Leptomeria.] CXV. SANTALACE^. 1S89 



lobed. Stigma minutely 5-lobed. Drupe small, with a fleshy scarcely succulent 

 epicarp. — A. DO. Prod. xiv. C77 ; Hook. f. Fl. -Tasm, i. 357 ; Thexium dnii>acmiii., 

 Labill. PL Nov. Holl. i. 68, t. 93. 



Hab.; Coastal and southern inland localities. 



6. ANTHOBOLUS, E. Br. 



(From the casting off of the flowers.) 



Flowers dioecious. Perianth free, divided to the broad base into B, 4 or rarely 

 5 segments, more or less inflected or concave at the end. Male flower : Stamens 

 inserted near the base of the segments, filaments very short ; anthers with 2 

 distinct cells opening longitudinally, turned inwards in the bud, but opening out 

 back to back. Ovary free, thick and fleshy ; stigma sessile, pulvinate, obscurely 

 lobed (or furrowed by the pressure of the margins of the perianth-segments). 

 Drupe ovoid or oblong, sessile on the thickened pedicel, the exocarp succulent but 

 not thick ; endocarp crustaceous or rather hard. — Glabrous shrubs, with rigid or 

 slender branches. Leaves either linear-terete and persistent or minute scale-like 

 and deciduous. Flowers very small, pedicellate on a common axillary peduncle, 

 the males usually 3 to 5 together, the females solitary or 2 together. Bracts 

 at the base of the pedicels minute and very caducous. 

 The genus is limited to Australia. 



Leaves linear terete or filiform, persistent, slender. Perianth usually 3- 

 merons. Endocarp not pitted. 

 Tropical species. 



Branches terete or nearly so 1. A. filifolius. 



Branches angular 2. A. triqiieter. 



Branches leafless, the minute scale-like leaves falling off from the very 



young shoots Z. A. leptomerioides 



1. A., filifolius (leaves thread-like), B. Br. Brod. 357; Benth. Fl. Austi: 

 vi. 226. A tall shrub, with slender nearly terete branches. Leaves linear- 

 filiform, f to 2in. long. Male flowers 3 or 4 together on a common peduncle of 

 3 lines, the pedicels about 1 line long, the bracts very small and deciduous. 

 Female flowers solitary or 2 together, the common peduncle and pedicel each 

 about 1 line long or often twice as long when in fruit. Perianth 3-merous, 

 scarcely f line long. Ovary thick, with a pulvinate stigma. Fruit ovoid, the 

 endocarp smooth, not pitted. — A. DC. Prod. xiv. 687. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, B. Broion. 



2. A. triqueter (triangular), B. Br. Prod. 357 ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 226. 

 Very closely allied to A . filifolius, and probably a variety only, the stems and 

 leaves rather thicker and the young branches slightly angular, the female flowers 

 and fruits rather larger. — A. DC. Prod. xiv. 687. 



Hab.; Endeavour Elver, Banks and Solander ; a single specimen in Herb. E. Brown. 



3. A., leptomerioides (Leptomeria-like), F. v. M. Fraym. i. 21 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vi. 227. A shrub of several feet, with rigid broom-like terete branches, 

 often pungent at the extremity, and leafless at the time of flowering, the minute 

 linear scale-like leaves falling off from the very young shoots. Male flowers in 

 sessile clusters of about 4 or 5, each one on a pedicel of |- to f line, the perianth 

 about as long, 4-merous, the anthers rather large. Female flowers solitary (or 2 

 together ?), the perianth broadly cylindrical, very shortly 4-lobed, without any 

 stamens. Ovary thick and fleshy, with a thick pulvinate stigma quite enclosed 

 in the perianth but free. Drupe oblong, 3 to 4 lines long, the exocarp not thick, 

 the endocarp hard and smooth. Embryo straight, linear-terete, more than f the 

 length of the albumen, the cotyledons at least as long as the radicle. 



Hah.: Burdeldn, Suitor and Burnett Elvers, F. r. Mueller; Barcoo and Georgina Elvers. 

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