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EUPHORBIACE. 
Styles distinct, often, 2-fid. multifid 
or papillosely fimbriate :— 
Filaments free :— 
Stamens few ; anther cells united 
by their bases only; styles 
very long, laciniate or fim- 
briate; fruit a capsule.— 
Herbs . 
Stamens many;  anther-cells 
attached by a narrow or broad 
connective :— 
Leaves opposite ; flowers dic- 
cious, rather large, appearing 
before the leaves; anther- 
cells oblong ; fruit a drupe. 
—A soft-wooded tree . 
Leaves alternate or opposite ; 
flowers minute, dicecious ; 
anther-cells globose ; fruit 
a capsule.—A small ever- 
green tree : ° 
Filaments connate in bundles or 
branched ; fruit a capsule :— 
Flowers dicecious, male and fem. 
in axillary or infra-axillary 
spikes ; seeds with a thin fleshy 
coat; fruit a capsule.—An 
evergreen willow-like shrub 
Flowers monecious, in terminal 
subpanicled racemes, the 
upper ones male and crowded, 
lower fem. ; seeds with a firm 
coat ; fruit a capsule.—A tree- 
like annual herb with palmate 
serrate-lobed leaves 
Styles united below in a stout column 
and continuous with the body of 
carpels ; male calyx valvately 3-5- 
partite ; stamens 3; fruit a cap- 
sule.—T winning perennial herbs 
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ACALYBHA. 
. TREWIA. 
MALLOTUS. 
. HomMonora. 
RIcInvs. 
. TRAGTA. 
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