Be>/eiia.] OXVII. EUPHOEBIACEiE. 1405 



Ovary capsule and seed of the genus, but tke stigma divided to tlie base or nearly 

 so into 3 narrow flat recurved lobes. 



Hab.: Hinchinbrook Island, Eookingham Bay, .Dallaclty. 



The racemose male flowers, the petals much longer than the calyx, and the dividecl stigma 

 or style bring this species near to Sicinocarpus, but the stamens are entirely those of Beyeriii, and 

 the stigmatic lobes are closely recurved as in that genus, to which on the whole it appears to be the 

 nearest related. — Beiith. 



6. RICINOCARPUS, Desf. 

 (Fruit resembling that of Eicinus) 

 (Rceperia, Spreng.) 

 Flowers jnonqeoious. Male flower : Calyx deeply divided into 4 to 6 usually 

 5 lobes or segments. Petals as many as calyx-lobes and usually longer, rarely 

 deficient. Glands as many as petals and alternating with them. Stamens 

 numerous, united in a central column without any rudimentary ovary ; filaments 

 shortly free, anthers reflexed, with 2 parallel cells opening outwards longitudin- 

 ally in 2 valves. Female flower : Calyx and petals of the males, very deciduous 

 or rarely persistent. Ovary 8-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Styles 3, shortly 

 united at the base, deeply divided into 2 branches. Capsule separating into 3 

 2-valved cocci. Seeds oblong, smooth, carunculate. Embryo (where known) 

 linear, straight, the cotyledons longer but scarcely broader than the radicle. — 

 Shrubs either glabrous or stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate, entire, linear 

 oblong or lanceolate, the margins recurved or revolute, usually pale white or 

 tomentose underneath, without stipules. Flowers solitary or clustered, or the 

 males rarely racemose, terminal or rarely apparently axillary from the reduction 

 of the flowering branch, the females either alone or suri:ounded by or by the side 

 of the male cluster or raceme. Pedicels usually subtended by small scale-like 

 bracts, and often bearing a pair of bracteoles. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



Glabrous plant with linear leaves. Flowers clustered. 

 Bracteoles deciduous or none. Male calyx divided scarcely below the 

 middle. Female calyx deciduous. Capsule ■ obtuse, as broad as 

 long, densely muricate. Style-branches nearly terete, spreading or 



recurved 3. B. pinif alius. 



Branches and calyx tomentose. Flowers clustered. 



Leaves linear, the margins much revolute, under lin. long. Petals longer 



than the calyx. Ovary muricate , . 2. iJ. Bowmanni, 



Leaves linear, the margins revolute, 1 to 24in. long. Petals as long as the 



calyx. Ovary tomentose 3. iJ. letUfoUus. 



Leaves narrow-oblorig, 3 or more in. long, the margins somewhat revolute 4. R. speciosns. 



1. It. pinifolius (leaves Pine-like), Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. iii. 459, t. 22 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 70. An erect handsome glabrous tree of 30ft., but often 

 flowering as a shrub of 2 to 3ft. Leaves rather crowded, linear, mucronate or 

 almost obtuse, with the margins revolute to the midrib, f to l^in. long, con- 

 tracted into a short petiole. Flowers in a terminal cluster, usually 1 female with 

 8 to 6 males, but sometimes either the female or the males deficient, the pedicels 



to lin. long, bearing a pair of minute caducous bracteoles above the middle, 

 each pedicel embraced at the base to the subtending bract. Male calyx 1^ to 2 

 lines long, divided to the middle or rather lower into 4 to 6 lobes. Petals white, 

 usually about |in. long. Female calyx more deeply divided and falling away very 

 early. Capsule nearly globular, very obtuse, densely muricate, about |in. long. — 

 Muell. Arg.,in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 205 ; Baill. Etud. Euph. t. 12, f. 39 to 44, and 

 Ada,ns. vi. 294 ; Hook. f. Fl.. Tasm. i. 338 ; Endl. Iconogr. t. 124 ; Bmperia 



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