n. 1386) has the leaves almost a
cilia and the perianth more hairy, but the two forms are too closely connected by som
of Drummond's specimens to justify their separation.
22. C. bracteata, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 16, not of Lindl. Stems
ctea
short, pap sometimes sli pn hen "Leaves glabrous, flat,
rigid, 1 to 14 ft. long, 2 to 3 lines broad, striate, the margins prominen
about as long as the leaves, loosely tomentose, with 1, 2,
lanceolate bracts, and sometimes with a lo peduncle or branch in the
axil of one of them. owers numerous, in a dense globose terminal
head, subtended usually by 1 or 2 faicet bracts, the other bracts
all CUR linear, all shorter than the flowers. Perianth nearl 4 in.
ong, plumose-tomentose outside, glabrous or sym hairy i € e, the
lobes iw is as ee as the free part of the tu n ye
li mond, 1st coll. n. 751, Preiss, n. 1405. —The
es seems to connect the preceding ones very "mete with ¢. aculeata, from whic =
it differs in the leaves bardal ciliate, the longer scapes, larger heads of flowers, an
the perianth more deeply lobed.
498 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [ Conostylis.
. C. il.
he eaves above 1 ft. lon ng, terete, serie and rush- like, slightly striate,
branchin ng into a dense cyme, all nearly sessile within small bracts.
Perianth about re in. long, plumose-tomentose outside, glabrous ae
the lobes narrow, as long as or rather longer than the free part o
tube. Anthers linear, on short filaments. Placentas covered all ca
with numerous ovules.
W. Australia, Drummond.
.C.s
: very narrow Sort flat, 6 in. to nearly 1 ft. long, bordered by long patti
rigid spreading distant cilia. Scapes nearly as long as the leaves.
long, broa iy oa cam; anulate, plumose-tomentose outside, glabrous inside,
the lobes rather road about as long as the free part of the tube.
Anthers Sec nee as long as the scd Placentas covered
with numerous ovules.
W. Australia, Drummond.
pe
cellate in a rather loose terminal head, with small linear bracts.
Perianth "eg 6 lines long, plumose-tomentose outside, slightly n
inside, the lobes narrow-lanceolate, rather longer than the free
the ta e. Anthers linear, on short filaments. Placentas niet
covered with numerous ovulés.
river, Drummond ; near Avondale, York district, Preis.
W. Australia. "
` i 601. ie specimens bias are very rye and they may prove to be a variety 0D y
0i Y
E. C. gun . Br. Prod. 300. Stems very short. Leav Ws
gid, flat, erect or ied rved, 6 in. to 1 ft. eh 1 to 23 lines broa
se head or d
ranches, with Mae short bracts. Perianth rons ni
i
|
52 aks ak el eee alien E I e Ne ESSE ES eat cae ERE
Conostylis. | CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 439
qe with numerous ovules.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 18; Bot. Mag.
t. 2989.
, A. Cun-
395, and many others; Greenough flats, C. Gray,
and Murchison river, Oldfield, single specimens, but apparently the same species, which
re
27. ©: laxiflora, Benth. Stems tufted, very short. Leaves mostly
above 1 ft. long, flat, striate, 14 to 24 lines broad, bordered when
young by very short cilia as in C. serrulata. Scapes short, not above
6 in. high including the inflorescence, loosely tomentose-villous, brffnch-
ing from about the middle, each branch with a short loose raceme of
3 or 4 flowers, the whole forming a loose oblong somewhat one-sided
anicle. Bracts subtending the ‘hiandbies lanceolate, membranous, vil-
ous, sometimes above } in. long, those under the pedicels small and
W. Australia. Vasse river, Oldfield.—Although allied in some respects to C.
serrulata, this differs from the rest of the section in the indumentum of the perianth,
and from the whole genus in its inflorescence.
98. C. cymosa, F. Muell. Herb. Leafy stem short, tufted or shortly
branched. Leaves often above 1 ft. long, 1 to near 3 lines broad, finely
plumose-tomentose outside, glabrous inside, the lobes narrow, nearly
twice as long as the free part of the tube. Anthers linear, longer than
the filaments. Placentas stipitate, covered all over with numerous
ovules.
W. Australia. Blackwood river and Champion bay, Oldfield; Greenough flats,
C. Gray ; Busselton, Pries.
short
pla-
segments, Anthers oblong, shorter than in C. ta, on igi
filaments. Style rather short. Ovules numerous, covering the
centas. Capsules 3 to 4 lines diameter.
440 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJX. [ Conostylis.
Australia. King George's Sound, Menzies ; agian river, pida poe.
Pg the same (district, ee d, n. 349; pug river, mmo nd, 1
C. ensifolia, C. occulta,
' from the neighbourhood of Cope Riche, and C. he ie a, Endl. 1 Kc Da ting
Ped x F i
u E
Shorter ben the tube. Preiss’s oe n in Herb. F. Mueller is in old fruit only with
he
s worn B. Ms C. occulta the lobes are said to be equal to the tube, but in
i y are seo longer than the fo and in all the above suppress
30. C. caricina, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 45. Stems very short
densely tufted, the tufts sometimes almost bulbous. Leaves gen
0
lowers few in the head, sessile or nearly so, the bracts linear.
Perianth about 3 in. b Jona plumose-tomentose outside glabrous pes.
lobes narrow, 3 times as long as the very short free part of the tu
Anthers linear, on hae thick filaments. Placentas prominently ef
tate, the ovules numerous, covering the whole front as in other species
of Euconostylis d reflexed "S as in Catospora.— Endl. in Pl. Preiss.
ii. 19; C. grami :
Ww. festi gm river, Pe diae. 1st coll., Preiss, n. 1380, 1385.
SE . ANDROSTEMMA.—Peri — tubular above the ovary, the
: all equal and narrow. Filaments erect, filiform, much onger
n the anthers. Ovules rather numerous, bordering the peltate
sicot:
he long perianths buried caus adde the leaves iac surrounded bys scarious bracts give
this plant a peculiar — , whic ify ishing it as &
separate genus. But subsequent discoveries have apro a nearly similar habit, foli.
racts in C. i i i he leaves in C.
iata and C. seorsiflora, and nearly similar stamens in C. setosa; there remains as
a distinct character only the lenta, which uelis it as a section of the same
as the three preceding
ostemma, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 19. Leafy stems short
much branched, forming dense tufts of a few inches. Leaves with short
fattened, pr bases, itr ag c and rush-like, terete or d
ix long, à all equal and ees bong at the time of yore]
Filaments filiform and erect, nearly as e as the perianth-lobes;
‘anthers several times shorter. Style as long as the stamens. Capsule
half-superior, but little broader than the perianth at the time of flower-
Conostylis. CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 441
ing.— Androstemma eese Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 46; Field. Sert. Pl.
ve 2 dl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 24.
ustralia. Swan vem mond, 1st tbe n. 762, Preiss, n. 1409; South
Bao ur Oldfield ; icd F lats, C. Gray
5. BLANCOA, Lindl.
Perianth persistent, tubular, the limb of 6 nearly equal almost con-
duplicate valvate short lobes. Stamens 6, with ovate-oblong anthers
on very short filaments or nearly sessile at the d «d x tube.
iudi the BENUNS: dedic pmoseewooly.
e genus is limited to the single sp es, endemic in West Australia. It has
united b by F. Mueller with aeti but. is, in fact, much more nearly anpnecied with
Anigozanthos, but separated from lius by characters which appear to of full pe pecie
1. B. canescens, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 45. Leafy branched stems
or rhizomes very short and shortly villous. Leave s rigid, 6 in. to 1 ft.
long, about 2 lines broad, finely striate. Scape reis than the leaves, `
ing u “liner leaf near the base
onn inside. Anthers much shorter than the tobak Style usually
ortly protruding from the perianth—Endl. i n Pl. Preiss. ii. 24;
Conostylis caneseens, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 19.
. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 748, Preiss, n. 1410.
"E ANIGOZANTHOS, Labill.
(Schweegrichenia, Spreng.)
Perianth persistent, the tube much elongated above the ovary, often
recurved at the end, the limb more or less oblique ; lobes 6, lanceolate,
almost induplicate valvate, equal or those on the lower side more deeply
Separated and the tube usually split open between the
almost to the base. Anthers pda or — on "S NM at
the orifice of the tube, the MK free at the base € wholly
inferior, 3-celled, the summit flat or conical; style Magi "aliform,
442 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Anigozanthos.
distant leaves. Flowers large, in close unilateral spikes or racemes,
at the end of the simple stem or of the branches of a dichotomous
spreading panicle. Seat and inflorescence densely daba with a
red green or yellow p se wool; the stems sometimes, the leaves
very rarely, cena a aias or looser tomentum, the leaves more
frequen tiy g nt
The a to Nen Australia. The derivation of the name has been
frequently < rote eupposiag t to have Ce taken from dvicxw or dvolyw, with
meanings very ina pplicable ; it was, however, much more simple. Labillardiere in-
tending to express the unequal or oblique owe ávuros, dvOos, merely changed the
first s into a g, and the second into a z, for euphony sake.
Secr anthesis.—Racemes or spikes se everal, in a divaricate dichotomous
panicle. p inappendiculate. Ovules 2 to 4 in each cell. Stems tomentose from
b
Leaves glabrous. Flowers red or of a $i or greenish mor ; i A.rufa. |
Leaves mostly tomentose. Flowers of a rich yellow . 9. A. pulcherrima.
. 2. Cerata: —Racemes or spikes several, in a divaricate panicle or 2 0
a once-forked yen is. dates tipped with a glandclike appendage. Ovules rather
numerous in each cell. ms glabrous at the bas
Racemes or spikes. er, in a divaricate ai panicle. 3
Ferisnih moderatel medo. . 3. A. flavida.
Racemes 2 of 2 or 3 Aa ach on à once-forked rhachis. Pe- IN
rianth very much curved, vith a very oblique limb . 4. A. Preissu.
Secr. lanthesis.—Racemes or spikes Tata or rarely 2, on a simple od
rarely ies f mE rhachis. Anthers pel a AN Ovules numerous - crowd
n each cell.
Perianth (der 2 2 in. 2) one n contracted above the middle,
base. Anthers shorter than Ber :
are Kor ayy broad 5. A. humilis.
Perianth > ayi n.) green, T rarely yellowi sh thronghou
decus e the middle. Anthers as long as the laments aA.
Dyer. 6. A. viridis.
Perianth v (about 3i in. ipri with a red rarely yellow base, not con-
above the middle. An thers much longer than the »
filam s oue ather broad . 7. A. Manglesn.
Perianth As to cope with a red rarel yellow base, much
= imet reg — Anthen s as ede as the filaments. ;
. A, bicolor.
SEC E cs kania op agilis S several, in a diva a
totais panicle. Anthers not ee va Ovules 2, rarely 3
or 4 in each cell. Stems tomentose from the
: 1. A. rufa, Labill. Voy. i. 411, t. 22, Pl. Nov. Holl. ii. 119. Rhizome
horizontal, thick and woody. Radical Jhaves above 1 ft. long, flat but
| E CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 443
Schwegrichenia rufa, Spreng. Syst. ii i. 26; A. f, Viii Hook. Bot.
vici t. 4507. copied into Lem. Jard. Fleur. t. 40 with an alteration of
stralia, Lucky bay, R. Brown; King George's Sound from the Kalgan
to Cups Rieke A. Cunningham, Drummond, n. 327, Preiss, n. 1412, Oldfield.
2. A. pulcherrima, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4180 copied into Fl. d
Serres, April, 1846. Very Gals allied to A. rufa, the eee
Ns flo owers the same in structure and indumentum, but jue leaves are
tomentose as well as the scape, d the wool of the flowers is o
bright yellow, Mp sit, b tinged with red. I find u rp
u « ap
rently abortive o
W. Australia, idioma] n. 347.
Secr. 2. CERA TANDRA.—Racemes or spikes indi in a divaricate
dichotomous panicle, or 2 on a forked rhachis. Anthers tipped with a
gland-like ipie Ovules rather numerous in each ce An Stems
glabrous at the
. A. flavida, fed. Lil. t. 176. Rhizome thick, with itin radical
leaves, and a stem of 3 or 4ft., bearing a divaricately- ranched
ave
u
the panicle planoa ME in that species. Flowers in one-side
racemes on the branches of the anicle, on tithes of 1 a 2 lines, sub-
» dio wool of a dull yellowish green more
or less red at the base of the perianth and sometimes a brown red nearly
to h- 1} in. long, serge and shining
inside or minutely scabrous-dotted ; es bes 4 to 5 lines Lon yy ere
inside, the lower ones m y divided be the
444 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. or
4 y 4M. í
A. Manglesii, Maund, Botanist, t. 67, not of Dan:
WV. Australia. King George's Sound and a aij À districts, R. Brown, Drum-
mond, n. 348, Preiss, n. 1411 and 1416, and many other ; Blackwood river, ; Oldfield;
Geogra e bay, Fraser; Cape Natoraliste and Swan river, Drummond, 1st c
: m Clarke.
cies varies in the size of the flower, and very much in the colovr of the wool,
imes ecce en SHIT red, sometimes green without any admixture of red, rarely
with much of yellow
. A. Preissii, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 26. Stems 1 to 1} ft. high,
more or less clothed with a loose > lames medial, wool, more dens a ena
Leave
reduced to 2 or 3 flowers, and always appearing capitate when in youn
bud, sis d dong e pedicels ultimately attain 2 to 3 lines each subtende
ya Perianth at least 9 jn. lon
y stralia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, Preiss, n. 1413)
F. uelle Maxwell.
ueller, Fragm. viii. 23, places this species amongst those with simple inflo-
recente I ‘have, owever, always found it once forked, except when reduced to 2 or 3
SECT. 3. HarrANTHESIS. —Racemes or Pe single at the end of
the stems with a simple rhachis, or rarely 2 the rhachis being once-
forked, always unilateral several-flowered and rather dense. Anthers
ch spen culate. Ovules numerous in each cell crowded on the
pia
5. A. humilis, Lindl. Swan Riv. App. 46, t. 6 B. Rhizome thick
horizontal. Stems usually under 1 ft. , rarely m ft. high, imdy plu-
[
;
j
:
;
j
1
Anigozanthos. | CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEEX. 445
airs, but sometimes woolly-hairy all over or quite glabrous, flat,
e . long and
with longer hairs. Perianth 14 to 2 in. long, slightly curved, the
li h
form; anthers short, without terminal appendages. Ovules numerous,
covering the placentas.—Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 26.
