100 CVIII EUPHORBIACER. [ Phyllantius, 
or nearly so, «pa hie ^i LR out inthe specimens. Peri ianth-segment | ; 
; glan 
ne arly the w de f the column. Female flowers on pedicels var yiii 
from 2 to 6 lines, solitary or 2 together. Perianth narrow, about 1 line - 
long. saat labrous. ` Styles free, thick, dilated and shortly 2-lobed | 
Ch a ie ee Ec celled, 3 to 4 lines long.—Synostemon — 
Tuell. F 1 
omens filias ine ss E Mue 
S. Wales. Between the Darling river pi Cooper's Creek, Beckler. 
. 11. P. rhytidospermus, F. Muell. ; Muell, Arg. in Venen xxxiv. 20, | 
and in DO. Prod. xv. ii. 327. Stems from a woody bas cumbent of 
ascending, 6 to 8 in. high, the branches angular, gialiions ed glaucous 
as well as the foliage. Leaves teat somewhat distichous, oblong ot - 
broadly linear, acute or mucronulate, 3 to 5 lines long. Stipules per- 
sistent, subulate and conspicuously s radin often 1 line long. Flowers - 
. moncecious, Mus small, nearly sessile. Mal Atek ig -segments ovate, 
spreading, petal-like, about 3 line long. No glands. Staminal column | 
very short, anthers 3, very short, adnate roun cem dilated end and pro- - 
jecting slightly above it, forming a disk of 4 line diameter. Fe 
Ovary glabrous. ibn short, erect or scarce y^ spreading at the top, 1 
N. Australia. Depót Creek, Upper Victoria river, F, Mueller. 
12. P. albiflorus, F. Muell.; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxiv. 70, qu. Py 
DC. Prod, xv. ii. 326. much-branched glabrous shrub, varying from 
3 or 4 ft. to twice that height, the branches terete or slightly angalah 
the smaller ones slender but rigid. Leaves obovate-oblong to narrow- 
cuneate, very obtuse, sometimes mucronulate, contracted into avery 
a 
dieses, ea greens: Styles distinct, recurved, cuneate and emargi 
Capsule depressed-globular, nearly 4 lines diameter. 
D E pas yaa Mine river, Moreton Bay, F, Mueller, C. Stuart ; Rockham 
18. P. crassifolius, Muell. Arg. in Flora 1864, 513, and in DC. F 
xv. ii. 395. A rigid gl abrous divaricately branched shrub, someti 
low and spreading, but sometimes attaining 3 or 4 ft. Leaves distichoUs - 
obovate or orbicular, rigidly coriaceous, scabrous-puncticulate, 3 to k 
lines long, all ti tipped i in our specimens with a black gland. Stipw® 
small and gland-like. Flowers very small, few in the axils, on Vel)” 
short veiliceli surrounded by small broad black bracts. Male periant? : 
segments ovate, about 2 line long, the. inner 3 rather longer than 
