70 | EUPHORBIACEE. 
Disk present in the fem. and 
often in the male flowers ; 
filaments free or united ; 
fruit usually a capsule, 
rarely a berry or drupe.— 
Herbs, shrubs or trees . 8. PHYLLANTHUS. 
Style much dilated ; fruit a 1-seeded 
drupe :-— 
Stamens 2-4, central.—An ever- 
green tree. 5 : . 9. PUTRANJIVA. 
Stamens 4-many, surrounding 
a broad disk.—An heraiats 
: tree. . 10. CycLosTEMoN.. 
Male flowers in eres Saabs pads 
or racemes; stamens free round a 
rudimentary pistillode; fruit a 
drupe.—Trees or shrubs with dicecious 
flowers . ; ; - 1l. ANTIDESMA. 
Stamens of the outer or oil series sities 
with the sepals, or, if stamens are all in 
the centre of the flower the cells of the 2-3- 
(rarely 4-) carpelled ovary are each l1- 
ovuled ; petals, if present, often exceeding 
the sepals : — 
Petals present in both sexes ; fruit a cap- 
sule :-— 
Flowers solitary or clustered on the 
rhachis of a terminal raceme.—Trees 
or shrubs, rarely herbs. . . 12. Croton. 
Flowers in axillary bracteate racemes ; 
leaves sinuate-toothed or lobed ; fruit 
a capsule. eis or gia ad tomen- 
tose herbs’. . 13. CHROZOPHORA.. 
Petals none in either sex ; as pals 4-5, 
imbricate, free; fruit a capsule.—A 
stout undershrub ; ‘ ; . 14. BALIOSPERMUM. 
Male calyx closed in bud, usually mem- 
branous, splitting valvately into 3-d 
concave sepals, the sepals of the fem. 
calyx sometimes imbricate :— 
