Victorian Plants. 431 



EUSTREPHUS. 



1844. Flower-stalklets from the axils of leaves. 



Root-fibres ending into small tubers ; leaves almost sessile, 

 from broad-linear to lanceolar-ovate, dull-green beneath, 

 without any distinct basal articulation, thus long per- 

 sistent ; flowers rather small, their stalklets jointed 

 towards or near the middle, often rather long ; sepals 

 and petals dull-purplish or pale-pink, deciduous ; fila- 

 ments wholly connate into a membranous tube ; anthers 

 conniving ; style filiform ; fruit rather large, almost 

 globular, brownish-yellow or orange-colored outside ; 

 seeds numerous, externally black, shining, provided with 

 a small appendage. E. Browiiii. 



GEITONOPLESIUM. 



1845. Flowers in stalked cymes or umbels. 



Minutely and scantily prickly ; leaves on very short stalks, 

 with a basal articulation, thus readily seceding, very 

 shining, from broad-linear to lanceolar-ovate, their venti- 

 lation subtile ; cymes often paniculate ; flowers rather 

 small, their stalklets unjointed near the middle, often 

 rather short ; sepals and petals often greenish, deciduous; 

 filaments disconnected ; anthers conniving ; style filiform 

 fruit almost globular, bluish-black outside, nearly indehis- 

 cent ; seeds several, externally shining-black. 



(Calcoacymosa.) G. Cymosum. 



1846. Stem leafy along its lower portion. 



Leaves long, broad-linear, nearly flat, rough at the margin 

 and cariiiular angle, when along the stem distichous, 

 when terminating branches f ascicular ; clasping leafstalks 

 closed ; stalklets often shorter than the flowers, the latter 

 somewhat pendent ; anthers very narrow, pale-yellow, 

 twice or three times as long as the thickened orange- 

 colored portion of the filament ; style filiform ; stigma 

 minute ; fruit nearly globular ; seeds few or several, 

 shining-black outside. D. coerulea. 



Stem almost leafless ... ... ... ... ... 1847 



1847. Leaves comparatively broad, rough at the margin. 



Leaves very rigid, almost ensate, hardly recurved along 

 the margin, there as well as on the carinular angle rough ; 

 clasping leafstalks closed, compressed ; sepals and petals 

 from the down-bent flowers soon verging towards the 



