848 CXXII, EUPHORBIACE (PRAIN). | Zrythrococca. 
erect, 2-celled; cells subglobose or obovoid, free from the base, opening 
by longitudinal extrorse slits. Rudimentary ovary 0. Female: Calyx 
2- (rarely 3-4-) partite; lobes smaller than in the male. Disk of 2-3 
free, discrete or contiguous scales with or without minute or intercalated 
glands, or shallow-urceolate and usually distinctly 2-lobed, rarely sub- 
entire. Ovary glabrous or strigose, 2~3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled ; stigmas 
free, sessile, spreading and plumosely fimbriate from the base, very 
rarely entire, or more or less connate below in a short or very short 
rarely columnar style, crowned by short or very short smooth (very 
rarely papillose) and entire (very rarely lobulate) stigmatic lobes. Capsule 
2-coccous, didymous, less often 3-coccous or by abortion 1-coccous ; cocci 
subglobose, splitting longitudinally ; valves coriaceous, persistent. Seeds 
nearly spherical, enveloped in a thin complete fleshy usually scarlet aril ; 
testa crustaceous, usually rugosely foveolate-reticulate, rarely almost 
smooth; albumen fleshy; embryo axile, radicle conical, cotyledons 
broad, flat.—Shrubs with slender woody branches; buds perulate, the 
scales usually persistent; bark lenticelled. Leaves alternate, petioled; 
petioles channelled above, often short ; margin crenate or dentate, the 
teeth glandular ; stipules cartilaginous, glabrous, often accrescent and 
modified into umbonate mammille or weak conical thorns, rarely into 
wide-based pungent spines, sometimes minute, subulate and unaltered. 
Flowers small, very small or minute, in axillary fascicled or solitary 
racemes or glomerules ; peduncles slender; pedicels capillary, articulate 
near the base, rarely some distance beyond the bracteoles. Male flowers 
usually several to a bracteole, rarely solitary ; females usually solitary, 
rarely 2 or more to each bracteole. 
Species about 40; two in South Africa, one extending from Abyssinia to Arabia, 
the others endemic. 
*Stigmas laciniate or lobulate; hypogynous scales free 
and separated by distinct intervals; filaments 
longer than the anther-cells. 
{Stigmas sessile, linear, spreading and plumosely 
laciniate throughout. 
{Flowers in axillary capitate glomerules; stipules 
accrescent and more or less modified. 
Glomerules of male flowers sessile; ovary 
glabrous, 
Leaves glabrous; stamens usually 8; glands 
hirsute, the extra-staminal ring complete. 
Male pedicels flaccid, flexuous; extra- - 
staminal glands often connate . . 1. E. Kirkis. 
Male pedicels firm, straight; extra-staminal af 
glands usually free . ‘ . . 2. EF, mitis. 
Leaves more or less pubescent ; stamens 9- 
12; glands glabrous, the extra-staminal : 
, Ting usually imperfect . : . 3. B. bongensis. 
Glomerules of male flowers-distinctly peduncled ; 
receptacular glands glabrous or sparingly 
hirsute. 
Peduncles and rhachises of glomerules pubes- 
cent; leaves firmly membranous. 