W. Australia. King George's Sound and adjoining districts, F. Mueller, Old-
field, Maxwell, and others; Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 747, Preiss, n. 1418,
Oldfield.
A. minima, Lehm, Pl. Preiss. ii. 274, which I have not seen, is referred by F.
Mueller, Fragm. viii. 21, to A. humilis, but apparently only from the character given:
the narrow leaves, almost capitate inflorescence, and curved perianth would rather
indicate the A. Preissii.
subulate bracts, the wool green throughout or yellowish towards the
base of the flower. Perianth 24 to near 3 in. long, the tube of equal
breadth or very slightly contracted above the middle, splitting open
8
ud LI
usually reflexed when open. Anthers linear, about as long as the fili-
orm filaments. Ovules very numerous in each cell covering the
centas.
W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 745, Preiss, n. 1415 ; Vasse
river, Oldfield; Pinjarrah, J. S. Price; Busselton, Pries.
7. A. Manglesii, D. Don in Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 265.
Stems 2 to 3 ft. high, slightly and loosely woolly towards the base,
uite glabrous. Flowers, the largest in the genus, in a nes
unilateral raceme, on pedicels usually of 2 to 3 lines, the plu-
ol very dense, green except on the adnate base where it is
e
n hairs or ciliate scales near the base. Anthers linear much longer than
446 . CXXIII; AMARYLLIDER. [ Anigozanthos.
the short flat filaments, the connective without any appendage. Ovules
numerous in each cell, covering the placentas.—Bot. Reg. t. 2102 (the
hairs or seals inside the base of the tube eset aes as iid upwards
— of downwards . Bot. Mag. t. 3875.
Australia. Swa Drummond, coll. n. 144, Oldfield S Ba n
b aih n tiver, 0 dicla; Busselton, Pa ies; King George’s Sound, Bast
n
of a a
dull n nig white in p dried Eod ary rdon river, Herb. F. Mueller (with
the raceme nearly 1 ft. long, the pedicels 4 in., ie base of the perianth of a rich
red).
8. A. bicolor, Endl. in Pl. Preiss, ii. 26. Resembles A. Manglesii and
A, humilis in habit and in the red base of the otherwise green perianth, but
readily distinguished from both by the shape of the flower. It is usually of
the low stutnre of A. humilis, rarely much above 1 ft. high. Leaves kar
at the base of the stems, glabrous, under 6 in. long, narrower and m
tapering to the point than in A. humilis. M 4 to 10, on pedicels, of
2 to 4 lines in a close unilateral raceme, the rhachis simple i in all the
specimens seen, the wool of the adnate bo of a rich red, the remainder
green. Perian th 2 to near 21 in. long, the tube at the base as broad as
Me eae pus As tapering towards the middle and much contracted
upper much incurved at the end in the bud, the limb
Rue the ew Wes 4 lines long, and the tube usuall split open on
the lower side to near the base. Anthers linear, but shorter than in
A. Manglesii, on filiform very Poegi inserted filaments. Ovules nu-
Loves in Te o covering the placenta.
alia. Kalgan, Perongerup, and other localities in the ail aia of
Kine. Georg d "e n. 1417, Oldfield, F. Mueller, Muir, Miss War
Var. minor. Leaves under3 in. long. Scape about 6 in., the perianth d
more shag 14 in. long. —M ‘Callum and Stokes inlets, Maxw ell.
Var. major. Perianth my 24 in. long and rather less contracted above the middle.
—Swan river, Drummond, coll, Fraser, and an unknown collector who gath nee
it in 1839 and named it in Herb. Hooker A. Mooreana, mihi; Albany, F. Mueller.
7. MACROPODIA, Drumm.
ME and dilated "at iba end, the limb very oblique; idan 6,
— voies a Fn we ggg those on the lower side more
deeply the tube split open between them. thers
oblong dM on n slender filaments at the orifice of the tube, the cells
free at the base ui) pee 3-celled, with thick double dis-
sepiments, the mit prominent within the perianth. Style
long, filiform, slight d T stigmatic at the end. Ovules solitary
attached. m dry, not valvular, the seeds
falling away separa tely with portions of the pericarp and adnate
rianth-base, leaving the pa hasina dissepiments persistent with
axis. Testa somewhat crustaceous.—Herb with the habit and
eae of the jariakor Anigozant thi.
t
Macropodia.) CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEEX. 447
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in West Australia. It is reunited
with Anigozanthos by F. Mueller, notwithstanding the remarkable differences in the
ovary and fruit. à
lique, nearly lin.long. Filaments almost as long as the lobes; anthers
oblong-linear and tipped with a small gland-like appendage as in
Anigozanthos flavidus and A. Preissii.—Anigozanthos fuliginosus, Hook.
Bot. Mag. t. 4291.
Mik Australia Moore river, Drummond; Hill river, Oldfield; Greenough flats,
. Gray.
the hilum produced into a hooked beak at the end of which the funicle
1$ attached.
obes papillose outside. Fruit succulent, ithin a sheathing
bract. Needs few, the testa striate, the funicle usually dilated.—Herbs
With a thick rhizome long flat or plicate-nerved radical leaves.
spikes or heads, each one subtended by a broa
than the ovary and fruit.
The genus extends over tropical and Southern Africa and Asia, with one American
species. Both the Australian species have a wide range over tropical Asia.
Leaves broad. Flowers in a dense nodding head on a scape of
several inches. Perianth tube scarcely any . - - + - +) * 1. C. recurvata.
pn narrow. Flowers in an almost sessile spike. Perianth-tube
iform . * . * Li . ee LI . LI E . * »* . LI . .
2. C. ensifolia.
448 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Curculigo.
Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2,11, 253. Rhizome thick, with
densely clustered ev roots. Leaves radical, glabrous or nearly 80,
e petioles 6 in. to near 1 ft. long with a broad sheathing base, the
Miqnong de; efus Fascia Perianth us S A on a
long, glabrous inside, epee almost to the ovary or united at the
i ort ring. Filaments very short, the anthers
oblong and erect, connivent in cone round the style, w ich is
slender slightly dilated and minutely 3-lobed at the stigmatic end.
i sule nearly globular, more or less succulent, softly hairy, about
ines diameter. Seeds globular, with a blac k rugose crustaceous
ras etes aoe eg. t. 770
iit and other dium render it MaRS to separate it ceres]
from the closely allied C. sumatrana, which is in every dir aw a true Curculigo.
9. C. ensifolia, R. Br. Prod. 290. dor ip produced into a
descending saline with fibrous roots, and m » loss covered with
the scarious sheathing bases of old leaves. Lp fura 6 to 9 in.
long and ł to } in. broad in the middle, but sometimes 1 to 1} ft. long
and almost $ in. broad, tapering at both ends, with prominent nerves
and more or m ss hairy n indir: the "base. Spikes short and
erect at the b the scarious sheathing bracts subu-
mated prs T: in. lon M most sessile, elongated,
enclosed in the braet. Perianth-tube filiform, hairy, 1 to ? in. long
abov ary; segments of the limb usually to 4 lines long, with
ov
lanceolate-pointed segments more or less: hairy outside. Filaments
short ; anthers linear, the parallel cells diotly free at the base. Style
column very short below the stigmas, which are as long as the anthers
and connate or shortly free at the top. Capsule oblong, enclosed in
the sheathing bract. Seeds several, the black testa elegantly striate
but not tubereular.— €. stans, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 18, t. 24;
C. orchioides, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 585 and others, but not of Roxb.
nce of Wales and other islands off Cape York, R. Brown ; Wide
Queensland. Prin
bay, Leichhardt; Rockingham bay, Dallachy; Fitzroy — C. Walter; Broad
Stu
Sound, Bowman; Keppel », Th ozet ; M bay, C.
N. S. Wal Ka aa river, Beckle
The species has a wide range in eastern jaa: ical Asia, for I can find no erus in
cd cage specimens I have see Ens Australia, New as oie the Indian Archi-
gal, China, and a e Asiatic ones have been generally refe i to
Lv iodo Roxb. Corom. FI. i. ipi t. 13, and I had myself considered them as a
small variety of that specics u a dé Hongkong Flora, p. 366 (where, however, I had by
a ES Wu T por eu. ym
Mob T
Be CXXIII. AMARYLLIDER. 449
e ie as Wight's C. malabarica. The South pene (Guiana W odia]
ypoxis scorzonerifolia, Lam., is scarcely distinguishable from the pon ip ies
qula, jd tin for reasons unexplained it is still retained in Hypoxis by Seubert in
nsis,
Var. longifolia. Ts may prove to be a iras jets if the characters are found
constant. It is more slender and n ku glabrous. Leaves rigid, 13 ft. long and only
i
but pedicel of 4. in. or rather more. tube not so slender as in the ber de "cie
N. Australia. Port Darwin, Schultz, n
9. HYPOXIS, Linn.
Perianth persistent, — to the ovary into 6 rarely 4 nearly equal
spreading s ies Stamens 6, rarely 4, inserted at the ba - of the
segments; anth blong or linear, more or less lobed at the base.
Ovary 3-celled sandy 2-celled, with many ovules in 2 rows in wat cell.
Style short, with 3, rare 2 oblong or linear erect stigmas connate or
free, papillose outside. apsule globular oblong or linear, crowned by
lian species) “at length falls ies Yee. with it the ars - M c eher
i Ive u arg
—Her th bulbous or tuberous eea covered with s paoe
mbranous or fibrous scales.. Leaves radical, flat or terete, usuall
hair em leafless or Mn a mo ne leaf. Flowers white
nia Asia -— Atia a, more abundant in South Africa,
e genus is spread over t
sg dst species, one is also in New
The
with two or three American cive Of dec
Zealand, the others are all believ: i to be e
Capsule M pen or oblong, not yin twice as s Img a as broad.
Anthers deeply divided at the . . + l. H. hygrometrica.
nthers scarcel s or very s Adr ished at the base
th-se ts 3 to 5 lines TE Stamens nearly equal.
Capsule dt or 2. H. glabella.
Perianth-segments scarcely 2 lin es long. “Stamens alter: :
nately shorter. Capsule y globular 3. H. pusilla.
he Y linear, 4 or 5 times as long as
eaves subulate. Pani: alternately longer. Stigmas -
and narrow . H. leptantha.
Leaves linear-terete. Stamens nearly equal. ` Stigmas short s H. occidentalis.
mts s narrow-linear but flat with Veios nerve-like ma À
6. H. marginata.
H. h hygro ometrica, La bill. Pl. Nov. Holl. i. 82, t. 108. Rhizome
belt into a small tuber emitting thick clustered roots and covered
at the top by the membranous leaf-sheaths not splitting into fibre es.
Leaves narrow-linear or almost filiform, from under 6 in. to se ly ift;
VOL. VI.
450 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE, [ Hypovis.
linear auricles. e columnar, the shines ovate, erect, ri connate.
Capsule vieil Vc under 2 lines diameter. See s globular,
elegantly tuberculate.—R. Br. Prod. 289 ; Hack. f. A Tasm. ii, 96.
perpe Rockhampton, O’ Shanesy ; rae dale, Per
N. S. Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, hee 3A. Cunning-
pue m, and others ; Gwydir river, Leichhardt; New England, 0. 7 etn Rant Waj
Victoria, Harvey; between Ballarat and Ballan, Loddon, F. Mueller
Tasmania. Port D A3 mple, R. Brown; abundant throughout the island, ascend-
ing to 4000 ft., J. D. Hoo.
Var. pean A ie "a slender variety, with 2 or [à small flowers to = scape.
—H. pr 289. nter's river, &. Brown; New England, C.
mey T Leicitardt; Rockhampton, Thozet,
ar. elongata larger hairy variety. Leav s flatter, often above 1 line bro
T iih 2 to 5, dia subtended by a subulate ame Perianth-segments fully S lines
long. —Rockham mpton, Thozet, O' Sh UAI; Nerkool Creek, Show man ; Moreton
Cos damihe river, Leichhardt; Dawson river, F. Mueller; New England, UC Stua rt.
9. H. glabella, R. Br. Prod. 289. The whole plant quite ume
Rhizome obsit bulb-like, covered with the fibrous remains of ol
leaf-sheaths. Leaves linear-subulate, terete or channelled mua ex-
m 2 to 3 in. long in some specimens, above 6 in. in others. Scape
shorter than the leaves, with a long linear erect sheathing bract at or
matic lobes. Capsule ovoid or oblong, but not above twice as pe as
broad when ripe.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 36, t. 130 A; H. vaginata,
Schlecht. Linnea, xx. 568.
Queens
appears to be this species.
ictoria. m Phillip, R. Brown; Yarra-Yarra, Darebin Creek, F. Mueller;
Werribee, Fu
asmania. bondie is A aco &c., J. D. Hooker
s. gi aes Lofty and Bugle ranges, Guichen bay, &c., F. Mueller; Yorke
Peninsula, Fowl
. Au aire ?. Specimens from Swan river, Preiss, n. 1601, referred here by
vend in Pl. Preiss. ii. 14, have the longer stigmas of this ia but may yet perhaps
ong to H. occidentalis E gaa in flower only, without leaves or bulbs, from
nd flats, C. Gray, have also Oa long stigmas of this species, bu t the anthers
loved at the base as in H. hygrometrica. ‘The variety will require further investiga-
tion from complete specimens.
H. pusilla, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. ii. 36, t. 130 B. A much smaller
sare than H. glabella, with a similar globular bulb-like rhizome cove!
