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The genuscontains but few species, di 1 ] gions 
of both the New and the Old Worlds. The only one in peony og is also in voe Ros in 
the Eastern Archipelago. The habit is often that of a Phyllanthus, from which the 
Le differs in the presence of petals and of a central rudimentary ovary in ^ male — 
1. A. Decaisnei, Benth, Apparently annual, but the stems hard 
and A ar at the base, much branched, decumbent, attaining 
1 to 20 ., the whole plant softly villous. Leaves broadly - 
5, lanceolate, acute, spreading, about j line long. Petals narrow, - 
contracted into a distinct stipes. Style divided to the base into? - 
branches. m sule depressed, orbicular, villous, about 2 lines diameter. - 
—A, frutie cne. according to Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 239, 
Lin! 
if the syn onymy is correct, also in Timor and Java. The true Andrachne fruition of 
sions with the Linnean plant, is totally — a8 it is certainly not shrub 
wns, Bowman 
- Var. orbicularis. smaller, orbenlar. Styles divided to the middle only. 
Petals smaller. Poshiage a distinct oe 
W. Australia. Port Walcot, Harper. 
14. ACTEPHILA, Blume. 
Flowers monecious, in axillary clusters or solitary. Male fl. : Peti | 
anth of 5 or 6 se ngne ents spreading out flat, the inner ones rather larger 
than the outer. Petals (or petal- like glands ?) small, as A a as 
en 
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celled with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 3, rly 2-fid, or entire, 
free or united at the base. Fruit separating into 3 2 -valved cocci, the 
pericarp hard. Seeds large, with a inira. ies brittle testa; albumen | 
very scanty or none. Em eu o curved, the cotyledons very thick fleshy | 
grown. Flowers rather small, often several females as well as males in | 
the the same cluster, all pedicellate. Capsule delis, oiai large int 
a. — the North coast, R. Brown ; Victoria river, F. Mueller ;and — 
ruDS. . 
p alternate, petiolate, abtin usually large, ode when full- - 
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