Gyrostemon. 



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axillares, inflorescentias laxiuscule racemosas erectas it 60 mm longas efTormantes. 

 Florum fere sessilium pedicelli usque ad \ mm longi, subteretes, cjlindrici; perian- 

 Ihium disciforme, irregulariter 5 — 7-partitum, viride, lobis late acutis, paullo con- 

 cavis; florum masculorum stamina \0 — <3 in disco camosulo {-seriatim disposita, 

 subsessilia; filamenta brevissima; antherae basifixae, lineari-cuneiformes, apice paullo 

 acutae, d= |,5 mm longae; ovarium omnino abortivum; florum femineonim slamina 

 omnino abortiva; ovarium 5 — H-carpellatum, subglobosum, carpellis omnino connaüs, 

 viridibus, ± 1,8 mm longis; styli tot quot carpella, subulato-Oliformes, ± S mm longi, 

 recurvati, apice raedio ovario adnati, in fructu aucti et persistentes. Fniclus sub- 

 globosus, =t 4 mm diametro metiens, carpellis 5 — H evolutis; semina dz 4,5 mm 

 longa. — Fig. 22. 



West-Australien: Murchison-River, Swan-River (Oldfield!); Swan-River (Drum- 

 mond n. Ml); Süd-Australien: Encounter-Bay (Whittaker!); zwischen Murray- 

 River und St. Vincents-Golf und Spencers-Golf (Behr n. U4!); Wüste am Coorong 

 (Wilhelmü); auf Sandhügeln (Tepper n. 60!); Kangaroo-Island (Waterhouse); 

 ohne Standortsangabe (F. Mueller). 



Fig. 22. Gyrostemon ausiralasteus (Mcq.) Heimerl. Ä Habitus fruücis (J. B Flos S- C Habitus 



fruticis Q. D Fructus. E Semen. 



