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69 CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. [ Euphorbia. 
species. Capsule 3 to ł line diameter, more or less hairy. 
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small and pum without the petal-like appendages of he ee 1 
slightly halite 1 
d. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; common about Rockhampton, Dallachy, — 
EN "e others.—A common tropical weed of cultivation both in the New and the — 
Old W 4 
SECT. 2. EREMOPHILA, Boiss.—Herbs. Leaves opposite or the lower : 
ones and sometimes those of luxuriant branches alternate. Stipules | 
very minute or obsolete. Involucral glands Sihoni petal-like appen- — 
dages. Seeds carunculate. : 
8. E. eremophila, A. sw in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 348. An erect 
quite wanting. Flower-heads solitary in one axil on he pair of - 
leaves, on a short pedicel. Involucre ease 1 e As 2 glands - 
(5 or 4) broad, reniform, aem es. Bracts within the 
and sho about 2 2 lines long, glabrous and 
e stipes father: long. See ne eut with a rat 
aped caru ii 
Euph. Ic. t. 49; E. deserticola, F. Muell. in Linnea, ah 
tralia. M island, Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Bro ; Greville island, 
Regent' s river N.W. Coast and Goulburn island, A. Cunni iim Victoria river, F. 
Mueller Jis large br of alternate). 
een Broad Sound and Shoalwater Bay, R. Brown ; Port Curtis, mot 
livray ; "Three ilon, Berie eef Passage, and islands of Moreton Bay, F. 
Rockingham and E ache. uis Dallachy; Rockhampton, Bowman and others} 
Warrego river, Mit VN 
. S. Wales. ma and — rivers and thence to the Barrier Range, £* 
Mueller, Victorian and other Expeditions ; Clarence river, Beckler; New England, 0. 
` Victoria. Murray river, F. Muel ; 
S. Australia. Spencer's Gulf, LA^ ; Flinders' range, Cudnaka, Akaba, &¢y 
F. Mueller; Mount Searle, Warburto fe ate) Be nge, Sullivan; Lake Gi llies, Bur. 
kitt; Cooper's Creek, Howitt's Expedition (with thick succulent stems and ' small 
. Australia. Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 88; Dirk 
Hartog’s island, A. Cunningham. 
2. CALYCOPEPLUS, Planch. ` 
Flower-heads resembling single flowers. Involucre campanulate 0 
n, 4-lobed, with o r without small glands between the lobes 
E collected in 1 clusters of z or more — the involucre 
opposite its lobes, each one subtended and more or less embraced bya 
bract, the outer 1 or 2 much enlarged sand idit the cluster; each 
or 
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