EUPHORBIACEM. 241 



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

 tomous cymose. {Australia}) 



125i Pseudanthus Spreng.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous 

 (nearly of CahUd) ; 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 ; antbers extrorse ; 

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

 rimose. Disk in flower of eitber sex evolute ( Chrysostemon ^) ; glands 

 sometimes between stamens few {Oaletiopsis^) or {Eupseudanthus ^), 

 Germen 2-S-locular; cells 2-ovulate; style brancbes 2, 3, simple 

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

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

 drical narrow. — Yirgate undersbrubs ; leaves alternate or more rarely 

 {Galeiiopsis, Ghrysostemon) opposite or subvertioillate, narrow acute 

 entire rigid (cricoid) stipulate : flowers ® cymose or solitary, eitber 

 in small axillary cusbions, or sometimes crowded at apex of 

 brancbes.' {Justralia?) 



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

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

 Sierted on elongated central column ; antbers extrorse ; cells discrete 

 ini tubercules sessile to filaments, often finally oblique,^" longitudinally 

 rimose. Gyneeceum, fruit and seeds of Pseudanthus. — Small mucb 

 ramified cricoid sbrubs; leaves alternate linear-narrow glabrous, 

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

 mixed witb male. {Australia}^) 



12V. Securinega J.*^ — Flowers monoecious or oftener dioecious 



♦ 



1 Spec. 1. C. awtraliana H. Bu. loo. cit. (an ' Spec.atout 7.P. MuELL.^mym. ii. 14,153. — 



Dissiliaria trieornis Benth. Fl. Austral, yi, Benth. Fl. Austral, yi. 68 (part.). — H. Bn. in 



9^1 P). Adansonia, vi. 328. 



■' Syat. Cur. Fast. 25. — Guillem. in Diet. ' In Sook. Journ. (1845), 471, t. 15^— H. Bn. 



Hist. Nat. xiv. 318.— Endl. in Flora (1832), Ewphorb. 560.— M. Aeg. in Linnaa, xxxii. 76 ; 



392; Atakt. t. 11; Ben. n. 68451.— Done, in Prorfr. 198. 



Aim. 8c. l^at. ser. 2, xii. 155. — H. Bn. Euphorb. '" Eatier rough rigidly memtraneous, very 



656, t. 26, fig. 16-21. — M. Ana. in LintKea, dusky coloured. 



xxxiv. 65 ; Prodr. 196. " Spec. 2. Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 62, u. 2, 



3 Kl. in Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii. 322. — Endl. 3. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 329. 



Q^. n. 5869 i. — H. BS. Euphori. 655. — Chori- '^ J. Got. 388 (nee Lindl.). — Poie. Bict. vii. 



zotheca M. Aao. in Linneea, xxxii. 76. 631. — A. Juss. FSvphorb. 14, t. 2, fig. 4. — Endl. 



* M. AsG. Prodr. 197. <?«. n. 5864.— H. Bn. Mwphorb. 588, t. 26, fig. 



5 M. Aug. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 55. 33-38.— M. Aug. Prodr. 446, 1273 (incl. : Pes- 



I" Small virescent or often purpuresoent or sera Spreng. Colmeiroa Eexjt. Flmggea W. 



yeQo'wish. Geblera Fibch. Meineekia H. Bn. Neorcepera F. 



^ Sect; 3 (M. Aro.): 1. Wipseuda/nthus ; 2. Muell. Villanova Pourr.). — Baker, Fl. 



Chrysostemon ; 3. Caletiopsia. JUaurit. 307. 



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