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EP PEE a A Oat dE E o 
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of a single stamen without any perianth, and one central female one, a sv 
Pwtil without y ‘i 
Nepenthes. | CVII; NEPENTHACE E. 41 
posterior spur stout, the peristome narrow, with numerous transverse 
veins; operculum elliptical, with numerous minute glands on the inner 
surface. Flowers and fruits unknown.—Hook. f. in DC. Prod. xvii. 98. 
etri Cape York, Jardine; Cape Sidmouth, C. Moore. The species may . 
perhaps prove to be a variety only of the widely-spread N. phyllamphora, Willd., from 
which it differs in the much more slender peristome of the pitcher. 
Orper CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. 
Flowers always unisexual. Perianth either simple and cal x-like or 
almost petal-like, usually small, or double with 4 or 5 petals alternating 
Stamens various. Ovary superior, consisting of 3 or sometimes 2, or more 
a single one, Styles as many as carpels, free or more or less united, entire 
9r divided, the stigmatie surface usually lining their inner face. Ovules 
l or 2 in each carpel, pendulous from the inner angle of the cells, the 
Superior radicle, in a fleshy albumen, or ver bi the cotyledons 
T ge i 
ing m milky juice, exceedingly various in habit. Leaves alternate or 
opposite, rarely divided or compound, usually with stipules. Inflorescence 
very varied- Flowers usually small. 
limited ding the Archipelago and some of the South Sea Islands; one 
genus, Sebasti ,is a | American one, represented by a single species m i 
Old World; and o Baloghia, is only known, out of Australia, in New Caledonia an 
uphorbiese.— nvoluere calyz-like, including several "e fonet Mute 
or rarely with a perianth; the whole flower-head resembling a single 
N Embryo with broad cotyledons and a narrow radicle. 
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