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acute, the inner anrfower and not longer ; male flowers ; 

 anthers erect on a small column formed by the connate 

 filaments, the cells parallel ; glands minute ; female 

 flowers — disk repand ; ovary glabrous and smooth ; 

 styles three, entire, erect ; capsule depressed globular, 

 smooth ; seeds marked on the backs with about six 

 longitudinal striae. 



Edkins Range (W.V.F.). 



Height 2ft. Leaves 3-4 lines long. Stipules dark-brown. 

 Flowers pale-coloured ; pedicels 2 lines or less. Perianth- 

 segments I line long. Capsules 2 lines diameter. Seeds 

 dark-brown. In the crevices of sandstone and quartzite 

 rocks. 



Associated with P. maderaspatensis L., and with affinity to 

 that species. 



359. P. minutifolius F. v. M. 



York Sound (A. Cunn.) ; near Mt. House, Adcock and Isdell 

 Rivers, north base of Mt. Brennan (W.V.F.). 



Sonae specimens have seeds varying from smooth to muricate. 

 In wet spots. 



360. Flveggia microcarpa Willd. 



An erect twiggy shrub, i-lOft. ; flowers and fruits white. 



361. Mallotus nesophilus F. v. M. 



Roebuck Bay (J. W. O. Tepper) ; Fitzroy, Isdell, Old, Denham, 

 and King Rivers ; Dillon's Springs, Swan Point (W.V.F.). 



A tall shrub to a spreading tree of 30ft. ; trunk to 10ft. ; 

 diameter 9in. ; bark grey, smooth and thin ; timber pale 

 to brownish and not very hard, straight-grained ; fruits 

 orange-red. In sandy soil. 



362. M. derbyensis W.V.F. n. sp. 



An erect shrub with long lax branches, glabrous excepting 

 the petioles or the branches and leaves scantily invested 

 with a short stellate tomentum ; leaves alternate, ovate- 

 lanceolate, rather abruptly acuminate, rounded at the 

 bases of the petiolate leaves, the petioles much thickened 

 upwards, finely and regularly denticulate, the glands 

 ntimerous and white on the under surfaces, prominently 

 tri-nerved, rarely 5-nerved at the bases, with usually 

 5-7 pairs of nerves above the basal ones, the parallel 

 veins nuinerous and conspicuous ; racemes short, scantily 

 stellate tomentose ; capsule tomentose and muricate with 

 short tomentose, closely approximated processes ; seeds 

 subglobose. 



Derby (W.V.F.) 



Height 10-1 6ft. Leaves mostly 4in. long by IJ-lfin. broad. 

 Flowers not seen. Capsules about 3 lines diameter. Seeds 

 brown. In sandy soil. 



