192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



disk 5, 6, alternipetalous. Germen 3-locular ; style scarcely divided 

 into 3 branches, once or twice 2-fid or 2-partite. Fruit capsular, 

 often tuberculate-rugose ; seeds oblong subterete;i cotyledons of cen- 

 tral elongated embryo longer, slightly wider or subequal to terete 

 radicle, semiterete or subconiplanate. — Shi'ubs or undershrubs ; leaves 

 alternate exstipulate, usually narrow, entire revolute at margin ; 

 flowers in terminal or oppositifoliate cymes at summit of twigs, either 

 1-sexual or 2-sexual female flowers in the centre.^ [Australia ; 

 Tasmania?) 



28. Bertya Pl.'^ — Flowers (nearly of Ricinocarpus) monoecious 

 apetalous eglandular ; sepals 5, imbricated, sometimes subpetaloid. 

 Stamens co (of Beijeria), inserted on central columella, imbricated ; 

 anthers extrorsely rimose ; cells more or less or entirely discrete, 

 Gyneeceum fruit, seed, and embryo of Ricinocarpus (or Bcyeria). 

 Staminodes sometimes hypogynous co.— Shi-ubs or undershrubs virgate- 

 ramified ; indumentum often stellate ; leaves alternate narrow coria- 

 ceous exstipulate; flowers axillary, sm-rounded by calyciform^ invo- 

 lucre, and in this solitary or more rarely 2-nate or few. [Australia?) 



29. Beyeria Mia.^ — Flowers (nearly of Ricinocarpus) dioecious or 

 more rarely mouoecious; sepals 5, imbricated. Petals 5, imbricated, 

 sometimes small or 0. Glands 5, alternipetaloiis in both sexes, more 

 or less evolute [Discobeyeria ^) or in female flowers [Euheyeria ^). 

 Stamens co ; filaments connate at base inserted on convex receptacle ; 

 anthers extrorse ; cells long adnate to more or less 2-fid or entii-e con- 

 nective [Etiheijcria, I)iscolei/cria), sometimes on account of 2-partite 

 connective quite discrete erect-divergent (Beyeriopsis^"). Germen 2, 

 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle obtected with rather thick 

 obturator ; style erect, presently dilated in stigmatiferous head, calyp- 

 triform covering conical or sub-3-agonal germen. Fruit capsular, 



' Often as in i2ici«H« dusky-spotted. Sond. in Liii/iica, xxviii. 562 {Siciiwcarpiix). — F. 



^ A genus scai-cely separated from Balnijliia Mvell. Frai/m. iy. 3i ; 143. — H. Bn. in Adan- 



by narrower embryo and general aspect. soiiia, vi. 297. 



^ Spec, about 12, Endl. inSueg. Eiiiim. 18. ^ In Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 350, t. 1.5.— 



— F. MuELL. Frngm. i. 56, 181.— H. Bn. in Endl. (?c«. Suppl. v. 90. H. Bx. Enpfwrb. 402, 



Adaiisoiiia, vi. 29i. t. 18, fig. 13-17; in Adansonin, vi. 309. — M. 



■■ In Hooli. Loud. Journ. iv. (1845), 472, t. 16, Arg. Frodr. 201. — C'alijptrostigiim Kl. in Lihm. 



fig. A.— Endl. Gen. Suppl. v. 90.— H. Bx. Eii- PI. Prciss. i. 175 (nee. Trautv. et G. A. Mey.). 



phorb. 347, 1. 18, fig. 8, 9.— M. Aro. Prodr. 208. —Clavipodium Destx. Herb, (ex H. Bn. loc. cil.) . 



* Leaves sometimes same in number as those * M. Aro. in LimitBa, xxxiv. 59. sect. 1. 

 of the calyx and alternate, representing true ' M. Arg. in Linnaa, loc. cit. sect. 2. 

 sepals and leaves, the real sepals might be taken '" M. Aro. in Linnma, xxxiv. 199; Prodr. 

 for petals. 199. — H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, loc. cit. 310 (worth- 

 Spec, about 8. Hook. r. Fl. Tasmaii. i. 339. — less genera). 

 M. Akg. in Lintiaa, xxxiv. 63. — F. Mu ell. et 



