192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



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

 into 3 branches, once or twice 2-lid 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 subcomplanate. — Shrubs or undershrubs ; leaves 

 alternate exstipulate, usually narrow, entire revolute at margin ; 

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

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

 Tasmania?) 



28. Bertya Pl.* — Flowers (nearly of Ricinocarims) monœcious 

 apetalous eglandular ; sepals 5, imbricated, sometimes subpetaloid. 

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

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

 Gyneeceum fruit, seed, and embryo of Eicinocarpus (or Beyeria). 

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

 ramified ; indumentum often stellate ; leaves alternate narrow coria- 

 ceous exstipulate; flowers axillary, surrounded by calyciform^ invo- 

 lucre, and in this solitary or more rarely 2-nate or few. {AustraliaJ') 



29. Beyeria Mia.^ — Flowers (nearly of Ricimcarpiis) diœcious or 

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

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

 or less evolute (i)/scoèe^ma*) or in female flowers {Eîibeyeria^). 

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

 anthers extrorse ; cells longadnateto more or less 2 -fid or entire con- 

 nective i^Euheyeria^ Discobei/eria)^ 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 Riciiius dusky-spotted. Sond. in Limuea, xxviii. 562 {Ricinocarpus). — F. 



2 A genus scarcely separated from Bahghia Muell. Fra(jm. iv. 34 ; 143. — H. Bi». in Adan- 

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



3 Spec, about 12. Endl. hiHueg. £>mm. 18. ? In Aim. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, i. 350, t. 15.— 

 — F. Muell. Frngm. i. 56, 181.— H. Bn. in Endl. Gcii. Suppl. v. 90. H. Bn. EupJwrb. 402, 

 Adansouia, yi.i'ei. t. 18, fig. 13-17; in Adaiisonia, vi. 309. — M. 



■* In Hook. Land. Journ. iv. (1845), 472, t. 16, Arg. Prodi: 201.— Oali/ptrostigma Kl. in lehm. 



fig. A.— Endl. Geii. Suppl. v. 90.— H. Bn. £ii- PI. Preiss. i. 175 (nee. Trautv. et C. A. Mey.). 



phoi-b. 347, 1. 18, fig. 8, 9.— M. Aro. Prodi: 208. —C/avipodium~DES\-g.. Herb, (ex H. Bn. loc. cit.). 



* Leaves sometimes same in number as those 8 jj Arq. in Liiiiiœa, xxxiv. 59. sect. 1. 

 of the calyx and alternate, representing true ' M. Arc. in Linncea, lue. cit. sect. 2. 

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

 for petals. 199. — H. Bn. m Adtmsonia, loc. cit. 319 (worth- 

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

 M. AiiG. in ii«Hi««, xxxiv. 03. — F. Miell. et 



