closely revolute margins, rarely exceeding din. Spikes cylindrical, 
6 to 10in. long. Bracts with broad shortly acuminate silky- 
kaw tips. Perianth yellow, silky, the tube about $in. long, the 
nb ovoid. Style about lin. long, hooked, with a very short, thick, 
stigmaticend. Fruiting cones long and cylindrical. Capsules searcely 
protruding, villous but often becoming glabrous, the flat-top $ to 1 in. 
broad and 4 or 5 lines thick.—FI. Austr. Le 
Hab.: Queensland, F. v. MW. 
Order SANTALACEA, 
| CHORETRUM, R. Br. “ 
C. glomeratum, R. Br., Fi. Austr. vi. 218. An erect, shrub, : 
sometimes scarcely 1 ft. high, sometimes almost arborescent, with 
humerous erect, slender, wiry, angular branches. Leaves reduced to 
- Minute, subulate, deciduous: scales. Flowers small, in clusters. of 
m2to5 on very short common peduncles not exceeding 1 line, 
Prominent. Drupe when dry 2 to 4 lines long, globular or slightly 
ovoid.— Benth., 1.c, 
Hab. : Near Dalby, Dr. Thos. L. Bancroft. The specimens submitted to me 
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Flowers monecious, Males in spikes or catkins. Perianth of 1 
*rseveral usually unequal scales, segments or lobes. Stamens 1 or 
n filaments slender ; 
ts 2-celled. Female flowers solitary or few together, surrounded 
consisting of one or more nuts placed upon, or more or less 
etelosed in, the usually enlarged persistent involucre. Seeds peg * 
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tary j each nut, without albumen. Embryo various, the radicle 
with Y Superior. Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, penniveined, 
oko Without stipules. Male catkins usually falling off entire.— 
 enth., in Fl. Austr. vi, 209. 
FAGUS, Linn. 
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