A specimen marked Warwick, Beckler, in Herb. F. Mueller | i
|
Hypocis.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJ. : 451
with fibrous scales, but somewhat larger in proa Leaves filiform,
rarely above 3 in. long, with short scarious sheathing bases. Sca
rarely 1 i in. fous , usually with 2 rm setaceous bracts above - middle,
,b in
our vm imens. Pevinnthsements scarcely 2 lines long. wer: rs
stamens ‘dial shorter ut the nother Odpsilb obe nearly 14
lines aes constricted win the perianth.
Vic Wendu bees Robertson; the capsule rather more obovoid, but distinctly
contracted into a short ne
-Tas Circular Head, Gunn.
The spe species is also in New Zealani
. H. leptantha, Benth. A small species, with the subulate leaves,
short mite scapes with setiform bracts of H. pusilla, and the stamens
as 1n that species alternately smaller with gil "acis but the
Ps and capsule are long and narrow, the nth-segments nar-
rower and more acute, the inner ones considerably smaller than the
outer, 2 - sens lobes long and narrow
w. Mares Oldfield ; iiu flats, C. Gray; Upper Hay
river, Foe belg
Should the prion diee from the inedaaitr of thej iet ani onter perianth-
segments and stamens, and the length of the stigma ed at omy es prove to be inconstant,
this may have to be reduced 2 x variety of H. occident
9. H. occidentalis, Benth. Meany allied to H. glabella, equally gla-
brous, wii a balk like rhizome and narrow leaves with scarious sheathing
capsule linear, often 2 in. long and very n
3 to 4 lines | nner ones rather Kaallar than the outer; the
the
‘parts of the raya frequently but not MET, d trom 6 to 4.
Anthers linear, very shortly lobed at the base. yles dort short, with
octo ate papi illose almost plumose lobes, Medi exceeding the fila-
m
Australia, King George's Sound and adjoining districts, F. Mueller, Meir,
Pied Warburton
R. Br. Prod. 989. Leaves Y hairy, flat
me only 2 or 3 in.,
ustralia. — of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 1
imens , but quite distinct from any others known to e, whether
y few,
from I d the f Australia. An imperfect me
agia or De ee pars iFirst ied ite it has only one imperfect
h
Darwi z, n. 641, appears
a leaf, and d do not see the long hairs of
one, already in uit, has the long narrow capsule of M. occide
459 | XXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [Hypoxis.
TRIBE 4. AcGAvEX.— Tall often woody plants. Radical leaves
usually numerous, either flat and thick or channelled or terete; stems
also frequently lea Flowers usually e in terminal compound
heads or thyrsoid pentalca, Perianth staan, very petaloid, usually
10. DORYANTHES, Corr.
Perianth of 6 nearly equal deciduous segments spreading = near
the base; the 3 inner ones slightly dilated at the base. Stamens 6;
filaments linear-subulate or slightly dilated at the base ; onthe este
gated, the basal lobes closing over the filament. B ;le elongated, 3-
furrowed, with an obtuse terminal 3-angled sti Capsule oblong-
clavate or turbinate, with a woody endocarp opening loculicidally in
3 valves. Seéds flat, reniform, in 2 rows in each cell.—Very tall herbs,
with clustered roots and very long and numerous radical leaves. Stems
empecen with short lea lowers large, red, in d spikes collected
a large terminal Cobi head or oblong thyrsu
o m is limited to Australia. Its nearest connexions are South African and
Ameri
Flow id ne wá tek 1 ft. diameter. Perianth-segments
n. lon
è ,oblong lin ear, 4 1. D. excelsa.
ower- às LJ 3 ft. ft, long. Perianth- h-segments oblong: Janceo- i :
late, 2 in. lon 2. D. Palmer.
excelsa, Correa in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 218, t. 23,24. Radical
tates « "es 100, ” about 4 ft. long, * broadly sword- shaped.” Stem
attaining 10 to 18 ft., with numerous short linear-lanceolate erect
leaves d er t
head of 1 ft. diameter, surrounded b en acuminate leafy
bracts or floral leaves, the spikes or ilustils PR
de
flow wers each, subten d by coloured lanceolate bracts, the rhachis 1 to. —
N. S. Wales. Po rt Ja ín Bas. cere s river, R. op Geet ae Leich-
hardt.—W. Hill mentions a white- fore variety which he found on Mount Linds say.
2. D. Palmeri, W. Hill. Radical leaves “above 100," 5 to 6 ft.
long and 2 to 23 in. broad in the broadest de art. Stem 6 to 8 ft. high,
with linear-lanceolate acute leaves like tho ap D. excelsa. Flowers
red, in an oblong terminal thyrsus about 3 ft 1 ong, the rhachis and
bracts of ioe same rich colour as the flowers, the spikes not close toge-
dier, each with a thick short rhachis bearing 3 or 4 flow wide Bracts
acuminate, os outer one of each spike as long as the flower, those sub-,
tending the — short. Perianth- segments desde cad mii pale:
ee CREER IRE P ARMEN RE Ee ae Ee E E ARN EESE ES DESINAT TANE TRU NNI NNNM ST
Doryanthes.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEX. 453
or white inside below the middle, about 2 in. long, spreading from near
the base. Filaments thicker at the base than in D. eacelsa, and as well
as the anthers much shorter than in that species.
Queensland. Mount Spicer near Cunningham Gap, W. Hill; Mackenzie river,
Hartmann.—The above character is taken chiefly from W. Hill's description, and the
drawings made by Miss Scott, from the specimen exhibited at Brisbane in 1870, con-
firmed by specimens of portions of the inflorescence.
TRIBE 5. EvaMARYLLIDEx.—Bulbous plants with horizontally flat
channelled or terete radical leaves. Scapes leafless. Flowers in umbels
or rarely solitary, surrounded by 2.or more membranous or coloured
bracts. Perianth glabrous, often large. Stigma sm
11. CRINUM, Linn.
Perianth deciduous, slightly oblique, with a slender tube and 6 nearly
equal lanceolate or oblong 7: tamens 6, inserted at the base of the
lobes; filaments nen dilated at the base ; anthers linear or oblong,
Australian species examined) in each cell, in 2 rows, bordering a nar-
row peltate placenta. Capsule often oblique opening irregularly,
th few rather large seeds.—Bulbous herbs usually’ tal eaves all
mostly white, in a terminal umbel surrounded by a few membranous or
slightly coloured bracts. :
_ The genus extends over tropical and southern Africa and Asia. Of the five Austra-
lian species, one appears to be the same as a common Asiatic one, the four. others are
probably endemic,
Flowers sessile in the umbel or on pedicels shorter than the
ovary. :
Filaments not } as long as the perianth-lobes. Umbels few-
d ed e sie Li. ok U, Sees
flowered. Ovary usually beaked. . .
Filaments more than 3 as long as the lobes :4 ob.
Umbels many-flo Ovary usually beaked . . . . 2. C.asiaticum.
Umbels 1- or 2-flowered. Ovary not beaked . . . . . 3. C. uniflorum.
Flowers on pedicels usually longer than the ovary, which is not
ake
Perianth-lobes about 3 in. long and $ to 1 in. broad . . . 4. C. flaccidum.
Perianth-lobes 2 to 24 in. long and 3 to õ lines broad . . . 5. C. pedunculatum.
enosum, R. Br. Prod. 297. Bulb and leaves not described,
Umbel of 6 to 8
serv any of the specimens seen. j
flowers with 2 involucral bracts 24 to 3j in Flowers sessile or
here and there very shortly pedicellate, the ovary tapering at the top
454 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJE. [ Crinum.
N. Australia. Coen river, Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown; Sweers island,
Henne.
Soren Cumberland island, E. Brown.
a beak et fon Mi from 2 or 8 d to nearl 2 in. Perianth aie. the
ments, eia purple towards the base ; ps
K
th, Enum. v. 547; C. arenarium, Herb. in Bot. Mag. t. 2355; E
aiae AE Amaryll. 259, partiy,
N. Australia, Victoria river, F. Mue rt Darwin, Schultz, n. 600.
eene Rockingham bay, Peor frih Shinty pedicellate Suse).
angustifolium. Leaves under 1 in. ar d.— C. angustifolium, R. E Ru 297
pis; C seid td" Herb. in Bot. Mag. t. 2522 .— King's Sound, N.W. c ap-
man; Adams bay, uem vii mium ‘Schultz, n. 696; Port Dii, P Sater
e specimen in MR) 8 cune to which m has attached the label of C. ier
Helium, appears to me certainly to belong to the narrow-leaved form of C.
e marginal asperities described by him are DL E nd appear oc i ceni 3 vut
rarely on other riu mens of C. asiaticum. In the sam à set are several specimens 0 of
7 wn m, to the name of C. angustifolium eben be more appropriate, but
the leaves have no Miina] asperities. ,
. brachyandrum, Herb. in. Bot. Mag. under n. 2121, and Amaryll. 249, described
from asin a ek t raised from tropical Australian seeds büt -— should pie A
be recko oni amongst the varieties of C. asiaticum. The filam , though said t
Mot are described as very much longer than sme of C. ven puras
3. C. uniflorum, F. Muell Fragm.ii.93. “ Bulb Liste itia
Leaves linear, long and flaccid, searcely above 2 to 3 lines broad, Scape
6 in. to 1 ft. high, bearing only l or rarely = pee or shortly pedicel-
ate flowers enclosed in 9 bracts of about 2 Ovary not at all or
scarcely contracted at the top. Perianth “ white or slightly tüzel with
jme "'the tube 4 to 5 in. long, recurved in the bud; segments of the
imb 2} to 3 in. long, 4 to 6 lines broad in ies middle. Filaments
nearly as long as the segments; anthers long and narrow.
Ets. Australia. Coen river, Gulf of Carpentaria, A. Brown; Sweers island,
enne
land. Albany isl a t exposed to:
the id ti Soest TR Sex vA ey York, M Gillivray ; samy à flats exp
4. ccidum, Herb. in Bot. Mag. under m. 9191 and t, 21833.
Bulb not seen. Leaves as far as known elongated, varying in breadth
from 4 to 1 in. Scape 1} to 2 ft. high. Flowers white, usually 6 to 8
in the umbel, on F po varying from 4 to 1 in., the braets of the in-
ined 3 to 4 in. lon ng. Ovary not beaked
and scarcely Seay under the perianth. Perianth-tube 3 to 4 in.
Crinum.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. 455
long, the — of the limb about 23 to 3 in. long; and much broader
than in any other Australian species, 3 in. in som specimens, nearly
lin.in others, the whole size of the flower leiden variable. Fila-
ments from 3 to 3 as lo ong as the segments; anthers scarcely above 3
lines, —Amaryllis ‘australasica, Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 426; A. australis,
ied —€— ii. 54.
. S. Darling river, Mrs. Ford, and thence to Cooper's Creek, Viet
and a other pedis; Murray river, C. Stuart ; * from the paddock of Mr. [idc
e
Australia. Flinder’s range, F. Mueller; in the interior, lat. 32° to 22°,
AM ‘Douall Stua es i y
There is ai Banksian koe a specimen laid in as from New Holland, R.
Brown, it; no pu onding one in Brown's own herbarium. "There may be therefore
Some mistake, bay ve no sedent of Me ga growing » er pira of Australia
visited b rown. C. arenarium B, n Bot ae 2531, appears to me to
Tepresent the larger flowered form of this fios whic s hat generally i from ("e
interior of N. S. Wal ie sellers South ved ec enero belong to the smaller
form figured Bot. Mart
. Br. Prod. 997. Very n
poster, the pn E shore hike 2n lon NT the segme about as
E erb. jin 946 n
aenden Moreton bay, d in Herb. F. Mueller
ales. Jackson, Backhouse ; Hastings river, ` Beckler; Glendon,
Leichhardi; Borken and Castlereagh river, Herb. F. Mueller ; Lord Howe's island,
: g PERS Murray river, Behr; Morunda to the eastern bend of the river,
F. Mueller.
The figu
pelicel Alan “she ried specimens, and seems rather to represent the short pedicellate
i e
m of 0.a a; it was not drawn from any authentically Australian spec
A roor Red t. 408, referred here by Ker, appears also to t the sa
e fra ary specimens from Burnet, Haly, and Curri-
variety of C. asia
willighie, Dalton, seem almost intermediate between C. edunculatum and C. asiaticum.
e wild specimens in herbaria are, however, so unsatisfactory, and the cultivated e^
in Sedi so frequently uncertain as to their origin, that the distinction of species ca
only be established by studying them in their native country.
19. EURYCLES, Salisb.
Perianth deciduous, funnel-shaped, with a slender but usually short
tube and 6 nearly equa al broad lobes. Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth
of the tube; filaments united at the base or to above the middle i ina
free but dilated into lateral n asm s; anthers 2-lobed at the base.
Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules in cell colis dari attached to an
exile placenta. Style filiform, blame; with a terminal stigma. Fruit
456 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEZ. [Eurycles.
more or less succulent, with 1 or few seeds.—Bulbous herbs. Lea
all radical, petiolate, the lamina broad with longitudinal rather distant
veins and transverse veinlets between them. Scape leafless. Flower
a white, in a terminal umbel surrounded by 2 or 8 membr tion
racts
The genus extends over some islands of the Indian Archipelago. Of the two Aus-
tralian pees, one has the general range of the genus, the other is endemic.
Leaves very jeg and iini Corona not ł as long as the Au
perianth-lobes . . E. amboinensis.
Leaves ag not cordate. Corona not P as long: as the lobes 2. Æ. Cunninghamii.
l. E. amboinensis, Loud. Encycl. Pl. 949. “ Bulb tunicate,
brown." Leaves usually several, on rather long petioles, broadly
ovate-cordate orbicular-cordate or almost reniform, often 8 to 10 in.
long and as broad or broader, with numerous arcuate rather distant
veins and transverse veinlets between them. Scapes 1 to 2 ft. high,
lines long, divided to below the middle into 6 lobes, öli one divided at
the apex into 2 lanceolate acuminate diverging lobes with the filament
between them; stamens altogether s shorter than the perianth —Hook.
