146 XCV. PHYTOLACCACEJE. ( Gyrostemon. 
Flowers sessile. Ovary of 4 to 10 — Styles short ovate. 
Fruit small, much depressed. Leaves few, distant . . 1. G. brachystigma. 
Flowers sessile. Ovary of 8 to 15 carpels. Styles linear. Fruit 
nearly globular. Stamens 8 to 12 in x a me rng 2. G. eyclotheca. 
Flowers shortly viue Ovary of 15 t o above 20 carpels. 
Styles shortly linear. Fruit em or anis ques d. Sta- 
mens 30 to 50 Salon the whole disk . te 4. 8.4. ramulosus 
1. G. brachystigma, F. Muell. Lower part of the stem not seen, 
m robably shrubby, the branches elongated, almost rush-like, wi 
istant linear-terete rather thick leaves, mostly small, the lower 
poets sometimes 1 in. long. Male flowers not seen. Females sessile in 
the axils, very arial, the open perianth scarcely 1 line diameter. 
vary o of 4 to 10, usually a ab i 
W. Australia, Drummond ; York district, PES n. 1233. 
. G. cyclotheca, Benth. A much branched shrub, sometimes low 
a 
lary recurved pedicels or oe mb. the open perianth about 1} 
lines diameter. Stamens in the male s about 8 to 12, in a single ring 
more; styles or stigmas linear, rather long, in a ring round the sm 
pucri ilated summit of the column. Fruit nearly globular, scarcely 
variable in size, the dorsal angles of the carpels very prominent, sep 
rating at maturity and opening both at the inner and outer edge as in 
G. ramulosus.—Cyclotheca d ea, Moq. in DC. Prod. xiii. ii. 38; 
Gyrostemon ramulosus, Schlecht. in Linnea xx. 639, not of Desf.; Didy- 
motheca pleiococca, F. " Muell. PI. Viet. i. 198, t. suppl. 9. 
N. Australia? Sturt's Creek near Mount Mueller, F. Mueller; between Bonney 
river tung Mount Morphett, M‘Douall Stuart's Expedition (in both cases only male 
specimens and the ee uncertain). 
Victoria. In the Mallee Scrub, from the Wimmera through the north-western part 
of the colony, growing an on os F. Mueller. 
S. Australia. Encounter Bay, Whi taker ; Man rray river to St. Poss and 
€— 8 ble ER F. Mueller and bem, Kangaroo island, Wate 
wW. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. ; Swan and Maretiiaon rivers, 
ouai S 
M REN the difference i in the stamens which i is s0 often of no more tha ase spe 
cific valuei — Mw. 
than to jS eer un, The size and and in some respects the shape of the rine: as we 
as the number of carpels are often so similar that there are some fruiting specimo r 4 
dhe peat lic cely be distinguished from those of G. ramulosus but by the shortne 
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