Andrachne. | CXXII, EUPHORBIACEH (HUTCHINSON). 633 
of 5 or 6 glands opposite the petals. Stamens usually 5, alternate with 
the petals ; filaments free; anther-cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. 
Rudimentary ovary present. Female flowers: Sepals usually longer 
than in the male. Ovary 3-celled; ovules 2 in each cell; styles 
bipartite. Capsule globose, dehiscing into 2-valved cocci. Seeds 
curved, rugose, without a strophiole; albumen fleshy; embryo curved ; 
radicle long; cotyledons flat and broad.—Diffuse herbs or slender 
Shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, usually small. Flowers 
axillary, pedicellate, the males fasciculate, the females solitary. 
About 25 described species, spread throughout both hemispheres. 
Leaves orbicular or reniform  . : : ; : . J. A. aspera, 
Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate —. . ° . 2. A. telephioides. 
1. A. aspera, Spreng. Syst. iii. 884. Stems numerous, slender, 
diffuse, scabrous-puberulous, reaching a foot or more in length, 
avising from a perennial root-stock. Leaves orbicular or subreniform, 
often emarginate and mucronate, 1-3 in. broad, membranous, glabrous 
or scabrous- puberulous ; petiole up to 4 lin. long, seabrous-puberulous ; 
stipules ovate, very small. Male flowers: Sepals ovate-lanceolate, 3 lin. 
long, mewbranous, whitish, margins jagged. Petals almost equalling 
the sepals, lanceolate. Disk-glands small, truncate, fleshy. Stamens 5 ; 
filaments membranous. Rudimentary ovary tripartite, membranous, 
glabrous. Female flowers: Sepals oblong-lanceolate, subacute, green, 
7 an. long, margin scarious. Petals very small, lanceolate. Disk- 
glands 5, subtruncate, fleshy. Ovary glabrescent ; styles bipartite to 
the base, slender, glabrous. Capsule globose, about 2 lin. in diam., 
reticulate, sparingly hispid. Seeds subtriquetrous, convex on the back, 
slightly pitted.—A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 254; Schweinf. Beitr. 
Fl. Aethiop. 34; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr. xv. ii. 236; Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iy. 1138 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. v. 284; Schweinf. in Bull. 
Herb. Boiss. vii. App. ii. 299. A. aspera, var. maritima, Terrac. in 
Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, v. 98. 
.. Nile Land. Nubia: Soturba mountains, Schweinfurth, 827! Eritrea: 
islands of Midir and Auto Kelir, Zerracciano. Mount Kubé, Schweinfurth & Riva, 
15381!) Mount Alamkale, Schweinfurth & Riva, 1631! various localities, Schwein- 
Jurth, 43, 168, 355, 356, 438, 1562, 1633, 1661. Abyssinia: near Adowa, Schimper, 
4112! and without precise locality, Schimper, 209! islands of Dalak and Hauakel, 
hrenberg ! 
Occurs also in Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and North-West Iidia, 
2. A. telephioides, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed.i. 1014. Stems arising from 
X woody rootstock, slender, prostrate, narrowly sulcate, minutely 
beaded, otherwise glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, 
Subacute at both ends, 4-6 lin. long, 14-2 lin. broad, rather rigidly 
chartaceous, glaucous and glabrous or nearly so on both surfaces ; 
lateral nerves about 3 on each side, very indistinct ; petiole 4 lin. long, 
slabrous ; stipules lanceolate, auriculate at the base, the margins jagged 
or fringed. Male flowers 2-3 in each leaf-axil, shortly pedicellate : 
Sepals 5, obovate or elliptic-obovate, scarcely 4 lin. long, entire, mem- 
