Croton.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEXE, 197 
` Clarence, M'Leay, and Richmond rivers, Beckler, C. Moore, and others ; Tweed ri 
oore; Blue Mountains, A. Cunningham, -Woolls ; Illawarra, A, Cunn pe sr 
Macarthur, Harvey. 
e species is perhaps endemic in Australia, for the ey: ait island [rone 
Hreig to it by Mueller aie appear to me to differ more from it than the C. levifolius, 
ume, from the Atohipélags, Vhich veis Arg. retains as distinct. Possibly, how- 
Pw they may all be varieties of one spec 
C. acronychioides, F. Muell. Fragm, iv. 142. A shrub or tree, 
the young shoots and inflorescence more or less sprinkled with a seal 
tomentum, the adult foliage pea ly e, glabrous. Leaves shortl 
somewhat ciliolate. Petals narrow, ciliate. Receptacle hairy. Stamens 
5 to 8. Female Cahe ents above 1 line long and narrow. Ovar 
densely hirsute. Styles road, divided at least to the middle into 2 
mostly bifid branches. Capsule 5 lines long and about 4 lines broad, 
; hut or less scaly. Seeds with a small carunculus,—Baill. Adans. 
00. 
. Queensland. Rockhampton and ding districts, Dallachy, Bowman, Thozet. 
o 
. 8. C. triacros, v Muell. Fragm. vi 185. A tree or shrub, quite 
Liege or the young shoots and inflorescence "t sparingly scaly 
| tose. Leaves vite or elliptical, obtuse or uide eee 
: ecd or obscurely sinuate- -crenate, rather coriaceous, sm oth, penn 
. veined, with fine and distant primary veins an cure réoeatine; 
|. to 6 in. long or even more. Racemes domiti very short, but some 
fruiting ones 3 or 4 in. long, often several together at the ends of the 
ran ches, some entirely or nearly entirely male, others entirely or nearly 
1 entirely female, Pedicels under 1 line long. Calyx-segments nearly 
. lline long, imbricate in the bud. Stamens about 10. Styles rather 
. deeply divided into 2 entire branches. Capsule es with stellate 
. Scales, tridymous, obtusely 3-lobed at the top with a deep central 
E depress ssion. Carunculus of the seeds very sm 
. Queensland, Rockingham Bay, at ont 
| “Bio. arnhemicus, Muell. in Linnea xxxiv. 112, and in DG. 
| Prod. xv. iio 599. A rather enter shrub of 5 or 6ft., or a = 
3 i "and so 
1 prominently 5- or 7-nerved at the base, with pinnate ary an 
. Wansverse secondary veins, 3 to 5 in. long and. nearly A briad, or 
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