Plants Collected in Capricornic Western Australia. 51 



Euphorbia Careyi, F. v. M. Fruit nofc fully ^ih inch 

 long, three-lobed globular; seeds trigonous-ovate, dark- 

 brown, minutely scaly-hairy, destitute of any appendage. 



Euphorbia Drummondi, Boissier. Specimens over a foot 

 broad. 



Securinega Abyssinica, A. Richard. 



Dodonaea petiolaris, F. v. M. Sepals five, oblong- 

 lanceolar, |^th inch long. Fruit roundish-ovate in outline, about 

 IJ inch long and f inch broad, glabrous, almost vesicular, 

 finely veined, short-pointed at the summit, the three longi- 

 tudinal expanding membranes much narrower than the 

 cells of the fruit, confluent with each other at the upper 

 extremity,not forming lobes on the base; ripe seeds unknown. 

 This species was also found near the Finke-River by Rev. 

 H. Kempe, and near the Lachlan-Rivei- by Mr. Josephson. 



Dodonaea pachyneura. — Branchlets slightly angular; 

 leaves narrow-lanceolar, entire, gradually attenuated into 

 a slender petiole, prominently penninerved, as well as the 

 branchlets densely beset with glandular dots ; sepals broadly 

 semi-lanceolar ; pedicels usually two or three together, as 

 long as, or somewhat longer, than the fruit, very thin ; 

 capsules three-celled, somewhat viscid, the expanding mem- 

 branes broader than the cavities, gradually narrowed to near 

 the very short septa, each thus almost including the apper- 

 taining roundish- turgid cell, and giving each of the three 

 partitions of the fruit an oblique rhomboid-ovate shape, the 

 upper margin of the membrane more truncate, the lower 

 more rounded ; septa not fully half as long as the cells and 

 seceding with them. 



The whole plant sticky from minute glandular promi- 

 nences. Leaves flat, dark-green, on the only specimen 

 obtained 1 — IJ-inch long, above the middle about :|-inch 

 broad, some faint denticulations occasionally developed at 

 the margin. Sepals nearly 1-1 0th inch long. Staminate 

 flowers not obtained. Partitions of fruit broader than 

 long, their membranes very divergent, conspicuously veined, 

 rather obtuse at the terminating angle; stipes very short. 

 Style and ripe seeds not available. 



From D. platyptera, the nearest allied species, this new 

 one recedes in greater viscidity, in narrower downward 

 much more attenuated leaves, with singularly prominent 

 and more copious nerves, as well as in the extension of the 

 fruit-membranes along the summit and base of the cells, and 

 further in the remarkable smallness of the septa. 



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