Bndclia.] CXVII. EUPHOEBIACEJi;. 1411 



2. B. tomentosa (tomcntose), Blumc ; Mnell. Anj. in IK'. Prod. xv. 

 ii. 501 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 120. A tree with rather slender branches, minutely 

 tomentose-pubescent when yonng as well as the underside of the leaves, but often 

 becoming soon glabrous. Leaves from elliptical-oblong to ovate-elliptical, 

 membranous, with 7 to 15 primary divergent veins on each side of the midrib, 

 and the transverse veinlets also conspicuous, lA to Sin. long. Male flowers 

 densely clustered, sessile or nearly so. Oalyx-segments lanceolate, acute, 

 horizontally spreading, rather above ^ line long. Petals about half as long, 

 stipitate or spathulate, broad and lobed. Disk broad, with a rather thick fiat 

 free and entire margin. Staminal column slender, the free part of the filaments 

 about as long, radiating from the top of the column round the central abortive 

 8 to 5-lobed pistil. Female flowers on very short thick pedicels. Calyx rather 

 larger than in the males and petals more entire. Disk with a double margin, the 

 outer one fiat and entire or nearly so, the inner one forming a short cup 

 immediately round the ovary and usually 5-lobed. Ovary 2-eelled. Styles 

 shortly and thickly 2-lobed, eonnivent or spreading. Fruit nearly globular, 

 ripening usually only 1 seed in each cell, and the cocci or rather pyrenes scarcely 

 separating. — Amawia tomentosa, Baill. Adans. vi. 386, 



Hab.: Bockhampton, O'Slnincsy ; Somerset and Thursday Island. 



Var. ovoidea. Fruits ovoid. Wood Island, Gulliver. 



The species is also in East India and the Archipelago, extending nortiiward to South China. 



8. B. faginea (Beech-like), F. v. il/. IJerb. ; Beiith. Fl. Austr. vi. 120. A 

 tall shrub or small tree, the slender branches and underside of the leaA'es 

 tomentose-pubescent or at length glabrous. Leaves ovate or elliptical, very 

 obtuse or almost acute, 1 to Sin. long, firmer than in B. tomentosa, and on some 

 branches under lin. long and obovate or almost orbicular. Stipules lanceolate. 

 Bracts small. Flowers closely sessile, solitary or 2 together, mostly female in 

 specimens examined, but the males appear to be also solitary. Male calyx-segments 

 rather broad, obtuse, scarcely above i line long. Petals entire or nearly so. 

 Stamens of B. tomentosa. Female calyx-segments narrow and at least 1 line 

 long, the inner disk large. Fruit red, globular, fully 2 lines diameter, hard but 

 not thick, separating into 2 cocci or pyrenes, and ripening only one seed in each. 

 ■ — Aiiianoafaninea, Baill. Adans. vi. 336. 



Hab.: Eockhampton, Dallachi/. V.owmun ; Keppel Bay, Ballachij; Port Denison, Fitzalun; 

 Gowrie Mountain, Darling Downs (fruiting specimens). 



Wood greyish-brown, jnottled and becoming darker towards the centre, an easily worked 

 wood. — Jiailet/s Cut. Ql. Woods, No. 358a. 



11. CLEISTANTHUS, Hook. f. 



(Flowers shut or closed.) 



Flowers monoecious, in sessile clusters, axillary or in leafless spikes. Male 

 flower : Calyx deeply divided into 5 lobes or segments, valvate in the bud, spread- 

 ing when in flower. Petals 5, stipitate or spathulate, with a small lamina usually 

 broad and dentate. Disk broad with an entire or slightly lobed free margin. 

 Stamens 5, inserted on a central column arising from the disk, the filaments 

 diverging or spreading horizontally under an abortive lobed style terminating the 

 column without any ovary; anther-cells parallel, opening longitudinally in 2 

 valves. Female flower : Calyx less deeply divided than in the males, the base 

 forming a cup under the ovary. Disk adnate with an entire sometimes 

 scarcely porminent free margin, and within it an erect cup or margin 

 close under the ovary. Ovary 3-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Styles 

 3, distinct, biSd. Capsule globular or depressed, 3- furrowed, separating 

 into 3 2-valved deciduous cocci, leaving, besides the central axis, a broad persis- 

 tent base. Seeds with a rather scanty albumen ; cotyledons broad, rather thin, 



