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166. Trachycaryon HooJcerii^ F. Muell. ; leaves alternate, long-petio- 

 late, lanceolate-oblong, gradually narrowed into the base, acute or ob- 

 tuse, smooth or grey-velutinous, irregularly creuate-toothed or bluntly 

 lobed, at the base of the petiole on both sides beset with a small gland ; 

 female flowers apetalous ; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute ; styles at the 

 base connate, deeply bifid ; capsule trigastrous, glabrescent. 



Var. a, velutinum; leaves above thinly, below, together with twigs 

 and flowers, thicker velutinous. 



Var. ^, glabriusculum ; leaves on both sides smooth, twigs and flowers 

 glabrescent. 



Hab. On sand-ridges along the Murray, towards the junction of the 

 Darling and the Murrumbidgee. 



167. Beyeria oj9flm, F. Muell. ; smooth; twigs compressed, yellow- 

 ish-green ; leaves narrowly or linear-oblong, rounded-blunt, gradually 

 narrowed into the base, hardly viscous or shining, with flat or slightly 

 recurved margins, above light, beneath pale green ; pedicels of subequal 

 length with the calyx ; capsules ovate-globose, hardly furrowed at the 

 sutures ; seeds shining, variegated, with a thick caruncula. 



Hab. In the Mallee Scrub, between Lake Lalbert, Lake Tyrrell, and 

 the Murray Eiver, 



168. Phyllanthus tracJiyspermus, F. Muell. ; annual, smooth, glau- 

 cous ; stem upright, branched ; branches angular ; leaves imbricate, 

 deciduous, oblong, obtuse, on very short petioles ; pedicels solitary, 

 very short ; sepals lanceolate-acute, much shorter than the capsule, 

 with broad, membranaceous margins ; stigmata very small ; capsula 

 subglobose, smooth, drawn out into an umbonate apex ; seeds large, 

 livid, acute, triangular, at the internal angle deeply excavate, on the 

 sides and back rugosely asperate. 



Hab, On places subject to inundations at the junction of the rivers 



arling and Murray. 



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of 



Walter 



Consul at Massowah, Abyssinia, did iw the favour to send us seeds, 



