Acalypha.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 133 
tA small and the capsule deeply divided into 3 muricate obovoid 
Noni | 
Queensland. Brisbane river, Fraser; scrub on the Burdekin, P. Mueller ; Rock- 
Oh bres Dallachy. 
3. A. capillipes, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in Lin v. 40, and in 
DC. Es vd. xv. ii. 823. A tall shrub or small tree, oak divi dts erbes 
branches, the smaller ones often acicular and spinescent, resembling the 
spinescent specimens of A. eremorum, with which Baillon unites it as a 
riet 
t is more glabrous, the leaves rather broader and thinner, the 
vv ikes filiform, with still s maller flowers in distant clusters, the 
ER apparently all solitary on filiform Sedait of 3 to 1 in., wit 
a normal orbicular bract of nearly 2 lines diameter, the capsule Rer 
and tridymous but Kog cocci not deeply separate as in the pedunculate 
fruits of A. eremorum, the Nd vid much more numerous capillary 
branches than in that! spec 
N.S. Wales. Clarence river, Bui. 
98. ADRIANA, Gaudich. 
(Trachycaryon, AZ.) 
Flowers diccious, in terminal spikes. Male fl.: Perianth globular 
and closed in the bud, opening in 4 or 5 valvate segments. No petals 
central receptacle, without any rudimentary _ovary ;, A/aments., very 
short ; anthers M éreet the cells adnate, IE , opening Hr 
ill 
Testé crustaceous. bumen copious. Cotyledons flat, much broader 
than the radicle.— Erect shrubs, glabrous or stellate-tomentose. Leaves 
alternate or opposite, 3- or 5-nerved, coarsely toothed and often 3-lobed. 
ale spikes usually rather long and interru ted, the flowers sessile in 
clusters of 3 to 6 in the axil of an ovate or anceolate bract. Female 
spikes usually very short and dense, sessile or very shortly pedunculate 
within the last leaves. 
The g very closel allied to each 
other, and d night easily te Erev w E acin. 5 F.M Mueller beg end 
: pe these might be united in a single one, for which he proposes Pie name o 
Leaves 2l or nearly all sensi on rather long petioles. (Each 
es glabrous or tomen 
Leavi ve or their middle lobe epe Ur" often E 
acuminate. les free, emt longer than the rat e. es 
Eastern or tr "d species 3 1. A. acerifolia. 
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