338 CIX. _EUPHORBIACER. 
spikes of flowers; male flowers tufted; female solitary, in the axil of the 
bract.—M. Capensis, E. M., found by Drége, at Natal. 
8. ACALYPHA, Linn. 
Flowers monecious or dicecious—Male: Calyx 4-parted, 
valvate in bud. Stamens 8-16; filaments connate at their 
thickened bases; anthers oblong, flexuous——Female: Calyx 
3-5-parted, pubescent, imbricate in bud. Ovary 38-celled ; 
cells l-ovuled; styles 3, divergent, coloured, multifid. Cap- 
sule 3-celled, in the persistent calyx.—Hndl. Gen. n. 5787; 
Baill. Euph. p. 440. t. 20. f. 18-19; DC. 1. ¢. p. 799. 
Tropical or subtropical shrubs or herbs, with the aspect of nettles ; alter- 
nate, penninerved leaves, with deciduous stipules, and terminal or axillary- 
spiked flowers ; the males aggregated, the female solitary under each bract. 
—Several Cape species, in the Eastern district and at Natal. 
9, ADENOCLINE, Turcz. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx 5-parted; the segments 
long, narrow, concave. Stamens 10-12; filaments free, short, 
jointed in the middle ; anthers didymous. Glands 3, on the 
receptacle.— Female: Calyx of male. Glands 3, broad, alter- 
nating with the cells of the 3-celled ovary ; cells 1-ovuled ; 
styles 3, deeply 2-fid. Capsule 3-celled—Turcz. in Fl. 1844, 
p. 121; Baill. lc. p. 456. t.9. 6. Diplostylis, Sond. in Linn. 
xxul. p. 1138; DC. lc. p. 1189. 
Small half-woody orhertaceous plants, with opposite or alternate, stipu- 
late, narrow, entire or toothed leaves, and axillary or terminal tufted 
flowers.—5 species, dispersed. 
10. TRAGIA, Plum. 
Flowers moncecious.—Male : Calyx 3-parted, valvate in bud. 
Stamens 2-3; filaments short, free—Female: Calyx 3-8- 
parted; the segments imbrieated, pectinate or pinnatifid. 
Ovary 3-celled, 3-lobed; cells l-ovuled; style 3-fid. Cap- 
sule hispid, 3-celled.—Endl. Gen. n. 5782; Baill. l.c. p. 459 ; 
DO. lc. p. 927. 
Herbaceous or ligneous tropical or subtropical plants, often voluble, hairy, 
with alternate, stipuled, penninerved, ovate or cordate, lobed or pinnatisect 
leaves and racemose flowers ; the female flowers few, at the base of the 
raceme, on long pedicels.—Several species, in the Eastern district. 
11. SEIDELIA, Baill. 
Flowers monecious.—Male: Calyx 3-parted, valvate in bud. 
Stamens 2-3, alternate with the calyx-lobes; filaments free ; 
anthers globose.—Female: Calyx 3-parted. Ovary 2-celled, 
a gland alternating with each cell; cells l-ovuled.— Baill. Ll... 
p.465. t.9.f.7. Mercurialis sp., Sond. in Linn. xxiii. p. 112; 
DC. 1.¢. p. 947 (Tragia, sect. 11, Seidelia). 
