82 i CVIII. EUPHORBIACEZ. 
back of onè of the valves, mcer, n into 3 2-valved cocci. 
00 
where known, li 
r quite Le when present alternate, linear, either en 
with closely revolute marg eras or flat and the etim t 
Stipules small brown and scari Flowers very small in small axil 
closely sessile tufts, surrounde d: $ scarious bracts, the ‘males us 
numerous, the females = or solitary, all on very short pedicels ¢ 
` almost sessile. Cannons 
The genus is endemic in pee jid the species all Western except A. spartioi 
Male flowers 3-merous. 
Stems slender, diffuse. we ~~ oe nmt = A, pro 
tene raning almost leafles: wr Ag Polubili. 
Male merous. 
née b dian with revolute margins. 
Stems terete. I owers very numerous, in dense tufts with deeply 
dins 
Leaves po, Stems slender but gid 3. 
Leaves crowded, rigid. Ste did thiols ascending Stipules and 
Stems leafless or nearly 80 LI in flower, erect, rigid compressed 5 EPA 
or 3. angle ^ . 6. A. spartic 
A. subnuda, Nes j in p. Preiss. i ii. 299, i is hide broclgeligins F. Muell. 
v. 146. 
3: rotensa, Nees in Pl. Preiss, ii. 229. Stems, from a perenni 
base, n Psp slender, diffuse, somewhat com naid but sca 
engiler, Gin. to 1 ft. lo ong. Leaves oblong-lanceo T Rees contra 
into a eet "flt or nearly so, mostly about long. Stipul 
‘broad, deeply frin nged. Male perianths pedicellate, pA 3 line lon 
divided to about the middle into 3 almost valvate lo bes. Sta 
usually 1 in the cluster surrounde a few males. Perianth di 
bon; base into 5 segments. Styles divided to the base but all co 
ted by a ring or falling off together. Rene about 1 line long, 
paar teeth or protuberances less promine nt than in other species 
very obtuse.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 213. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 85 ; ^ Md River, Preiss, n. 1214 
A. volubilis, F. Muell. Herb. Stems elongated, twining, 
or ps so, leafless or nearly so at the time of flowering. Leaves 
few on some of the young shoots, linear, rigid, with much re 
smal s, } to jin. long, but often abortive from the first. 
small orate or lanceolate, mostly entire. Male flowers in dense cl 
racts ovate mostly entire, the inner ones very 
oa grs 3-lobed. Stamens 6 o r fewer, the outer ones 
but not hairs with l-celled anthers.’ Female flowers ese, 