Bot. Mag. under t. efit Pancratium wet Linn., Red. Lil. t.
australasicum, Korin "Bot. Reg.t t. 715; Bagel aut, Loud. Bneyel
242; E. australis, Schult. Syst. vii. 911; Kunth, Enum v. 691
Qni sland. Island of Cairncross, Veitch (with flowers 21i in. long); ‘Rock! ing-
green bay, — Mount Elliot, Fitzalan.—The species is also in the Indian
re
ii, Ait, MS.; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1506. Bulbs
L 1i in. diameter. Taa on long pete, anes not wie but
veined as in varying from 4 to long.
inensis, capes
about 1 ft. high, with an umbel of 6 to 10 flowers Weide by 2 or 3
w a Perianth 1 to 1: in. long, i tube rather shorter than the
B.
"assi Brisbane river, sida vd A. pus pi ETT Leich-
hardt, C. pres and others ; Rockhampto on, Bowma:
13. CALOSTEMMA, R. Br.
Perianth at length deciduous, with a slender but usually short =
and a funne nel-shaped or spreading nearly equally 6- parted lim
‘Stamens 6, inserted at the mouth of the tube; fi = united to
*
Calostemma.] CXXIII. AMARYLLIDEJ. 457
about the middle in a tubular corona, truncate or shortly lobed between
the free parts of the filaments; anthers 2-lobed at the base. Ovary
l-celled, with 2 or 3 ovules collaterally shied to one side of the
cavity. ‘Style filiform, obtuse, with a terminal stigma. Fruit globular,
cree ripening usually only one rather pic fleshy seed.—Bulbous
8. ith
radical, nartow with close parallel veins or broad
E more sti veins and transverse vilü ets. Scapes leafless.
lowers variously coloured, smaller than in Hurycles, in a terminal
umbel surrounded by 2 or 3 membranous bracts.
T us is endemic in Australia. The remarkable reduction of the ovary to a
single "i appears to be due to the early abortion of two of the carpels.
Flowers purple or pink (rarely whi rpureum
: et P gap ear e
"inde Pad" Garir white) ; 2. C. luteum.
3. C. album.
the.
above e middle. Perianth-limb usually about 5 lines long, the
slender tube varying from half as long to nearly that length, and
ments obovate- quce varying i h. Corona reaching
Eat half the length of the se ih ver resciiblo | in its orifice, some-
times truncate between fs filaments and entire 2-toothed or shortly
divided, sometimes produced Mtv m filaments into 1 or 2 obtuse
Pee — Bot MM t. 2100; Bot. Reg. t.
ead of Spencer's gulf, R. aab Barossa, Behr ; Bugle imos
RÀ (ret vai cus Hinter iis acker.
1 Var a. Flowers rather larger with a longer tube, approaching t those of C.
DT det Lon or white.—C. carneum, Lindl. in Mitch. "Three Exped. ii. 39; Bot.
x
‘ovate Lachlan river, Mitchell ; ee river, Herb. F. Mueller;
ope Giles; Lower Edward river, Mein
SCi
Tescence of C. pu rpureum of which it may be a variety. Flowers
ratner larger, the gir -limb often above 4 in. long, and yellow or
ly white. Corona usua y truncate between da m
minutely toothed, but I have sometimes fou nd " Mores into short
broad entire or notched lobes as in C. purpu tamens of
shortly exceeding the perianth.—Kunth, Enum. v : 698; Bot. Reg.
t. 421 and 1840, it 19; €. candidum, Lindl in Mitch. Three Exped.
i. 54; Kunth, Lc.
=
458 CXXIII. AMARYLLIDE. [ Calostemma.
Tg ees Rockhampton, Thozet, O'Shanesy; Barcoo, Schneider; Darling
owns, La
OW. S. Wales. Sree river, Mitchell ; Piai ot Plains, ei r itp d E
reagh river, Woolls; Lower Darling river, Mrs. Ford; thence p n Creek,
Neilson; Mount serus iain? ‘Mount atl f Douall
The dien attempted to be drawn from the teeth of the corona ed from
articulation or dpi ei of the podioels mas in AR same plant; the articulation
appear only wheu the flowering is advanced; e specimens I see no trace of i
n others it is very distinct ui some but em all. of "the pedicels.
3. C. album, R. Br. Prod. 298. Leaves resembling those of vaio
mi out smaller, ovate, acute, tapering at the base, 3 to 5
long, 2 to 3 in, broad, with distant. converging primary veins aui |
transverse vaka. Scapes 1 to ljft. high, bearing an um mbel of
numerous white flowers on filiform pedicels of 1 to 11 in. surrounded by
ong; segments of
ln Sapta Fruit lobular, rather la
N. Australia. Turtle island, Gulf of eo R. Brown.—A remarkable
species vhi ta (Ru of Calostemma and the leaves of Eurycles
Orpver CXXIV. TACCACEÆ.
u
to the obes; filaments broad, hood-shaped, shortly 2-lobed at the end;
anther-cells 2, parallel, adnate to the inside of the hood and projecting
between the lobes. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, “Styl 2 arietal placentas
and many anatropous or a amphitropous ovules. short, with a broa
umbrella-shaped stigma deeply divided into 3 Tiid d lobes. Fruit a
or fibrous rhizome. Leaves radical, on lo ag gere te and much
low
scape in a dense terminal simple um el, aalr itera dd with long
filaments ras pedicels), and surrounded by an involucre of a few
large thin bracts.
The Order is limited to a single genus, represented in the tropical regions of the New
as well as the Old World. ‘The only Australian species has a wide range over the Indian
Archipelago and the Islands of the South Pacific.
l. TACCA, Forst.
Characters and distribution itas 4 the Order.
, Forst.; Kunth, Enum. v. 458. Rhizome tube-
^ globular, attaining under Ks ere a en size but not above
J
:
acca. | CXXIV. TACCACER, 459
1 in. diameter in the ad dried specimens where it has been preserved.
Petioles erect, 1 t . long below the ramification, divided always
into 8 branches which are again ( ola bifid or trifid or dichotomous or
irregularly branched, each branch pinnate with Lema variable
istant or more or less confluent segments. In the larger varieties the
three branches are often 2 to 3 ft. long, once bifid or trifid, the larger
segments ovate-lanceolate acuminate and 4 to 6 in. long, ut inter-
oblong mory obtuse; some, arge or small, contracted into
a short petiolule n distant, JW decurren t along the petiole, or
m with the next seg In risu 4 form
equal in size. In a third ne distinct Australian form (var. aconiti-
Jolia, F. Muell., T. maculata, Seem. Fl. Vit. 103) the leaves are more
regularly divided, pre MAS almost pit ets with numerous
linear-lanceolate segments regularly diverging so as to form a eirolë of
pe 6 to 8 in. diameter. ade the length of the paolo, "e
tional very small ones wers numerous, on sofł toli
and usually mixed with numerous long filaments or capillary barren
pedicels 3 to 4 in. long. th-segm imens ovate and
erianth-s
2 lines long, in others lanceolate and 3 lines, but the difference owing
sometimes to different stages of development, the inner lobes NAT
larger than the outer. Berry ovoid-globular, 3 to 1 in. diameter, c
tracted into a rae v crowned by the persistent or ferias
limb.—R. Br.
N. Australia. "lanl - the Gulf of tocando y Brown, Sweers; King's
Sound, N^ NW. coast, Hughan ; Sea range and Victoria F. Mueller; Melvilio island,
Fraser; Port Darwi m. kait, n. 169, 195, 810, 832; Escape Cliff
and. Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; ‘Fitzroy island, C. “Walter Both the
large form considered by Seemann as typical, and the one named y him C. Brownii
m n on the N. Sakai and in Queensland, with some — as to foliage ;
r. aconitifolia was sent by F. Mueller with the. c. nii. e have no means
of aching any differences in the flower with these differences in foliage
Orver CXXV. DIOSCORIDEJE.
Flowers neesu, usually dicecious, TRYIN Perianth superior, of
. 6 lobes or seg Stamens 6 or 3, inserted on the perianth or in
hs Venim o he rl round a eU eec ovary, shorter than the
nth-lobes; anthers with 2 parallel cells opening inwards. Ovary
E Eran 3-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell Stigmas 3,
entire or 2-cleft, on a single or distinct styles, or sessile on the ovary.
ruit a 3-angled capsule, opening at the angles i in 3 loculicidal valves,
460 CXXV. DIOSCORIDE X.
or an indehiscent berry. Seeds albuminous, with a minute embryo
near the hilum.—Herbs often forming large tuberous rhizomes or
der di oye ki ay genera, dispersed over the tropical and temperate
regions of eee tk lobe. The only Australian genus certainly belonging to it has the
wide range of th he Order. The second, Mxpésioetiy known and therefore doubtful genus
De ici af is endemic.
l. DIOSCOREA, Linn.
(Helmia, Kunth.)
Flowers dicecious. Stamens in the Australian species 6. Capsule
3-angled or 3-lobed, opening longitudinally at the angles, often leaving
their nervelike margins free. Seeds win ed. —Undergrou und rhizomes
often tuberous and known by the name of Yams, Stems twining.
A large tropical and — vit especially numerous in South Am rica. Of
the three Australian species, one is mon in tropical Asia, the two shares as far as
hitherto known, are endemic. "The pce of all three said to be eaten by the natives
or colonists as nativ e yams
Perianth. wa er pie broad. Capsule broader than long. Seeds
Leaver speci opposite, o ovate-cordate or ene ane
with a broa 1. D. transversa. —
Mtm all ree linear or linear- lanceolate, ‘or the lower GUAE
maller ones triangular-hastate . 2. D. hastifolia.
Perianth se segments narrow. Capsule lo onger than broad. Seeds à
nged at one end only. Leaves alternate, ovate-cordate . 8. D. sativa.
D. lucida, E i Prod. 295, described from a specimen without flowers or frui
gathered on Endeavour river by Banks and Solander, is B enda a species ol :
Jioxburghia, tol probably E. javanica, Miq.
. D. transversa, R. Br. Prod. 295. A slender glabrous twiner with —
a fc ca rhizome. Leaves opposite or viae triangular-hastate oF
ovate-cordate, the basal lobes always very spreadi ng with a road
rupted de nder spikes o of 1j to 2 in., the spikes clustered wee
r: axillary panicles. Perianth-segments orbicular, above
line sate in some ens, not half so large in others, but
aw. hat fully Api oe t mueh dibsipito; the 3 inner ones rather
small Anthe laments inserted on a disk, with a small
rudiment of an ovary in the reus Female racemes simple, 9 to 4 in.
long, the flowers distant. Ovary oblong-linear. Perianth of the males -
but smaller. Styles short, distinct, the stigmas shortly 2-cleft. Capsule
Dioscorea. | CXXV. DIOSCORIDEJE. 461
shortly — -: axis about 2 in. long, the protruding angles or
lobes about 4 in
^N. Austra s, Hulls.
Queensland. Sent by Memes collectors as very common from Brisbane river,
Moreton bay. A. Cunningham, and others, to Rockingham bar, Dallachy.
N. S. Wales. Hunter's and Paterson’s rivers, Æ. Brown; Hastings and Clarence
p Beckler, and others; Richmond river, C. "Moore, "Lot others; New England,
D. punctata, R. Br. Prod. 294, is referred by F. Mueller denn hesitation to D.
Eden. In Brown's herbarium there are two 0 specimens in the same sheet, both in
flower only, without the precise station for either. In both the leaves are similar to
lobes, but in the other the perianths are rather those of D. sat The D. transversa
itself is evidently nearly allied to D Pete un 1fi
t i 55, p. 71, and confirmed by Japanese specimens in the Kew
herbarium. The Australian plant has the leaves rather different, the basal sinus always
oft i i T fruit a.
d ;
appears to be rather larger, but tl etd be varia e D. batatas Decsne., is cer-
Rae quite distinct from it, but hal y the Mnt. as the common Indian D. glabra,
- hastifolia, Endl. in Pl. Preiss. ii. 99. A smaller d than
D. transversa, with slender almost filiform iude stems. Lower leaves
toni ular-hast tate, 3- or 5- Dur ved, under 1 in. long and somotiries as
v. E
W.A lia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 821, ii n. 1954; Cham-
pion ir and 3 Murchison river, Oldfield; Pinjarrah, J. S. Pries.
3. D. sativa, Linn. as Pl. 1463, Hort. Cliff. t. 28, but not of
rti Enum. Stems from a tuberous rhizome elongated and twining,
ring green g polities bulbs in the veda of the S Leaves
. very small, the AiK aRt very narrow, those of each series
almost valvate in the bud, the inner ones linear. Stamen , the
anthers almost sessile in the centre of the flower round a rudimentary
pistil. Female C i in longer slender single spikes. Capsule ob-
ong, the axis about 2 in. long. Seeds boron ge! wing a t the lower
*
462 CXXV. DIOSCORIDEZ. [ Dioscorea.
t. 878 and of à most modern authors but not of Linn.— Helmia bulbifera
t Enum, v. 435.
tralia. Ts lands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, 2. Brown; Goulburn island,
A. "Cunningham; Melville island, Fraser ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 173 ; Port Essing-
ton,
Quecasland. Rockingham bay, Dallachy.
The species is widely spread over East India and the Archipelago. I have already
(Fl. Hongk. 368) epee nd m that ole authors have transposed the Linnean
names of f the t two species, D. sativa and D. bulbifera, both of which are apt to bear
bulbs in the axils of the leaves
2.? PETERMANNIA, F. Muell.
Stamens | 6; filaments capillary, with linear anthers. Ovary T
with 4 or 5 ovules in each cell. St tyle filiform, undivided.
1l-celled berry, with several seeds.—Stems twining. Flowers in ips
opposed panicles.
The genus is limited to the single imperfectly known species endemic in Australia.
