3842 CIX. EUPHORBIACES. 
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in 2 rows. Stamens 3, rarely 5; filaments united in a central 
column, surrounded by 5-6 glands on a lobed disk; anthers 
extrorse.— Female: Calyx as in the male. Ovary on a glan- 
dular disk, 3-celled; cells 2-ovuled; style 3-parted, the 
branches 2-fid or repeatedly forked. Capsule 3-coccous.— 
Endl. Gen. n. 5847 ; Baill. l. c. p. 621; DC. le. p. 274. 
Trees shrubs or herbs of both heintdohanes: Leaves alternate, penni- 
nerved, netted, often distichous. Some are leafless, with flattened, leaf-like 
branches (xylophylla). Flowers in axillary tufts.—Several species, near 
Natal, some in Eastern district. 
23. LACHNOSTYLIS, Turcz. 
Flowers dicecious.—Male: Calyx 5-parted; sepals villous, 
imbricate in bud. Petals 5, alternate, obovate, glabrous, 
shorter than the calyx, inserted on the margin of an annular, 
villous-margined disk. Stamens 5; filaments shortly connate 
round a rudimentary ovary, then free ; anthers ovate, introrse. 
Styles (of rudimentary pistils) 3, simple, very villous. —Female: 
Calyx and corolla of male. Ov ary very hairy, 3-celled ; cells 
pubescent within, 2-ovuled ; styles 3, short, villous, above gla- 
brous and 2-fid. Capsule ‘pubescent, 3-celled —Turez. Bull. 
Mose. xix. p.503.; Sond. Linn. xxiii. p. 181; Baill. l.c. p. 663 ; 
DC. 1 ¢. p. 224. 
Shrubs, with alternate, short-petioled, stipuled, oblong or obovate, penni- 
nerved and netted- veined, entire, glabrous leaves, and 1-flowered, solitary 
or tufted, axillary peduncles. —1 variable species, on the Eastern frontier. 
Orper CX. URTICACEZ. 
Flowers mostly unisexual, rarely polygamous or bisexual, 
apetalous. Calyx entire or variously cleft or parted ; the lobes 
imbricate or valvate-induplicate. Stamens as many as the 
calyx-lobes and opposite them, rarely more or fewer, hypogy- 
nous; filaments mostly inflexed in bud; anthers 2-celled. 
Ovary free or more or less adherent, 1- celled, rarely imper- 
fectly 2-celled ; styles 1-2 ; ovule solitary, erect or pendulous, 
the micropyle always superior. Fruit a berry, nut, achene or 
samara. Albumen fleshy or none; radicle always superior.— 
Trees shrubs or herbs, dispersed over the warmer and tempe- 
rate regions, very few in the frigid zone. Leaves often with 
stinging hairs (nettles), opposite or alternate, stipuled. 
Habits various. 
Suborder 1. Urticeze. Herbs or shrubs, with watery juice. Style sim- 
ple or 0. Ovule orthotropous, erect. 
Male flowers with 3-5 stamens. 
Leaves almost always armed with stinging hairs. 
Leaves opposite; achene equal-sided . . . . . 1, Urmica. 
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