80 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEE. [ Monotaxis, 
branched, - sometimes appearing annual (flowering the first year!?). 
Leaves ovate oblong or linear-cuneate, acute or almost obtuse, entire, 1 to 
4 lines long, tapering into a short petiole. Flower-heads or cymes sessi 
` in the fork 
scarcely imbricate, but always acuminate. Female flowers and fruits | 
M. linifolia.—Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii. 229; M. cuneifolia, Klotzsch 1. 
i. 176 ;. M. aha var. occidentalis, Muell. Arg. i in Linnea, xxxiv. 63 and 
in DC. Prod. li. st ; Ba ill. Adans. vi. 292; M. porantheroides, 
F. Toya in sever Her 
Kin. sg parng and adjoining districts, Huegel, Oldfield, 
F. prm s, river, itk 
Sacr. 2. HiPPocnEPANDRA.—Flowers usually pentamerous. Calyx 
magnate tater imbricate. Petals longer than the calyx. 
4, M. lurida, Benth. Stems, from a thick woody base or rhizome 
erect, npe or T branched below the inflorescence and the 
often almost umbel igi i i 
4 to 1 in. lon r-heads 
forks or within the last 4 uU Male calyx-segments 
long, imbrieate. Petals unguiculate, with a broadly 
lamina at least 1 line long. Stamens 10 or 9, on slender filamen 
Female calyx-segments obtuse. Pn rather smaller than in the mal 
contracted at the base but not unguiculate. Styles deeply divided i 
2 fringed lobes. Eu globular, about 2 lines long. —Hippocrepandra 
lurida, Muell. Arg. in Linnæa, xxxiv. 61 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 207 
(erroneously referred by Baillon to M. megacarpa) ; M. Oldfieldi, Baill. 
Adans. v i. 993. 
WV. A Ache Murchison river, Oldfield, Drummond, 6th coll. n. 31.— The plant 
_ has something of the aspect of some forms of Euphorbia eremophila 
5. M. megacarpa, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 143. aped from a 
rennial base, erect or scsi simple or slightly branched belo 
inflorescence, and there sometimes umbellate as in M. lu 
linear, with recurved m s, under lin. long. Flower-heads ord clus- 
ters closely sessile, an as qs i i 
males, all on slender pedicels Dates than in M. lurida, but the wh 
structure and e peculiar form of the p Lies as in n that s speci 
of which this may possibly prove a variety, h Pet its a 
—Baill. nes vi. 293, but not the syno a 
wW. Aus Murchison river, Oldfield, and dai cimen from Drum 
in Herb. F. prier Boxvale, 50 miles E: from Yor k, Miss — 
M. gracilis, Baill. Adans. vi. 293. An erect branching slende 
undershrub of to 1 ft. tiiv linear-lance olate, racted into 
"very short petiole, the margins more or less recurved, uty above i | 
