240 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gyneeceum glandular at margin in 3-lobes, ojaposite exterior sepals, 

 omarginate 2-lobed, incised ; anthers ellipsoidal extrorsc 2-nmose. 

 Germen siu'roimded by thin annular, h3pogyuous disk ; cells 3, 2- 

 ovulate ; obturator thick ; seeds exarillate albuminous. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs divaricate-ramified or very ramified ; leaves simple 

 entire narrow (subericoid) penninerved, sometimes sessile, 3-foliolate ; 

 stipules narrow or not conspicuous ; flowers ^ in dense cushion axil- 

 lary cymose ; female often solitary." (At/s/ral/'a, Tasmania?) 



123. Micrantheum Desp.*'^' — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 

 Calctki) ; stamens 3, opposite exterior sepals. Rudiment of gynae- 

 ceum glandular 3-lobed, opposite interior larger sepals. Other 

 characters of Caletia. — An cricoid virgate-ramified shrub ; leaves 

 alternate narrow rigid stipulate ; inflorescence of Caletia. [Australia.^) 



124 ? Choriceras H. Bn."— Flowers dioecious (nearly of Caletia) 

 or monoecious (?) folioles of imbricated calyx 6, 2 -seriate ; exterior in 

 male flower short. Stamens 6, (or 5, 7); filaments free inserted round 

 base, of slightly thickened rudiment of gyneeceum conical -cylin- 

 drical entire recin-ved at apex ; anthers extrorse ; cells adnate, 

 rimose. Staminodes (or baeillar glands '?) 3 iu the female flowers 

 placed before interior sepals, hypogyuous erect, incrassate at base. 

 Germen sessile ; cells 3 alternating with staminodes free above from 

 middle and each revolute in free style attenuate at apex stigmatife- 

 rous within ; ovules in each 2-uate, inserted at middle of internal 

 angle ; micropyle extrorse superior ; obturator rather fleshy fornicate. 

 Fruit 3-coccous, crowned with 3 discrete peripherical horns ; 

 columella short thin; cells fiually 2-valved; seeds in each 1, 2, 

 exarillate. — A shrub, branches opposite the younger one villulose. 

 leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, exstipulato penninerved ; flowers in 



' Whitish. Siippl. 706, t. 994 {Mieianthea). — A. Juss. 



" Sect. 2. (M. Aug.) : 1. KimiUtia, leaves 3- liuphoib. 24. — Endi.. Qen. n. 5845. — H. Bn. 



foliate; 2. ilf/«v/crt/rfi«, leaves simple. Jiiiphorb. hhb. t. 26, fiii-. 19.— M. Aug. Pruilr. 



•' Spec. 4 (ex Benth. 1). Hook. f. in Honl: 195. 



Lonil. Jotirii. vi. 283 {Mierauthemn). — F. Muell. ^ Spec. 1 M. ericinUh'sDESi'. loc. cit. — Spueng. 



in Trans. Phil. Sue. Vict. (1857), ii. 66 {rseiidiiii- Si/sf. iv. 835.— II. Bn. in Arlansoiiiit, vi. 328.— 



l/ius). — M.A.-RG. in Flora (1864), iSG; in Liniia'a, Beym. Fl. Atintrah vi. 67, n. 1. The other 



xxxii, 79 ; xxxiv. 55. — Benth. FI. Austral, vi- species enumerated hy various authors and by us 



57, n. 2 (^Micrantheum) ; 59, n. 2 ; 60, n. 4, 5 referred to Caletia being excluded. — N. bnroni- 



(Psenelniithiis) ; 62, n. 1 [Stachystemon). — H. Bn. aceam F. Muell. Fraffm, i. 32. 



in .^(/rtHsoxia, vi. 326. " In .4(/««so)/m, xi. 119. 



< In Mini. Mils. iv. 253, 1. 14.— I,amk. IU. iii. 



