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m. EUPHORBIACEJE OR SPURGE FAMILY. The 

 plants are herbs, shrubs or trees with acrid and often milky 

 latex. The fruit is mostly a trilocular, dehiscent capsule ; the seeds 

 are anatropous and have an oily endosperm. 



FIG. 327. Stillingia sylvatica: showing the more or less closely arranged leaves 

 and the terminal spike of flojvers. After Bentley and Trimen. 



Stillingia sylvatica or QueenVRoot yields the official Stillingia 

 (Fig. 327). The plant is a perennial herb about I M. high and 

 diffusely branched. The leaves are obovate, short-petiolate, with 

 glandular-serrate margin ; the flowers are in terminal spikes, light 

 yellow, monoecious, the staminate being above and the pistillate 

 below, the latter solitary in the axils of the lower bractlets. 



