576 CXV. EUPHOBBIACB^. 



2 iu each cell ; styles short, 2-fid or 2-partite. Capsule of three 2-valved 

 cocci. Seeds curved, rugose, estrophiolate ; albumen fleshy ; embryo 

 curved ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Distrib. Species about 10, variously 

 dispersed. 



1. Andrachne aspera, Sj^reiu/. Si/st. Veg. v. 3 (1826) p. 884. A 

 small somewliat glaucous inidershrub ; stems numerous from a thick 

 woody root, prostrate or ascending, very slender, 4-12 in. long, clothed 

 with short glandular hairs. Leaves orbicular or more commonly reniform, 

 usually broader than long, \-h by g-| in., gradually smaller i-i]nvards, 

 obtuse, shortly glandular-hairy, base cordate ; petioles of the lower 

 leaves \ in. long or more, filiform, those of the upper leaves very short ; 

 stipules minute, lanceolate, hairy. Calyx 5-partite, hairy ; sepals j^iu. 

 long, lanceolate, obtuse, ciliate. Petals when present shorter than the 

 calyx. Glands of the disk fleshy, those of the male flowers peltate, 

 incised, those of the female obovate, truncate. Capsules Jr in. in diam., 

 globose, hairy, on filiform pedicels reaching ^ in. long ; styles three, 

 2-partite to the base, gL in. long. Seeds 3-gonous, nearly white, reaching 

 y\j^ in. long, curved, rounded on the back, rugose. Fl. B. I. v. 5, p. 284 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (18J»9) p. ;36!).— Flowers : Aug. 



SiND : Stocks'.; bill* at the Hub near Katncln, IlJio/a I'li ran \ : Laki, Wocdrowl — 

 DiSTRiB. Persia, Arabia, Trnpioal Africa. 



7. GLOCHIDION, Forst. 



Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, bifarious, shortly petio- 

 late, entire. Flowers small, monoecious or dioecious, in axillary clusters. 

 Pei'ianth simple. Petals 0. Disk 0. Male ploweks : Sepals 6 (rarely 

 5), spreading, in 2 series, imbricate. Stamens connate in an ellipsoid 

 or oblong sessile column ; anthers 3-8 (sometimes more), the cells linear, 

 dehiscing extrorsely : connectives produced as free points or connate in 

 an umbonate head. Pistillode or rarely minute and hidden between 

 the anthers. Female fi.owebs : Calyx usually of 6 short indjricate 

 sepals or shortly tubular and unequally toothed or cleft. Ovary 3-15- 

 celled ; ovules 2 in each cell ; styles connate in a globose, columnar 

 conic or subclavate column, lobed or toothed at the tip. Fruit a capsule 

 of 3 or more 2-val\ ed cocci, often with twici' as many lobes as cells, 

 globose or orbicular and depressed, or intruded at the base and apex, 

 crowned by the often cidarged style ; cocci coriaceous or crustaceous, the 

 epicnrp separable or not. Seeds lunnispheric or laterally compressed; 

 testa crustaceous with oflen a succulent coat ; albumen copious, fleshy ; 

 cotyledons flat.— Disteib. Species about 120, chiefly tropical Asiatic. 



Anthers 4 or more ; sepals of female (lowers 5-G, distinct ur 

 connate at the base only. 



Flowers in axillary fascicles; cai)sulcs pubescent or 

 lioary. 



I'ranchlels. leaves beneath, aiid (lowers glabrous; 



Ciipstiles jj; ill. in cliani., hoary 1. G. hniccolarium. 



liranehlets, leaves beneath, and (lowers pubescent; 



cajisules \-\ in. in diam., jnibescent 2. G. tomcutosum. 



l<^lo\\ers ill umbellate chislers, on short usually supra- 

 axillary peduncles ; capsules glabrous 3. G.zcylavicmn 



var. nitidum. 



