340 CIX. EUPHORBIACER. 
Ovary hairy, 3-celled; cells 1-ovuled; styles 3, long, filiform, 
densely papillose. Capsule 3-coccous, enclosed in the en- 
larged, persistent calyx.— Harv. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 
p.29; Baill. Euph. p. 494; DC. l.c. p. 925 (Leptorhachis). 
Half-herbaceous, voluble plants, with alternate, petioled and stipuled, 
cordate, penninerved leaves and racemose inflorescence, terminal or opposite 
the leaves.—1 or 2 species, natives of Eastern district and Natal. They 
have the habit of Zragia, but differ in the male flowers. 
16. STILLINGIA, Gard. 
Flowers moncecious.—Male: Calyx cup-shaped, crenulate 
or shortly 2-3-fid. Stamens 2-3, exserted ; filaments more or 
less connate at base—Female: Calyx 3-toothed. Ovary 
sessile, 3-celled ; cells 1-ovuled; style thick, with 3 reflexed 
branches. Capsule 3-coccous, nude.—Endl. Gen. 5780 ; Baill. 
Euph. p. 509. Spirostachys, Sond. in Linn. xxiii. p. 107. Scle- 
rocroton, Hochst. in Flora, 1845, p. 85; DC. l.c. p. 1155. 
Tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs, with milky juice; alternate, 
stipuled, entire or serrulate leaves, and terminal, racemose or spiked inflo- 
rescence, the males occupying the upper part of the spike, the females 1 or 
2, on longish pedicels near the base.—2 or 3 species, at Natal. 
Serres 2. Brovunare. (Gen. 17-23.) 
17. CYCLOSTEMON, Blume. 
Flowers dicecious—Male: Calyx 4-5-parted; the sepals 
unequal, concave, imbricate in bud. Stamens very many; 
filaments slender, free, inserted round a broad, convex disk ; 
anthers oblong —Female: Calyx as in the male, persistent. 
Disk fleshy, surrounding the ovary. Ovary depressed, vel- 
vety, 3-(or 2-)celled; ovules in pairs; style 3-parted (or 2- 
parted), the branches thick, spreading, flattened and capitate 
at the apex. Fruit fleshy, indehigcent, 3-(or 2-)celled.— Endl. 
Gen. n. 5837 ; Baill. Euph. p. 561. t. 23. f. 22-25; Harv. Thes. 
t. 200; DC. l.c. p. 480. 
Nearly glabrous trees, natives of tropical Asia, with entire or toothed, 
penninerved, shining leaves, and axillary or lateral inflorescence, both sexes 
in tufts.—C. Natalense, Harv., our only species, differs from the Indian 
species in having a trilocular ovary. Its yellow flowers are very fetid. 
ne 18. HY NANCHE, Lamb. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx 5-8-parted, imbricate in 
bud. Stamens 8-30; filaments short, free; anthers ovoid, 
extrorse.—Female: Calyx 3-5-7- or multi-parted ; sepals im- 
bricate, deciduous. Ovary 3-4-celled ; cells 2-ovuled ; style 
3—4-parted, branches reflexed. Capsule woody, 3-4-celled.— 
Endl. Gen. n.5876 ; Baill. 1.c. 565. t. 23. f. 29-39 ; DC. le. p. 
479. 
