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EUPHOKBIACE.E 



289 



then glabrous, simple or slightly branched, somewhat succulent, woody 

 and hollow below, trailing and rooting in the mud of swampy places, then 

 orect ; wot* librous, numerous. Leaves 2' 5 7 '5 cm. 1., 4-1 cm. br., lanceo- 

 late-oblong, elliptical, or obovate, th- larger above, distantly serrate, glab- 

 rous, or with a few hairs on nerves beneath ; nerves 4-10 on each side from 

 the base, pinnate above, slightly prominent on both sides; petiole 4-14 cm. 1. ; 

 stipules ovate, acute, 1-0-2 mm. 1. .S'/^vs 2-5 cm. 1., rhachis slender, 

 puberulous or glabrate. Bracts triangular-ovate, 1 mm. 1., margin more 

 or less ciliate. Flowers: male few, female lor 2. M >wers : Calyx 



glabrous, 2'5 mm. 1. ; segments lanceolate, acute at both ends. Petals 

 unequal, 3 4-2 -5 mm. 1., narrowly obovate to obovate-spathulate. Female 

 about 3 mm. 1., segments unequal, three outer shorter, 



E 



B 



KL-. 93. Caperonia castane\folia >t. Hil. 



A. I'Miti-m of brancli with leaves and D, Female flower x 3. 



E, Capsule (calyx removed) x _'.'.. 



inflorescence x -. 

 1'., Male flower X 5. 

 C, Anthers X 12. 



F, Seed cut K-uuthwise. enlarged. 



1-1-5 mm. 1., three inner alternate, longer, 2- 5 mm. 1., slightly, lobcd 

 above, with 1-3 gland-tipped hairs about the middle of the margin on each 

 side or lower, about 1 mm. 1. Petals \\hite, varying in form, obovate to 

 elliptical, and in size, l'7-2 mm. 1. Ovary covered with overlapping pro- 

 cesses, near the apex narrowly ovoid, acute, gradually changing downward- 

 into soft hair-like gland-tipped processes with a narrow horizontal base. 

 Sh/les broad at the ntire narrow base, splitting up just above the base 

 into G or 7 pointed segments, the central one about 1 mm. 1., the others 

 decreasing in size outwards. Capsule 3 - 5 mm. 1., C> mm. br., the processes 

 on the ovary persistent, deeply 3-furrowcd, with the calyx persistent, and 

 . newhat increased ii 



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