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163. Stackhonsi^ pulvimr IS, F. MuelL; depressed, with numerous 

 intricate rooting branches, perfectly smootli ; leaves somewhat fleshy, 

 oblong or spathulate-linear, nearly blunt ; flowers solitary on the sura- 

 rait of very short branchlets ; bracteoles twin, as long or longer than 

 the pedicel • flowers yellow ; three of the stamens longer than the two 



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others ; anthers glabrous ; style deeply bi- or trifid. 



Hab. On the highest summits of the Australian Alps, where, satu- 

 rated with moisture, the widely expanded tufts, decorated with fra- 

 grant, starry flowers, form a beautiful carpet ; 5000-7000 feet. 



As a species it connects the Tasmanian S.Jlava with S. minima, from 

 New Zealand. 



XLVL EuPHORBiACE.*:. 



Klotzschii, F. Muell. ; leav 



repand, above smooth or imperfectly puberulous, beneath grey-veluti- 

 nous, at the base of the petiole on both sides furnished with one or two 

 small, stipitate glands ; female flowers apetalous ; sepals ovate, subacu- 

 minate ; styles free, hardly bifid to the middle ; capsules verruculosc, 

 ovate-globose, slightly impressed at the sutures; seeds grey, ovate. 



shining. 



Hab. On sand-hills near Corner Inlet, and in various localities in 



South Australia. 



165. Trachycaryon Cunninghamii, F. Muell.; leaves alternate, in cir- 

 cumference lanceolate-ovate or heartshaped, short or deep trifid, smooth 

 or below tomentose, irregularly and coarsely serrate, at the base trun- 

 cate or rounded, with acute lobes and teeth, on the base of the petiole 

 furnished on both sides with one or two large stipitate glands ; female 

 flowers apetalous ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate ; styles free, deeply 

 bifid ; capsules subglobose, not furrowed at the sutures ; seeds spotted. 



Var. a, tovientosum ; leaves short-stalked, below as well as the twigs 

 and capsules tomentose ; bracts and sepals ciliate. 



Var. p, glahnm ; leaves long-stalked, as weU as the capsules, sepals, 



and bracts, smooth. 



Hab. Between granite rocks and on the sandy banks of the Snowy 



River, 



ifolia 



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