GENERA AND SPECIES. 37 
Calyx tomentose inside. 
Leaves linear or oblong-linear ; floral bracts 
small, lanceolate; flowers small, few, on 
slender stalklets, forming a short racemose 
eye” .... a! ei oe See ... Baueri 
Leaves broader ; floral bracts petaloid, flowers 
larger, several, forming cymes a ... Tepperi 
11. Style densely covered with stellate hairs. 
An erect shrub with large flaccid cordate leaves ; 
flowers large in loose cymes; floral bracts 1 or 2, 
small, linear-filiform ; sepals white, glabrous in- 
side Sis 4 ate of ore Ae ... Schulzeni 
ORDER TREMANDREAE. 
Tetratheea. 
Anthers continuous with the filament, 4-celled, 2 in front 
of the 2 others ; seeds hairy with an appendage at the 
chalazal end. Heath-like shrubs with round stems and 
rather large pink flowers. 
Leaves broadly ovate, clustered in 3’s or 4’s. Ovules 
2 superimposed in each cell... ee ) geHiata 
Leaves linear, scattered, rarely wanting or reaee te 
scales ; ovule 1 in each cell ; flowers rarely white ... ericifolia 
ORDER EUPHORBIACEAE. 
1. Flowers without sepals and petals included 
within a calyx-like or petaloid involucre. 
Flower-clusters consisting of one pistillate flower sur- 
rounded by several staminate flowers each of one 
stamen on a pedicel, intermixed with scales; the 
calycine involucre with glands on its margin; fruit 
6-valved. Herbs with a milky acrid juice ... Euphorbia 
11. Flowers with sepals. No involucre. 
Stamens 10 or less. 
Anthers opening by terminal pores. 
Sepals 5, white; petals minute; stamens5, free Poranthera 
Anthers opening by longitudinal slits. 
Petals absent. 
Leaves in alternate clusters of 3; sepals 
6, petal-like; stamens 3 to 9, free ... Mierantheum 
Leaves scattered. 
Fruit l-celled, 1-seeded; stamens 3, 
free ; styles 3, undivided; sepals 6 Pseudanthus 
