114 EUPHORBIACEAE, 
large low broadly heart-shaped leaf-scars with 5 bundle-traces; 
no stipule-scars; round buds with several exposed scales, the 
terminal bud present and broadly conical; large odd-pinnate 
leaves with pointed serrate short-stalked glandless leaflets; 
small whitish usually perfect polypetalous panicled flowers; and 
capsular fruit with winged seeds, . 
Leaves merely paler beneath. C. sinensis. 
Leaves glaucous beneath. C. serrata. 
Me.iA, China Berry. 
Deciduous trees with firm brown wood with small ducts 
more crowded in spring and somewhat undulately tangentially 
lined in summer, and rather fine medullary rays; moderate 
terete twigs; round continuous pith; somewhat raised 3-lobed 
leaf-scars with 3 compound bundle-traces; rounded sometimes . 
superposed buds with few exposed scales; twice or thrice pin- 
nate long-petioled leaves with toothed leaflets; perfect poly- 
petalous open lilac loosely clustered flowers with monadelphous 
stamens; and moderate-sized round yellowish translucent berry- 
like drupes. 
Tree round topped. M. Azedarach. 
Tree umbrella-shaped. M. Azedarach umbraculiformis. 
Family EUPHORBIACEAE. Spurge Family. 
A very large widespread family, largely herbs, with milky 
acrid sap; yielding Brazilian India-rubber, cassava or tapioca, 
the principal bread-stuff of the tropics, the source of medicinal 
croton oil and castor oil, and including the poinsettia and 
“crotons” of florists. The castor bean is much used for tall 
temporary foliage masses. 
ANDRACHNE, 
Deciduous small shrubs with slender fluted twigs; small 
3-sided continuous brown pith; alternate small somewhat raised 
half-elliptical leaf-scars with a single bundle-trace; narrow 
stipule-scars or elongated persistent stipules; sessile ovoid buds 
with several exposed ciliate scales; rather small simple entire 
short-petioled leaves; monoecious polypetalous or apetalous in- 
