1440 CXVII. EUPHORBIACEife. IFonlainea. 



1. T. Pancheri (after Capt. Panoher), Heckel. A slender tree of 50 to 60ft., 

 glabrous except the flowers. Leaves alternate or here and there opposite, crowded 

 at the end of the branches, obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, of a 

 shining green, prominently veined, the veins oblique, IJ to Bin. long. Male 

 flowers in very short terminal sessile racemes almost reduced to an umbel. 

 Pedicels slender, glabrous, 3 to 4 lines long. Calyx broadly cup-shaped, very 

 shortly sinuate-lobed or almost truncate and sometimes irregularly splitting, 

 tomentose on the margin. Petals nearly 8 lines long, glabrous outside, but the 

 inner or upper surface very densely covered with a soft white loose tomentum or 

 wool. Stamens indefinite, the central column prominent and tomeniose- 

 villoCis, the free part of the filaments glabrous or nearly so. Petals of female 

 flowers as in the male. Fruit drupaceous, usually 4-celled. — Cudimwii Fancheri, 

 Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 1117; Baloylda Fancheri, Be,ni\i. in Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 149. 



Hab.: Albert River and olber localities in the south. 

 The kernels of seeds highly poisonous 



' 31. ADRIANA, Gaudich. 

 (After Adrian de Jussieu). 

 (Trachycaryon, Kl.). 

 Flowers dioecious, in terminal spikes. Male flower : Perianth globular and 

 closed in the bud, opening in 4 or 5 valvate segments. No petals or glands. 

 Stamens very numerous, crowded on a slightly raised central receptacle, without 

 any rudimentary ovary ; filament very short ; anthers linear, erect, the cells 

 adnate, parallel, opening longitudinally in 2 valves, the connective produced 

 beyond then! inijs*' a papillose point or linear appendage. Female perianth of 6 

 or 8 segments, imbricate in about 2 rows. Ovary 8-celled, with 1 ovule in each 

 cell. Styles 3, distinct or very shortly connate at the base, bifid, densely covered 

 or fringed with much raised or linear papillse. Capsule separating into 2-valved 

 cocci. Seeds ovoid, with a small carunculus. Testa crustaceous. Albumen 

 copious. Cotyledons flat, much broader than the radicle. — Erect shrubs, 

 glabrous or stellate-tomentose. Leaves alternate or opposite, 3 or 5-nerved, 

 coarsely toothed and often 3-lobed. Male spikes usually rather long and 

 interrupted, the flowers sessile in clusters of 3 to 6 in the axil of an ovate or 

 lanceolate bract. Female spikes usually very short and dense, sessile or very 

 shortly pedunciilate within the last leaves. 

 The genus is endemic in Australia. 



1. A., acerifolia (Maple-leaved), Hook, in Miuh. Trap. Austr. 371 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. vi. 134. , A rather course shrub or 3 or 4ft., usually hoary or white 

 with a stellate tomentum, sometimes dense and mixed with longer stellate 

 hairs even on the upper surface of the leaves, sometimes very close or almost 

 mealy, usually more sparing or almost wanting on the upper side of the leaves, 

 or very rarely the whole plant glabrous and reddish. Leaves alternate, on 

 rather long petioles, 3 or 5-nerv6d at the base, very variable in shape, usually 

 either ovate-lanceolate and coarsely toothed or deeply 3-lobed with ovate-lanceo- 

 late and coarsely toothed lobes, the middle lobe the longest, the larger 3-lobed 

 leaves often 4 to Gin, long, the upper ones often much smaller. Male spikes 

 2 to Sin. long ; perianth-segments spreading, membranous, about 1-i- line long ; 

 anthers about 1 line Ions; on very short glabrous filaments. Females spikes very 

 short and dense, sometimes contracted into a head, sessile within the floral 

 leaves or petiolate bracts. Perianth-segments usually G but varying from 5 to 8, 

 herbaceous, 2 to 3 lines long. Ovary and back of the styles more or less 

 stellate-tomentose. Styles 4 to G lines long, divided to about the middle into 2 

 branches. Capsule 4 to 5 lines diameter, very obtuse. Seeds smooth. — Muell. 



