150 XCV. PHYTOLACCACER. [ Tersonia, 
irregular horizontal zones. Seeds small, oblong.— Gyrostemon rami- 
losus, Lehm. Pl. Preiss. i. 243, not of Desf.; G. angustifolius, Schnitzl. 
Ic. Fam. Nat. t. 208.* 
WV. Australia. Swan river, Preiss. n. 1234; Swan and Murchison rivers, 
Oldfield. 
qu male specimens described by Moquin belong to Gyrostemon ramulosus, 
esf. 
9. T.? subvolubilis, Benth. Stems numerous, herbaceous diffuse 
and flexuose, many of them apparently twining, attai 1 ft. and 
contracted at the base, rarely exceeding j in. and usuall few and 
distant. Male flowers in terminal interrupted spikes, precisely like 
those of T. brevipes; females unknown. 
W. Australia. Oldfield river and Phillips Ranges, rare, Maxwell. 
The female flowers and fruits of this species being as yet unknown, the genus "e 
be in some measure uncertain, but the inflorescence of the males and their gene 
habit agree with none but Tersonia. 
Order XCVI. CHENOPODIACEAE. 
l 
rarely thin and transparent or somewhat scarious, imbricate in the bud. 
B 
from an erect funicle. Styles or style-branches 2 or 3 
their whole inn 
or with scarcely any en.—Herbs or undershrubs, often ucculent 
and very frequently hoary or white, especially the young parts, with à 
minute an aly or more se omentum, or 1n 
lly. 
80; . opt us 
clustered, either SUNT or in axillary or terminal dense or interrup 
Spikes or panicles, and often unisexual. Bracts inconspicuous, OT, 
in pein or saline situations in the Old World, a few species, i 
bed forme, | - 
general distribution of the Order, the remaining eight appear to be endemic. : 
Trine 1. Chenopodiez.— Branches continuous. Leaves flat, glabrous, mealy, scaly 1 
or glandular, Testa crustaceous. Embryo curved round a mealy albumen. 4 
Perianths equally 5- or 4-lobed, herbaceous. not h ] lin fruit 
Fruit a sma!l succulent ENS DER. s VUE BE 
