EUPHORBIACE^. 241 



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

 tomous cymose. [Australia}) 



125. Pseudanthus Spreng.^ — Flowers monœcious apetaloxis 

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

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

 ments long 1-adelphous aduate to central column ; anthers extrorse ; 

 cells discrete, inserted at summit of 2-furcate filament, longitudinally 

 rimose. Disk in flower of either sex evolute ( Chrysostemoii ') ; glands 

 Bometimes between stamens few {Caletiopsis^) or [Etipseiidanthus ^). 

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

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

 2, arillate at micropyle; cotyledons of albuminous embryo semicyliu- 

 drical narrow. — Vii-gate undershrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely 

 ( Caletiopsis^ Chrysostemoii) 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.' {Australia?) 



126. Stachystemon Pl." — Flowers moaœcious apetalous (nearly 

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

 serted on elongated central column ; anthers extrorse ; cells discrete 

 in tubercules sessile to filaments, often finally oblique,'" longitudinally 

 rimose. Gynœceum, fruit and seeds of Pscudantlms. — Small miich 

 ramified cricoid shrubs ; leaves alternate linear-narrow glabrous, 

 1-nerved-stiprdate ; flowers in superior axils, crowded, female fewer 

 mixed with male. {Australia}^) 



127. Securinega J.'^ — Flowers monoecious or oftener diœcious 



1 Spec. 1. C. anstraliana H. Bn. loc. cit. (an ' Spec. about 7. F.MuELL.i^Va^m.ii. 14, 153. — 

 Sissiliaria tricorms Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 58 (part.). — H. Bn. in 

 91 P). Adansoiiia, vi. 328. 



2 Syst. Cur. Post. 25.— Guillem. in Diet. " In Eook. Journ. (1845), 471, t. 15.— H. Bn. 

 Hist. Nat. xiv. 318.— Endl. in Flora (1832), Eiiphorb. 560.— M. Arc. in Lim.aa, xxxii. 76 ; 

 392; Atakt. t. 11; Oeii. n. 5845'.— Done, in Prorfr. 198. 



Ami. Sc. Nat. sér. 2, xii. 155. — H. Bn. Euphorb. '" Rather rough rigidly membraneous, very 



656, t. 25, fig. 16-21. — M. Akg. in Liiinœa, dusky coloured. 



xxxiv. 55 ; Prodr. 196. " Spec. 2. Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 62, n. 2, 



3 Kl. in Ze/im. PI. Preiss. ii. 322.— Endl. 3.— H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, vi. 329. 



Ocn. n. 5859 i.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 655.—C/wri- >•> J. Gen. 388 (uec Lindl.).— Pom. Did. vii. 



zotheca M. Aro. in Liniicea, xxxii. 76. 631. — A. Ju.ss. Euphorb. 14, t. 2, fig. 4. — Endl. 



* M. Arg. Prodr. 197. Gen. n. 5864.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 588, t. 26, fig. 



5 M. Ako. in Linnira, xxxiv. 55. 33-38.— M. Arg. Prodr. 446, 1273 (incl. : Bcs- 



^ Small virescent or often purpurescent or sera Spreno. Colmeiroa Reut. Fluegijea W. 



yellowish. Geblera Fisch. Meincckia H. Bx. Neorœpera F. 



' Sect. 3 (M. Arg.): 1. Eupseudanthus ; 2. Muell. Villanova PouRR.). — Baker, Fl. 



Chrysostemoii ; 3. Caletiopsis. Maiirit. 307. 



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