EUPHORBIACEAE. 175 
ANDRACHNE. 
(Family Euphorbiaceae). 
Small shrubs: deciduous. Twigs 
5-angled or terete; the youngest 
very slender, the older with some- 
what flaking bark: pith small, 
rounded, continuous. Buds small, 
collaterally multiple, with several 
ciliate scales, the axils often oc- 
cupied by  pedicel-scars. Leaf- 
scars alternate, minute, half- 
round, low: bundle-trace 1: sti- 
pules more or less persistent at 
the side. 
Neither Andrachne nor Securi- 
nega is of much merit, but the 
rarity of woody Euphorbiaceae 
outside of the tropics make them 
a little puzzling when they are 
encountered. Winter-characters of 
Securinega ramiflora are given by 
Schneider, f. 125. As typical of 
many anatomical studies to which 
reference is not made in this book, may be cited a paper on 
the phyllanthoid Euphorbiaceae by Rothdauscher, published 
in volume 68 of the Botanisches Centralblatt. 
Twigs terete, glabrous. (1). A. colchica. 
Twigs 5-lined, somewhat hairy. (2). A. phyllanthoides. 
