EUPHORBIACE^E. 
BERTYA ANDREWSII, sp. nov- 
A shrub, very viscid, and excepting the flower and underside of 
the leaves, glabrous or slightly velutinous. Leaves scattered, narrow 
to broad-linear, obtuse, shortly petiolate, mostly 4-6 lines long, margins 
imuch refracted, slightly velutinous underneath. Inflorescence a small 
terminal leafy raceme consisting of 1 terminal female flower, and 2 or 
3 males, axillary lower down, all on short thick pedicels, lengthening 
iout to 2 lines when in fruit, and much dilated upwards. Bracteoles 
lllinear, persistent, shorter than the calyx segments, usually 2 only under 
nthe female flower, none under the males. Male flower : Calyx seg- 
ments 4, broadly ovate, obtuse, f-i line long, but not seen fully 
-expanded, puberulous within and on the margins, the base of the 
staminal column and itself invested with dense tufts of white silky 
hairs. Female flower: Calyx segments , 5, ovate to lanceolar-ovate, 
obtuse, pink, puberulous on the margins, at least 2 lines long, enlarged 
under the fruit. Ovary surrounded at the base by a ring of white 
silky hairs, which extends | of the way up, the remainder of the ovary 
glabrous ; stigmas 3, fully f line long, each cleft to § of its length into 
2 divisions, which are linear and simple, or broad and again shortly 
bi-or trilobed. Fruit globose, slightly verrucose, 3 lines diameter, very 
obtuse, obscurely 6-angled. Perfect seed, 1 only, narrow-ovate, brown 
and smooth without. 
Locality . — Between Esperance and Norseman, October, 1903. — 
C. R. P. Andrews. 
Remarks . — From the new species, its two West Australian con- 
geners chiefly differ as follows : — 
B. dimerostigma , F. v. M., in being quite glabrous and not con- 
spicuously viscid, in the small acute pale-green leaves, sessile axillary 
flowers, female perianth segments much shorter and narrower, in the 
stigmas being constantly cleft to the base into 2 linear divisions and in 
the ovate pointed fruit. The male flowers of this species have not 
been described. It was discovered at Victoria Springs by Giles. 
B. quadrisepala , F. v. M., differs from the new plant in having 
longer velutinous leaves, male flowers forming a terminal raceme, 
female solitary and almost constantly 4-merous, the margins of the 
segments conspicuously bearded, in the stigmas being 3-cleft, and in 
the broader spotted seed. The species was first discovered by 
Dempster, near Esperance, and at Fraser’s Range. 
