". 
116: CVIII EUPHORBIACEA.. [ Securinega. . 
Australia. Regent's river an. Cygnet Bay, N. W. coast, A. Cunningham;. | 
Kings Sound ay Collier Bay, Chapm pan: Hierson island, Gregorys Eape-. 
dition ; Victoria Fitzmaurice Aven P. ller ; Islands of the gulf of pne a 
taria, R. Piobwf. Sweers island and Albert river, ' Henne ; Port Dar rling, Schultz, 
57: 
8. 
Queensland. Cape York, at iit d Gilbert river and Howick’s group. F. 
Mueller; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Rockingham and Edgecombe Bays, Da llach y; 
Broad Sound and Bowen n river, Bowman ; Kennedy district, Daintree; Flinders river, 
Sutherland; Port M ackay, Nerns 
The species is common in atent Asia and Africa. 
. Leucopyrus, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 451. A large 
stragglin shrub, quite glabrous, with numerous small rigid branchlets 
occasionally terminating in a -s votis _ es ovate obovate or almost . 
orbicular, very obtuse or emarginate, smaller and more membranous 
than in S. obovata, and usually not M "I long. Flowers and fruit 
entirely those of P. obovata.— 5S. virosa, Baill. Adans. vi. 334, and several 
synonyms given by Muell. Arg. l.c 
eensland. Gilbert river, F. Mue hed Rockhampton, tier tet O' Shanesy ; 
Bowen river, Bowman. — Common in many parts of East India 
20. NEORGEPERA, Muell. Arg. 
Flowers moncecious, in axillary clusters. Male fl. : kentn Mer 
to the base into-5 or 6 petal-liké segments. Stamens 5 or 6, exserted, 
surrounding a broad central irregularly-lobed disk or abortive pe E 
anthers with 2 parallel cells, opening longitudinally in 2 valves. - 
male fl.: Perianth deeply divided into s, narrower than. in the 
male. Disk shortly lobed. Ovary 9-celled, with 2 ovules in each 
cell yles 2, clavate or broad, undivided. Capsule globular, 
rating into 3. 2-valved coriaceous cocci. Seeds ovate-oblong, slightly 
compressed, any carunculus. ‘Testa. smooth and shining, 
without any as cavity. Albumen Dens copious; embryo nearly 
straight, with broad cotyledons —Shru es alternate, shori 
petiolate, en coriaceous. ‘Flowers ^ni so small as in Secur 
— much e i 
The s is limited to iru de d Baillon reduces it to a section of Secur ine : 
but ve A sn of the fruit and seed appears to differ far too much to sanction the union- — 
tour elliptical-oblong,, mostly about 1 in. long. Sob elongated 
. N. built. 
Titres cunéate oblong o or almost st obovate, to Zin. long. St less short enti 
broad and thi ck t di ng: fn . N. Banksü. 
