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No. 26 . 
Baloghia lucida, Endl. 
The Brush Bloodwood. 
(Natural Order EUPHORBIAC^E.) 
Botanical description— Genus Baloghia, Endl. 
Flowers. —-Dioecious or monoecious, in unisexual short terminal racemes. 
Male flower — 
Calyx. —Four or 5-lobed, the lobes imbricate in the bud or very short. 
Petals. —As many as calyx lobes. 
Disc. —With a thick raised undulate or irregularly-lobed border. 
Stamens. —Indefinite, the filaments shortly united or inserted on a raised or conical central 
receptacle or column without any rudimentary ovary ; anthers dorsally attached, with 
two distinct parallel cells opening outwards and longitudinally in two valves. 
Female flower — 
Calyx, Petal?, and Disc as in the males. 
Ovary. —Three-celled, with one ovule in each cell. 
Styles. —Three, distinct or shortly united at the base, spreading, deeply divided into two 
branches (at least in the Australian species). 
Fruit. —Globular, the exocarp often fleshy or succulent, the endocarp rather hard, separating 
into three 2-valved cocci. 
Seeds. —Oblong, with a small carunculus ; albumen copious, cotyledons fiat, longer than and 
at least twice as broad as the radicle. 
Tree or shrubs, glabrous except sometimes the flowers. 
Leaves. —Opposite or alternate, coriaceous, finely veined. 
Flowers. —Few, not small, the racemes sometimes almost reduced to umbels. 
Bracts. —Very deciduous, with one flower within each. 
Botanical description.— Species, B. lucida, Endl., Prod. FI. Norf. 84, and 
Iconogr., t. 122, 123. 
A tall shrub or small tree, perfectly glabrous. 
Leaves. —Opposite, very shortly petiolate, oblong, obovate-oblong or elliptical, obtuse or obtusely 
acuminate, rigidly coriaceous and shining, the primary veins numerous, fine but prominent, 
transverse and anastomosing. 
