— Micrantheum.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 57 
4. MICRANTHEUM, Desf. 
al Baill.) 
r8o 
2 parallel cells ook longitadios nally. Rudimentary ovary small and 
lobed. Female 4. : Perianth of the males. Query ges and 3-celled, 
together in the upper dili the males on short pedicels, the females 
usually sessile. 
. . The genus is limited to Australia. 
ENNME o0, S 1.0 1-4 $0. x ION AC 1. M. ericoides. 
| Stmensó . P A - 2s Are 2. M. hecandrim. 
M. Mund i Desf. in Mem. Mus. Par. iv. 253, t. 14. A heath- 
| like shrub of 1 to 2 ft., the branches and sometimes the foliage hirsute, 
about 3 or rarely 4 lines long, glabrous and smooth or scabrous- 
pubescent. Flowers in the axils of oral leaves which are often 
solitary or only 2 together, the males on pedicels shorter than the 
leaves. Perianth-se dart ovate or oval-oblong, about iline long, 
_ the inner ones flat, the outer concave and smaller. Rudimentary ovary 
sg 3-lobed. Female flowers larger, the inner perianth-segments 
E es long. xo gates about 3 lines long.— 
F DC. "Prod. xv. ii. 195; M. boroniaceum, F. Muell. hin i. 32. 
; Burnett river, F. Mue 
EY ge Doe Ri pens 2d others ; fener | Creek, Leichhardt. 
2. M. hexandrum, Hook. f. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vi. 283, FI. T. 
i 942. An erect shrub, attaining ie A of rivers 8 to 10 ft., gaiti 
. glabrous or the UE ee scent. Leaves in threes, "linear 
id en Los aprosding than in M. ericoides. 
ts a 
M. ericoides.— Caletia mierantheoides, Baill. Etud. Euph. 554, t. 26, f. 1 to 
. 18, Adans. vi. 326 ; ri p eese Muell. Arg. in DC. Brod. xv. ii. 194. 
