- Monotacis.) CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ, 81 
- long. Flower-heads or clusters sessile within the last leaves, con- 
. sisting of 1 to 3 females and about twice as ma les, on short fili- 
sc 
the males. eus less — ARM "Ceu — oe 
in 
W. terit pempig 3rd peek n. 18. 
E. M. grandiflora, Endl. in Hueg. Enum, 19. A RES undershrub, 
| with a Miis base, P doses erect or mov inen slender w 
v 
I. with or vritholit^à fow ies Males on slender dine” Calyx- 
segments 5, acute, nearly 1 line long. Petals about half as long again, 
shortly unguiculate and foe above the claw. Female flowers 
on short thick dinate alyx-segments acuminate. Petals narrower 
than in the males, almost acute, tapering at the base, but without any 
distinct claw. — Klotzsch i in Pl. Preiss. ii. 230; M. ericoides, Klotzsch in 
PI. Preiss. i. 177; Hi prone ericoides, ’ Muell. Arg. in Linnea 
E xxriv. e and in DC. Prod, x ii. 208. 
w. Et ond, 1st coll. and 3rd coll. n. 19, Preiss, 
n. 1218 ; gs district, garg * 2142; N. of Stirling Range, F. Mueller. 
| M. bra iei Nees in PI. Preiss. ii. nig (Hippocrepandra pini Muell. Arg. in 
Linnea xx . 62, and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 208, Monotaxis Neesia a, Baill. Adans, vi 
| 293), is undid di bad specimens of this plan nt from near r York, Preiss, n. 1219, with 
3 shorter leaves than usual, but ru belonging to lateral branches, ‘the longer ones of the 
E stems having all fallen a 
11. AMPEREA, A. Juss. 
4 wers moncecious or dicecious. Male fl.: Perianth campanulate, 
somewhat petal-like, 3- to 5-lobed, without inner i 
twi any as AEn ANG or fewer, the filaments free or shortly 
ovoid, parallel, o undici longitu tàdin ally in 2 valves, the el croi 
"usually tipped with a small gland. «Female fl.: Pe rianth more ES 
divide males into 5 rarely 4 rather rigid lobes, persistent 
enlar, ^p under the fruit. Ovary 3-celled, with 1 ovii in each 
tyles 3, more or less deeply divided into 2 branches. Capsule 
ps crowned by a ring of 6 erect tooth-like —" — on the 
: L. VI. 
