240 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



gynfeceiim glandular at margin in 3-lobes, opposite exterior sepals, 

 emarginate 2-lobed, incised ; anthers ellipsoidal extrorse 2-rimose. 

 Germen surrounded by tbin annular, bypogynous disk ; cells 3, 2- 

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

 uudersln-ubs divaricate-ramified or very ramified ; leaves simple 

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

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

 lary cymose ; female often solitary." (At/s/ral/a, TasDiania.^) 



123. Micrantheum Desf.'' — Flowers dioecious (nearly of 

 Caletia) ; stamens 3, opposite exterior sepals. Rudiment of gynse- 

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

 characters of Calciia. — An cricoid virgate-ramificd shrub ; leaves 

 alternate narrow rigid stipulate ; inflorescence of Cnletid,. [Australia}) 



124 ? Choriceras H. Bn."— Flowers diœcious (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 gyuîBceum conical-cylin- 

 drical entire recurved at apex ; anthers extrorse ; cells adnate, 

 rimose. Staminodes (or bacillar glands ?) 3 in the female flowers 

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

 Germen sessile ; cells 3 alternating Avith staminodes free above from 

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

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

 angle ; micropyle extrorse superior ; obturator rather fleshy fornicate. 

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

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

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

 leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, exstipulate penninerved ; flowers in 



' Whitish. Suppl. 706, t. 994 [Micraiithea). — A. Jnss. 



- Sect. 2. (M. Arc.) : 1. Emahiia, leaves 3- Eiiphorb. 2-1.— Endl. Oeii. n. 5845.— H. Bn. 



foliate; 2. jlfim/cn/rfiff, leaves simple. ICiip/iorb. 555, t. 26, fi^-. 19.— M. Aug. Prodr. 



^ Spec. 4 (ex Benth. 1). Hooic. i'. in Rook. 195. 



Zand. Jourii. vi. 283 {Micrantheum). — F. Muell. ^ Spec. 1 M. ericioides Desf. he. cit. — Spreno. 



in Trans. Phil. Soc. Vict. (1857), ii. 66 {Psendan- Sijst. iv. 835.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 328.— 



thus). — M. Arc. in .Pfor» (1864), 486; in im«(ra, Benth. F^. Austral, vi. 57, n. 1. The other 



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



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



(Psnidantlius) ; 62, n. 1 {Stac/ii/stemon). — H. Bn- nceum F. Muell. Frngm. i. 32. 



in Adansonia,yi. 326. '' Jn Adansonia, xi. 119. 



■* In Mém. Mus. iv. 253, 1. 14. — liAMK. III. iii. 



