Euphorbiacea>.~] flora OP TASMANIA 
persistent remains of the perianth. (Name from Xctttos, slender, and fitfm, a part 
and branches.) 
1. Leptomeria Billardieri (Br. Prodr. 354-) ; frutex aphyllus v. foil 
cilibus angulatis, floribus spicatis, perianthio 5-fido, bractcis Lanoeolatta cad 
disci glandulis distinctis, drupa carnosa.— Thesium drupaceu;; . 
Var. ft. huniiUsj 1-2-pedalis, caule ramisque robustis. — An pp. disiinc 
Hab. In poor moist soil, especially sandy places near the North ooaat 
Lake St, Clair, Gunn. 
Distrib. New South Wales and Victoria. " Native Currant" of colon 
An erect, very pretty shrub, according to Gunn, 4—7 feel high, with erect hut 
and greenish-red berries of a pleasant acid taste. llrauvh,s J, . 
\~\ inch long, very minute, pedicelled, with a faidaotu brad 
Gen. III. TIIKSHM, /, 
Flores racemosi, pedunculis bracteis persiitentibua fohao 
buliforme v. hypocraterifonm , persistens, l-5-lidum, cglaudulo-u!n. 
periantlm inscrfca, dorso barbata. Nm oortksata, perianthio 
angustis, linearibv.i, alterais j racemis h-ruiinali/jit* ; ik.ri 
A Tory curious genus of herbaceous plants, abundant in Soothe* I 
— Stems slender. Leaves linear. Sm 
bract, which is leafleted, and with the two smaller bracts placed latemlh 
only Australian species, and has slender, simple, or sparingly 
row, 1 inch long, acuminate, bracteatc. similar to the cauline. 
Perianth four- or tive-eleft, its segments about as long a» the tube. (Na 
1. Thesium australe (Br. Prodr. 353) ; caule gracili, foliis angoste linearibui 
elongato, floribus subsessilibus, perianthii laciaiis tubo subrequilongis longitudinaliter a 
Hab. Tasmania, Lawrence. 
DisTitiB. New South Wales and Victoria. 
Nat. Ord. LXXII. EUPHORBIACEjE. 
In accordance with the arrangement of De Candolle, I haw pia 
Monochlamydea, but its nearest affinities are undo 
wards of 150 Australian species of this Order, an ■}' included DVM 
species which I have not been able to identify by their descriptions, t Of 
been unable to name. These are included under about 40 genera, of which about 
Australia, and the remainder are principally natives of India and the .Malayan Archtpela 
tropical plants, several of which are rather widely distributed, belonging to the gener 
phorbla, Omalanthus, and RUttlera. About 40 species are confined to South-west 
majority both of genera and species are found in New South Wales and Victoria. C 
