CIX. EUPHORBIACE. 3841 
HH. globosa, Lamb, is a shrub or small tree, with corky branches, opposite 
or subverticillate, entire, thick, penninerved leaves, and axillary inflores- 
cence ; the females on short, few-flowered peduncles; the males in longer, 
dense racemes. Nuts very poisonous. Native of the Western districts. 
19. BRIEDELIA, Willd. 
Flowers monecious.— Male: Calyx 5-fid; the lobes thick, 
triangular, valvate in bud. Petals 5, alternating with the 
calyx-lobes, perigynous, small, oval or spathulate, imbricate in 
bud. Disk of 5, rigid, pubescent lamelle, opposite the calyx- 
lobes. Stamens 5, ‘united in a central column, at the summit 
of which is a rudimentary pistil. Female’: Calyx and corolla 
as in the male. Ovary immersed in a 5-fid disk, 2-3-celled ; 
cells 2-ovuled; style 2-3-parted, the ed 2-fid. Fruit 
fleshy, 2-3-celled, in the persistent calyx. —Endl. Gen. n. 5839 ; 
Baill. Kuph. p. 582. t. 25. J. 25-34; DC. Ll. c. p. 492. 
Trees or shrubs of the Old World, Somieviinids scandent. Leaves alter- 
nate, entire or toothed, short-petioled, stipuled, penninerved. Flowers in 
axillary tufts, small—B. micrantha, Pl., occurs at Natal. 
20. ANTIDESMA, Burm. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx 3-6-cleft or -parted, im- 
bricate in bud. Disk annular, 8-6-lobed. Stamens 2-6, op- 
posite the calyx-lobes; filaments filiform; anthers 2-celled, 
the cells widely spreading. A rudimentary pistil—Female : 
Calyx of male. Ovary 1-celled, on a fleshy disk; ovules 2 ; 
stigma subsessile, 3—-5-rayed. Drupe fleshy or dry, 1-seeded, 
crowned with the style—LHndl. Gen. n. 1892; Baill. Euph. p. 
601; Harv. Thes. ¢t. 169; DC. 1. c. p. 247. 
Trees or shrubs of warm latitudes in the Old World. Leaves alternate, 
simple, entire, stipuled. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, in spikes or 
glomerules.—A. venoswm is found at Natal. 
21. PLEIOSTEMON, Sond. 
Flowers moneecious.—Male: Calyx 5-6-parted, in 2 rows, 
imbricate in bud. Stamens 6-8-10; filaments free, on a 
convex, glandular receptacle; anthers extrorse.—Female : 
Calyx as in the male. Ovary on a glandular disk, 3-celled ; 
cells 2-ovuled ; style 3-parted, the branches 2-fid. Capsule 
3-celled.—Sond. in Linn. xxiii. p. 185; Baill. l.c. p. babe Py 
Lc. p. 883 (Phyllanthus, sect. 20, Pleiostemon). 
P. verrucosum, Sond., the only species, is a shrub, with warted branchess 
alternate, oval, obtuse, glabrous, finely-netted, veined and penninerved 
leaves, and axillary flowers; the males tufted, "females solitary.—Hastern 
district. 
22. PHYLLANTHUS, Sw. 
Flowers monecious or dicecious.—Male: Calyx 5-6-parted, 
