KvocarjMs.] CXV. SANTALACEiE. 1391 



shortly pedunculate spikes of 1^ to 3 lines, each one sessile in a notch of the 

 rhaohis or in the axil of a minute tooth-like bract. Perianth-segments 5, about 

 J line long. Anthers divergent, adnate to the margin of a broad almost triangu- 

 lar filament. Ovary immersed in and continuous with the broad disk ; stigma 

 sessile ; 2-lobed. The great majority of the flowers, although with apparently 

 perfect stigmas remain sessile and soon fall off, a few only (usually no more than 

 one in each spike) after fecundation are raised on an obconical pedicel, which 

 under the small, ovoid globular fruit, enlarges to 2 or 3 lines, becoming thick red 

 and succulent.— R. Br. Prod. 356 ; A. DC. Prod. xiv. 689 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 

 886 ; Leptomeria acerha, Sieb. PL Exs. not of E. Br. 



Hab.: Saady Cape, R. Broion ; Moreton Bay, F. v. Mueller, G. Stuart; Bockhampton, 

 •O'Shanesy. 



Fruit eaten by aboriginals. — Roth. 



Wood of a pinkish-grey, soft, close-grained and light. — Bailey'' s Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 356. 



3. E. spartea (Broom-like), R. Br. Prod. 356 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. \i. 229. 

 An erect shrub of 6 to 8ft, or small tree of 15 to 20ft., the branches usually rather 

 ■slender erect or horizontal and pendulous at the ends, scarcely furrowed, but 

 ■often somewhat angular. Leaves alternate, distant, linear-subulate, usually 1 to 

 2 lines long, acute and recurved at the end, sometimes a few of them smaller and 

 deciduous, sometimes rather thicker and 4 to 6 lines long, at other times 

 short and thick, in all often falling off before the fruit ripens. Flower- 

 spikes 2 to 4 lines long, usually rather slender, often more than one in the same 

 axil and generally flowering from near the base. Flowers mostly 4-merous. 

 Fruit ovoid or oblong, red, the thick succulent pedicel usually shorter than the 

 fruit itself.— A. DC. Prod. iv. 690 ; F. v. M. PI. Vict. t. 88 (ined.) ; I<J. r/landu- 

 iacea, Miq. in PI. Preiss. i. 619 ; A. DC. Prod. xiv. 689 ; E. spicata, DC. I.e. 

 {from the character given) ; K. pendula, F. v. M. in Trans. Vict. Inst. 1855, 42. 



Hab.: Head of Flinders Biver, Bowman. 



4. E. aphylla (leafless), B. Br. Prod. 357 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 230. An 

 •erect much-branched shrub of 4 to 6ft., growing out sometimes into a small tree, 

 with stout rigid terete finely-furrowed branchlets, sometimes spinescent at the 

 ■end. Leaves reduced to minute ovate-appressed scales, distant and very deciduous. 

 Flower-spikes ovoid or oblong, sessile or very shortly pedunculate, very dense, 1 

 "to 2 lines long, the rhachis usually slightly pubescent. Flowers 5-merous. 

 Fruit rather small, ovoid-globular, the short broad thickened peduncle more or 

 less succulent and at length truncate by the fall of the perianth-lobes. — A. DC. 

 Prod. xiv. 690 ; F. leptomerioides, F. v. M. ; Miq. Stirp. Nov. HoU. 7 ; A. DC. I.e. 



Hab.: Peak Do^wng, Hei'b. F. Mueller ; Armadilla, Barton. 



Oedeb CXVI. BALANOPHOREiE. 



Flowers unisexual. Male flowers : Perianth 3-cleft, the lobes or segments 

 "valvate in the bud, or rarely no perianth. Stamens as many as perianth 

 ■segments and opposite to them, the filaments united, or when there is no 

 perianth stamens free and 2 only or solitary ; anthers 2 or several-celled or 

 rarely 1-celled. Ovary none. Female flowers minute, without any apparent 

 perianth, or the ovary produced at the top into a small lobed limb. Ovary 

 1-celled, with a simple terminal stigma. Fruit a minute utricle nut or drupe, 

 •enclosing an adherent seed. — Stout succulent leafless root-parasites. Stem 

 reduced to a tuberous often lobed rhizome, with short thick erect scapes. Leaves 

 replaced by concave scales. Flowers in dense thick terminal spikes, usually 

 very numerous and closely packed. 



A small Order, chiefly tropical, both in the New and the Old World. One monotypio genus 

 is found as far north as the Mediterranean, and another is in New Zealand in the south. The 

 -Australian genus extends over E. India and the Eastern Archipelago. — Benth. 



