Poranthera.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. 55 
- Leaves dimas, sessile or shortly contracted sa the base. Plants usually 
e bas 
Plant rarely above 6-8 in. high. Ts aves «i much revolute mar- 
ins. Flower-he: ee soli itary or in close corymbs. 
Stipules jagged or toothed. Eastern plant . . . . . . . 1. P. ericifolia. 
Stipules entire. Western or 8. ee plant 2. P. ericoides. 
more. af-margins less revolute. 
Flower-heads Ia corymbose 
m rather slender, rarely oct above 1 ft. cer seen 
Aes C P s . P. Huegelii. 
Plant 3 ft. high. Eastern specie mbosa. 
Leaves a or linear-spathulate contracted into a long petiolo. 
Diffuse slender annual with small flower. . . 5, P. microphylla. 
oe Dior Rudge in Trans. Linn. Soc. x. 302, t. 22. A small 
a 
FE 
m 
2E 
TH 
t 
- half so long as the calyx. Female flowers fina pits the males, at the 
- base of the race eme, the calyx and a similar but rather smaller. 
1 Glpeulé about 1 line diameter.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 191. 
LUN. ^x idees Port Jackson, R. Brown, Sieber, n. 118, Woolls, and others. 
. 9. P. ericoides, Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii, 2382.. A small undershrub 
d dk iie P. ericifolia, with the same heath-like crowded leaves, 
3 compact inflorescence sometimes reduced to a single M -like 
., raceme at the end of the branch, but the tipule appear to be constantly 
quite entire. It is either quite glabrous or very slightly scabrous 
E rdg .—Muell. po o eo Prod. xv. ii. 191; pice 
| Pl. Preiss. ii. 232 Kl. 1.c. 231, Muell. Are l.c. 192 (with 
- rather more pi evloped foresee) £P. arbuscula, Sond. in Linnea, 
| xxviii. 567; catricosa, F. Muell. (ined. ?) 
t 
S. PRENNE Yoda do. F. Mueller. 
W.A g George's Sound to Swan river, Baxter, Drummond, 1st 
] veloped eie AER Lente v but many even ences these with the compact racem 
messem or nea 
to the smaller forms of e eastern P. corymbosa. Leaves more iuto 
- than in P. ericoides, less crowded, and not so much revolute. Flowers 
. in a looser less corymbose panicle, the lower or all the branches m 
. longer than the subtending leaves. oft and fruits the same as 1 
that species.—Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 192. 
W. Australia, Drummond; King George's iot Preiss, n. 2047, F. Mueller, 
