FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
Nat. Ord. LXV. PHYTOLACCA K. Br. 
Of this small Natural Order about eight Australian species are known, be 
peculiar to Australia and Tasmania, and the majority of them to the south ami - 
Gen. I. DLDYMOTHECA, Hoohfil. 
Flores dioici, minute bibracteolati. Periemtkimm 1-partitum, laciniis 2 maj 
sub-9, oni» aenta It. Vi.. Fu.m. <>>• 
2 orbiculari-reniformibus columns brevi adnatis compositum, biloculare ; orv 
angulo interiore affixis, exostomate fungoso; sty lis 2, subulatis, divergentihus. 
Fructm di< ditei dehisce 
radiatim undulata et transversim striata; testa entstaeea, arillo bilobo brevi; 
embryone homotrope curvato peripherico, radicals infera, — Serine V. Mitinttnu! 
. iiife'/rrr'niiis ; lloribus asilhtrihiis, 
-•'ispicatis. 
1. Didymotheca thesioides (Nob. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vi 279) ; V 
laciniis late-ovatis, seminibus profunde sir; DC Prodi 
(Tab. XCIIL) 
Hab. Cataract near Launceston, Lawrence; Flinders' Island, f,' //»».— (VI 
DlSTltlB. South Australia and Swan .River. 
Leaves few, alt 
ornate, rather fleshy 
breadth. Floti 
en dioecious, small 
pedicellod : pe 
icela minutely bibra 
almost sessile, 
oblong, two-celled a 
ovary. Styles 
wo, recurved, stigm 
of the carpels. 
Ovules solitary in e 
coriaceous. Seeds solitary, kidney- 
the cell. Testa 
wrinkled; embryo 
a lox.)— Plate 
XCIIL Fig. 1, mal 
6, fruit ; 7, vei 
ical section of ditto 
of albumen and embryo ; 11, embiy 
Nat. Ord. LXVI. A.UAKAM 
Between eighty and ninety Australian species of this Order are 
in De Candolle's ' Prodromus/ by M. Moquin-Tandon. By far the 
genus Tricliinium, which is confined to Australia (a doubtful Soutl 
to the south-west quarter of the continent, There are also about 
tkacea, amongst which are some of the most widely diffused Asiatic 
contains much fewer species than might have been expected, and m 
