Pseudanthus.] CXVII. EUPHOEBIACB^. 1403 



1. P. pimeleoides (Pimelea-like), Sicb. in Spreng. Sijst. Cur. Post. 25 ; 

 Jienth. ]''l. Austr. vi. 59. An erect much-branched glabrous shrub 1 to 2ft. high. 

 Leaves alternate, scarcely petiolate, lanceolate or linear, acute, mostly 4 to G lines 

 long, smooth. Male flowers clustered at the ends of the branches, shortly 

 pedicellate and very conspicuous from their coloured yellowish linear perianth- 

 segments 4 to 5 or even 6 lines long and exceeding the upper leaves. Stamens 6, 

 closely clustered round a small central rudiment of the ovary, which is sometimes 

 slightly raised and shortly adnate to one of the filaments, but the whole are 

 generally quite free as figured by Endlicher. Female flowers few and incon- 

 spicuous. Perianth-segments lanceolate, acute, jagged on the margin, rigid, 

 -about IJ line long, the ovate ones rather smaller. Ovary narrow, 3-lobed, the 

 •dissepiments very imperfect at the time of flowering and only one ovule fertilised. 

 ■Capsule oblong, acute, 2^ to 3 lines long, smooth, 1-seeded. — Muell. Arg. in 

 DC. Prod. XV. ii. 196 ; Endl. Atakta, 11, t. 11, the analysis copied in Flora, 

 1832, ii. t. 4 ; Baill. Etud. Euph. t. 25, f. 16. 



Hab.: Burdekin Expedition ; Whitsunday Island, C. Moore ; Eepulse Bay, A. Cunningham. 



2. P. ovalifolius (leaves oval), F. v. M. in Trans. Phil. hut. Vict. ii. 66 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austf. vi. 59. A densely branched rigid low spreading shrub, quite 

 .•glabrous or with a slight scabrous pubescence on the angles of the branches and 

 midrib of the leaves* JJeaves scattered, occasionally opposite but mostly alter- 

 nate, on exceedingly short petioles, mostly ovate but varying from orbicular and 

 1 line diameter to oblong and 2 lines long, very obtuse, rigid, concave or compli- 

 •cate and often recurved at the end. Male flowers very shortly pedicellate in the 

 upper axils ; perianth white, the segments not very unequal, about 1 line long. 

 Stamens 6 round a minute rudiment of the ovary, the three inner ones nearly as 

 long as the perianth, the outer ones short and one sometimes very short. 

 -Female flowers sessile, the perianth-segments about ^ line long, red with white 

 margins. Ovary narrow. Fruit not seen. — CaUtia ovalifolia, Muell. Arg. in 

 LinneiE. xxxiv. 55, and in DC. Prod. ii. 194 ; Baill. Adans. vi. 327. 



Hab.: Eecovded for Queensland by F. v. M. 



3. P. orientalis (eastern), F. r. J\r. Frar/m. ii. 14 ; Denth. Fl. Austr. v. 60. 

 A low densely branched glabrous shrub. Leaves scattered, mostly alternate, 

 •often crowded, oblong-linear or linear-spathulate, 2 to 4 lines long, obtuse, thick, 

 concave but often recurved at the end. F'lowers in the upper axils very much 

 smaller than in P. ovalifolia, the males on pedicels of nearly 1 line. Perianth 

 jellow, scarcely •^ line long, the segments nearly equal. Stamens 6, the inner 

 ones shorter than the perianth, the outer ones very short. Female flowers 

 .sessile, sometimes in the same axil as the males, the perianth rather larger. 

 Ovary still narrower than in P. ovalifolia. Capsule narrow-oblong, about 2 lines 

 long, 1-seeded by abortion. — Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 197; Caletia 

 <irientalis, Baill. Adans. vi. 826 ; C. linearis, Muell. Arg. in Linntea, x;xxii. 79 

 and in DC. Prod. xv. ii. 194 ; Baill. Adans. vi. 827. 



Hab.: Logan Biver, Rev. B. Scortechini ; Fraser Island, Miss Lovell ; Bastard Heads, J. Keys ; 

 Moreton Island, J. Shirley. 



5. BEYERIA, Miq. 



(After a Dutch botanist, Beyer.) 



(Calyptrostigma, Klotzsch; Beyeriopsis, Muell. Arg.) 



Flowers mbncecious or rarely diceoious. Male flower : Calyx of 5 rarely 4 

 liroad segments, imbricate, concave and more or less petal-like. Petals as many, 

 small or rarely exceeding the calyx, or fewer or more. Glands as many as petals 

 and alternating with (or rarely opposite to) them. Stamens numerous, with 

 very short filaments, crowded on a hemispherical receptacle, without any central 



