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26. Phyllanthus Fuernrohrii. 



Fruticulose, upright^ branched^ \yith a grey velvet-like indu- 

 ment ; branches nearly terete ; leaves imbricate^ deciduous, 

 spathulate-obovate^ on very short petiols, apiculate ; pedicels 

 axiUar, subsolitary, half the length of the leaves; sepals lanceo- 

 late-ovate^ acutish, with membranaceous margin, outside as well 

 as the depressed capsule hairy scabrous ; seeds broMTi, Isevigate. 



On gravelly sandhills near the Murray, rare. 



This species received its name in grateful acknowledgment 

 of much kindness, which the author experienced from Professor 

 Fuernrohr, in Ratisbon. 



27. Trachycaryon KlotzschiL 



Leaves opposite, very short stalked, ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, irregularly crenately toothed, serrate or repand, above 

 smooth or imperfectly puberulous, beneath grey-velutinous, at 

 the base of the petiole on both sides furnished with one or two 

 small stipitate glands ; femal flowers apetalous ; sepals ovate, 

 subacuminate ; styles free, hardly to the middle bifid ; capsuls 

 verruculose, ovate-globose, slightly impressed at the suturas ; 

 seeds grey, ovate, shining. 



On sandhills near Corner Inlet, and in various localities in 

 South Australia. 



28. Trachycaryon Cunninghami. 



Leaves alternate, in circumference lanceolate-ovate or 

 heartshaped, short-or deep-trifid, smooth or below tomentose, 

 irregularly and coursely serrate, at the base truncate or 

 rounded, with acute lobes and teeths, on the base of the petiole 

 furnished on both sides with one or two large stipitate glands ; 

 femal floAvers apetalous ; sepals lanceolate, acuminate ; styles 

 free, deeply bifld; capsuls subglobose, not furrowed at the 

 suturas; seeds spotted. 



A, TOMENTOSUM ; 



Leaves short-stalked, below as well as the twigs and capsuls 

 tomentose ; bracts and sepals ciliate. 



B, GLABRUM; 



Leaves long-stalked, as well as the capsuls sepals and bracts 

 smooth. 



Between granite-rocks and on the sandy banks of the Snowy 

 River. 



To variety A belongs probably Adriana acerifolia of Allan 

 Cunningham, and to B, A.heterophylla of Sir William Hooker. 



