76 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. [ Bertya, . 
the top. Styles very shortly united or almost free, deeply divided into 
2 or 8 branches. Fruiting perianth not enlarged. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 
2 = 2 lines long.—Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 211. 
Wales. Lachlan river, and frequent in the N. W. interior, A. Cunningham; 
New iani, C. Stuart 
Wictoria. Snowy river, F. Mueller. 
4. B. rosmarinifolia, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 473. A 
andsome bushy heath-like keit itas 6 to 8 ft., "he young | 
branches and 1 foliige clothed with a short close stellate tomentum wear- 
ing off with age. Leaves sessile or nearly so, linear, with AB margins 
much r fasii most tly about 3 in. and rarely nearly 1 i in. long. Flo Me 
nches. 
usually at least half as ong sistas as the ernie X 
Arg. im DC. Prod. xv. ii. 210; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 339; Croto 
vénnarisifilun, A. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 355; Ricinocarpus 
tasmanicus, Sond. in Linnea, xxviii. 562; Bertya tasmanica, Muell. Arg. 
in Linne, xxxiv. 63, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 211. 
ales. Cox's river, A, Ghaiagla ) head of Macleay river, C. Moors; 
New ‘England, C. Stua ; 
asmania. Abund ri on Nile rivulet and: South Esk river, Gunn; Great 8 
NI. pmi —I can see no difference between the Tasmanian and the N.S. Wales 
plan 
5. B. Mitohelli, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 63, and in DC. pe 
xv. ii. 210. An erect shrub of several feet, the young age hes and 
Dia gigeely stellate-tomentose, becoming at length glabrous, nearly 
lied to B outer and more rigid. Leav s linear, 
soe styles of B. rosmarinifolia, ich this may sofla to be a varietj. 
icinocarpus Mitehelli, So a in penis xxviii. 563. 
N. S. W Castlereagh river, C. Moore; Darling river, Herb. F. Mueller 
Murray river, Mitta-Mitta, Lake Koorong, F. Mueller; Wimmera, Dallachy. i 
6. leæfolia, Planch. in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 473. An erect 
shrub a 3 to 4 ft., the bra nches densely stellate-tomentose. Leaves 
with bi to 8 unequal bracts, the inner ones nearly 2 lines long. 
perianth with 5 jak pps lobes 24 to 3 lines long, contracted into 8 a 
