FAiphorhla.] CXVII. EUPHORBIACE^. 1897 



unequally cordats at the base. Flower-heads very small, not numerous, in loose 

 terminal dichotomous cymes, the pedicels filiform, the floral leaves or bracts 

 linear, mostly as long as or longer than the flower-heads. Involucre about J line 

 long, the glands bordered by a petal-like obovate or orbicular appendage, varying 

 from i to -J- line in breadth. Capsule glabrous. Seeds transversely rugose. 



Hab.: Port Bowen, Keppel Bay, Northumberland Islands, B. Brown; Sandy Beach, Lizard 

 Island, A. Cunningham; Port Curtis, iVGillivray; Port Denison, Fitzalan; Kockingbam Bay, 

 Dallaohy ; Belyando Elver, Mitchell ; Bowen Biver, Boivman ; Sutton Biver, Thozet ; Eook- 

 hampton, O'Shanesy ; N. Kennedy district, Daintree. 



Var. glauca. Leaves rather more coriaceous. Flower-heads very small, in irregular 

 somewhat elongated leafy cymes. Gulf country. 



3. El. SChizolepis (scales split), F. c. M. ; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 20 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austi-. vi. 47. An annual, but with hard, often woody-looking stems 

 of about 1ft. high, dichotomously branched and more or less pubescent with crisped 

 hairs. Leaves opposite, almost sessile, ovate or ovate-oblong, acute, oblique and 

 unequally cordate at the base, | to lin. long, sprinkled on both sides with short 

 hairs. Flower-heads shortly pedicellate in the upper axils, forming sometimes 

 terminal leafy cymes. Involucre about IJ line long, the glands peltate with a 

 broad spreading palmately-lobed or fringed appendage, not so white as in most 

 species. Capsule and seeds not seen. 



Hab.: Gulf country. 



Var.? glabra; perfectly glabrous, with the gland-appendages much less lobed ; perhaps a 

 <listinct species. Gulf country. 



4. £. Schuitzii (after — . Schultz), Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 47. A slender 

 annual of 6in. to 1ft., apparently erect when young, but soon much- 

 branched and diffuse, with pubescent or shortly hirsute stems and foliage. Leaves 

 opposite, nearly sessile, ovate or oblong, serrate, very oblique or semi-cordate at 

 the base, the lower ones 4 to 8 lines long, those of the lateral branches half that 

 size. Flower-heads very small, solitary or 2 together, terminating short leafy 

 branches in the upper axils. Involucre not -J- line long, hirsute, the glands small 

 with a very narrow usually lobed p,etal-like margin sometimes scarcely con- 

 spicuous. Capsule small, hirsute, with prominent angles. Seeds rugose. 



Hab.: Between Croydon and BlaokbuU, R. G. Burton. 



5. E. australis (Australian), Boiss. Cent. Euph. 15 and in DC. Prod. xv. 

 ii. 36 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 48. Apparently a perennial, forming at length a 

 hard woody rhizome, the stem prostrate, much branched, often 1ft. long, more or 

 less villous as well as the foliage. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, ovate-oblong 

 or nearly orbicular, obtuse, mostly serrate, very oblique at the base, 3 or 4 lines 

 long, those of the flowering branches much crowded. Flower-heads solitary in 

 the upper axils, the short flowering branches usually crowded at the ends of the 

 principal ones. Involucres and capsules small as in F. Drummondii, but more or 

 less hirsute and the petal-like appendages of the glands more or less lobed, vary- 

 ing from white to red. — Baill. Adans. vi. 283 ; F. raccaria, Baill. i.e. 286 ; E. 

 erythrantha, F. v. M. Fragm. li. 152. 



Hab.: Bowvian; Gilbert Eiver, Z'\ u. J/weMer ; Hetzers Plains, ii". J. C. Wildash ; and many 

 other inland localities. 



6. E. IVCuelleri (after Baron Mueller), Boiss. in DC. Pro I. xv. ii. 27; 

 Benth. FL Austr. vi. 48. A dwarf plant with a tliiek woody rhizome and procum- 

 bent or ascending rather rigid stems of 1 to 2in., densely pubescent with short 

 hairs or nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, nearly sessile, rather crowded, ovate 

 orbicular, or the upper ones oblong, rather thick, entire, 2 to 5 lines long, very 

 oblique at the base, and the lower ones sometimes broader than long. Flower- 

 lieads larger than in E. australis and E. Drummondii, solitary and pedicellate in 



