- Monotazis.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 79 
| Leaves linear-lanceolate, not above À in., tapering into a short 
slender 
tiole. Stems 6. M. gracilis. 
Leaves narrow-linear, the mar gins ‘closely revolute, not above 
fin. Stems slender. Stipules subulate, persistent . . 7. M. grandifiora. 
Sect. 1. Eumonoraxis.— Flowers mostly 4-merous, Calyx-seg- 
- ments almost valvate. Petals shorter than the c calyx. 
. 1. M. macrophylla, Benth. An erect glabrous Slightly branched 
annual of about 1 ft. Leaves opposite or alternate, jon 
Dux dn. a or ovate-oblong, obtuse, entire, thin did flat, 1 to 2 in. 
. long r-heads (or dense cymes) rather larger. pani in M. tinifolia 
- shortly puli eiat above the last leaves, containing several female 
_ flowers intermixed with or surrounded by numerous males. Male calyx 
- of 4 very sightly imbricate petal-like segments of about 2 line. Petals 
. minute. Stamens 7 or 8. by vary of the females only seen in very young 
bud, the SR da short and involute, and of the capsules the 
the coc! only show the persistent axis, about 1 line long, from which 
the cocci hg wen way. 
. Queensland (or S. Wales ?). Summit of Mount Danger near Moreton Bay, 
a Cunningham “ithe ‘plant has prs of the aspect of some forms of Euphorbia 
2. M. linifolia, Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. l, xxix. 987 an 
4 
ial 
‘pedicel of 4 to $ line ome. a jaw ser estilo female. Bracts 
ate. Stamens nearly as long as the calyx, usually | 
8 but sometimes 7 only. Female flower rather larger than the males. 
"Styles 3, divided to the base into a fringed branches. Capsule glabrous, 
E i DC. Prod. xv. ii. 212; 
Baill. Adans, vi. 291; M. irg Endl A Atakta, 8, t. 8. 
- N.S. Wales. Port Jackson, R. Brown, A. and R. Cunningham, F. Mueller, 
and many others. 
" Desarionally, when He head hes no female flower the rhachis grows out forming a 
Short irre The arrangement of the flowers in this species shows an. 
y psi to that of oU orbia. 
3. occidentalis, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 10. An undershrub with 
the habit sometimes nearly of M. linifolia, but usually smaller, more 