F. Muell. Fragm. ii. 93. A glabrous climber with
the. Smilaa: i pm. BE the Dioscoridee, the
rrow iege loose, d and rather longer than the ‘leaves, the
eiaeaen ns 'and apparently few-flowered, but the specimens only
retain UK or 3 fruits the flowers having fallen away, and in the upper
put inflorescences are replaced by simple tendrils. proe about
ii poem eter, crowned by the scar of the fi na flower and con
saik several unripe seeds. There are no loose flowers with thé
specimen, but according to F. Mueller “ Perianth- Pippi about
24 lines. long. g, only seen as well as the stamens in the "female plant.
Filaments ic. 1} lines long, deciduous; anthers 1 line long.
Styles 2 lin
Cloud’s creek, Capat eb Beckler.—Of this I have only seen
retai
: a pe
tite a^. hermaphrodite flowers, and several ovules in each cell of the ovary
cribed by F. Mueller, are at variance with the ordinal character, and the venation of ©
the leaves is different from that of any of the dictyogenous Monocotyledons known
i a MM a ci T alo si
463
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
—9——
The MP dne and Species incidentally mentioned are printed in Italics.
Acalypha
capillipes, a M sali.
Cunni; urn , Mu.
Ar
eremorum, Mu Arg. 1
nemorum, 'F. Muell.
hus . .
P.
Br
exsertus, Br.. d
fornicatus, Br.
viridis, Hook. f.. .
Acteph f
grandifoli i&, Baill. i
latifolia, Benth. .
Moo
Billardieri, Baill.
E. Dampieri, F. Muell,
: m
Agathis, Sali
n : is, Salisb.
: ilicifolia, Mult Arg.
_ Thozetiana, Baill, .
ae
188
nins F. Muell.
rulea, Bent.
hostilia F. Muell.
Amanoa
iaa Baill.
Dallach Baill.
faginea a, Baill,
Leickhardtii, Baill.
momit- e > +:
Dallachyi, F. gn
A
255
265
265
122
123
121
121
119
;120
. 415
455
; v2 Ts
mperea . 25581
conferta, Benth... . 88
neiformis, F Mu, 84
ericoides, A. J 83
micrantha, Benth. 83
protensa, Nees ; 82
r inifolia, Kl. 83
spartioides, B 8
Mencia N 82
volubilis, F. Muell. 82
ndrachne . . . 8
Deeaisnei, Benth. . 88
fruticosa, Dene. . 88
Androstemma
junceum, Lindl. 441
Anigozanthos . ... 441
bicolor, Endl. . . 446
ecinea, Paxt. . . 444
flavida, Red. . 443
fuliginosa, H 447
grandiflora, Salisb. . 444
"ph Lindl. 444
Manglesii, Don 445
aes Maund. . 444
ma, Lehm, 444
Preisi. Endl. 4
pulcherrima, Hook. . 443
Page
rufa, Labill. . 449
tyrianthina, Hook. 443
Nodes Endl . 445
€ inpia EUR Dene. 102.
Anisophyilum, Haw. . 44
hobolus | 226
ps to Br.. 226
foveolat atus, F.M uell. 226
leptomoricides F. M. 227
r, Br. . 926
icd. eR 179
macrophylla, Br. . 179
tides S d 84
Bunius, Spreng 86
Dallachyanum, Baill. 85
, F.M 87
Ghesembilla, Gaertn. 85
paniculatum, Roxb. 85
parvifolium, F. Mu. 86
Schultzii, Benth 86
sinuatum, B 87
Aphananthe . «359
philippinensis, Plan. 160
Apostasia . 395
stylidioides, Reich’. 396
. 242
Bidwilli, Hook. . 243
Cunninghamii, ptu 243
dena
a, Sm. 386
Aristolochia. ded
Baueri
deltantha, T "Muell. 207
indica, Linn. .
prevenosa, F. Muell. 208
pubera, Br. . 208
8 ped Duch. . 208
Thozetii, F. Muell. . 208
Bue aliens 206
Arthrochilus
irritabilis, F, Muell. 368
taxis . 41
464 INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
Page Page Page
alpina, Van Houtte . 242 latifolia, Muell.Arg. 66 Brunonis, Reichb. . 393
cupressoides, (249 lepidopetala, Mu. Ar. 67 e:erulea, 388
niana, Park 242 similis, Muell. Arg. 67 Cairnsiana, F. "Muell. 380
imbricata. Maule 242 üneg& cs 6 ue ae a, Br. . 986
laxifolia, Hook. 242 canescens, Lindl. . 441 clavigera, Cunn. . 382
selaginoides, Don . 242 | Bletia ongesta, Br. 87
tetragona, Hoo + 24 Pauline, EF. MT 304 eu "hon Reichb 375
Australina . 188 Nri a eant . 305 deformis, Br. . 988.
Muelleri, Wedd. . 189 xa. X denticulata, Lindl. . 981
INovc-Zelandic, i enr Plau ch. . 258 dilatata, Br. . 982
Hook. f. 189 ee Rich, . 258 diph iia, Reichb. . 390
Lost Gaudich. 189 | Boe discoidea, Lindl. 380
a, Hook.f. 189 caloghieb; F. Muell. 184 rummondii, Benth. 383
olbophy 286 elliptica, Reichb. 375
Balanophora. . . . 232 aurantiacum, F. Mu. 288 elongata, Lindl. . 85
ngosa, Forst, , . 232 , P. Muell. .. 289 emarginata, Reichb. 393
BALANOPHOREX. 231 uum, F. Muell. . 288 filamentosa, Br. 381
Baloghia 148 | lie m, F.Mu. 287 | filamentosa, Lindl. . 382
lucida, En zo B nematopodium, F.M. 28 filifera, Lindl. . . 381
Pancheri, Baill. 149 n fimbriata, Reichb. . 979
Hy. uiis " 74 988 | flava, Br.. 84
Cunninghamii, Plan. 75 Shed pi Muell. 288 gemmata, Lindl 389
gummifera, Planch. 75 | Bowe . 254 | gracilis, Br. . © . 387
gummifera, var, aana o Hook. . 954 Gunnii, Reichb. 391
Muell. Arg. 71 | Bradleia, Gertn. . 96| hirta, Lindl. 383
Mitchelli, Mu. Arg. 76 | Breynia nw ixioides, Lin . 989
gifolia,Mu.Arg. 8| cernua, Muell. Arg. 113 | latifolia, Br 384
olezfolia, Planch. . 76 cens, Baill, . 114 longicauda, 382
llata, F. Muell. 77 eriana, Baill.. 114| macrophylla, Br. . 379
pinifolia, Planch. . 75| oblongifolia, M. Arg. 114 | major, Reich 92
pomaderroides, F. M. 77 ynchocarpa, Benth. 114 | marginata, Lindl. . 385
cladus, Mu. Arg. stipitata, Arg.. 114| Menziesii, Br 79
arinifolia, Plan. 76 | Briedelia. . . . . inor, Reichb. 392
rotundifolia, F. M 7 exaltata, F. Muell. . 119 mollis, Let * 383
tasmanica, Mu. A ) faginea, P. Muell. . 120 mollis, . 985
eyeria . . 63 Sx Mi Vli “Baill. 121 i ines ” Reichb, 380 `
Backhousii, Hook. f. 65 ata, D . 120 . 885
ifolia, Baill. 67 ovata, v rg. 119 nigricans, Reichb. 374
cinerea, Baill, . 66 tonentoss, oe . 120 | ochreata, Lindl.. . 385
cya Benth. . 66 | Burmann . 897 | pallida, Lindl. . . 382
cygnorum, Baill. . 66 sie em Don. 398 Patersoni, Br. 381
Drummondii, Mu.Ar. 68 distachya, Br 7 pellita, End... + 389
lasiocarpa, F. Muell. 65| disticha, Lin 397 | Preissii, Endl. 385
latifolia, . . 66| juncea, Soland.. . 397 | pulcherrima, F. 381
ledifolia, Sond. . . 65 lla, Thbw;. vas 998 reniformis, Reichb 37
lepidopetala, 67 | BURMANNIAOER 396 repu. Lindl.. . 385
Se a "Baill. 65 | Burnettia Roei, Bent. . 383
ifolia, ti 64 cuneata, Didi. 375 saccharata, Reich. 388
iw =» 05 verbe, Lindl. i880 |
similis, Baill. 1:207 ia, . 876 se ichb.. .. 986
tristioma, F. Muell. 68 alata, Br. . 286 LA NA Reichb. . 385
uncinata, F. Mu 65 Br. . sulphurea, Cunn. . 386
a, Mig... « 64 angustata, Hook. f. 386 tentaculata Schlecht: 382
Paperiapet. angustata, Lindl. 387 tes 387 —
rifolia, Mu. Arg. 68 aphylla, Benth.. . 8 aar an Hla “Lindl 388
“cinerea, "Muell. Arg. 66 an , Reichb. 383 | Calant , oO Wa
eyanescens, Mu. Arg. 67 barbata, Lindl, . . 38 sernutiloling Br..
cygnorum, Mu. Arg. 66| JBehriü Schlecht. . 382 | Caleana ....-.-
ENPE EPEE E E AAIEN NEEESE T ONE T S
. INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 465
Page : Page
major, Br. . . . 365| gracilis, Endl “ti Gunnii, Hook. f. 195
minor, Br. E 366 hypericina, C. de Mey liana, Miq. 96
gans Lindl. ; 366 intermedia, C. A. na T humilis, Ott. et Dietr. 200
la ndi 7. 30 na, Cunn.
Wivaricalisisit, Mu. Lehmanniana, Endl, Lehmanniana, Miq. 200
Arg 60 ligustrina, C. A. Mey. 18 leptoclada, Miq. . 197
hexandra, Mu. Arg. 57 linifolia, C. A. Mey. 18 rocarpa, Cunn. . 195
linearis, Muell. . 60 linoides, Endl. 248 microstachya, Mig. . 201
micrantheoides, Bail. 57 longiflora, Endl. 34 cesta, F. Muell. 198
orientalis, Baill. 60 otal oe ,W 15 uelleri Miq. . 198
ovalifolia, Mu. Arg. 59 enkeana, Endl. 15 na, Sù Do nU qe
Caleya mirocepkala, Endl. 27| nana, Cunn.. . . 200
major, Endl í 366 taB obesa, Mig. . . . 197
Callitris . 13| exycada, Mi 202
actinostrobus, F. M. 240 piyiicoidon Walp - 33| paludosa, Sieb. . . 199
osa, Sweet. . 2 hiiana, pauper, F. Mue 196
calcarata, Br. . 8 Pat < p Pr na, Miq. . 200
lumellaris, F. Mu. 2 alata, C. A. Mey. 17 puie Ott. etDietr. 199
cupressiformis, Vent. 238 spicata, Endl. . . quadriv m 19
glauca, Br. . 237 aveolens, Endl. .. cii i
‘Gunnii, Hook. f. . 239 vestris, C. A. Mey. 12 jetr. gk * 900
oblonga, Rich. 39] tinctoria, En my in da, a i a
Parlatorei, F. Muell. 235 trichostachya, Walp. 24 selaginoides, Miq. . 200
iq. . 237 villifera, Walp. . . 21 sparsa, Tausch.. . 197
sa t; i1837 villosa, Turcz, . . 84 stricta, Ait . 195
rhomboidea, Br.. . 238 | Calyptrosti stricta, Miq c. 3198
i; Hi 2/28 ledifolium, Kl. . . 68 suberosa, Ott. et Dietr. 197
tuberculata, Br.. . 287 | oblongifo Kl. . 64| tenuissima, Sieb. . 2!
verrucosa, Br. . 237 iscosw ; 64 teph Hort. 200
Calochilus . . . . 8 mpylonema thuyoides, Mig. . . 202
australianus, F. Mu. 815 — umm cu WIS ortuosa, Hi ~ 197
ca ris, Br. . 315 | Campynema . . torulosa, A . 200
herbaceus, Lindl 815 rt i orulosa, Miq. . 196, 199
paludosus, Br. . 916 pygmeum, F. Muell. n trichodon, Mig . 196
i Robertsoni, Benth. . 815 | Carum . 149 truncata, Wilid 197
Calos . . 456 pallidum i Muell Arg. 150 | CasvamEER . . . 192
e “6 58| platy uell, atakidozamia
candidum, Lindl. . 457 ryos LH. . 2M
carneum dl 457 populum, "Reinw. 150 Macleayi, Hill . 254
luteum, 457 | populneum, Mu.Arg. 150 | Celtis. . . . . . 156
purpureum, Br. 457| Sieberi, CU ell. Arg. 150 mboin Willd. 159
Calycopeplus . . 5 stillin, —MÁ eel aspera, Brongn. . . 158
ephedroides, Planch. 53 uari ingens, F. Muell. . 156
marginatus, Benth. . 5 acuari "M En m opaca, Moore 157
. ,Paucifolius, Baill. . 58] Bax a, Miq. dinh Tinn.. . 159
. Calyptrostegia bicuspidata, Benth. . m panieulata, Planch. 156
angustifolia, C. A. crist ipiseli Blanco 156
ER. o2 4 “138 Cun nicis iia Atty: 198 stryc chn we: Planch. 156
a, C. A. M. 25 Decaisneana, F. Mu. virgat oxb. 158
brevifolia, C. A. Mey. 12| decussata, =r ; 300 Psi ere
a, C. A. Me 17| distyla, Ven . 198 javanica, B oe
cluytioides, Walp. . 29 Dramnondins Afi = Chiloglottis . + 990
cornucopiæ, Endl. 6| dumosa, diphyll 390
curviflora, C. A. Mey. 81| echinata, Br. | Gunnii > m
— 3Drummondii, Turez. equisetifolia, Forst. . 197 | Cho 217
. Pava, Endl. .... .. 99 Mila, Deis 197 | Candollei, F. Muell. 219
- glauca, C. A. Mey.. 16| Fra a Mig, . 199 cieyenuilum, P. Mu. 218
.. graciliflora, Endl. . 12| glauca, mig Am . 196 | glomeratum . 218
VOL. Vi. us s
466. INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
Page Page
lateriflorum, Br.. . 219 | cymosa, F; Muell. . 439 ia ifoli "e Bes roi
lateriflorum, A. DC. 219 Lindi. |. 436 enarium, H . 454
oxye , F. Ma. . 218 | discolor, Endl 4 ation inn. 5
pauciflorum, A. DC. 219 ummondii, Benth. 433 ustralasicum, Herb,’ 454
Preissianum, Miq. . 221 ensifolia, Doers 440 australe, Herb. . 45
spicatum, F. Muell. 218 | — festucana, Endl . 437 bra achyandru qm, Herb. 454
spi 221 | filifolia, F. Muell. . 438 , Herb, . 454
horizotheca gladiata, Benth . 484 accidum, Herb. . 454
oe Mu. graminea, Endl.. . 440 pedunculatum, Br. . 455
61 | . involucrata, Endl . 484 taitense, Red. .
