1400 OXVII. EUPHOEBIAOEJi:. [?Juphorbia. 



«ntire or sharply-toothed, parallel veins 8 dr 5 starting from near the base ; tex- 

 ture somewhat coriaceous. Stipules rathe*r long, tapering from the base, filiform- 

 plumose, very deciduous. Flower-heads shortly pedicellate, in rather loose 

 irregular cymes, terminal upon the upper branchlets. Involucres small as well 

 as the bracts, the petal-like appendage of the involucral glands J-line broad, 

 nearly orbicular, entire, white or slightly coloured. Capsule 8-lobed, about 1-| 

 line broad. Styles recurved, divided to about the middle. Seeds pruinose, quite 

 smooth. 



Hab.: Limestone Eidges of the Georgina lliver. 



15. Xi. pilulifera (alluding to the globular inflorescence), Linn.; Boiss. in 

 DC. Prod. XV. ii. 21 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 51. Asthma plant. A prostrate or 

 ascending branched annual, attaining 1 to 2ft., the branches hirsute with 

 spreading hairs and often rufescent. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, from 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong, -J to l|-in. long, rather obtuse, usually 

 ■denticulate, very oblique and narrow or semi-cordate at the base. Stipules 

 small, linear, inserted on a transverse raised line. Flower-heads minute and 

 numerous, crowded in head-like cymes on short peduncles in one axil of each 

 pair of leaves or terminating the branches. Involucre about ^ line long, the 

 glands small and entire, without the petal-like appendages of the preceding 

 species. Capsule -J- to f line diameter, more or less hairy. Seeds slightly 

 rugose. 



Hab.: Common throughout the colony. A common tropical weed of cultivation both in the 

 New and the Old World. 



" Tea " made from the dried leaves gives great relief to persons suffering from asthma. 



16. 12, eremophila (found in the desert), A. Cimn. in Mitch. Trap. Austr. 

 848 ; Benth. FL. Austr. vi. 52. An erect 'glabrous hard annual or perhaps 

 perennial, usually dichotomous and from 6in. to 1ft. high, but in some 

 situations taller and more slender. Lower leaves and sometimes a few on 

 lateral branches alternate, all the others opposite, petiolate, linear or rarely 

 linear-lanceolate or oblong, more or less remotely serrulate or sometimes quite 

 ■entire, ^ to above lin. long, leaving when fallen ofl^ a gland-like scar and 

 sometimes a second one immediately above, the stipules often scarcely perceptible 

 or quite wanting. Flower-heads solitary in one axil only of the pair of leaves, 

 -on a short pedicel. Involucre scarcely 1 line long, the glands (5 or 4) broad, 

 reniform, without appendages. Bracts within the involucre few and short. 

 Capsule about 2 lines long, glabrous and smooth, the stipes rather long. Seeds 

 granular-rugose, with a .rather large variously shaped caruncle. — Boiss. in DC- 

 Prod. XV. ii. 70, andEuph. Ic. t. 43 ; E. deserticola, F. v. M. in Linnrea, xxv. 440. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, E.Brown; Broadsound and Shoalwater Bay, B. 

 Brown ; Port Curtis, M'GilUvray ; Three Isles, Barrier Eeef Passage, and islands of MoretOn 

 Bay, /'' V Mueller ; Rockingham and Edgecombe Bays, Dallachy ; Hookhampton, Boicman and 

 ■others ; Warrego Eiver, Mitchell. 



Often received from inland localities as a poison plant. 



17. E. corynoclada (branchlets cup-shaped), F. v. J/., Sou. Sci. Bee. 

 li. (new series), April, 1886. A glabrous shrub with an undivided stem, about 

 10ft. high ; the ultimate branchlets terete, thickened gradually upwards, 8 to 

 9in. long, the summit about fin. thick, marked by almost semi-circular scars, 

 arranged somewhat spirally. Cymes terminal, compound, the ultimate portions 

 recurved, the pedicels clasped by a very narrow membrane. Bracts opposite, 

 reddish, deltoid-ovate, not distant from the flower ; tube of the involucre nearly 

 hemispherical, slightly angular. I^obes 5, ovate, obcuneate, membranous, 

 fringed, shorter than the renate-orbicular entire glands ; bracteoles within the 

 involucre nearly as long as the stamens, somewhat fringed ; filaments very short ; 

 anther-cells roundish and somewhat compressed laterally ; segments of the 



