Bcrtiia.] CXVII. EUPHOEBIACE^. 1407 



free, spreading or recurved ; anthers with 2 parallel cells openmg longitudinally 

 and outwards in 2 valves. Female flowers : Perianth of the males, but the 

 segn^ents usually smaller and narrower, and sometimes much enlarged round the 

 fruit. Ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell, but usually only one of the three 

 fertilized. Styles 3, free or shortly united at the base, each one more or less 

 ■deeply divided into 2 to 4 (usually 3) branches. Capsule ovoid or oblong, obtuse, 

 or acute, usually 1-celled and 1-seeded by abortion. Seed oblong, smooth, 

 ■carunculate ; embryo (where known) linear, straight, the cotyledons longer but 

 scarcely broader than the radicle. Shrubs often glutinous, more or less s°tellate- 

 tomentose, or glabrous. Leaves alternate or opposite without stipules, the 

 margins recurved or revolute, rarely flat, glabrous above when full-grown, 

 tomentose or white underneath. Flowers axillary, solitary or few together, 

 pedicellate or almost sessile, with 3 to 8 small bracts on the pedicel, either 

 persistent and imitating a calyx (but imbricate and not uni-seriate) or deciduous. 



The genus is limited to Australia. 



Leaves narrow, revolute to the midrib. Ovary glabrous, tapering to the 

 top. Fruiting perianth much enlarged. Whole plant glabrous 

 or nearly so 1. B, piuij'olia. 



iaeaves narrow, revolute to the midrib. Ovary densely villous, tapering 

 at the top. Fruiting perianth scarcely enlarged, or much shorter 

 than the capsule. 

 Flowers pedicellate, the perianth-segments scarcely above 1 line . . .. 2. ]}. rosiiiarijiifoUa. 

 Flowers solitary in both sexes and sessile. Leaves opposite . . . '. S. B. vppositij'tilia. 



Leaves narrow, 1 to i!in. long, with the margins less revolute show- 

 ing the underside. Ovary densely villous, obtuse. Fruiting perianth 

 much enlarged i. B. ole.rfolia. 



Ijeaves narrow, 1 to 2in. long, with recurved margins. Flowers pedicel- 

 late. Pedicels 2 to .S lines. Bracts usually few, very deciduous 

 or none. Ovary villous .5. B. pcdUelliila. 



1. B. pinifolia (leaves Pine-like), Planch, in Hook. Loncl. Jown. iv. 473 ; 

 Bentk. Fl. Atistr. vi. 75. A tall shrub, glabrous or nearly so and apparently 

 viscid. Leaves- narrow-linear, sessile or nearly so, with the margins much 

 revolute, mostly 1 to li^in. long. Flowers almost sessile. Bracts thick, unequal, 

 the outer ones linear, the inner ones mostly acuminate from a broad base. 

 Male-perianth segments nearly 2 lines long. Ovary quite glabrous, tapering 

 into a neck (?r united base of the styles of nearly 1 line, the styles divided to 

 below the middle usually into 3 branches. Capsule enclosed in the enlarged 

 perianth, oblong and obtuse. — Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 211. 



Hab.: Brisbane Eiver, Fraser ; Stanthorpe. 



2. 5. rosmarinifolia (Rosemary-leaved), Planch, in Hook. Loiul. Jinun. 

 IV. 473; Jicnth. Fl,. Aiistr. vi. 76. A handsome bushy heath-like shrub, 

 attaining 6 to 8ft., the young branches and foliage clothed with a short close 

 stellate tomentum wearing off with age. Leaves sessile or nearly so, linear, with 

 the margins much revolute, mostly about Jin and rarely nearly lin. long. 

 Flowers small, mostly solitary, on a peduncle of ^ to nearly 1 line below the 

 bracts, which are small thick nearly equal about 6 in number and assuming more 

 the appearance of a calyx than in any other species. Perianth-segments rather 

 above 1 line, the female not much enlarged after flowering. Ovary densely 

 -villous. Styles divided to the base into 2 or 3 branches. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 stellate-hirsute, 3 to 4 lines long and usually at least half as long again as the 

 perianth-segments. — Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 210 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. 

 1. 339 ; Croton rosmarinifolium, A. Cunn. in Field, N.S. Wales, 355 ; Eicinocarpus 

 iasmanicu!!, Sond. in Linntea, xxviii. 662 ; Bertija tasmanica, Muell. Arg. in 

 iiinntea, xxxiv. 63, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii, 211. 



Hab.: Towards the border of N.S.W. 



