78 €VIII. EUPHORBIACEJE. [ Bertya. 
column rather longer. Female perianth-segments subulate-acuminate, - 
M 
ase, each one 2- or 3-branched. Capsule (not yet ripe) narrow, acute, - 
i —hMuell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 209; Baill - 
Adans. vi. 298; B. oblongifolia, Muell. Arg. in Flora, 1864, 471, andin | 
v. 1i. 209. i 
. N. S. Wales.. In the interior, C. Stuart; Bents Basin, near Port Jackson, | 
Woolls. 4 
10. MONOTAXIS, Brongn. | 
(Hippocrepandra, Muell. Arg.) E 
dymous, without appendages, separating into 9 Z-valved cocci. : 
obl culate. Embryo linear, straight 0t. 
ade 
n 
the radicle.—Herbs or undershrubs, usually small and glabrous 
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4 . , E 
Rape in the forks or at the ends of the branches between the last 
eaves, the flowers more or less pedicellate within the cymes, the males | 
usually numerous, the females single in the centre or few. racts - 
usually several, small and scalelike, subtending the pedicels or the 
outer ones empty. E 
The genus is endemic in Australia. 
vostly 4-merous, calyx-segments almost valvatt. 
* Secr. 1. E taxis.— Flow 
Petals shorter than the calyx. 
ies. — Flower heads pedunculate. Calyx-segments 
y acute. 
Erect annual, slightly branched. Leaves 1 to 2 in. long. Female - > 
i wd o oro E A PE 
Stems numerous from a thick perennial stock. Leaves under toe 
in. Female flowers solitary in each head. . . . . . 2. M. linifolia. 
Western species.—Flower-heads sessile. Calyx segments acu- A 
i pga xvi Pus Z7 S M. ccnl 
Scr. 9. Hippocrepandra.— Flowers usually 5-merous ; calyx segments dist! 
imbricate. Petals longer than the calya.—All Western species MA pedes do 
‘Leaves lanceolate, sessile 
Stems thick, rigid, about 1 ft. high. Leaves$tolin.. . . 4. M.lurida. 
Stems slender, about 4 ft, high, Leaves under fin, . . . 5, M, megacarpo- 
