192 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



disk 5, 6, alternipetaloTis. Germen 3-locular ; style scarcely divided 

 into 3 branches, once or twice 2-fid or 2-partite. Fruit capsular, 

 often tuberculate-rugose ; seeds oblong subterete;^ 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-sexual or 2-sexual female flowers in the centre.^ [Australia; 

 Tasmania.^) 



28. Bertya Pl.* — Flowers (nearly of Ricinocarpus) monoecious 

 apetalous eglandular ; sepals 5, imbricated, sometimes subpetaloid. 

 Stamens oo (of Beyeria), inserted on central columella, imbricated; 

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

 Gynseceum fruit, seed, and embryo of Ricinocarpus (or Beyeria). 

 Staminodes sometimes hypogynous oo. — Shrubs 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. {Australia.^) 



29. Beyeria Mia.^ — Flowers (nearly of Ricinocarpus) dioecious or 

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

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

 or less evolute [Discoleyeria ^) or in- female flowers [Eubeyeria ^). 

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

 anthers extrorse ; cells long adnate to more or less 2-fld or entire con- 

 nective {Eubeyeria, Biscoleyeria)^ 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 Sicinus dusky-spotted. Sond. in Linncea, xxviii. 562 {Eidnocarpus). — P. 



^ A genus scarcely separated foom Baloghia Muell. Fragm. iv. 34 ; 143. — H. Bn. in Adan- 



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



' Spec, about 12. Endl. iaSueg. Enum. 18. ^ In Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, i. 360, t. 15. — 



— F. Muell. Fragm. i. 56, 181.— H. Bn. in Endl. Q-en. Suppl. v. 90. H. Bn. Fitphori. 402, 



Adansonia, vi. 294. t. 18, fig. 13-17 ; in Adansonia, vi. 309.— M. 



* In Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. (1845), 472, t. 16, Aug. Prodr. 201.— Oalgptrostigma Kl. in Zehm. 



fig. A.— Endl. Gen. Suppl. v. 90.— H. Bn. Fu- PI. Freiss. i. 175 (neo. Tkautv. et 0. A. Mey.). 



pAori. 347, 1. 18, fig. 8, 9.— M. Akg. Prodr. 208. —C/ampodium Desvx. Herb, (ex H. Bn. loc. oil.) . 



' Leaves sometimes same in number as those 8 jj; ^^o. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 59. sect. 1. 

 of the calyx and alternate, representing true ' M. Arg. in Linneea, loc. eit. sect. 2. 

 sepals and leaves, the real sepals might be taken i" M. Akg. in Linncea, xxxiv. 199 ; Prodr. 

 for petals. 199. — ^H. Bn. in Adansonia, loo, cit, 310 (worth- 

 Spec, about 8. Hook. p. Fl. Tasman. i. 339. — less genera). 

 M. Akg. in it«n<8a, xxxiv. 63. — F. Muell. et 



