Mr. J. Miers on the genus Cyphanthera. 375 



6. Anthocercis anisantha, Endl. Stirp. Austr. Decad. p. 13; 

 Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 192 ; — viscoso-pubescens, ramis ra- 

 mulisque spinescentibus ; foliis in ramulorum axillis fascicu- 

 latis, oblongo-cuneatis, obtusis, integerrimis ; calycis dentibus 

 tubo sequilongis, lineari-lanceolatis ; coroUse laciniis anguste 

 liuearibusj tribus brevioribus; capsula ovata. — In Australise 

 austro-occidentalis interioribus . 



The tube of the calyx is said to be 1 line long, and its teetb of 

 equal length : the tube of the corolla 2 lines, and its two longer 

 segments of the same length. 



7. Anthocercis genistoides, n. sp. ; — fruticosa, glaberrima, spinu- 

 losa, valde dichotomo- et intricato-ramulosa, ramulis gracilibus, 

 flexuosis, virgatis, striatulis, alaribus spiniformibus, mucro- 

 neque pungente apiculatis ; foliis parvulis, sessilibus, anguste 

 linearibus, camosulis, spinis multo brevioribus ; floribus pau- 

 cis, solitariis, axillaribus, pedicello breviusculo imo 2-bracteo- 

 lato ; calycis glabri parvi 5-costati dentibus setiformibus ; 

 corollse lutese laciniis lineari-acutis, tubo 15-striato paullo lon- 

 gioribus, staminibus 2 longioribus tubo tertio brevioribus, 

 filamentis imo subciliatis, antheris rotundatis, cordatia, 2-locu- 

 laribus, extrorsim dehiscentibus. — Australia austro-occiden- 

 talis (Drummond, 86). — v. s. in herb. Hook. 



This is evidently closely allied to the preceding, but differs in 

 its perfectly glabrous habit and solitary small linear fleshy leaves, 

 which are 4 to 6 lines long, half a line broad : the flexuose vir- 

 gate branchlets are 5 to 10 inches long, terete, striated, perfectly 

 glabrous, with numerous slender striated floriferous spines from 

 4 to 10 lines long, which are terminated by a hard sharp osseous 

 mucronate point 1 line in length : the pedicel is 2 lines long ; 

 the tube of the calyx 1 line, its teeth the same length j the tube 

 of the corolla 2 lines, its lobes 4 lines*. 



Cyphanthera. 



I propose to separate from Anthocercis those species, conforming 

 with some others thati find undescribed, which differ in being more 

 or less covered with dense tomentum formed of brachiate hairs, in a 

 calyx of different form, but principally in its unilocular anthers, 

 resembling those of Anthotroche and Duhoisia, where the cell is 

 concentrically bent around a globular polliniferous receptacle, 

 and extrorsely fixed upon the filament, which is always glabrous : 



* Drawings and analytical details of this and of the five first species, will 

 be given in Supplementary Plates, at the end of the 2nd vol. of ' Illustra- 

 tions of South American Plants.' 



