as. - €VIII. EUPHORBIACEX. [ Hemicyclia, 
posee thes adult foliage glabrous. Leaves petiolate, ovate-oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, coriaceous and shining when full-grown, 
but most of iu on. the flowering specimens. still uns and mem- 
ranous, finely veined underneath, 14 to 2l in. long. Male flowers 
several together i in axillary clusters sometimes. growing out into short 
e filiform pedicels — si lines -- Perianth-segments 
4, broad, about 1 line long. Stam to 8 in the flowers examined, 
inserted round a hollow disk, wi ith. the margin ads late. as. in. H. 
australasica. No fe HHR specimens seen: of the Australian variety. 
e bea ach, Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 746.—The species is 
the narrower leaves as well as in the disk, but are probably a a variety on ; the stamens 
are entirely those of A, sepiaria, and not of the two following species. 
2. H. australasica, Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 487. A spread- 
ing tree attaining 40 ft., rarely reduced to a shrub, the young shoots 
slightly pubescent, but soon becoming glabrous, sometimes rather 
dn us, aves petiolate, from broadly ovate to Baer 
giro fos "rif s of prin fumar Hen ne; lios pi ice Ro kin a 
Bays, Dallachy ; Bordekin in F. Mu eller ; Cleveland Bay, Bow man; Kennedy 
with longer narrower leaves a irec of 100 ft. Lord Howe's island, C. Moor 
There are also among the Queensland plants specimens with narrow leaves, and others 
with larger or smaller ome: which i in the P ies of male flowers I am unable to refer 
with certainty speci 
FE. er, and after lim “Baillon n, refer the whole species to the East t Indian H. 
sepiaria, Wight and Arn. ; but t notwithstanding much general r oe it appears 
to differ essentially in the stamens and in some minor particular 
.H ogyna, F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 119. A tree with the habit 
a H australasica, but the leaves usually larger, 2 to 3 in. long, mem — 
branous at the time of flowering, but ecoming coriaceous when "n 
ruit. Flowers rather larger than in. H. austr alasica, the perianth- : 
os mostly fringed or ciliate. Anthers large, oblong, on very |— 
short filaments as in that x eee but often bearing a few hairs, and 
the ovary pii gl We villous | 
N. Australia. Ps Leichhardt Armstrong; Port Darwin, Schl 
n. 700, 742 Acer d 692 (mal : 