Chrysostemon cea, Endl . 434 uniflorum, F. Muell, 454
"ar KL. 4 . BI . 489 venosum, s
kopeu longifolia, Endl. . 440 ton 23
ise, F. Muell. 289 melanopogon, Endl. 432 acronychioides, F. Mu. 127
odes ani 433 emieus, Mu.A 27
ilicifolia, Baill. . . 186 misera, Ra 440 insularis, Baill. . "124
Thozetiana, Baill. . 137 occulta 440 | marginatus, Cunn 73
Claoxylo nF petroplibidesJ Mu. 43] mollissimus, Geisel. 14
tifolium, Muell Preissii, . 437 | opponens, F. Muell. 125
Niger s prolifera, Benth . + 436| paniculatus, La
Bail. . . 130| propinqua, Endl. . 436 | phebalioides, F. Mw. 125
Hillii, Bent 131| psyllium, Ændl. . . 433 | phebalioides, Cunn. 125
tenerifolium, F. Mu. 130 pusilla, Endl . 433 philippinensis, Lam. 14
Clei . . 295 . 436| qua npari , Labil. 135
Loses ed F. E . 996 seorsiflora, F. Muell. 435 ricinoides, Pers. . 140
Macphe u, 297| se . . 439 romarin jolina
tridentatum, Lind E setigera, Br. . . . 432 3, 76
Cleistan T ; N setosa, Lindl. .*», 481 Schult denti: ; 194
o. enth. "is spathacea, Endl.; . 440 s, F. Muell. 125
Cu tindhui Mult spinuligera, F. Mu. 438 uence F. Mu. 126
Ar stylidioides,F.Muell. 435 triacros, F. Muell. . 127
Da lach yanus, " Bast. 122 sulphurea, Endl. . 432 Verreauxii, Baill, . 126
” semiopacus, F.Muell. 123 | teretiuscula, F. Mu. 435 | viscosus, Labill. . . 64
Codixum . 147 | vaginata, Endl. . . 431 | Cryptostylis. . . . 332
chrysostictum m:Sprng. 147 | villosa, Benth, , . 438| erecta, Br. . . . 334
lucidum, Muell. Arg. 148 Corybas leptochila, F. Muell. 334
moluccanum, Dene. 14 aconitiflorus, Salisb. 352 longifolia, Br. . . 333
obovatwm, Zoll. . . 147 fimbriatus, Reichb. , one ovata, Bri... 55
Pancheri,Muell. Arg. 149 | pruinosus, Reichb. subulata, Reichb. . 833
pictum, Hook. . 147 SERERA a i Reichb. 350 Cudrania. . . . . 178
variegatum, Blume . 147 | Co rymbis javanensis, Trec. . . 179
Calebsgyne veratrifolig, Reichb. sil Cunninghamia
ilicifolia, J. Sm, . 136 | Corymborchis cupressoides, Zucc. . 242
Coni s: 4. 282 veratrifolia, Bl. . . 811 selaginoides, Zuce. . 242
Conostylis . . . . 428 | Corysanthes . . . | 350 pressus
aculeata, Br.. . . 438 | bialcarata, Br. . . 351| australis, Desf. . . 238
emula, Lindl, . . 433 diemenica, Lindl, . 351 | Cupunirerm . . + 209
albicans, Cunn. . . 436 trinis Br . 351 | Careuligo. . . . MT
androstemma, F.Mw. 440 | pruinosa, Cunn.. . 351| ensifolia, Br. ~ . 448
assimilis, Endl. . . 483 unguiculata, Br. . 350 orchioides, Miq.» > 448
uri in - « 482 | Cost recurvata, Ait. . » 448
ea, 6
bracteata, Endl. . . 437 Potieræ, F. Mult. . 266| stans, Labill. . . 448
bri i 7 Curcuma . . . . 262
breviseapa, Br. . . 430 Dintend, s 1.1 p australasica, Hook. f. 263
bromelioides, Endl. . 438 | Covellia Ürcapg-m .. . » « 248
candicans, Endl.. . 436 glomerata, Miq.. . 178 OWN. uo. o 8s 249
canescens, F. Muell. 441| oppositifolia, Gasp. 177 | angulata, Br. . . 249
ioina, Lindl, . . 440 | Crinum . . . , . 463| gracilis, Miq. » . 249
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES,
an
Mel, [9
Cymb
heey alice F. Mu. 303
eanalicu T Br,- -802
irtum, Br. ere +!)
reflexum, Br re d
suave, Br . 803
Cynomorium
balanophora, Willd. . 232
Cyrtostylis . . 376
Huegelii, Endl 376
reniformis, Br. . 976
Dacrydium . . . . 244
Franklinii, Hook.f. . 245
uonense, Cunn. . 245
tetragonum, Parlat . 241
Damasonium
orum, Planch. . 257
indicum, Willd. 257
ovalifolium, Br. 5T
Dammara. . . 244
robusta, Moore . . 244
Daphne
indica, Linn. |. , 97
Daphnobryon. —.
tasmanicum, Meissn. 36
Dendrob ee MD
emulum Br, . 280
kriit F.
uell, a
81
aurantiacum, TF. Mu. 288
Beckle ri, F. Muell .
ifor 285
canaliculatum, Br. 8
cassythoides, Cu 307
complanatum, Cunn. 277
eucumerinum, Li 283
dieuphum, F. Muell. 277
discolor, Lindl. . . 279
elongatum, Cunn. . 281
uum, F. 1.. 289
Fairfaxii, F. Mueli. 285
Fellowsii, V. la 4i
gracilicaule, F. Mw. 281
illii, H C (AN
Hill, F. Muell. . 295
hispidum, A. Rich.. 283
Johannis, Reichb. . 279
Kingianum, Bidw. . 280
linguiforme 4$ 48
Milligani, F. Muell. 286
minutissimum, F. M. 27
7
monophyllum, F. M. 282
Page
Moorei, F. Muell. . 281
Mortii, F. Muell. . 286
puigoniforme, one 284
pun 301
Pungentifolany P A. 284
. 284
um, Br.
PLN. Lindl. . 286
Shepherdi, F ‘nell. 288
Sil Z reg lj... 282
. 279
striolatucs, LA. . 285
Sumneri, ri, F. Muell. . 278
Tattonianum, hers 82
teretifolium, 85
teretifolium, Lindl. . 286
tetra 279
oriita, Taa . 8
undulatum, Bes 278
: 46
lucida, 4
punctata, Br. . .461
sativa, Linn. 461
transversa, Br. . 460
ode RIDEM |. 0. 0 409
arrhena . 999
titio Benth . 400
Morea, Labill 400
Dip odium . 900
pi hae F. Muell. 301
pansinan, . 801
enosum, F. Muell. . 900
Diis . 240
Archeri, Hook. f. . 240
alata PM Ia
Dissilia
baloghioides, z. Mu.
Muelleri, 91
tricornis, pe 419
iuris «cg
nne iata, F. Mu. . 999
qualis, F. Muell. . 328
pe HE a 25
aurea, S i 327
ehrii, Schlecht. 328
carinata, Lindl 330
orymbosa, Lindl 31
curvifolia, Lindl. . 328
Dr DN Lindl. 330
elongata, S 326
marginata, e ..980
filifolia, Lindl. 329
anceolata, Lindl 328
iflora, Lindl.. . 336
Kaa F. Muell. . 326
longifolia, Br, . 931
467
Page
lata, Si... 827
Noe pires
iss . 332
wlata, Y F. Mu. 827, E
dee Benth. 3
palust is, Lindl. MT
pardina, Lindl. . 328
ciflora, Br. . 331
peduneulata, Br 328
porrifolia, L 331
unctata, S 326
setacea, Br. . «4.329
spathulata, Sw, . . 327
sh AE Ds. 330
Doryant 452
beum Gon 452
Paimeri, Hill . 452
Drakea 367
ciliata, "Reichb. 367
el Lindl . 968
irritabi a Reichb 368
Drapetes. 35
Drymispermum
Biumei, Den
Denes: iu 38
lerodendron, F. M. 39
laurifolium, Dene. . 38
untanni, F. Mu.. 38
Dumartroya
fagifolia, Gaud. . 181
Echino
aayi, F. Mu. 141
Echinosphera js
osmarinoides, Sieb. 70
r
Echinus
claoxyloides, Baill yi
philippinenis, Baill. 141
Elachocroton
asperococcus, F. Mu. 152
ELÆAGNACEÆ® . 39
Elæagnus 2029
latifolia, Linn. ee.
Elatostemma . 183
reticulatum, Wedd. . 183
sessile, Forst. + 184
stipitatum, Wedd. . 184
lettaria ROT
Scottiana, F. Muell. 264
Encephalartos
Denisonii, F. Mu. . 253
ty 3 iq. " 252
Macdónelli, F. Mu. 253
Miquelii, F. Muell.. 253
dii, 252
468
Page
Paulo-Gulielmi, F.
Muell. . ^
Preissii, F. Muell. . 252
spira i 1
ed.
arborea, F. Muell 54
Epiblema . . 924
grandiflorum, Br. . 324
Epipactis
cucullata, Labill. . 372
reflexa, Labill . 890
Epipogum . 908
Gulf e "Muell. 308
nutans 308
Eria
limenophylax,
Reichb. . 290
Eriochilus 371
autumnalis, Br. 372
cucullatus, Reichb. . 372
dilatatus, Lindl. 373
latifolius, Lindl 373
Lindieyi, E .:872
multiflorus, Lindl. . 373
r, Lind 372
tenuis, Lindl. :UOMS
throrchis
aphylla, F. "utr . 307
a F. Muell. . 308
Eue
Murrayana, Mitch. 217
Eulophia . 299
Fi hi, X 300
venosa, Reichb. f. 300
Euphorbia 44
alsinzeflora, Baill. 49
mstrongii, Boiss.. 48
to, Forst. . 46
australis, Boiss 48
—— Baill. 6
chamesyce, Baill. . 49
Baltaci yana, Baill.. 49
deserticola, F. Mu. . 52
oe . Cunn. 50
rummondii,.Boíss.. 49
eremophila, A, Cunn. 52
erythrantha, F. Mu. 48
Ferdinandi, l 49
nie Wiss 51
8, Poi 46
Mao nlivrayt, Boiss 50
micradenia, Boiss. 50
Michellinna. Boiss, 47
Muelleri, Boiss. 48
rtoides, Boiss. 50
ria, F. ell . 46
pop KI 53
s, Linn. 5
^ Page
emitir Linn. . 51
issima, Boiss. . 47
schiaolepis, “p, Mu.. 4T
Schultzii, Benth. . 47
serrulata, Reinw 51
rkoensis, aill. 50
Sparmanni, Boiss. 46
vaccaria, Baill. 48
Wheeleri, Baill 49
"zd e 41
455
rele Loud . 456
australasica, Loud. . 456
australis, Schult. . 456
Cunninghamii, Azt.. 456
sylvestris, Salisb. 456
Excæca $ 152
locha, nn. 152
chamelea, B + 459
Dallaehyana, Baill.. 153
parvifolia, M 153
Exocarpus 227
aphylla 230
cupressiformis, 2
stachys, Schicht. 230
glandulacea, Miq. . 229
— loclada, Moore
Muell. 230
humif sa, Br 31
humifusa, Hook. f. 231
latifolia, Br. . 28
à dri gf F.M. 230
niensis, Presl. . 228
miniata, Zipp . 228
nana, i Fo «W81
bes ; VS . 228
ovata, nitz . 228
ers ag B ' Muell. 29
“Spa . 929
spicata, po. . 999
ricta, Br. . . 28
202
©. "Moo e 211
dried Hook. 210
Gunnii, Hook. f. 210
Moorei, P. Muell. . 211
Fatou 2718
ro "Gaudich. . 182
Fieus . . 160
aculeata, Cuinn. . 175
aspera, Forst. 174
australis, Will 168
Beckleri, Miq. . 175
benjaminea, Linn. . 167
wacky LM. 107
earia, £F. Muell. 177
abbar Miq. . 165
-
australis, Nees .
Fronela . > >
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
eolossea, F. Muell. .
aris, C
eugeniol oides,
fasciculata, vj M well.
