- Amperea.| CVIII. EUPHORBIACEE. 83 
| E imen. Perianth deeply 4- or 5-lobed, the lobes rigid and acute. 
apsule about 1 line long, the tooth-like appendages mee ene acute. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 4th coll. n. 87 and 5th coll. Suppl. n. 
rg rantha, Benth. Stems from a jours d several, 
1 ? 
1 rigid DER or nearly so. -Leav ves linear, with revolute mar ins, about 
] 3rd. coll. n Herb. F. Muell. unnumbered 
B or me 2s, bu but Ay t that number of other ik racio where it is given to Phyllan- 
er; 
p 4 A.c OmU Benth. peer. from a woody base, apparently de- 
. cumbent, thick and hard, 8 to lO in. long in our specimens. 
Leaves crowded and mr in Mgr axils, lhea with revolute margins, 
coriaceous, nort iin. long or rather more. Stipules broad, brown, 
- fringe wers all female in our specimens, sessile and most con- 
. cealed in dation tufts of brown scarious setaceously fringed bracts. 
. Calyx or perianth deeply divided into 4 or er unequal fiis mucro- 
hate or aristate segments, y 6 long acute dorsal 
‘appendages. Styles 3, very gat rali united. at the base, curved reflexed 
and protuding between the a pendages, shortly bifid at the end. Cap- 
sule scarcely more or" 1 line long, the erect appendages nearly as 
long as the capsule itsel 
= W. Australia, ANNS n. 29. 
5. A. ericoides, A. Juss. Tent. Euph. 112, t. 10, according to Muell. 
DC. Prod. xv. ii. 214. Stems, from a "hard often n woody base or 
ndin 
ther more than 1 mud lon the dba eget short broad and 
. Styles deeply divided. —A. rosmarinifolia, Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. 
at ‘Masia, King George's Sound and neighbouring districts, 2. B 
i a Preiss, n. 1225, 3nd coll. n. 2 233, and 3rd coll. n. 206, 200, ind 
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