$910 XCVII. AMARANTACEJE. [ Deeringia. 
tralian collectors). Leaves petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acumi- . 
nate, entire, mostly 2 to 3 in. long. Flowers hermaphrodite, "solitary 
or somewhat clustered, in slender interrupted n varying us 2 
black with a whitish eeen when wd uae ps united at the base in 
a prominent ring or very short cap rry red, nearly Em i 
rowed, bill about 2 ies (Drei or rather PST d —Bot. M p 
au Endl. Iconogr. t. 62; Wight Ic. Pl. t. 728; D. baccata, Mog. 
n DC. Prod. xiii. i1. 236. 
on ORES we Shoalwater and Keppel Bays and Broad Sound, R. Brown ; Endea- 
vour river, A. Cun anle) Barnard Isles, M:Gillivray ; Port Denison, Fitealan; 
Rockingham Bay, Dallachy; Ro ckhampton, Bullae. and others; Darling Downs, 
u; Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, Ar uae 
N.S, Wales. Port Jackson y Bro , Woolls ; north ard to Manie Hasime 
and Cl i Beckler ; ; New Reni, e. Stuart ; outhward to a, Harvey 
The species is common in E. India and the cede extending to e ee 
nally pe erfect as well as the styles »ut without any ovules; the fem 
flowers smaller, not so white, in more compact and less branched panicles, 
et nd. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Port Denison, F yg 
Rockingham = ar rra ne be Bays, sentia, d Brisbane river, Moreton Bay, 4. V 
ni ; Port Mackay, Nerns eed and 
rem — river, Bake; ; Richmond river, Henderson ; Tw 
Clarence rivers, C. Moo 
` The male s specimens being the handsomest are the i fre uentl “collected and the 
only ones seen by R. Bijwd arid by Moquin. The ov: in them i s o large d jt " 
not the appearance of being abortive, but I have abel i a large number wi P. 
finding any ovules, From it ts membranous appearayee Brown hose the Au 
be capsular, and Moquin that it t might adr nospermous, which accou bird 
having associated the plant with Deering 
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