Euphorbiacea.~\ FLORA OF TASMANIA 
angular branches, and the leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, cxstipulate, generally \ 
Flmcers dioecious. Males generally racemose, p< dicelled. the pedicels bractcolate. > 
of five unequal lacinia\ iuduaVate in mstivation. Corolla 0. Mvn 
receptacle; Jlktmmt* short; tmtien estrone. Fbmalb. Overy three-celled, with I 
covered with the broad, discoid, senile stigma. Copwh- tluve-ecllcd, threc-valved, w 
seeds. (Named in honour of a Dutch botanist.) 
1. Beyeria oblongifolia (Hook, til.) ; viscosa, rnmulis folnaqoc suhtus 
albidis, foliis (1-2-pollicaribus) lineari-oblongis lanceolatisve subacid is subt us < 
subracemosis, fcem. solitariis. — Calyptrostigma oblongifolia, A 
12, 1246.) 
Hab. Abundant in shaded places, especially on the rocky banks of rivers 
Distrib. New South "Wales and Victoria. 
I very much doubt if this will prove distinct from the II. r 
sum, Labillardicre), of which I have examined two authentically-named specimens, 1 
one (the plant he afterwards published), in South-western Australia, has distinct ve 
leaves, which are not white; the other, Croto,/ ntcoium, var., was gat lured in Tasuia 
— A shrub or small tree, 6-30 feel high, with viscous branches leaves, peduncles, ;u 
long, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, blunt or hardk 
with closely appressed down, as are the branches, ped 
axillary peduncle, about ^ inch in diameter; caigx membranous, 
coriaceous calyx-segments. Capsule about as large as a pea. 
2. Beyeria Backhousii (Hook, fil.) ; fruticosa, ramulis pubeacentibua 
guste oblongo- v. lineari- v. elliptico-lanceolalis acutis marginibus rccurvis s 
tomentosis costa valida. {Gunn, 540.) 
Hab. Flinders' Island, Bass' Straits, BaeUauae. 
Distrib. South-eastern Australia, near the sea; common. 
Gen. III. BERTYA, Planch. 
Mores monoici, bracteis 5-6 calyciformibus involucrati. Calyx 
sestivatione imbricatus. Corolla 0. Maac. 8km»M plurima in fascic 
vibus ; antherls oblongis, extrorsis. Fcem. Ovarium 3-loculare ; sfy 
ovulis 3, pendulis. Gipwl.t nblonga, cal\re aucto mclusa, abortu mi 
Crustacea, fusca, caruncula alba lunata. — Fruticuh wrg 
pulalis, coriaceis, margme sapins recurvo ; florih • 
There arc five described species of this genu? 
is nearly allied to Beyeria, but differs in the three trim! stimuas in the caps 
being all axillary and solitary, and enclos, d in membranous or coriaceous o 
coriaceous, exstipulate, alternate leaves. (Named in honour 
Bertya rosmarinifolia (Planch. 
