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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen sessile, o-locular ; ovules solitary ; micropyle extrorse supe- 

 rior obtected by rather thick obturator; style afterwards 3-partite ; 

 branches short, 3-lobed or sometimes 3-fid stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Capsule 8-coccous, 6-valved ; seeds albuminous; micropyle ariliate ; 

 cotyledons of cylindrical embryo narrow semi-terete and subequal to 

 radicle. — TJndershrubs, usually spartoid ; branches narrow com- 

 pressed; leaves alternate, 2-stipulate, usually narrow subsessile ; 

 flowers ^ axillary ; female cymose or glomerulate, sometimes solitary; 

 male contracto-cymose, {Australia. ~) 



77 ? Calycopeplus Pl.^ — Flowers monoecious ; male naked, 1- 

 androus. Filament erect articulate at middle. Anthers 2-locnlar 2- 

 rimose, inserted at summit of attenuated filament ; clefts extrorsely 

 spectant Calyx of female flower 4- or oftenor 6-lobed ; the 3 interior 

 lobes alternating with the exterior, imbricated. Germen sessile ; cells 

 3, opposite interior sepals, 1-ovulate ; style branches 3, stigmatiferous, 

 entire or 2-lobed. Capsules 3-coccous ; seeds glabrous, ariliate at 

 micropyle ; embryo ? — Shrubs or undershrubs usually subaphyllous ; 

 juice milky ; twigs angular ; leaves opposite or verticillate ; stipules 

 lateral small; limb usually narrow usually 2, sometimes 3, 4glandu- 

 liferous ; flowers terminal and axillary in cymes; female 1, central. 

 Male peripherical, inserted in axil of 3, 4 bracts, connate in involucre 

 at base alternate with the same number of cupular stipules, simple 

 or 2-plieate, cymose in the axil of each ; cymes sometimes small 

 generally 2-parous.'' ( West Australia:') 



78. Cnesmone Bl.'''— Flowers monoecious apetalous ; ^ male calyx 

 3-fid shortly subturbinate at base. Stamens 3, alternate, inserted 

 round germen rudimentary or subnil ; filaments free ; anthers 

 iutrorse, 2-rimose ; connective long produced beyond cells. 



1 Minute, vires cent, more rarely bluish or 

 reddish. 



- Spec. 5, G, Ad. Ba. in Buperr. Voij. Coq. 

 Hot. t. 49.— A.Rich, ro,/. Astro/. Bot. 53, t. 20.— 

 Speeng, Sijst. iv. 109 (Leptrimeriii). — Ki,. in 

 Lehm. PI. Pniss. i. 176.— Benth. Fl. Aiistntl. 

 vi. 8.— H. Bn. in Adanmuia, vi. 318. 



:< In Bull. Sue. Dot. de Fr. Tiii. 30. 



^ A genus therefore allied to Amperca, thence 

 to the Munatttjcidinm, among tho2-ovulate genera 

 according to us much fiu-ther removed from 

 Euphorbitt to which it has been united hy other 

 authors. 



5 2, 3 species, of which 1 is better known : 

 C. paiieifoliuin H, Bn. in Adunsonia. vi. 319, — 

 C. ep/wdroidvs Pl. loe. cit, 31. — Benth. Fl. 

 Austral, vi. 53. — Euphorbia paucifolia Kl. in 

 Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 174. — Boiss. Prodr. 175 ; 

 Euph. Ic. t. 120. — H. Bn. in Ada)isoiiia, i. 

 291. 



e Fl. Jiir. Prrejat. vi.— Endl. Geii. n. 5783. 

 — H. Bif. Euphorb. 458, t. 4, fig. 14-17.— 

 M. Auo. Prodr. 926. — Cnesmosn Bl. Bijdr. 

 630. 



7 The males very similar to Tragin, scarcely 

 distinct by the stamens. 



