1478 CXIX. URTICACEiE. [Fwms. 



and as well as the bracts white-hyaline as in F. orhiculata. Stamen 1 with, 

 a large 2-celled anther, and sometimes a second smallar one. Style glabrous,, 

 with a terminal truncate or peltate stigma. 

 Hab.: Lizard Island, A. Cunningham, 



85. F. hispida (hispid), Linn. f. Suppl. 442; Benth. m. Austr. vi. 176. 

 " Wo-o," TuUy Eiver, Both. " Boombil," Johnstone River, Harding. A small 

 tree, remarkable for the young branches, whea luxuriant, very hollow and con- 

 tracted at the nodes, the foliage and branches more or less sprinkled or covered 

 with short stiff hairs. Leaves all opposite, broadly oblong-elliptical or almost 

 ovate, usually acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, mostly 6 to lOin. long 

 and 4 to 5 broad, but very variable in size and shape, entire or sinuate-toothed, 

 the indumentum scabrous above, soft underneath the primary veins distant, 

 prominent underneath as well as the transverse veinlets, the basal pair very- 

 oblique. Receptacles either in pairs in the lower axils or more frequently in 

 leafless clusters or racemes on the old'sr wood, globose or somewhat turbinate, f 

 to lin. diameter, white, more or less hirsute. Male flowers amongst the larger 

 bracts near the orifice, the segments brown hyaline, very broad, each one com- 

 pletely enveloping the iiext in the bud. Female perianth at length nearly as long- 

 as the ovary, with very obtuse or truncate lobes, but so thin and closely appressed 

 as to be easily overlooked. Ovary stipitate. Style with a few hairs ; stigmaf 

 peltate.—/^'. oppositifoUn, Willd. Spec. PI. iv. 1151 ; Roxb. Corom. PI. t. 121 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 638; Covellia oppontifolia , Gasp., and many other synonyms quoted 

 by Miq. in Ann. Mus. Ludg. Bat. iii. 296 ; King Fie. tt. 154, 155. 



Hab.: Northumberland Islands and Broadsound, R. Brown; Eockingham and Edgeoomb& 

 Bays, Dallachy. 



Wood oi a light-yello-w colour, coarse-grained and light. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 393. 

 Bark used for fibre-twine and the leaves eaten raw for food. — Roth, I.e. 



36. P, fasciculata (fruit in bundles), Muell. Herb.; Benth. Fl. Ausir. yL 

 177. " Ber-di-ga," Starcke River, Both. A shrub of 10 to 15ft., the young- 

 shoots hispid with short stiff hairs. Leaves usually alternate, ovate or broadly- 

 elliptical, shortly acuminate, irregularly sinuate-crenate, rounded contracted or 

 slightly cordate at the base, 8 to lOin. long and 4 to 5 broad in some specimens, 

 much smaller in others, the distant primary veins and transverse reticulations 

 prominent underneath, slightly scabrous above, more so underneath, and the 

 veins often pubescent or hispid. Receptacles in pairs, sometimes axillary, but- 

 most frequently several together on short leafless branches, forming oblong- 

 clusters or short racemes on the old wood, nearly globular, about -^in. diameter, 

 tubercular-scabrous, marked with about 6 prominent longitudinal ribs, and often 

 depressed at the orifice. Bracts within the receptacle minute excepting near the 

 orifice. Male flowers few under the innermost developed bracts, entirely like 

 those of Z'. hispida. Female perianth scarcely any, or at length shorter than the 

 stipes of the ovary and truncate. Style short, glabrous, with a large peltate 

 concave stigma. 



Hab.: Ilockhampton , Pitzroy Eiver, Bowman, Thozet, Dallachy. 

 Wood soft, coarse-grained and light-coloured. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 394. 

 Bark used for making dilly-bags. — Roth. 



Var. subopposita. L3aves here and there opposite and branches hollow as in F. hispida, but 

 ■with the small 6-ribbed receptacles of F.fascimltita. 



37. F. mourilyanensis (habitat), Bail. Ql. Agri. Journ. 1, Part &. 

 Described by collector as a large tree, bearing its fruit in clusters on the 

 principal stems. Branchlets slender, angular, sulcate-striate between the angles. 

 Leaves alternate, 4 or 5in. long, membranous on short slender petiole of about 

 1^ lines, lanceolate with long points, lateral nerves distant and irregular, the 

 basal pair parallel with and near to the margin, joining with the others and 



