Phyllanthus. | CVIII. EUPHORBIACEJ. 109 
numerous ascending wiry stems of 3 to 6 in. Leaves not Pa 
ovate or obovate, obtuse or acute, es flat, 1} to 3 lines long. 
Flowers dicecious, the males in clusters of 2 or 3, ‘the females edite, 
on pedicels of 1 to 1 line. Male per Hanh -segments red, ovate-oblong, 
under ĝin. long. Glands large. Stamens 3, the filam ents i anther- 
cells parallel. "Female peranth-segments Ls 1 line long, narrower 
and more acute than the males. Dis obed. Ovary glabrous. 
pe 3, deeply divided into 9 eine Dipsule de nupt about 
Le ines diameter. Seeds smooth.— Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 
. 8. WVales.? Some specimens from egg Aena) A, Cunningham, appear to 
belong to this species, but the flowers are not in a state for examination. 
mania. Roadsides, probably common, but overlooked, J. D. Hooker. 
96. P. thymoides, Sieb. Pl. Exs. ; Sond. in Li innæa xxviii. es 
shrub of 1 to 2 ft., more or less page scent or hirsute, at least the young 
branches. Leaves no t distichous, nearly sessile, fom bro wee obovate 
to narrow-cunea diio mucronate truncate or emarginate, the mar- 
gins recurved or revolute, coriaceous, — above d and sometimes 
only 1 to 14 fina long, the midrib very prominent underneath and 
cp reed the whole 4 af stniplibite- Pas small and bluck. 
ne obtuse or the init ner ones mucronulate. Glands large. 
la p 
tuberculate. "Mall x in a DC. Prod. xv. ii. 372; P. hirtellus, F. 
Mu v Herb.; Muell. Arg. in Linnea xxxii. 22; P. ledifolius, A. Cunn. 
D Wales. Port Jackson to the Blue Mountains, Sieber, n. 264, and FT. Mist. 
. 4. Cunningham, and others; New England, C. ‘Stuart ; Mudgee, N. Taylor ; 
"Twotold Bay, F Mueller. 
Victoria. Wilson's Promont tory, W e reed s and Genoa rivers, P. 
Mueller; Grampians, Wilhelmi; Wimmera, D 
S. Australia. Tattiara country, Woods (liene: and the Wimmera specimens much 
less hirsute, sometimes peels shit tos 
Var. glabrata. Almost gl pt th hoots.—T wofold Bay, Mossman, 
F. Mueller. it 
v o 
sp aa a _— Klotzsch in Pl. Preiss. i. 179. A kp rgo 
ing 2 to 4 ft, the branches angular, glabrous but o landalax 
scabrous. Leaves not dis tichous, obovate oblong or rarely almost 
linear, obtuse or ral eh ie rounded or ic sep at the base, rather 
Stipule jer. 
segments ovate or oblong, 3 to 2 line long. Glands conspicuous. 
Stamens 3, the filaments free ; grosor parallel. Female perianth- 
