394 EUPHORBIACEAE, [Huphorbia. 
is articulate with a short filament bearing a 2-celled anther, anda single 
female flower in the centre, reduced to a stipitate 3-celled ovary protruding 
from the involucre, with 1 pendulous ovule in each cell. Style 3-cleft, 
ras branches (or distinct styles) entire or 2-lobed. Capsule separating 
0 3 two-valvyed cocci. — Herbs or shrubs, abounding in milky juice. 
Pay leaves alternate without stipules, the flowering branches umbellate, 
dichotomous, with usually opposite leaves; or all.the leaves opposite and 
often stipellate, with the flowers in axillary cymes; or succulent leafless 
A very large genus, dispersed oyer nearly the whole world. 
pt toon present : 
pules of each side connate in one eres sagedl interpetiolar one; 
eaves all opposite and distichous; 1. 
glands entire, those of no. 7 often appendiculate; seed without 
earuncle; gene" or trees: 
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yme rade Geveloel ; seeds smooth; veins effa od ; i 1. E. clusiaefolia. 
Cyme i ania seeds serobicnlate; veins of leaves distinct 2. E. Remyi. 
Leaves smaller, r less; veins obli sue to the rib: 
Leaves linear, oon or spathulate 
Infloresce . celastroides. 
oped open cyme 
Flower er- ea ‘ds glove single or rarely 2 or 3 together 
Leaves obovate, entire 
Leaves ovate, sgn - rarely entire 
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E. ifolia. 
E. multiformis. 
. BE. Hookeri. 
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. cordata. 
. pilulifera. 
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Stip cog cea tay frat aa flower Ts axilla ary 
sips none; ae leaves ee inflorescence terminal. Seed 
neulate . Peplus. 
A. Anisophyllum. 
1, E, clusiaefolia, Hook. d& Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 95. — An erect shrub, 
3—6 ft. high, with thick stiff branches, quite glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
oboyate- or elliptico-oblong, 2'/2—4‘ x 1—11/2‘, on petioles of 1“, obtuse, 
even rounded, and often retuse, entire, with revolute margins, moderately 
contracted at the base and often uneven- -sided, subcoriaceous, opaque, 
with the evanescent veins nearly at right angles, quite smooth. Inter 
aed stipule obtusely triangular, 11/2" high or less. Cymes axillary, 
ong, once or repeatedly di- or trichotomous, rarely bearing only 
a ade head, the pedicels stiff, 4—6” in length. Invol. campanulate, 
1" high, sisiube inside, its 4 or 5 lobes short obovate, emarginate and 
denticulate, the glands cieleiats oblong, not appendiculate. Stamens 
numerous, each supported by a cuneate bractlet which is split into linear 
lobes and fimbriate. Capsule smooth, long-stalked 
el. 
Boissier, in DC. Prod. XV, Sect. II, p. 11, and Ic. Euphorb. tab. J. 
Wawra, in Flora, 1875, p. 145. — Anisophyllum nodosum, Kl. & Garcke. 
Main range of Oahu! not uncommon. 
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