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globose. Perianths and inner bracts ciliolate. -Stamens usually 2 ; styles 

 slender, often acute-bidentate. 



Hab.: Brisbane River. 



The receptacles or fruits having a very disagreeable heavy scent. 

 Indumentum of the receptacle so shwt as to appear at first sight glabrous. 

 Hab.: Brisbane River, F. ji. Mueller ; Hunter's River, R. Brown. 



S2. F. Pinkiana (after James Pink), F. v. 21. in Wing's South Set. Bcc. ii. 

 273. A small glabrous tree. Leaves lanceolate, shortly acuminate, scattered, 

 chartaceous, smooth, 5 to 9in. long, If to Sin. broad ; almost equilateral on the 

 very short petiole, margins entire ; primary nerves, 10 to 15 pairs, patent, thinly 

 reticulate veined. Stipules very narrow with long points. Eeceptacles 8 to 4 

 lines long on peduncles of the same length. Basal bracts distant from the 

 receptacle ; the upper inner bracts all reflexed and glabrous. Perianth-segments 

 narrow and acute, downy. Ovary very gibbous. Style extremely slender. Stigma 

 ■dilated and depressed. 



Hab.: Tropical scrubs, Walter Hill ; Bellenden Ker Range, Bailey. 



33. P. opposita (opposite), Atiq. in Hook. Land. Journ. vii. 426 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vi. 175. " Murn-tyul," Morehead River, Roth; " Mo-injal," Palmer 

 River, Roth. A tall shrub or small tree, the young branches and underside of 

 the leaves softly and densely pubescent. Leaves mostly opposite, exceedingly 

 variable in size and shape, in the typical specimens broadly cordate-ovate and 

 about 2in. long on petioles not exceeding |in., in others ovate, ovate-oblong, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, 6 to Sin. long, on petioles of ^ to lin., all obtuse or acuminate, 

 ■entire or very slightly undulate-crenulate, very scabrous above, distantly 

 penniveined with the lowest pair starting from very near the base, the transverse 

 veinlets and reticulations prominent underneath : on some barren branches the 

 leaves are hastately 8-lobed with 1 long lanceolate central and 2 short lateral 

 lobes. Stipules about 2 lines long. Receptacles axillary, solitary or in pairs, 

 :at first somewhat pear-shaped, at length nearly globular and about -^in. diameter. 

 Peduncles varying from 1 to 3 lines, the scale-like bracts usually at some distance 

 from the fig, but sometimes close to it. Flowers entirely those of F. orhiculata. 

 F. indecora, Miq. in Journ. Bot. Neerl. 1861, 242, as to the specimens from 

 •Clarence River. 



Hab.: Keppel and Shoalwater Bays and Broadsound, B,. Brown; Bremer River, Fraser; 

 'BoM'sBa.j, A. Gimningham; estuary of the Burdekin, ii". v. Mueller; Port Denison, Fitzalan; 

 Rockingham Bay, Dallachy ; Rockhampton, Bowman ; Pitzroy Island and at Springsure, Walter 

 and Wuth (P. v. M.) with hastate leaves over Ift. long. 



The leaves of this plant are sometimes infested by the blight-fungus, Phyllachora rliytismoides, 

 Cav. 



Fruit eaten ravjr. Leaves used like emery paper for smoothing the wommeras.— JJof/j. 



34. p. scobina (rough like a file), Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 176. A shrub or 

 ■small tree of 8 to 20ft., remarkable for the extreme asperity of both sides of the 

 leaves as well as of the petioles and young branches, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 

 «ilternate or rarely opposite, on very short petioles, mostly obovate or obovate- 

 ■oblong, and very obtuse or shortly acuminate, rounded or contracted at the 

 base, and 2 to 3in. long, and f to l-|in. broad,, but passing into oblong- 

 ■elliptical, and on luxuriant barren branches sometimes oblanceolate, 4 to 5in. 

 Jong, and | to fin. broad, often slightly and irregularly sinuate-toothed at 

 the end, the distant primary veins and transverse reticulate veinlets prominent 

 underneath, without any distinct basal pair of veins. Receptacles mostly 

 •solitary, globose, the largest specimens seen 4 lines diameter, scabrous like 

 the rest of the plant, but without hairs, the external bracts small and scale-like, 

 ■either close under the receptacle or along the short peduncle. Male flowers 

 iew near the orifice. Perianth segments of both sexes narrow and unequal 



