Colon.] CXVII. EUPHOEBIACEJ;. 1437 



4. C. Verreauxii (after M. Verreaux), Baiil. Ktud. Euph. 857 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Amtr. vi. 126. A small tree, either quite glabrous or the smaller branches and 

 foliage sprinkled with a few scattered stellate hairs or scales. Leaves from almost 

 ovate to oblong-elliptical or lanceolate, obtuse or acuminate, entire or dentate, 

 rounded or tapering at the base, green on both sides, 2 to 4in. long in most 

 specimens, but occasionally the larger ones twice that size, the petioles also very- 

 variable in length. Eacemes slender, rarely above 2in. long. Flowers few in the 

 clusters, the lower ones chiefly female, the upper chiefly or entirely male, on 

 pedicels of 1 to 2 or rarely 3 lines long, and sometimes the racemes wholly males 

 or chiefly females. Calyx-segments acute, valvate in the bud, | to f line long in 

 the males, rather longer in the females. Petals fringed-ciliate with long woolly 

 hairs. Stamens 10 to 12. Styles rather thick, divided to about the middle into 

 2 undivided branches. Ovary tomentos'e or hirsute with stellate hairs. Capsule 

 nearly globular, variable in size, sprinkled with stellate hairs or at length 

 glabrous. — Muell. Arg. in Linnsea xxxiv. 117, and in DO. Prod. xv. ii. 620 ; F. v. 

 M. Fragm. iv. 141. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaiia, E. Brown; Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. 

 Cunningham, Fraser, F. n. Mueller, G. Stuart. 



Wood of a yellowish-colour, close-grained and firm. — Bailey's Cut. Ql. Woods, No. 371. 



5. C. acronychioides (AcronycMa-like), F. v. HI. Frcujm. iv. 142 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. vi. 127. A shrub or tree, the young shoots and inflorescence more or 

 less sprinkled with a scaly tomentum, the adult foliage usually quite glabrous. 

 Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptical oblong or almost ovate, entire or slightly 

 sinuate-crenate, coriaceous, shining above, penniveined with fine much-anasto- 

 mosing veins, 2 to 4in. long, the basal glands sessile. Eacemes 1 to 2in. long, 

 terminal as in the rest of the genus, but with the flowering branches often so 

 short as to appear axillary, the female flowers few, usually only in the lowest 

 cluster close to the floral leaves, the other clusters all male, the pedicels very 

 short. Calyx-segments nearly 1 line long, rather broad, obtuse, slightly imbricate 

 in the bud, somewhat ciliolate. Petals narrow, ciliate. Eeceptacle hairy. 

 Stamens 5 to 8. Female calyx-segments above 1 line long and narrow. Ovary 

 densely hirsute. Styles broad, divided at least to the middle into 2 mostly bifid 

 branches. Capsule 5 lines long and about 4 lines broad, more or less scaly. 

 Seeds with a small carunculus. — Baill. Adans. iv. 800. 



Hab.: Eookhampton and surrounding d'stricts, Dallachy, Boioman, Thozet, and many other 

 localities North and South. 



6. C. triacros (capsule 3-lobed), F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 185 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vi. 127. "Bo-atha," Mapoon, Roth. A tree or shrub, quite glabrous or 

 the young shoots and inflorescence very sparingly scaly tomentose. Leaves 

 ovate or elliptical, obtuse or shortly acuminate, entire or obscurely sinuate- 

 crenate, rather coriaceous, smooth, penniveined, with fine and distant primary 

 veins and obscure reticulations, 2 to 6in. long or even more. Eacemes sometimes 

 very short, but some fruiting ones 3 or 4in. long, often several together at the 

 ends of the branches, some entirely or nearly entirely male, others entirely or 

 nearly entirely female. Pedicels under 1 line long. Calyx-segments nearly 1 

 line long, imbricate in the bud. Stamens a-bomt 10. Styles rather deeply 

 divided into 2 entire branches. Capsule sprinkled with stellate scales, tridymous, 

 obtusely 3-lobed at the top with a deep central depression. Carunculus of the 

 seeds very small. 



Hab : Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 

 Timber used for spears. — Roth, I.e. 



7. C. arnhemicus (of Arnheim's land), Muell. Arg. in Linnaa xxxiv. 112, 

 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 599 ; Benth. Fl. Axistr. vi. 127. A rather slender shrub 

 of 5 or 6 ft., or a small Straggling tree, clothed with a stellate tomentum, dense 



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