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‘Petals twice as lone. 
RS EAR 
W. Austr 
. Oldfield; Cham 
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1 
-Ricinocarpus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. "1 
very early. Ovary contracted at the top into a very short neck, 
crowned by the deeply divided styles, which are somewhat flattened 
spreading from the base and then incurved. Capsule j in. long an 
nearly as broad, acuminate, tuberculate. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. 86 in part, and Suppl. n. 15; sandy places 
along the coast from Esperance Bay to Cape Paisley and Port Malcolm, Maxwell. 
This species is united with R, glaucus by Baillon, Adans. vi. 295; but besides the 
different foliage and the absence of peiri Ai the calyx and above all the ovary styles 
and capsule are very different. ; 
4. R. psilocladus, Benth. A glabrous or scabrous shrub, resembling - 
some forms of R. glaucus, but more rigid, the branches somewhat 
flexuose. Leaves linear, with much revolute margins, $ to 
Female flower not seen, but t 
fruiting calyx evidently enlarged with coriaceous lobes nearly 4 lines 
long. Capsule not seen except the persistent axis which is about the 
length of the calyx.—Bertya gummifera B psiloclada, Muell. Arg. in 
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 210, quoted by Baillon Adans: vi. 299, as Bertya 
psiloclada, 
W. Australia, Drummond, 2nd or 3rd coll. n.153. Mueller Arg. must have de- 
termined this originally from a very bad specimen, for the one in the Hookerian herba- 
rium, which he has himself identified, although not good, is yet sufficient to show that it 
18 a Licinocarpus, and not a Bertya. : 
. ,9. R. glaucus, Endl. in Hueg. Enum. 18. An erect hare shrub 
of 1 to 2ft. Leaves very shortly petiolate, linear, with the margins 
revolute to the midrib, thicker than in A. pinifolius and usually shorter 
(4 to Lin. long) but very much like those of a few forms of that species. 
Flowers often solitary, but usually 2 to 4 males together, with or with- 
: out a female, on pedicels of 4 to lin., each subtended by a concave 
‘bract and bearing below the middle a pair of scale-like lanceolate 
‘bracteoles, which are often above 1 line long and usually persistent at 
the time of flowering. Male calyx about 1} lines long, divided nearly 
to the base into rather acute segments, ciliate inside. Petals white, 
‘smooth, obtuse, about 4 lines long and nearly as broad, surrounded by 
the persistent but scarcely enlarged calyx.—Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. ii. 
229 ;. Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 205; R. undulatus, Lehm. in Pl. 
Preiss. ii. 370. 
i i rummond, 1st coll., Preiss, n. 2016, 2017, 2031, 
ere Bay Cid m King pog Sound, R. Brown, Huegel eie 
ore ; towards Cape Riche, Drummond, 5th coll. n. 220; Cape Riche an 
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