Excecaria.} CVIII: EUPHORBIACER. 153 
ye pedicels 1 to 9 lines long. Perianth of 3 me acute rather thick 
es. Capsule tridymous, about 3 lines diame 
N. Australia. Islands of the Gulf of Carpentari efe Brown, Sweers; salt- 
water banks of Victoria river, F. Mueller; Goulburn nd A. Cunningham ; Port 
Queensland. Common n the coast from E and Broad Sound to 
Cape York, Dallachy, Bowman, M‘Gillivray, and others 
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. This species appears to be a common maritime tree in teal Asia. 
. E. Dallachyana, Baill. Adans. vi. 324, as a var. of E. Ag allocha. 
N ite y to E. Agallocha, and perhaps really only an ona Se 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate or ovate, -= tusely acuminate, crenate, 1 to 
3 in. long, less coriaceous and the veins more prom minent noi reticulate 
underneath. Flowers both male and Take apparently the same as in 
XE. Agallocha. 
‘Queensland. Burnett Diei F. Mueller; Rockhampton, common, always in the 
sera, Dallachy, Bowman, Thozet. 
. E. parvifolia, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 483, and in DC. 
Prod. xvii. 1221, Very nearly allied to E. Agallocha, and reduced by 
Baillon like the last toa Moog of that species, with narrow oblong very 
obtuse entire leaves of 1 to lin., tapering into a short petiole. The 
peo racemes are also smaller, 1 to lin. long. Pinal flowers and fruit 
unknow 
N. Australia. Gani round the Gulf of Corpeniarit, R. Brown, F. Mueller, 
ti —'' Gutta-percha tree" of the latter. 
Orver CIX. URTICEJE. 
Flowers unisexual or very rarely polygamous. sper simple and 
calyx-like, of 3 to 5 oe Poet (rarely reduced to 1 or 2) imbricate or 
induplicate-valvate in the bud. Stamens in the austen as many as 
perianth-segments, hs pen tothem, very rarely fewer or more; 
filaments short and erect or longer and inflexed in the bud; anthers 
usually with 9 parolle: cells opening longitudinally. Ovary in the 
females free or rarely more or t i 
Style simple or more or less deeply divided into 2 branches or 2 
orthotropous, or laterall attached and amphitropous, or ‘poidulous s and 
Sota gu ea so i always superior. Fruit of each se parate 
f y drupe nut or indehiscent utricle, es sometimes 
suc 
rounding or subtended by. or — in à fleshy ede Seed with 
membranous testa, with or without album Embryo straight 
curved or spirally bidon the ae be flat « or - folded, the radicle 
Superior.— 'rees shrubs or herbs very varied in habit and foliage. 
' Leaves ine or opposite, entire toothed or rarely divided, pen- 
niveined and often 3-nerved. Stipules present, but usually very 
