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feminei solitarie interstent, formati, breviuscule pedunculati. 
Pedicelli 2" longi vel breviores; fructigerentes ad 3" longi. 
Calyees vix 1" longi, extus glabri; lobis sstivatione valvatis, 
ovato-lanceolatis. Petala calycem vix superantia. Stigmata cir- 
citer lineam longa, eruribus tenuibus. Capsule circa 3" alte. 
Semina p:ne sesquilineam longa, nitenti-fusca, cinereo-variegata. 
Embryo in albumine amygdalino longitudinaliter situs eodemque 
paulo brevior. Radicula tenui-coniea, cotyledonibus planis ovato- 
orbicularibus subzquilonga v. paulo brevior. 
Species forsan in regionibus orientalibus terre Gippss Land 
reperienda erit. 
Croton acronychoides. 
Arboreus, ramulis primum furfuraceo-lepidotis, foliis ovatis ob- 
tusis coriaceis glabris lenissime crenulatis v. serrulatis, racemis 
spiciformibus androgynis passim paniculatis, foribus masculis 
plerisque pentandris fundo dense lanuginosis, petalis eiliato-bar- 
batis, stigmatum cruribus crassis bifidis, capsulis furfuraceo-lepi- 
dotis, seminibus lzvibus. 
In silvis ad flumen Fitzroy River prope urbem Rockhampton, 
Thozet; juxta sinum Broad Sound, Bowman. 
Cortex albidus. Folia tenui-coriacea, 2—43" longa, 1—2" lata, 
reticulari-venosa, supra nitentia, subtus pallidius viridia, basi 
glandulis 2 scutellaribus sessilibus predita.  Petioli 3-3" longi, 
fuscescenti-lepidoti. Racemi axillares et terminales, floribus nu- 
merosis masculis et basin versus paucis foemineis inter illos positis. 
Calyces et petala magnitudine et forma illis C. stigmatosi similia; 
illorum segmenta ciliata, cetero glabra. Stigmata vix 1" longa. 
Capsule circiter 4" longz, subglobose. Semina fusca, nitentia, 
rotundo-ovata, leviter compressa. . 
C. oblongifolio (Roxb. Fl. Indic. 685) approximandus. 
Claoxylon Australe. 
Baillon, Étude des Euphorbiacces, 493. 
Arboreum, foliis alternis conspicue v. longe petiolatis lanceolatis 
v. ovato-lanceolatis v. late ovatis serrulato- v. erenulato-denticu- 
latis v. grossiuscule serratis obtusis v. acutiuseulis v. brevi-acumi- 
natis glabris raro pubescentibus basi inordinate v. indistincte 
pauci- v. pluriglandulosis, racemis masculis spiciformibus, caly- 
eibus utriusque sexus tridivisis, capsulis trigastribus levibus, 
seminibus subglobosis foveolato- et reticulato-rugulosis fere asperis. 
In silvis Australie orientalis subtropicsz et extratropiez usque 
ad gradum 37 latitudinis australis; e. g. Wide Bay, L. Leichhardt ; 
Rockhampton, A. 'Thozet ; Moreton Bay, F. M. ; Clarence River, 
C. Moore; Hastings et McLeay River, H. Beckler; New England, 
