Aphananthe.] OXIX. URTICAOE/E. 1463 



perianth-segments narrower. Fruit ovoid, acuminate, about 3 lines long. — 

 Taxotrophis rectinervis, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 192 ; Sponia ilicifolia, 8. Kurz in 

 Flora, 1872, 448. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, f. u. JlfucWci'; Queensland Woods, London Exhibition, 

 1862, W. Hill, n. 86 ; Eookhampton, O'Shaneay ; Eockingham Bay, Dallachy. 

 Wood clssegrained, light in colour ; might do for stamps.- Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods, No. 386. 



4. MALAISIA, Blanco. 



(Of the Malay Archipelago.) 



(Cephalotropia, BJarae ; Dumartroya, Gaudich). 



Flowers dioecious, the males in oblong or cylindrical spikes, the ferhales in 



globular heads on a small receptacle. Male perianth deeply divided ihfcp 8 or 4 



lobes or segments, Valvate in the bud. Staniens 3 or 4, the filaments elongated, 



inflected in the bud. Female perianth urceolate, with a small orifice, enclosing 



the ovary. Style with 2 elongated stigmatic branches. Ovule pendulous. 



Fruiting-head not much enlarged, the nut enclosed in the slightly succulent 



perianths. Seed with a thin testa and very scanty albumen. Cotyledons Very 



unequal, curved over the ascending radicle, the larger one embracing the smaller 



one in its concave surface. — A straggling tree or woody climber, with a milky 



juice. Leaves alternate, usually entire. Stipules small, decid,uous. Inflorescence 



axillary. 



The genus appears to be limited to the single Australian species, extending over the Indian 

 Archipelago and Islands of the South Pacific to the Philippines. 



1. IKE. tortuosa (winding), Blanco, Fl. Fdip. 789; Benth. Fl. Austr. 

 vi. 180. " Deng-ul-ka," Morehead River; "Kai-inuna," Mapoon, Roth. A 

 small straggling tree with its upper branches twining or a tall climbing shrub, 

 glabrous or the young shoots and inflorescence slightly pubescent. Leaves 

 shortly petiolate, oblong-elliptical or almost ovate, very obtuse or acuminate, 

 coriaceous, prominently penniveined, 1| to Sin. long. Male spikes solitary 

 or 2 together, sessile or shortly pedunculate, dense, often curved 2 to 6 

 lines long. Female heads 1^ to 2 lines diameter or rather larger when in 

 fruit, tomentose, solitary on short peduncles or forming little axillary racemes 

 (short leafless flowering branches) always much shorter than the leaves. Bracts 

 numerous, concave, the prominent dorsal'^pubescent gibbosities densely imbricate. 

 Flowers mostly rudimentary, only 2 or 3 in the head perfect, concealed under the 

 bracts except the long filiform exserted style-branches. — Bureau in Ann. So. Nat. 

 ser. 6, xi. 369, with the following Australian besides several other synonyms ; M. 

 Cunninghamii, Planch, in Ann. So. Nat. ser. 4, iii. 293, F. v. M. Fragm. vi. 

 193 ; M. scandens, M. viridescens and M. acuminata, Planch'. I.e. 293, 294 ; 

 Dtimartroya fagi folia, Gaudich. in Voy, Bonite, t. 97; Cephalotropis javanica, 

 Blume, Mus. Bot. ii. 76. 



Hab.: Brisbane River, Moreton Bay, A. Cunningham, F. v. Mueller and others ; thence to 

 Rockhampton, Rockingham and. Edgecombe Bays, and the Burdekin, F. v. Mueller, Thozel, 

 Dallachy, FitzaVin, and others ; Wide Bay, Bidwill, 



Wood close-grained and tough, the outer part yellow the centre brown. — Bailey'i Cat, Ql. 

 Woods, No. 387. 



Bark used for making fish lines. — Both. I.e. 



5. PSEUDOMORUS, Bureau. 



(False Mulberry.) 



Flowers monoecious (or sometimes dioecious?), the males in dense cylindrical 

 spikes, the females few in very short spikes almost reduced to heads. Male 

 perianth of 4 segments, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 4, the filaments 

 elongated, inflected in the bud. Pistil rudimentary. Female perianth of 4 

 segments, not enlarged after flowering. Style divided to the base or nearly 