Fi
tgalami, Miq. .
eri, F. Muell. . 165
glochidioides, F. Mu 178
lo ta, id. . 118
en è 165
hispida a, Lin n. f. . 176
Huegelii, Kunth et
Bo
ouc ; 70
ecora, Miq. 175, 176
lachnocaula, Miq. . 169
nata, F. Muell. 168
Leichhardtii, Miq: . 170
leptoclada, Benth. 172 .
leucotricha, Miq. 167
macrophylla, Desf. . 170
magnifolia, F. M 171
micracantha, Miq. . 175
mollior, F. Muell. . 173
Muelleri, Mig. . 67
eglecta, Dene. . . 167
nesophila, Miq.’ 64
nitida, Thunb. . 166
visu cui Yd ;
oppos
aporis No, "wind.
philippinensis, m 1
pilosa, Reinw. . 164
platypoda, Cun 169
psychotriefolia, Miq 165
puberula, Cunn. 169
pumila, Linn. . - 171
retusa, Linn.. . . 166
rubiginosa, Desf: . 168
salicina, F. Muell. . 172
bina, Benth. . . 176
carpa, F. Muell. 174
stipulata, Thunb. . 172
stipulosa, Miq. 63
a 5 Mu. . 166
vesca, F. 1 ^
vitellina, d
rya
photiniphylla, Kunth 192
lug gea,
melanthesoides,F Mu. 115
Fr
188
234
URS
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES, 469
longifolia, F. Muell
Maxwelli, F, Muell. 40.
ag
Enosa, n. 238
attenuata, Cu . 288
australis, Br. . 238
australis, En . 238
calcarata, Cunn. . 238
canescens, Parlat. . 23
columellaris, F. Mu. 237
er alvis, Miq 37
Drummondii, Parlat. 236
Endlicheri, Parlat. . 238
fruticosa, Br . 23
fruticosa, Endl. . 238
uticosa, Cu . 297
glauca, Mirb. . 237
ielmi, Parlat. . 287
Gunnii, Endl. . 239
intratropica, F . 237
leayana, Parlat. 235
macrostachya, Gord. 239
ocarpa, C . 287
‘Moorei, Parlat. . . 237
eri, Parl . 257
Parlatorei, F. Muell. 235
opinqua, Cunn. . 237
yramidalis, Cunn. . 238
rhomboidea, 237
sta, Cunn. . 236
Roei, Endl, . 236
rdata, P. .. 236
triquetra, Spach . 238
tuber culata, Mirb. . 237
v is, is, C 39
E Mirb, > | 938
verrucosa, C . 287
Fusanus . . 215
curi inatus, Br.. - 215
crassifolius, Br... 17
diversifolius, Miq. . 216
icarius, F. Mu. . 216
spicatus, Br.. . 17
Galeola 306
cassythoides, Reti, bf. 307
foliata, F. Mi 307
nutans, Blume . 308
Gastrodi . 908
"uersus Br. . 309
E. Geroplesi i
E Bowers, ‘Br. < << 3, 0445
| fragilis, Jai . 4, 402
glabrata, F. oe . 407
juncea, F. Muell. . 405
. lanata, F. Mud iL 6
occidentalis, F. Mu.
P2
F.
e Mr Forst. .
3
OSS .
Page
403
ll. 405
Brunon: . 993
carga, Z s Lind i
. 892
polygonoides, F. Ma
viridiflora, Blume . 313
ia
australis, Lindl 294
a, Lin 15 20
Gymnanthes, Sw. a . 151
Gymnococe
rupacea, Fisch. et
à 074 n 23
Habenaria. . 39
arnhemica, F. Muell. 395
elongata, Br.. . . 9394
graminea, Lindl, . 394
ochroleuca, Br. 395
propinquior, Reichb. 395
trinervis, Wigh . 394
than » €95
m . 418
brevi , F. Muell. 419
bre — Benth, 420
coccineum. 4
dstichop am, Hk. 419
. 420
wert F. Mu. . . 423
laxum, Br. . . . 421
lep chyu 423
paniculatum, Lindl. 420
parviflorum, Benth. 423
planifolium, Br. 22
polycephalum, Endl. 421
simplex, Lindl. 421
simulans, F. Muell. 421
sparsiflorum, F. Mu. 420
spicatum, „ 420
strictum, Endl. . . 420
subvirens, F. Muell. "8
tenuifolium, 4. Cunn. 423
teretifolium, Br. . 422
enia
arctiflora, F. Muell. 266
cærulea, Br. . . . 266
Helmia
bulbifera, Kunth. . 462
< KT
akioa M. A 7. 118
lasiogyna, F. Muell. 118
i . et Arn. 117
opes var. F. Mu. 118
Tahona, DO. . 65
Heterolæna i
decussata, C. A. Mey. 11
Hendersoni, C. A.
ey. 10
hispida, C. å. Mey. 10
incana, C. A. Mey. 20
nivea, CO. A. Mey. . 20
rosea, C. A. M 10
ee Fisch et
Pe AE
icoides, Mu. Arg. 81
eesiana, Mu. 81
Hydrilla . . ;
alifolia, Rich. . . 260
verticillata, C. 259
HYDROOHARIDEE .
Hydrochar * 56
orsusrans, Linn. 256
Hylococcus
riceus, R. Br. . 92
Hynd . a «a 4 9
bella, Br.
hygrometrica, Labill. 449
rae Bent, E
nata, Br.
snide, Benth « in
prate
pusil
la, Hi kf 450
vaginata, P Schlecht. 450
areas F. Muell 187.
chem NU x I
T obinia Mu. 409
Jatropha
moluccana, Linn. . 129
Kelieria, Radi: . | |
470
Kirganelia, A. Juss. .
Laporte. . .
6-5 19
T v4
gigas, Wedd..
moroides, Wedd. . 192
photiniphylla, Wedd. 192
Vitiensis, Seem.. . 192
Lebediera
Cunninghamii, Mu.
ABE v3 1 He
edgeria
L
L
L
aphylla, F. Muell. , 307
foliata, us Muell. . 308
eichhar
de eph. . 236
pes sor pee 300
ozaania,
Perowskiana, Reg. . 958
Leptoc
fimbri Lind. . 379
sicura Lindl. 379
Menzies, Lind). . 379
oblonga, Lindl. . 79
pectinata, Lindl, . 379
ctinata, Endl. 374
sulphurea, Lindl. . 386
eri € 4 219
cerba, 225
acerba, Sieb . 229
acida, Br. . 224
aphylla, Br. 222
aphylla, A. DC 221
aphylla, Sieb. . . 219
axillaris, Br. . 224
Billardieri, Br. . . 222
Billardieri, Sieb. 219
Brownii, Miq 228
chrysad g
rysadena, Mig. .
Cunninghamii, Mig.
Feet spem Miq.
coides,
: glomerata; F Arad. n
hirtella,
laxa, ein ; pow
Lehmanni, Miq. 22
obovata, Mig. . 224
odorata, Mig. . . 228
pauciflora, Br. . 22
Preissiana, 4. DO. . 221
pungens, F. Muell, . 223
scrobiculata, Br. . 221
aera A. p^ . 220
rrulosa 223
veri dich. 84
Lep
melanthesoides, F.
Mie. |. . . 115
th. 37
Page |
93 | Libertia
Page
21412
graminea, " Endl. 411
Laurencii, Hook. £ 414
laxa, Endl. CXTH
micrantha Can . 414
panienlata, pw eng. ac
ec Spreng. .
stri ^ Al
Lipari 72
oaslogynoidee, “F. M. 273
Pk rar ris, F. Mu. 273
habenarina, F. voee 218
yari bea 272
gran dijelim: Mul
Teu 89
373
|: umb F. * Muell. ^
asera Br.
ricans, Br. . $4
HdLs ` 886
suaveolens, Br, . 986
acaranga r ew
asterolasia
Dalla, T aut m
in F. Muell.
oen Baill. . Me
pr Wir, Mu.
143, 146
us, Mu. Arg. 146
APELA Benth. . 145
Macdon
antennifera euh 322
concolor, Lin . 922
aned, Ti * 323
Smithiana, Gunn. . 322
spiralis, Lindl. . 923
variegata, Lindl 323
venosa, Lindl. 323
aclura
esas Mid 179
M iper
im. ii ; 204
Maeropodia . . 44
fumosa, mm, 447
Macrostegia
erubescens, Turez. . 15
Macrozamia . . . . 250
corallipes, Hook. f. . 252
cylindrica, Hort. . 252
enisont, F. Muell. 253
raseri Mey. . . 252
Macdonelli, F. Mu. 253
Mackenzii, Hort
Macleayi, Hort.
Miquelii, F. Muell. 25
Oldfieldii, Mig. . . 252
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
rutetorum, Schlect. 3
Paulo-Gulielmi, P. M. 51
Perowskiana Mig . 258
Preissii, 252
spiralis, 251
tenuifolia, Hort 251
Malaisia . 180
acuminata, Planch. 181
Cunningham, P Mens 181
scandens, Pla . 181
redii. Blanc . 180
viridescens, Planch. . 181
Malaxis
td Reichb. . 274
palmicola, F. Mu ell. 275
aisle’ " Labill. . 938
Mallotus 138
angustifolius, Benth. 141
chin Lou . 140
dassylides M. Ar. 140
Dalachyi, F. Muell. 145
discolor, F. Muell. 143
inamenus, F. Mu. 146
esophil . Mu. 143
paniculatus, M. Ar. 140
philippinensis, M. A. 141
polyadenus, F. Mu. 142
yen ys, F. Mu. 140
Hen Mu. Arg. 142
ricinoides, Mu. Arg. 159
Zippelii, F, Muell. 140
tà anaria, Spreng. . 146
Melanthesa
cernua, Den . 113
D akana- Ar. 113
emorialís
lythroides, F. Muell. 187
quinquenervis, 187
Mercurialis
MUS. — . 180
australis, . 130
tenerifolia, E . 130
Micrantheum . . . 97
boroniaceum, F. Mu. 57
ericoides, Desf. . . 51
hexandrum, Hook. f. 57
triandrum, Hook. . 104
Microcachrys . . 240
tetragona, Hook. 5. . 241
Mure» A. Juss. 151
. 946
A. 5 . C
arenaria, Lindl. . 347
atrata, Lindl. . . 349
nksii, Cunn. . . 847
Benthamiana, Reichb.348
, Reichb.
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 471
Page Page e
media, Br. . . . 848 | Omalan thus "s a, Br. ES
minutiflora, F. Mu. 349| populifolius, Grah. . 150 svt Endl. . 408
rviflora, Dro LB stillingiafoliua, F F. M. 151 nuispatha, En dl. . 403
porrifolia, Spreng. . 847 Mete . 225 dares gcn < « 408
pulchella, Br. . . 849 25 umbrosa, . 404
i pulchella, Lindl. . 347 pailétoldes A. DO. . 225 xanthins, T wen. 404
: rara, Br. . 947 | Onourpggm . . . . 267 | Peperomia .
aun ifolia, Reichb, . 947 | Orthoceras'. . . . 882 Baueriana, Cas. DC. 206
viridis, F. Muell. . 347 Solandri, Lindl. . 332 leptostachya, Hook.
Boxooor umes Fees 359 trictum, B (x Con et Arn. . «(71 206
: 3 | Orthrosanthus . . . 410 reflexa, Dietr. . . 206
rsen eata, , Nee gramineus, Benth. . 411 | Petalostigma . . .
cuneifolia, Klotesch laxus, Benth, |. . 411 australianum, Baill.
oi ^ Muelleri, Benth. 411 quadriloculare, F. M. 92
gracilis, Baill multiflorus, Sweet riloculare, 9
grandiflora, Endl. . lystachyus, Benth. 411 | Petermannia. . . . 462
linifolia, Brongn. . Ottelin hen ees 5. A56 beige F. Muell. . 462
lurid: ) | alismoides, Pers. . 257 ;
macrophylla, Benth ovalifolia, Rich 267 au T F. Muell ; 305
megacarpa, ) , Benth. + 25 Bernaysii, Row!
Neesiana, Baill Carroni, F Muell . 305
occidentalis, 79| P. grandifolius, Zour. . 30
Oldieldii, Baill. . € amboinense, Linn. . 456 | — leucophaus, F. Maell. 305
ntheroides, F. M. $ australasicum, Ker. 456 | Phaleria . . . . . 8
eos Enak 5$ 70 relaria o. PSS Blumei, Bent 38
. 40 debilis, Forst. . . 188 elerodendron, F. Mu. 38
ra, Vah 4 oppositifolia, F. Mu. 187 laurifolia, Dene . 38
edis F. Mu. 409 squalida, Hook. f. . 188 ht ay F. Muell. 38
asserin 45
7 Pa
l i noniana, Endl. l| involucrata, Thunb. 18 Heri, Arch, . 245
4
18 $
calcar-galli, Cunn. . 179 | Patersonia . . . . 400 emen C i
pendulina, Bauer . 181 babianoides, Benth. . 408 . 424
E. DUI SSQMI bicolor, F. Muell. . 403 flifoia,. F Muell. . 425
Banksii, F. Muell. . 261 compar, Endl. . . 403| levis, 25
Diesingii, Endl.. . 403 pilosizsima, F. Muell. 425
Drummondii, F. Mu. 407 | Pholid i
poeni aad ;Dietr, 418 flaccida, Endl. . . 403 “acre Lindl. . 290
pulchellum, - Dite. Bn labrata, Br.. 7 hreati i o d 9
Neva 6 glabrata, Edw. . ) limenophylax, Reich. 290
Banksii, Pon th. lauca, Br ‘ )2 | Phyllanthus. . . 3
graminea, Benth. Adami, Muell. Arg. 97
(4117
buxifolia, Mu. Årg. 116 inæqualis, Benth.
Neot . 408 albiflorus, F. Muell. 100
_g14{ Junees Lindl $ rpm T A us
2 na . 40 rmstrongii, Bent
pos Blume . : do imbata, Endl. . . 404| aus ook. f. . 108
- Nepe PAM B c baecatus, F. Muell a
: ongiscapa, Sweet . "anm s s
y Eemelyi F. po T macrant Ue Bes Beckleri, Muell. Arg. 111
stylidioi des, F. Muell. 396 Maxwelli, F. Muell. ) bossimoides, Cunn. . 98
E yeso media, B. Ey 7 achypodus, F. Mu. 103
; montana, Endl. . . j calycinus, Labill. . 1
’ pone: pee 1 nana, Endl. : rpentaria, M. Arg. 107
a, F. Mu. 290 occidentalis, Br. . conterininus, M. A 11
iii pue. . 274 | pannosa, Endl. it
icola, F. Muell. 274 pygmæa, Lindi. .
