21 8 EUPllORMAGE.E (Brown, Hutchinson and Train). 



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X. ILejWOodiB,.-'Floivers in axillary glouierules. Sepals in the liiaTu 



flowers 3. I>lsc and rudimentary ovcn^i/ absent from the male 

 flowers. 



§ Flowers moncecious. Petals subequal to the sepals. Disc in the male 

 flowers cupular. 



XL Andrachne. — A slender shrub with small leaves. Male Jtoivem 



fasciculate, female solitary. Seech wrinkled; estroi>hiolate, with 

 fleshy albumen. 



JJPetals absent from the male flowers. 

 §Flowers pedicellatCj in axillary faricicles or solitary. 



XII. Phyllanthus. — Disc in the male flowers outside the stamens, or the 



disL-glands between the filaments. Eudimentnry ovari/ absent. 



XIII. riuggea. — Di5C as in Phyllanthus, Rudimentary ora7"v/w^ell developed, 



tripartite. 



XIV. Drypetes.— i)4dc central, entire or vmdulately lobed, with the stamens 



inserted around it. Fruits indehiscent. 



§§Flower3 disposed in cymes, racemes or spikes. 



|[Fruits not compressed or winged ; disc usually present in the male 

 flowers. 



XV, Antidesma. — Flowers disposed in slender catkin-like spikes. . Fruits 



small, dmpaceous. Leaves alternate. 



XVI. Ptieudolachnostylis^ — Flowers disposed in cymes. Fru'ds large, tardily 



septicidal. Leaves alternate. 



XVII. Toxicodendron*— Male Jlowers in dense pedunculate or subsessile 



cymules, female sessile, 1-3 in each leaf-axil. Fruits early 

 dehiscent. Leaves in whorls of 4. 



lljFrults compressedj broadly winged ; disc absent from" both sexes. 



XVUI. Hymenocardia. — Male flowers in catkin-like spikes, female shortly 



racemose. Anthers with a conspicuous yellow gland on the back. 



Tribe 4. — CROTONE^E. — iSeptefeusuallysmall, closed or valvate, less often imbricate 



or open in bud. Petals when present always free, often larger than the 

 sepals ; usually petals 0. Stamens 1-2-Beriate ; the outer alternate with 

 the sepals or more usually central and few or indefinite ; sometimes veiy 

 many. Ovuks solitary in each cell. Cotyledons much broader than the 

 radicle. Inflorescence various. 



* Anthers reversed and filaments inflextd In hud, lecominfj erect in the open 

 flower; petals usuall y presenU in the male flower j racemes or »pihes 

 terminal^ androgynous or l-sexiial. 



XIX. Croton. — Sepals usually equal, valvate or occasionally slightly im- 

 bricate, Pitals usually well developed, at times minute or 

 obsolete. 



** Anthers erect and filaments straight or tivice flexed in bud, 



fPetais present in the male flower. 



JFIowers panicled or fasciculate 2-3-chotomously cymose, androgynous 

 with a central female flower. 



XX. Jatropha. — Sepah Imbricate, often connate below. Petals usually 



imbricate, connate below or free. Stamens 10 or fewer* 



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jutillary 



