62 CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Stachystemon. 
females. Staminal pu sometimes very long and “cylindrical, and 
always exceeding the peria 
us is endemic in vnnd and closely allied to kt praet ot only - 
in the stamens (hited in n a column without any central rudiment of the o 
Stamens 10-25, the sang filaments almost free from the column, 
the inner or upper ones very short . 1. 8. polyandrus. 
 Stamens very fe calle ‘all sessile on a long cylindrical column. ; 
Leaves oblong, under } in. long. Anthers pros packed on a : 
column of less than 4 in 2. S. brachyphyllus. 
Leaves linear, py i in. dong. Anthers not dense, on a column : 
more 3. S. vermicularis. 
1. S.p olyandrus, Benth. rd glabrous E the stems in all the 
together from oc ck. Leaves very ghees enoli or almost 
sessile, riom or ian Fra or slightly wd concave and eeled, 
rarely above 4 in. long and pper ones tein wers in termin 
clusters, sessile arly so iei o 8 e with 1, 2 or more 
males ale perianth ** yellow" about 1 line long. Andreecium from 
a little longer than, to twice as long as the perianth, consisting of from 
o 25 stamens, of whic e outer ones have their ene free 
re to the base, the inner ones more or less united in a column, and 
es 2 or 3 anthers sessile or nearly so " the top of the column. : 
uL páxitath about 2 line long, the segments broad thin and fringed 
on the margin. Ovary 2-celled. Capsule not seen.—Pseudanthus 
polyandrus, F. Muell. Fragm. ii.: 153; Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. it 
196; P. ehryseus, Muell. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 48 and in DO. ies le. 
ustrali on 5th coll. n. 221; ‘Oldfield river, Maz E 
aperin connects in some measure Stachystemon with Pse udanthus, but T! find the | 
ns always really united, without ag trace of the rudimentary ovary, and have . 
ean transferred it to Stach, ystemo E 
hyphyllus, Muell. Arg. in Linnea, xxxii. 76, and in DC. 1 
4 lin 
per having the a appearance of er l-celled anthers. Female | 
perianth-segments fully 1 vn , broad, acute or acuminate, much | 
imbricate with fringed margins. Ova with: 2 long "abr stigmatic d 
lobes. oe ovoid, rr nearly 8 iwi long, with a single seed. 
W. Australia. Disecnid, 4th coll. n. 95.—This species had we. ud distin- 
Sed is the Hookerian poa bas by Planchon, with the manuscript name of © 
brevifolius, which Mueller Arg. in common fairness ought to have adopte 
. 8. S. vermicularis, P pss in Hook, Lond. Journ. iv. 471, t. 15. An 
erect, glabrous shrub, writ virgate stems of about 1 ft. Leaves linear, 
acute or obtuse, not so thick as in the preceding species and 4 to 8 lines 
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