332 LV. FICOIDER. [ Macarthuria. 
small, many of them reduced to small scales. Flowers much smaller than in 
M. australis, in little cymes, either lateral or in the forks of the branches. 
Calyx-segments obtuse, scarcely above 3 line long, shortly united at the base. 
Petals none. Stamens much more perigynous than in M. australis. O 
1 in each cell of the ovary ; styles exceedingly short. Fruiting-calyx slightly 
enlarged, but not exceeding $ line 
W. Australia. Swan River and to the northward, Drummond, n. 10 and 611. 
2. M. australis, Hueg. Enum. 11. Stems from a perennial stock, 
erect, virgate or rush-like, slightly branched, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves few and 
distant, long and linear or the lower ones shorter and broader, or all reduce 
braet 
nearly sessile along the branches or terminating short leafy branchlets, or 
oose, irregular aud few-flowered.  Pedicels 1 to 2 lines long. alyX-seg- 
ments about 13 lines long, the outer ones green, the inner more scarious. 
Petals scarcely exceeding the sepals, oblong. Ovules 2 or 3 in each cell of 
the ovary.— Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 408; Steud. in Pl. Preiss. i. 229; Steetz m 
Tl. Preiss. ii. 359; M. foliosa, Steud. 1. c. 230; Steetz, 1. c. 360 (from the 
description). 
W. Australia. King George's Sound to Swan River, Huegel, Drummond, lst Coll 
Preiss, n. 1671, 1672, and others; Murchison river, Oldfield. 
racts very small, mostly opposite or nearly so. Calyx about í 
Petals about as long as the calyx, perhaps sometimes wanting. Ovules ha 
each cell of the ovary; styles rather short. 
N. S. Wales. Tweed river, C. Moore. The specimens seen uot perfect. 
8. MOLLUGO, Linn. . 
(Glinns, Zinn. ; Trigastrotheca, F. Muell.) n : 
Calyx-segments 5, persistent. Petals none. Stamens few or many, = 
sometimes with the addition of a few staminodia, of which 1 to exte 
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