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CXVli. EUPiioEiBIACEife. [droti)U 



and soft on the young branches inflorescence and underside of the leaves, more 

 scattered on the upper surface. Leaves orbicular-cordate or broadly ovate in the 

 typical form, obtuse or rarely with a short point, crenate, prominently 5 or 7- 

 nerved at the base, with pinnate primary and transverse secondary veins, 3 to 

 5in. long and nearly as broad, or smaller on the side branches. Eacenies 3 to 6in. 

 long, the flowers usually numerous in the clusters, the lower ones chiefly females, 

 the upper ones chiefly or entirely malts. Pedicels varying from 1, to 3 lines. 

 Calyx-segments broad, obtuse, rather above 1 line long, imbricate in the bud. 

 Petals scarcely longer, ciliate-hairy. Stamens 20 to 30 or even nk)re on a hairy 

 receptacle, the filaments glabrous. Styles divided to the base into 2 long 

 slender entire or very shortly 2-lobed branches. Capsule globular, not furrowed, 

 hirsute with stellate hairs, fully 3 lines diameter. 



Hab.; Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown. 



Var. urence.foUus. Bail. Adans. vi. 300. Leaves more ovate and often acuminate, usually 

 5-nerved. Flowers rather smaller. — Hab.: Cape York, MGilUvray ; Port Denison, Fitzalan ; 

 Ed'^eaomhe Bs.y, Dallachy; Gilbert Kiver, Daiiiirce ; Harvey's Creek, Eussell Kiver. 



28. CODI.iEUM, Kumph. 



(From the Malayan name — Codebo.) 



Flowers usually moncecious in axillary or terminal racemes. Male flower: Calyx 

 of 6 or 6 membranous segments much imbricate in the bud. Petals 6 or 6, very 

 short. Glands as many as petals, alternating with them. Stamens indefinite, 

 inserted on a slightly raised receptacle, without any rudimentary ovary ; anthers 

 with the cells divaricate or placed back to back and confluent at the top. Female 

 flower : Calyx-segments thicker or larger than in the males. Disk obscurely lobed. 

 Ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovule in each cell. Styles free, spreading or recurved, 

 undivided. Capsule globular, separating into 2-valved cocci. — Shrubs or trees, 

 quite glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire. Flowers small, the males 

 usually clustered but few together, the females solitary within each bract in 

 separate racemes, or, in a species not Australian, at the base of the male raceme. 



The genus comprises a few species from East India and the Archipelago, including the 

 only Australian one. 



1. C. variegatum, (variegated), Blume; var. moluccanum, Mtiell. Arg. in 

 DC. Prod. XV. ii. 1119 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 147. A tall shrub or small tree, 

 quite glabrous. Leaves from obovate-oblong to narrow elliptical or oblong- 

 spathulate, 4 to Sin. long, on petioles of J to lin., penniveined, green on both 

 sides or especially in the typical form blotched or variegated with white. Flowers 

 in long axillary or lateral racemes, and usually a male and female raceme in the 

 same axil, the former longer than the latter. Male flowers in clusters of 2 to 6, 

 on pedicels of 1 to 2 lines. Calyx-segments nearly orbicular and nearly 1 line 

 diameter. Peta,ls usually not above ^ as long as broad, or sometimes rather 

 longer than broad, slightly dentate. Glands about the same length, broad, thick, 

 and truncate. Stamens about 20. Female flowers on thick pedicels of 1 to 4 

 lines. Calyx-segments shorter and thicker than in the males. Disk obscurely 

 lobed. Styles short thick and recurved. Capsule glabrous and smooth, 3 to 4 

 lines diameter.— a. ohovatum, ZoU ; Baill. Adans. vi. 303 ; C. moluccanum, 

 Dene. Herb. Tim. Descr. 167. 



Hab.: Mount Elliott and Seaview Range, Eookingham Bay, Dallachy, and other northern 

 scrubs. 



29. BALOGHIA, Endl. 



(After Dr. Joseph Balogh.) 



Flowers dioecious or monoscious, in unsexual short terminal racemes. Male 



flower : Calyx 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate in the bud or very short. ,, Petals 



as many as calyx-lobes. Disk with a thick raised undulate or irregularly lobed 



