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apparatus. It produces dermatitis, etc. (Bailey). Loudon says the juice is so 

 acrid as to corrode and ulcerate the bod}^ wherever applied. Removes warts, 

 freckles, is used as a depilatory, etc. Application of the juice, powder and 

 extract produces not only erysipelatous, pustular and phlegmonous inflamma- 

 tion, but even gangrene (Pammel). 



13. E. schizolepis, F. v. M. — Upper Victoria River, F. v. Mueller. 



14. E. Schultzii, Benth. — Roper River, Gilruth and Spencer, July- 

 August, 1911. 



Recorded. Port Darwin, Schultz, (Nos. 15, 237, 844 and 879) ; Camden 

 Harbour, F. v. Mueller. 



15. E. serrulata, Beinw. — Port Essington, Armstrong ; Port Darwin, 

 Schultz (No. 234); Escape Clifis, Hulse. 



16. E. Wheeleri, Baill.—20 miles N.W. by N. of Meyer's Hill, Macdonnell 

 Ranges, G. F. Hill (No. 213), 1/6/1911. 



Recorded. Greville Island, Regent's River, and Montague Sound, N.W. 

 Coast, A. Cumiingham ; King's Sound, Hughan. 



E. Careyi, F. v. M. ; recorded from North Australia in Nat. Herb. Census. 



18. PORANTHERA, Rudge. 



1 . P. microphylla, Brogn. — Port Darwin, Schultz (No. 54). 



19. RICINOCARPUS, Desf. 

 (Eoeperia, Spreng.) 



Leaves Unear, the margins much revolute, IJ to 3 in. long. Petals, 

 much shorter than the calyx. Ovary tomentose. — 2. R. rosmarinifoUus. 



Leaves lanceolate, flat, hoary on both sides, 1 J to 3 in .long. Petals much 

 shorter than the calyx. Ovary tomentose. — 1. R. marginatus. 



1. B. marginatus, Benth. — York Sound, N.W. Coast, A. Cunningham. 



2. R. rosmarinifolivs, Benth. — Montague and York Sounds, N.W. Coast, 

 A. Cunningham. 



Bischoffia Javanica, Blume ; Homalanthus Leschenavltianus A . de 

 Jv^s. ; recorded from North Australia in Nat. Herb. Census. 



ANACARDIACE^. 



Stamens 10. Carpels 5 to 6. Ovules suspended from an erect funicle. — 

 1. Buchanania. 



Stamens 5. Ovary 1 -celled. Ovule suspended from the top of the cavity 

 — 2. Semecarpus. 



1. BUCHANANIA, Speeng. 1800. 



(Catnbessedea, Kunth, 1824; Coniogeton, Blume, 1826; Lanzana, Stokes, 

 1812; Launzan, Buck.- Ham., 1799; Launzea, Endl., 1841; Lundia, Puer., 

 1825). 



1. B. 2Iuelleri, Eng. (B. angustifolia, Roxh.). — Top Spring, G. F. Hill 

 (No. 442), 31/8/1911. 



Recorded. Victoria River, Bynoe, F. v. Mueller ; Port Essington, Arm- 

 strong ; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



Var. pilosa.—BoTroloola., G. F. HiU (No. 601), 31/8/1911. 



This is a form intermediate bet^^-een the variety and the t^■pe, having the 

 leaves of the type and the inflorescence of the variety. 



