Ealoragis!] XLV. halorage.^. • 483 



1 line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules (according to E. Brown's notes) 

 4. Fruit small, hut not seen ripe. 



Queensland. Broad Sound, i2. Brown (Ilerh. R, Br) The inflorescence is that of 

 «. serra^ but the foliage is different and the pistil 4-merous. 



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29. H. heterophylla, Brongn. in Daperr. Foy. t. 68 A. A rather 



sleufler species, usually small, but sometimes 1 ft. high, glabrous or minutely 

 scabrous, with erect or ascending stems. Stem-leaves all or mostly opposite, 

 ueeply divided above the middle into 3, 5 or 7 linear or rarely lanceolate 

 acute lobes almost digitate ; a few of the upper ones often alternate linear 

 entue or nearly so, the floral ones smaller, the uppermost reduced to small 

 bracts. Flowers like those of //. tetragyna^ small, solitary, or 2 together 

 Within each bract, in slender terminal leaty racemes. Calyx scabrous, with 

 snort lobes. Petals 4, in the males oblong, boat-shaped, about 1 line long, 

 present also in some of the females, but shorter and hood-shaped. Styles 

 and ovules 4. Fruit small, globular or nearly so, tubercular-rugose. 



Queensland. Keppel Bay, U, Browti ; Biudekin river, JT, Mueller; Moreton Bay, 

 ^* Stuart; V^^Yvf'xck^Beckler. 



_ N. S. "Wales. Port Jackson, R, Brown and others; JTew Englaud, C. Stuart ; Arne 

 fiver, Beclcler, also in Leichhardfs collection. 



Victoria. Portland, Allitt ; Snowy River, F. Mueller (rather doubtful). 



5. Australia. Barossa range, Behr, 



Var. (?)Jiliformis, More slender, with narrower leaf-lobes. — JS.filiformis, A. Gray, Bot. 

 ^^er. Expl. Exped. i. C28.— Hunter's Eiver, American Exploring Expedition, I have not 

 ^en these specimens, but some of our N. S. Wales ones agree well with the description, 

 l^enerally speaking, this species is readily distinguished from H. ceratophj/Ila by its slender 

 ™it, opposite stem-leaves only divided above the middle, and by the small flowers of 

 ^. tetragyna ; but some specimens, mostly in an imperfect state, appear almost to connect 

 "le two. 



30, H 



1. 627. Tall 



marffin 



|he leaves. Stem-leaves* opposite, deeply divided from nearly the base into 

 J^ear lobes not broader than the rhachis, the larger leaves \\ to 2 in. long, 

 Y lobes i to I in, or even nearly 1 in. long; the floral leaves alternate, 

 ^^'lear, the up])er ones entire and 'small. Flowers of H. cerafopJiyUa, but 

 ^ther larger, solitary within each bract or floral leaf, forming terminal leafy 

 *^cemes. Fruit only seen young. 



j^- S. Wales. Hunter*s River, American Exploring Expedition ; near Cassilis, C. 

 2^ore^ a single specimen in Herb. F. Mueller, agreeing weU with the description given by 

 ■ Gray, whose specimens I have not seen. 



, 31. H. acanthocarpa, Brongn, in Duperr. Voy, L 70. Stems decum- 

 bent or erect, 1 to 2 ft. long, scabrous -hirsute as well as the leaves. Stem- 

 ^^^^es opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, oblong or broadly lanceolate, 

 ^^% i to IJ in. long, regularly and acutely serrate as in H, alata and IL 

 *^^. rounded at the base. Flowers very small, alternate along the filiform 

 branches of a long loose terminal panicle, with small leaves at the base of the 

 Pnrt]ar\^ branches, the others reduced to small bracts. Calyx-lobes short. 

 [«tal3 4, glabrous, rather above | line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 

 Fruit nearly 1 line lonff, narrow-oblong, muricate with 2 or 3 transverse 



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