"E 
i NC 
— Trianthema.] : LV. date = 
` the style, which is App long and ndi Ovules about 5 or 6, on pani- 
short pla 
des of various lengths on a s placenta. apunte acute, circumsciss below 
the middle. Seeds 2 to 5. minutely granulose 
ndy. mari hills and plains, Victoria river, F, Mueller ; islands of 
. WN. Australia. Sa 
the Gulf of ees R. Bro 
mens seen, on slender — dilated a t "ihe eg ries scarious ja GC 
e 
the tube. Stamens 7 to 10. Ovary of 1 carpel short and rounded, with 6 
to 12 ovules on funicles of various GE, style terminal, but slightly ex- 
centrical, linear and recurved. Capsule globular, circumsciss. Seeds smooth. 
= neistrostigma cypseleoides, Fenzl, Nov. Sti 
N. ales. Hawkesbury river, R. Brown; also in 
y Qm. E AP 11 tinn 
TRIBE iN dei SUBORDER). MoLLUGINE®.—Calyx free, divided to the 
m. E near 
n the ie is divided quite to the base, the stamens, inserted as in Ke rest of the 
w the lobes, are necessarily hypogynous. In a few species n base of the calyx 
is slightly developed and then the stamens are somew perigynous. u 
uently referred to oppose or bat or be lacee, with both of viia as with Ficoidee, 
Phytolaceacea, Chenopodiaceae, Amar ete., it agrees in as see ols and embryos » 
differs however b from SENI; s Es Portales ec in Ca divi as W 
e th from Ca 
habit, and although irtis allied to those two as well as lo Phy tolacceoes, it appear v to 
to be much more closely connected with the tribe Aizo idea of Ficoidee through Tia 
thema, Like all the Ficoidec it is re markable for the zeneral want d symmetry between 
the stamens and the other parts of the fl 
7. MACARTHURIA, Huer, 
Calyx-segments 5, persistent. Petals 5 or none. Stamens 8, slightly 
Petigynous, the filaments ich ina cup at the base. Ovary free, enclosed 
in the calyx, 3-celled, with 1, 2, or 3 ovules in each cell, attached to a basai 
E styles 3, with JS terine] stigmas. Capsule enclosed in the 
alyx, opening loculicidally in 3 valves. Seeds reniform or sub- 
"Zeg i SE expanded into a small cup-shaped white arillus.—Rigid 
Wity or ru sh-like herbs or undershrubs. Leaves few, alternat Keng Es 
ill reduced to scales; Flowers small, in lateral or terminal short i r 
. Uymes, or forming a ee dichotomous cyme with opposite braets. 
mee nis 
The genus is confined t 
o Australia 
lord fores, late nl or eal cymes (sometimes reduced to 
1. M. apetala. 
CR 9. M. australis. 
Vien F dich oloinots tornia ‘cymes, with petals. ll Tm 
de e Ke "e site. Ovules abes in — — 3. M. neocambrica 
