122. EUPHORBIACEAE 



319 



79. Disc of the female flowers bottle-shaped, enclosing the ovary to the top. 



Inflorescence paniculate. — Species i. East Africa. (Under Bridelia 



Willd.) Neogoetzea Pax 



Disc of the female flowers double, the outer cup-shaped, adhering to the 

 calyx, the inner consisting of 5 scales. Fruit usually a drupe. — Species 

 25. Tropical and South-east Africa. Some species yield dye-stuffs. 

 (Including Gentilia Beille) Bridelia Willd. 



80. Receptacle of the male flowers elevated, forming a short androphore. — 



Species 10. Tropics Cleistanthus Hook. 



Receptacle not prolonged into an androphore. Flowers clustered, dioecious. 

 — Species i. Madagascar and Comoro Islands. . Stenonia Baill. 



81. (76.) Anthers 4-celled, even after opening, numerous. Filaments united. 



Male flowers with 5 sepals and 3 valvate petals. Ovary 3 — 4-celled. 

 Styles 3, undivided. Carpels enlarging and separating after the time of 

 flowering. Downy shrubs. Leaves without stipules. Flowers in 

 axillary glomerules. — Species i. South-east Africa. [Tribe JUX- 

 ODIEAE.] Junodia Pax- 

 Anthers 2-celled, at least after opening 82 



82. Seeds with a very small embryo. Fruit an oblong drupe. Ovary 2-celled. 



Styles 2, undivided. Male flowers with 9—18 free, central stamens, 

 without a disc and without a rudimentary pistil. Corolla none. Flowers 

 dioecious, in racemes. Trees. ■ — Species i. West Africa. [Tribe 



DAPHNIPHYLLEAE] Daphniphyllum Blume 



Seeds with a large embryo. Ovary-cells and styles usually 3 ; if 2, then 

 stamens 2 — 6 or surrounding a central disc. [Tribe PHYLI.ANTH- 

 EAE.] 83 



83. Corolla present, at least in the flowers of one sex 84 



Corolla absent 05 



84. Stamens 8 — 10. Anthers opening outwards. Sepals, petals, and carpels 



4 — 5. Flowers dioecious, in glomerules. Trees. — Specie; i. Soutu 



Africa. Yields timber Heywoodia Sim 



Stamens 4 — 5. [Subtribe andrachninae.] 85 



85. Flowers 3-merous, dioecious. Petals exceeding the sepals in the male 



flowers, absent in the female. Male flowers without a nidimentary 

 pistil. Stamens 6, each surrounded at the base by a gland ; anthers 

 opening transversely. , Ovary 4 — 5-celled. Shrubs. Flowers in glo- 

 merules. — Species i. Fast Africa (Somali land). . Bricchettia Pax 

 Flowers 4 — 6-merous. Male flowers with a rudimentary pistil ... 86 



86. Ovary 5-celled. St\^les 5, two-cleft. Disc cup-shaped, lobed in the male 



flowers, entire in the female. Stamens inserted upon a short androphore. 



Petals exceeding the sepals. Flowers fascicled, monoecious. Shrubs. — 



Species r. Seychelles. (Under Savia Willd.) . . Wielandia Baill. 



Ovary 3-celled. Styles or sessile stigmas 3 87 



87. Styles very short, undivided 88 



Styles well developed, two-cleft 90 



