Leptomeria.] CXIV. SANTALACER. 225 
elliptical, flat or concave, fleshy, 2} to 3 lines long. Flowers solitar 
in the axils of bracts similar to the leaves but smaller, forming leafy 
spikes of 4 to lin Powe with their aed i is lon ng. Lobes of 
the epigynous disk very Pure nt.—A. DC. P v. 680. 
W. Australia. Preiss, n Drummond, Ath rey pe 4, neither of which 
Specimens spe Iseen. The jum donas is taken from Miquel's and De Candolle's. 
6. OMPHACOMERIA, A. DC. 
Flowers unisexual by abortion. . Perianth-tube short, adnate 
end. Stamens inserted near the base of the segments; filaments short E 
Aikor with 2 distinct parallel cells opening enen d thee ein 
empty or abortive in the females. Ova ary inferior, abortive 
ens, iin sometimes a few male clusters on a female specimen, both 
Sexes sessile in a concave disk without distinct bracts 
. The genus is limited to irse 
_ Branches rigid but rather slender, terete : ^x O. acerba. 
B ranches more rigid and shorter, prominently striate or angled. 2159520, — 
unable to disc ver any leave on any of our specimens. Fem sia flowers 
E i t inent Ovary thick, scarcely 
. iline long, the perianth-lobes scarcely longer and as broa d as long, 
- the anthers ERR ty and smaller “than in the males. Male 
- flowers in almost sessile | AB of 3 to 5, the perianth without any 
. distinct tube or ovary, the lobes or segments as in the females and 
- the anthers perfect; the central disk flat, NS a slightly prominent 
. entire rudimentary style. up ovoid, 3 to 4 lines long, with a 
. eulent epicarp.— ZLeptomeria acerba, R. Br. Prod. 354. 
E Wales. Port Jackson to ^s Blue Mountains, 2. Brown, A. Cunningham, 
. and others, 
3 noa Peak and mountains on the Mitta Mitta, F. Mueller, specimens 
E both € i ern and on one of the latter a few male clusters 
__ 2. O. psilotoides, 4. DC. Prod. xiv. 681 (part) Very closely 
allied to O. acerba, and perhaps a Pone only, with shorter more rigid 
branches very prominently striate or angled. 
e Mountains? ^ Biens 134; the specimens seem male only, 
I have sed -— any specimens of " Cu:mingham's answering to this species. The 
presas of Gains referred to it by A. DC. is the Leptomeria glomerata, F, 
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