 Didymotheca..] XCV; PHYTOLACCACER, . 145. 
axis, dry, opening in 2 valves along the outer edge. Seeds with a 
.erustaceous testa and a small membranous arillus or strophiole. Embryo 
curved round a central albumen.—Erect herb. Leaves linear. Flowers 
small all axillary and nearly sessile, with 2 bracteoles under the 
perianth. 
The single species is endemic in Australia. ‘fhe male individuals would be generi- 
f the car 
habit giving the plant moreover a sufficiently distinct facies to justify its retention’ as a 
Separate genus. 
, 1. D. thesioides, Hook.f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 279, and Fl. Tasm. 
1.809, t. 93. Stems erect, often hard at the base with rather slender vir- 
gate branches, from under 1 ft. to nearly 2 ft. high, glabrous and smooth 
not 1 line long, emarginate between the carpels, the styles often per- 
sistent in the notch and arched over the carpels.—Moq. in DC. Prod. 
pale d. 37; D. Drummoniii, Mog. le.; D. veroniciformis, F. Muell. in 
Linnea, xx y, 438. 
Renta. Near Launceston, Lawrence; Flinders island, Gunn, Milligan. 
| wy Australia. Port Lincoln, Dombey Bay, Wilhelmi. : — 
Pio. Australia, Drummond, n. 216, Preiss, n. 1226 (referred in Pl. Preiss. ii. 
oubtfully to Euphorbiacec) ; King George's Sound, F. Mueller. 
3. GYROSTEMON, Desf. 
(Cyclotheca, Mog.) 
aac covering the whole disk, the anthers oblong, nearly sessile. 
. Uvary in the fuia 0 
near. Flowers 
ine ary, Sessile or on short recurved pedicels, with 2 bracteoles usually 
ery small under the perianth. 
