EUPHORBIACE^. 241 



axillary cymes ; male crowded ; female few longer pedicellate, 2-clio- 

 tomous cymose. {Australia}) 



125. Pseudanthus Spreng." — Flowers monoecious apetalous 

 (nearly of Caletia) ; sepals 6, 2-seriate imbricated ; interior subpeta- 

 loid or like exterior. Stamens on elevated central receptacle ; fila- 

 ments long 1-adelpbous adnate to central column ; anthers extrorso ; 

 cells discrete, inserted at summit of 2-fiu'cate filament, longitudinally 

 rimose. Disk in flower of either sex evolute ( Chnjsostemon ^) ; glands 

 sometimes between stamens few {Calctiopsis'^) or [Eupseudanthus '^). 

 Germen 2-3-locular ; cells 2-ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, simple 

 strong, inwardly caniculate. Capsvile 2-3-coccous; seeds in cocci 1, 

 2, arUlate at micropyle ; cotyledons of albuminous embryo semicylin- 

 drical narrow. — Virgate undershrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely 

 (Caktiopsis, Chrysostemon) opposite or subverticillate, narrow acute 

 entire rigid (cricoid) stipulate : flowers " cymose or solitary, either 

 in small axillary cushions, or sometimes crowded at apex of 

 branches.^ (Justralia.^) 



126. Stachystemon Pl.^ — Flowers moaoecious apetalous (nearly 

 of Pseudanthus) ; sepals 5, 6, imbricated. Stamens co ; filaments in- 

 serted on elongated central column ; anthers exti'orso ; cells discrete 

 in tubercules sessile to filaments, often finally obliqiie,^" longitudinally 

 rimose. Gyna3ceum, fruit and seeds of Pseudanthus. — Small much 

 ramified cricoid shrubs ; leaves alternate linear-narrow glabrous, 

 1-ncrved-stipulatc; flowers in superior axils, crowded, female fewer 

 mixed with male. [Australia}^) 



127. Securinega J.'- — Flowers monoecious or oftener dioecious 



1 Spec. 1. C. ttustraliana H. Bn. he. cit. (an ' Spec. about 7. F. Muell. JPmym. ii. 14, 153. — 



Dissiliaria tricornis Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 68 (pai-t.). — H. Bn. in 



91 f). Adiinsotiia, vi. 328. 



■i Syst. Cur. Post. 25.— Guillem. in Diet. ^ In Book. Jourii. {IMS), ill, t. 15.— 'H.'&s. 



Hist. Nat. xiv. 318. — Endl. in Flora (1832), Eup/iori. 5G0. — M. Aro. in Linnaa, xxxii. 76; 



392; Atakt. t. 11; Oen. n. 58451.— Done, in Proi/c. 198. 



Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2, xii. 155. — H. Bn. Euphorb. '" Rather rough rigidly memhrancous, very 



656, t. 26, fig. 16-21. — II. Akq. in Linnaa, dusky coloured. 



xxxiv. 65 ; Frodr. 196. " Spec. 2. Benth. Fl, Austral, vi. 62, n. 2, 



3 Kl. in Lehm. PL Prciss. ii. 322.— Endl. 3.— H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, vi. 329. 



Gen. n. 6859 '.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 655.— Chori- '» J. Gai. 388 (nee Lindl.).— PoiH. Diet. vii. 



zotheca M. Aito. in Linnaa, xxxii. 76. 631. — A. Jvss. Euphorb. 14, t. 2, fig. 4. — E.-<dl. 



* M. Aro. Prodr. 197. Geii. n. 5864.-11. Bn. Euphorb. 588, t. 26, fig. 



' M. Akg. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 55. 33-38.— M. Auo. Prodr. 446, 1273 (incl. : Bcs. 



' Small viresccnt or often purpureecont or sera Spreno. Cohnciroa Reut. Fluegijea W. 



yellowish. Oebkra FieCH. Mcincckia H. Bn. Neora-pera F. 



'Sect. 3 (M. Aro.): 1. Eupacudanthus ; 2. Mueil. Villanova Pourr.). — Baker, Fl. 



Chrysostemon ; 3. Caletiopsia. Maurit. 307. 



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