Phyllanthus.] CVIII. EUPHORBIACER. 97 
Var.? mollis. Branches, foliage, and flowers softly pubescent. Anther-column very 
=  Short.—Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. A sub-variety from the same locality has the 
_ leaves narrow and not 2 in. long 
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_ cave, the 3 inner ones rather longer than the 3 outer. Anthers 3, erect 
ther sex. emale perianth rather smaller than the male, and 
slightly pubescent. Ovary depressed, almost 3-partite, the carpels 
deeply 2-lobed. Styles 3, short and thick, erect in the central depres- 
sion, stigmatic inside. Capsule about 4 lines diameter, much depressed, 
more or less deeply divided into 6 or fewer lobes according to the 
number of seeds perfected. Seeds “orange-red when ripe,” but not 
quite ripe in the specimens seen. 
Queensland. Rockhampton, O’Shanesy; Nerkool Creek, Bowman. 
Sect. 2. Synosremon.—Undershrubs shrubs or perennial herbs. 
. Leaves usually small. Stamens 3, the anthers adnate to a central 
. column, with parallel cells opening longitudinally. Ovary 3-celled. 
. Styles distinct or connate at the base, usually spreading. No glands 
= or disk in either sex. 
The section is limited to Australia. 
| . 8. P. ditassoides, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 487, and in DC. Prod. 
. Xv. il, 826. An undershrub with a short thick woody base and wiry 
_ Slightly branched ascending stems of 4 to 1 ft., somewhat angular, 
Segments narrow, erect, about 14 lines long. Anthers connate and 
twice as long as the column below. Female flowers solitary, on very 
e r than i e males and 
; “keris Ovary depressed, 3-celled, pubescent. Styles diverging 
om the base, thick, 2-lobed. Capsule not seen 
Puss Australia. South Goulburn island, A. Cunningham; Port Essington, Arm- 
rong. i 
4. P. Adami, Muell: Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 327 (9 ). Stems from 
a thick woody base, ascending or erect, simple or branched, from a few 
inches to above. 1 ft. high, more or less angular, glaucous as well as the 
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