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acca. | CXXIV. TACCACER, 459 
1 in. diameter in the ad dried specimens where it has been preserved. 
Petioles erect, 1 t . long below the ramification, divided always 
into 8 branches which are again ( ola bifid or trifid or dichotomous or 
irregularly branched, each branch pinnate with Lema variable 
istant or more or less confluent segments. In the larger varieties the 
three branches are often 2 to 3 ft. long, once bifid or trifid, the larger 
segments ovate-lanceolate acuminate and 4 to 6 in. long, ut inter- 
oblong mory obtuse; some, arge or small, contracted into 
a short petiolule n distant, JW decurren t along the petiole, or 
m with the next seg In risu 4 form 
equal in size. In a third ne distinct Australian form (var. aconiti- 
Jolia, F. Muell., T. maculata, Seem. Fl. Vit. 103) the leaves are more 
regularly divided, pre MAS almost pit ets with numerous 
linear-lanceolate segments regularly diverging so as to form a eirolë of 
pe 6 to 8 in. diameter. ade the length of the paolo, "e 
tional very small ones wers numerous, on sofł toli 
and usually mixed with numerous long filaments or capillary barren 
pedicels 3 to 4 in. long. th-segm imens ovate and 
erianth-s 
2 lines long, in others lanceolate and 3 lines, but the difference owing 
sometimes to different stages of development, the inner lobes NAT 
larger than the outer. Berry ovoid-globular, 3 to 1 in. diameter, c 
tracted into a rae v crowned by the persistent or ferias 
limb.—R. Br. 
N. Australia. "lanl - the Gulf of tocando y Brown, Sweers; King's 
Sound, N^ NW. coast, Hughan ; Sea range and Victoria F. Mueller; Melvilio island, 
Fraser; Port Darwi m. kait, n. 169, 195, 810, 832; Escape Cliff 
and. Rockingham bay, Dallachy ; ‘Fitzroy island, C. “Walter Both the 
large form considered by Seemann as typical, and the one named y him C. Brownii 
m n on the N. Sakai and in Queensland, with some — as to foliage ; 
r. aconitifolia was sent by F. Mueller with the. c. nii. e have no means 
of aching any differences in the flower with these differences in foliage 
Orver CXXV. DIOSCORIDEJE. 
Flowers neesu, usually dicecious, TRYIN Perianth superior, of 
. 6 lobes or seg Stamens 6 or 3, inserted on the perianth or in 
hs Venim o he rl round a eU eec ovary, shorter than the 
nth-lobes; anthers with 2 parallel cells opening inwards. Ovary 
E Eran 3-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell Stigmas 3, 
entire or 2-cleft, on a single or distinct styles, or sessile on the ovary. 
ruit a 3-angled capsule, opening at the angles i in 3 loculicidal valves, 
