Calycopeplus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. x 
cci. Seeds smooth, carunc culate, —Shrubs e mderdhrabo) with 
me of floweri 
Leaves opposite or winnie whorled, narrow, ettii, very deciduous. 
Stipules very minute or obsolete. Flower- heads small, axillary or 
The -a » limited m West Australia. It is united by Boissier with Eup 
ut being confirmed by a second species showing the distinctive characters still more 
i Pimat, 1 have followed Ba sip in retaining Z altho: igh not on the grounds 
ides ced by him, for he appears to consider tbe flower-heads as single pe in 
ui 
"uid "Us te. d bes of the inputs and of the female perianth 
wholly green or scarcely border 1. C. ephedroides. 
Disashes “ha or angular. Lobos of the ' involucre and of the 
. female perianth with broad white margin g . . 2. C. marginatus. 
C. ephedroides, Planch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. viii. 31. Ane 
glabrous shrub of several feet, with virgate Shed lito phe ncn 
usually leafless at the tim e of flowerin ng. Leaves on the young shoots 
. Opposite or in whorls of. 3 or 4, epe Linens or lanceolate, entire, 
. 4 to ljin . long, leaving after tallin ersistent gland- like base y 
described sometimes as an adnate sti dia lower-heads almost. sessile, 
Por or 2 together in each axil of the pair or whorl of leaves, ` within 
one very broad bract, all the other braets much wn Perini 
- the female flowers very short, with 6 broad equal lobes. Styles free 
. ülmost or quite from the base. Capsule glabrous.— Euphorbia paucifolia, 
Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. i. 174; Boiss. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 175, and 
. Euph. Ie. t. 120; Calycopeplus paucifolius, Baill. Adans. vi. 319. 
=- W. Australia. Swan river, Drummond, 1st coll. n. 669: Canning river, Preiss. 
2. C. marginatus, Benth. Branches ji peste rigid, virgate and 
almost leafless as in C. apis but either flattened or angular as in 
Amperea spartioides. Leaves very fem. sm all linear ^ que deciduous 
