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Char, cognit. add. Floris masculi calyx imbricatus corolla paulo bre- 

 vior. Petala basi angustala ciliata; margine membranaceo. Glandulie 

 alternipetalse 5 sessiles; apice elliptico concaviusculo. Stamina recep- 

 taculo parce piloso inserta sœpe 5, sœpius 6. Floris fœrainei calyx 5 v, 

 rarius 6-parlitus; laciniisS interioribus alternis. Discus hypogynus bre- 

 vissimus obsolète ante sepala 5, 6-crenatus. Germen obscure 3-gonum 

 dense stellato-pubescens; slylis semel v. bis bifidis. Flores in speci- 

 minibus nonnuUis extus subglabri. Folia slipulacea; slipulis brevissimis 

 (2, 3 mill.) aculis caducissimis; limbo basi 2-glanduloso; glandulis 

 sessilibus ellipticis vix conspicuis. 



Exs. Thozet, w, 3i, « in sylvis ad flumen Fitzroy river prope urbem 

 Rockhampton.» — Boivman, « Queensland, juxta sinum Broad sound.» 

 Dallachi/,n. 17 (1862), Rockhampton ; n. 116, 119, 123, 132, 135, 156, 

 180,188 (1863), a French men creek»; n. 170, « Fitzroy river, Mount 

 Archer creek» (herb. F. Muell.l). 



II. CROTON STIGMATOSUS F. MuelL, Fragm., IV, l/iO 

 (I86/1). — M . arg., in Linnœa (1865), 107. 



Exs. LoÀchhardt, Moreton bay (herb. Mus. et F. Muell.l).— Beckler, 

 (( Richmond river»; Clarence river, n. 12. — Boivman, n. l/i9, Queens- 

 land, « ad sinum Broad sound. » — Dallachy, n. 235, Fitzroy river; 

 n. 52, mount Mueller; « near Edgecombe bay. » (herb. F. Muell.l] 



Obs. FoUa nonnihil quoad formam et magnitudinem variabilia, hino 

 oblongo-lanceolata ; nervis primariis vix conspicuis nec ramosis; inte- 

 gerrima v. parce crenata ; inde (j3, ewybioides) multo iatiora ovato-lan- 

 ceolata (15 cent, longa, U, 5 cent, iata), basi rotundata, versus apicem 

 aculiusculum longe acuminata ; nervis primariis remote suboppositis 

 valde subtus prominulis subfuscescentibus ; venis transverse reliculatis. 



5. CROTON INSULARE H. Bn, in Adansonia, II, 217. 



C. PHEBALioiDES A. Cunu. mss., in herb. Kew ! 



Exs. LeichharcU Moreton bay (herb. Mus.). — Woolls, Brisbane river 

 herb. Kew.). — Moore, Sydney, n. 35, N. S. Wales. — Bowman, 

 Queensland. — Dallachy, Rockhampton (herb. F. Muell.l). 



6. CROTON PHEBALIOIDES F. UuelL, Fragm., IV, /il 

 (nec Cunn.).—M. arg.^ in Flora (186/i), /i85. 



Rami teretes angulative sicut et petioli, folia, pedicelli et calyces 



