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sessile or stalked. Some have several Styles, often 3, 

 and a Capsule with as many cells, with 1 or 2 Seeds 

 in each : others have only 1 Style, with 3 or more 

 Stigmas, and a Fruit of a corresponding number of 

 cells, each containing 1 or 2 Seeds. The cells are 

 each lined with 2 elastic valves; the Seeds half-tuni- 

 cated, attached to the upper part of a permanent cen- 

 tral column. Embryo flat, inclosed in a fleshy Al- 

 bumen. Plants herbaceous, shrubby, or arboreous ; 

 some milky. Leaves alternate or opposite, rarely 

 wanting, either with or without Stipulas." 



Sect. 1. Styles several, definite, usually 3. Mercu- 

 rialis, Euphorbia, fig. 268, Argythamnia Browne, 

 Cicca, Phyllanthus, Xylophylla, Kirganelia Juss., 

 Kiggelaria, Cluytia, Andrackne, Agyneia, Buxus, 

 fig. 269, Securinega Commers., Adelia, Mabea Aubl., 

 Ricinus, Jatropha, Siphonia Schreb. 656 (Hevea 

 Aubl.), A ledrites (including Dryandra of Thunberg), 

 Croton, Acalypha, Caturus, and Excoecaria. 



Sect. 2. Style solitary. Tragia, Stillingia, Sapium 

 Browne, Hippomane, Aegopricon (Maprounea Aubl.), 

 Sechium Browne, Hura, Omphalea, Plukenetia (which 

 has certainly Stipulas), and Dalechampia. 



Jussieu has hinted an ingenious idea respecting 

 the genus Euphorbia, which Mr. Brown, Bot. of Terra 

 Austr. 24, has fully developed, that the Flowers, even 

 in this instance, are monoecious. The Calyx and 

 Petals of LinnaBus are considered by these writers as 

 an Involucrum, containing several Barren Flowers, 



