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on some shoots pinnatilobed. Pedicels axillary, solitary or perhaps racemose 
when near the ends of the branches, 2 of the calyx-lobes deltoid, the 2 others 
dilated, or truncate-rhomboid ; tube when fruit-bearing expanded into 4 broadish 
conspicuously veined membranes, of these on each side of the somewhat com- 
pressed tube 2 approximated. Styles 4, very short ; stigmas beardless. Fruit 
rather large, 4-celled ; pericarp spongy. 
Hab.: Recorded for Queensland by F. v. Mueller. 
6. H. micrantha (small-flowered), R. Brown in Flind. Toy. App. 550 ; 
Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 482. Glabrous or slightly scabrous, much branched and 
diffuse or slender and erect, usually under 6in. high, but when very luxuriant 
twice that height, the greater part occupied by the panicle. Stem-leaves opposite, 
orbicular-cordate or very broadly ovate, serrate-crenate, 3 to 4 lines or rarely Jin. 
diameter, the floral ones reduced to minute alternate bracts. Racemes filiform, 
in a loose terminal panicle. Flowers minute, solitary. Calyx-lobes short, not 
cordate. Petals 4, about J line long. Styles and ovules 4. Fruit small, nearly 
globular, prominently 8-nerved, otherwise smooth and shining.— Hook. f. FI. 
Tasm. i. 121 ; H. tenella, Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 68 B ; Goniocarpus 
micrantlius, Thunb.; DC. Prod. iii. 66; G. microcarpus, Thib.; DC. Prod. iii. 66 
(from the diagnosis). 
Hab.: Common in southern Queensland. 
Also in New Zealand, Khasia, and Japan. — Benth. 
7. H. Stricta (straight — plant erect), B. Br. Herb.; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 
482. Erect, rigid but slender, rather tall, nearly glabrous in appearance but very 
scabrous. Stem-leaves opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, entire or with 
small distant teeth, the larger ones 1 to 2in. long, the floral ones alternate, 
mostly reduced to small bracts. Flowers clustered within each bract, shortly 
pedicellate, forming slender terminal racemes leafy at the base. Calyx-lobes 
small, acute. Petals 4, about 1 line long. Stamens 8. Styles and ovules 
(according to R. Brown’s notes) 4. Fruit small, but not seen ripe. 
Hab.: Broadsound, it. Brown (Herb. R. Br.) ; Rockingham Bay. 
8. H. heterophylla (various-leaved), Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 68 A ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 483. A rather slender species, usually small but sometimes 1ft. 
high, glabrous or minutely scabrous, with erect or ascending stems. Stem-leaves 
all or mostly opposite, deeply divided above the middle into 3, 5 or 7 linear or 
rarely lanceolate acute lobes almost digitate ; a few of the upper ones often 
alternate linear entire or nearly so, the floral ones smaller, the uppermost reduced 
to small bracts. Flowers like those of H. tetragyna, small, solitary or 2 together 
within each bract, in slender terminal leafy racemes. Calyx scabrous, with short 
lobes. Petals 4, in the males oblong, boat-shaped, about 1 line long, present also 
in some of the females, but shorter and hood -shaped. Styles and ovules 4. 
Fruit small, globular or nearly so, tubercular-rugose. 
Hab.: Keppel Bay, R. Brown; Burdekin River, F. v. Mueller; Moreton Bay, C. Stuart; 
Warwick, Beckler ; and many other localities in south Queensland. 
Generally speaking, this species is readily distinguished from H. ceratophylla by its slender 
habit, opposite stem-leaves only divided above the middle, and by the small flowers of H. 
tetragyna; but some specimens, mostly in an imperfect state, appear almost to connect the 
two. — Benth. 
9. H. acanthocarpa (fruit spiny), Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. t. 70 ; Benth. 
FI. Austr. ii. 483. Stems decumbent or erect, 1 to 2ft. long, scabrous-hirsute as 
well as the leaves. Stem-leaves opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, oblong or 
broadly lanceolate, or sometimes broad-ovate, obtuse, mostly f to Hin. long, 
regularly and acutely serrate as in H. alata, rounded at the base. Flowers very 
small, alternate along the filiform branches of a long loose terminal panicle, with 
