Bradleia. monoecia monadelphia. QQld 



petioled, oblong-, entire, unibellels solitary, sessile above the 

 axills. Germ round, and crowned with a large, roundish, 

 six-lobed slignia. Capsule depressed, both sides umbilicate, 

 six-celled. 



Agyneja pubera. Linn. 3Imit. 296. Willd. iv. 569. 



A native of the Moluccas. The male and female flowers 

 are mixed in the same umbellets and supported on pedicells 

 twice or thrice their length. 



5. B. hirsuta. R. 



Shrubby, all the tender parts very hairy. Leaves oblique- 

 ly cordate-oblong-, obtuse. Peduncle axillary, short, many- 

 flowered. Capsules six-seeded. 



A native of Prince of Wales' Island. 



6. B. nitida. R. 



Sub-arboreous. Leaves sessile, ovate-oblong-, acute, shin- 

 ing-, smooth. Umbellets above the axills. Capsules globu- 

 lar, five-celled. 



Teling, Yeati-palla. 



A small tree or large shrub, a native of the moist vallies 

 amonast the Circar mountains. It flowers during- the cold 

 season. 



Trunk erect with a large shady head. Bark scabrous, 

 dark-coloured, astringent. Branches sub-erect. Branchlets 

 bifarious, smooth. Leaves short-petioled, bifarious, ovate, 

 oblong, acute, entire, smooth, of a shining- deep green ; from 

 four to eight inches long. Stipules small, acute. Umbellets 

 very short-peduncled, far above the axills, bearing- many 

 male and female flowers mixed, but always a very large pro- 

 portion of female ones. Male flowers pedicelled. Ca- 

 lyx; leaflets six, three of them standing within the other 

 three, and alternate with them. Carol none. Anthers linear, 

 from five to six pair, aflixed to the middle of the short, gib- 

 bous, five or six-toothed column. Female flowers more 

 numeious, pedicelled. Calyx as in the male. Style none, 



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