Roei, Endl. s
"9
Bac ous, Hil . 238 rudis, Endl. .
br bai F. Mu, 235| sapphirina; Lindl.
en #8
ee ee uut
He oo
$e
m. »
pi
e
e»
rd
>
472
elachophyllus, F. M. TOL
i ibe rdinandi, Mu. Arg. 9
aulis, Benth. — . 111
Nove-
ochrophy lus, Benth. 99
s, A. DC. 105
r, Ki. 9
si Muel. Arg. IN
ill
PRU UR ae "Arg. 98
atus,
suberenul, F. M. 104
ides, th. .. 98
thymoides, Sieb. 109
gyne, th. . 103
trachyspermus, F. M. 108
triandrus, Mu 104
à ube "w8, 101
Uri 102
Phylloclad 45
asplenifolius “Hk. f. 246
eri, Mirb.
. 246
chombelialil Rich. 246
Pimelea
argentea,
axillora, F. a uell. , 26
Behrii, ag o T
owmann
brachyphylla, "Benth.
brevifolia, Br. >
ire Meissn. .
A. Cunn.
cert r per
clavata, L
cluy otis Msi
Br.
congesta, unn.
tnucopite, Vahl.
c ?
decu, , Br.
dichotoma, Schlecht.
dios aa,
elata, F. Mu K
gams, Moore
Eyrei, F. Muell. .
ferruginea, Labil
ill.
filamentosa, Rudge .
filiformis, Hook. f. .
fav BH oa s
enge. Meissn. .
glauca,
iraciliora, Hook.
gra
grandira, Don
Hoy FP. Muell.
humilis, Br. . .
humilis, Lindl. . .
hypericina, A. qus
Lacan È Br. .
apte en Lindi. :
involucrata, Banks
lanata, Br. . x
lanata, Hensl. 4
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INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
Pa z
Lehmanniana, M eiss
leptospermoides, FM. 27
leptostachya, Benth. m
SEMEN. Labill.
Lindleyana, "ed 17, i
linifolia. Sm. if
linoides, Cunn 18
longiflora, 34
longifolia, Banks 7
cephala, Hook. 15
marginata, Meissn.. 16
Maxwelli, F. Mue 12
Menkeana, Lehm. 5
icrantha, F. Muell. 32
microcephala, Br. 27
rocephala, Meiss. 21
Milligani, Meissn.
Mitchelli, Meissn 17
esta, Meissn. . 12
Muelleri, oe E
myriantha, 2
myrtifolia, Schlecht ]
d, Grah. . x
d nd ]
ceca Hort. i
nivea, Labil void
mutans, Meissn BEEN
ylla, Br. : :
ovalifolia, Meissn. .
parvi ifolia, Meissn. . ;
D ei
pet
tell i^ Fuh
phylicoid
We Q2 — t5 00 b2 b2 1 Co Q1 O9 m Sor
pem f. Mull. 28
rigida, M ds
rosea, Peng A Pow
uin 7
6
7. vel.
Schlechtendahliana,
Meissn. . $
j 1
PIRE 19
chya, F. Mu. 24
serpyllifolia, Br. 29
tleworthiana,
eissn.. . . 95
simplex, F. Mue 23
spathulata: Lani.» 27
spectabilis, Lindl. . 9
xui . 4
spiculigera,
E
j
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
stricta, M eissn
ei Ssn.
vi a, Lin
viminea, Schlecht. .
iper .
m, Cunn.
Novæ- > ola
subpeltatu am, "Willd.
esed F. Muel.
EX $
pallida, Wight .
odocarpus . . .
Dulhan F. Mu.
holochila, F.
australasicum, Cas.
exaure ;
limenophylax, Endl.
odanthera
alpina, Br. . E
asplenifolia, Labill.
iana, F. Mu. 2
paramattense, Cas. `
55
Page
ericifolia, he 55456
ericoides, KU. 35
glauca, Kl 55
Huegelii, K? 55
linarioides, Sieb 56
microphylla, Brong. 56
piceoides, Kl. . 5
tomorphe
subpeltata, Miq . 204
greens . 186
rnhemica, EF. "Muell. 186
dios. Gaudich. . 186
lythroides, F. Muell. 187
quinquenervis, Benn. 187
Prasophyll š 3
afine, Lindl... 340
alpinum, Br. . 340
rcherii, -€—À 345
"adi ^ r
austr:
Waehrradbyun Ind. s
bre, Hoo 338
wnat Reichb. - 38
cucullatum, 343
eyphochilum, Benth. 340
Depe, ook. f. 345
Drummondii, "Reich. 338
elatum, Br. . . 98
Fimbria, Reichb. . 341
fimbriatum, Br 8345
avum, Br eee
fuseum, Br . 839
gibbosum, . 94
giganteum, Lindl. . 338
giganteum, Endl.. . 342
gracile, Lindl 341
hians, Reich 338
intricatum, C. Stuart 346
lutescens, Lindl. 337
macrostachyum, Br. 341
acrotis, Lindl. . . 348
igricans, Br. . . 843
migricans, Endl. 341
nudiscapum, Hook. f. 345
nudum, Hook. f. 344
ovale, Lindl. . 841
ee Lindl. 349
s, Br. 339
amm end Lindl. . 340
fum, Br. . 944
striatum, Br. . « B42
neatum, Lindl. . 339
Woollsii, F. Muell. . 346
Pseudanthus
chryseus, Muell il, årg. 62
divarieatiss
en du 60
micranthus, Benth. 59
478
nematophorus, T die. ri
nitidus, Muel. Arg.. 61
me
yandrus, F. Muel, -62
matan M 60
Pseudomoru « P381
Brunoniana, Bur. 181
Pterostylis cs 52
acuminata, Br. . . 355
acuminata, Sieb 355
a, Reichb . 9859
aphylla, Lindl. . . 361
barbata, Endl, . . 357
"n ^ idi
cone Fc. 800
evolat -. ASST.
55
eurta, Bi i Md
"sir fei F. Muel. 360
i oy MUR
` dubia, Br 58
dubia, Ho 358
furcata, Lindl. . 958
gibbosa, Br. 363
grandiflora, Br. . . 358
engifelis Br vos 904
itchelli, Lindl. |. 364
mutica, Br. . 962
ana, Br. .' . . 357
nutans, Br. . . . 956
obtusa, Br. . 360
ophioglossa, Br 354
parviflora, "o 361
pedunculata, . 356
præcocissima, F. Mu. 365
præcox, Li . 859
prrstcdalis Lindl. 357
pyramidalis, Endl. . 359
recurva, e e
reflexa, Br 359
revoluta, Br. . . . 959
fa, Br. 363
scabra, Lindl . 959
scabrida, Lindl. 858
squamat 61
squamata, Lindl.” . 362
tu 362
vittata, Lindl. . . 864
Ramphidia n : 2912
tenuis, Lindl. é < 912
Reidia, Wight . . 93
Renealmia |
— Br. 413
pulchella, B Ei Cv i
Ricinocarpus
Bowmanni, F. Muell. e
474
anescens, Muell. ii. 20
aucus, Endl. 1
ledifolius, F. Muell. 72
jor, Muell. Avg. . 72
rinili Des.
psilocladus, Ben 71
rosmuarinioling T uk. 12
ber 2
hey aepo M uell.
Ar
tuberculatus, Muell.
undulatus, Lehm. . 71
. 146
pera
buxifolia, F. Muell. 117
eria
pinifolia, Spreng. , 70
Rottlera
discolor, F. Muell. . 143
tinctoria, Roxb. . . 141
gona . 298
calca ag F. Mu, 296
Hii, ^H. Muell. 298
Macphersonii, F Mu, d
SANTALACE "
Santalum . "T
acuminatum, A.DC, 2
angustifolium, A.DC. 216
cognatum, Miq.. . 2
folium, A.DC, 217
c m, Mig.. . 217
diversifolium, A. DC. 216
lanceolatum, Br. 214
gatum, 214
obtusifolium, Br 215
ovatum, Br.. 21
ica jE 216
issianum, Miq. . 21
spicatum, A.DC. . 217
venosum, Br. . . 21
Sarcochilus . . 1
australis, Reichb, . 29
aileyi, E. M 291
Barklyanus, F. Mu. 29
ca Tara Y Muell, 296
Ceciliæ, F. M . 294
vete dn F. s 294
divitiflorus, F. Muell. 292
SESH
Rodari
Sisp dex coe
ber
yt.
falca
Figo Mul. M
Gun
. 294
llii ire 1:59. 290
olivaceus, Lindl, 93
viflorus, Lindl. . 29
pictus, E :
phyllorhizus, F. Mu.
tridentatus, he ch. f. 200
Schweegric
vida, i. 44
fa, Spreng. 43
SerrAMINEA . y
Dastianis
. 412
paniculatum, Br. . 413
pulchellum, Br. . : 414
igma
Solenosti
brevinerve, Blume . 156
obi Endl. =
Spathoglott:
Y oie F. Muell..
“lint, pu e 5.908
. 313
ats Lindl, . 914
onia
amboinensis, Planch. 159
vor M58
a . Planch.
ilicifolia, 8. Ku 0
orientalis, Planch. . 159
velutina, Planc 159
rgata, Planch. . 158
viridis, Planch 158
Stachystemon . . .
brachyphyllus, Muell.
po olyandrus, Benth. 62
vermicularis, Pla meh. 62
Stratiotes
alismoides, Linn. . 257
Streblus
Brunoniana,
.Mu. 181
Pc. F. Muell. 181
Sturm
ice, F.Mu. 273
cuneilabris, F. Muell. 273
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES.
Page
habenaria, F. ae 274
. Mue D
maculata, Seem. . 459
ACCAC
Nast ot rtu i
Muelleri, Lindl. . . 291
Tapeinocheilos . 67
ung es ec oe
aotrophis
rectinervis, F. Muell. 160
cus
spinulosa, Sm. . . 247
alamia
asplenifolia, Spreng. 246
ecanthes
. 316
angustifolia Pr. 320
angustifolia, Hook.f, 319
antennifera, Hook, f. 322
arenaria, Lindl.. . 320
aristata, Lindl. . . [em
Benthamiana, Reich.
campanulata, Endl. 319
campanulata, tty
ee M
carne: e
cornicina, "Reichb. . 918
is Li a . 919
cyanea, Li» 23
ipud, "y Mu. 318
a, Enr i.i teens
320
1
For We Mr
oie Br. 20.498
graminea, Lindl.
i e
randi
tridioides, Sieb 3 8
ixioides, Sw. . 7
juncifolia, Lindl, . 318
lilacina, F. Muell. . 318
longifolia, Forst.
ere oer F. Mu. 323
32
crophylla, can 319
caes, Br... 8
nuda, Br. .«-» . 820
ovata, F. Muell. . 31
pardalina, F. Muell. 320
pauciflora,
di. 318
IB
921
INDEX OF GENERA AND SPECIES. 475
Page Page
porphyrosticta, F. M. viridis, Bl... . . 158| vitellinum, Miq.. . 169
Smit ühiana, Hook. f, n Tribonanthes . . . 426 | Urtica . 190
stellata, australis, Endl 427 argentea, Fe Forst. . 185
tigrina, Br 3 brachypetala, . 426 dio . 190, 19
variegata, Lindl 323 ndleyana, Endl. . 428 pe. ‘alias. 192
v j 2 longipetala, Zé 7 incisa, Poir.
ve ook. f. . 323 ora, Endl. . . . 426 involucrata, b. . 146
versicolor, Lindl. 320 uniflora, Lindl. . 427 ppl ds n tem t. 190
villosa, Lindl. . . 320 variabilis, Lindl. . 427 8, Cun 92
Hum. . s c MM violacea, Endl . . 427 Pisin Duos. 192
australe, Br.. . . 212 usilla, 189
chinense, Turez.. . 213 | Udora pois i P. Muell 189
decurrens, Bl. . . 213| australis, F. Muell. 260 urens, Linn. . ee,
drupacewm, Labill. . 222 | Urera UnTIGEA x sue LH
hricspermum excelsa, Wedd. . . 192
australe, Reichb. . 294 rotundifolia, Wedd. 192 praean SUE S DS
Cecilie, Reichb. . . 295 | Urostigma na, Br. . . 959
dilatatum, Reichb. . 294 Sewabtutn, Miq. 167 poo n Roxb. | 258
falcatum, Reichb. . 293 | — brachypodum, Mia, zu ave MN Linn. 2 4 269
Hillii, Reichb. . . 295 Cunninghamii, Miq. 165 | Vanda rr
oliva , Rei 9 eugen 1d. . 107 Hindsii, , Lindl. E
phyllorhizum,Reichb. 295 Fraseri, ia. At IB suavis, T. Muell. . 297
Parviflorum, Reichb. 294| — Huegelii,Miq. . . 170 tricolor, Lindl. . . 297
pictum, Reichb. . . 294 lachnocaulon, Miq.. 169
^ Leichhardtii, Miq. . 170 ilesi
3 mdo Poir. . . 238 | leucotrichum, Miq. . us s rem p e
* al pee ne macrophylium, Miq. 170
i epit Muelleri, Miq. . . 167 tlie fola M Ax pa
Biülardieri,Kl. . . 185 nesophilum, Miq. . 165 wtida, A. Gray. . 37
a ber 134 | nitidum, Mig. . . 166| ‘indica, C. A. Mey.
Hookerii, F. Muell. 135 | ovoideum, Mig. . . 100 | Shuttleworthiana,
Klotzsch, F Muell. 135 vw er vol ea Him. 1 5 UI
pisiferum, Miq.. . ; iridiflora, Meissn. .
Nove Hollandia Mu. rl ete P T . 169 Wer Mc T
‘ 138 | psychotricefo iens RE
chamelea, Linn. . ` 162 Mia je]. Came a =
rema . 167 ibirefun, Miq. . 169
amboinensis, BL. . 159 remi Mi . .4190 Xylophylia :
aspera, Bl. . 158| rubiginosum, Gasp. 168 | obovata, Willd. . . 115
orientalis, Bl. . . 158| squamellosum, Miq.. 170
virgata, Bl. . . . 158| stipulosum, Miq. . 163 | Zamia
Velutina, Bl. . . 159 subglaucinum, ‘Mig. 163 spiralis, Br. . 251, 252
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