Anthobolus.] CXIV. SANTALACEÆ. 297 
or slightly angular when young. Leaves all linear-terete, acute, 2 to — 
B in. long. Male flowers 2 or 3 together on axillary peduncles T 
a 
lengthened and much thickened ‘peduncle. Fruit ovoid, 3 or 4 lines - 
long, the endocarp marked with very small scattered pits, otherwise 
smooth. Embryo straight, linear-terete, more than 2 the length of the 
albumen, the cotyledons at least as long as the radicle. 
Queensland. Burdekin, Suttor and Burnett rivers, F. Mueller. 
8. EXOCARPUS, Labill. 
Or nearly so, in a notch of the rhachis or in the axil of a minute scale- 
like bract, one on y or rarely 2 or 3 in the spike fertile with the pedicel 
Tapidly enlarged, the others falling off without any enlargement of the 
Semi-abortive ov ry. 
Of the eight Australian species one extends over the Eastern Archipelago, the others 
"re endemic. , The genus sie also one species from New Zealand, one from Norfolk 
Island, one from the Sandwich Islands, and apparently one from Madagascar. So 
Ine o 
