444 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE® (HUTCHINSON). 
Shrubs ; disk in the male flowers 
annular, entire or lobed; seeds 
exalbuminous or nearly so. : 
D.ffuse herbs or small slender under- 
shrubs; disk in the male tlowers 
consisting of separate. glands ; seeds 
usually with copious albumen 5 
++P tals absent from the male tlowers. 
Male flowers in globose heads surrounded by 
calycine bracts ; females solitary and 
axillary : “ ° . : 
Male flowers in spikes or racemes. 
Ovary l-celled; fruits drupaceous . : 
Ovary 2-3-celled ; fruits not drupaceous. 
Fruits winged ; ” disks absent from both 
sexes . . . 
Fruits not winged ; disk present in 1 both 
sexes. 
Stems annual, mostly simple, arising 
from a woody rhizome . : 3 
Stems pereunial ; much branched trees 
or shrubs. 
Ovary 2-celled, each cell divided by 
a false septum between each 
ovule; styles 2, connate at the 
base, andivaied S 
Ovary-cells not divided by false 
septa ; styles bifid or bilobed. 
Bracts subtending the male 
flowers in 8 series, the middle 
bract cupular and enclosing the 
tlowers in bud; disk of the 
female flowers adnate to the 
sepals . y c 
Bract subtending the male ‘flower 
solitary ; disk j in the female 
flowers not adnate to the 
sepals. 
Fruits depressed-globose, tri- 
lobed, 3-celled, dehiscing 
into 2-valved cocci. 5 
Fruits entire, 1-celled by abor- 
tion, not dehiscing into cocci 
Male flowers in axillary glomerules or fas- 
cicles, rarely in short cymes, racemes of 
fascicles or solitary. 
Male flowers in short pedunculate cymes . 
Male flowers in axillary fascicles, glome- 
rules, or solitary, rarely in racemes of 
fase icles; 
Rudimentary ovary absent from the male 
flowers. 
Disk central; styles usually absent ; 
stigmas thick and flat, mostly 
quite entire; fruit indehiscent, 
20. 
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22. 
23. 
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28. 
5. ACTEPHILA. 
ANDRACHNE. 
UAPACA. 
ANTIDESMA, 
HYMENOCARDIA. 
CYATHOGYNE. 
MARTRETIA. 
PROTOMEGABARIA. 
THECACORTS. 
M &SOBOTRYA. 
PSEUDOLACHNOSTYTIS- 
