Order 106. Euphorbiacece. 287 



so ; calyx 5-cleft, petals much smaller, disk broad, stamens 5, 

 united below, styles 2, forked, fruit a drupe, or of 2 cocci. 



Nothing could be less like last genus than this, the flowers being 

 of a very ordinary pentandrous type, much resembling some of the 

 Rhamnaceas. 



3. PHYLLANTHUS. Leaves bifarious, flowers monoecious, 

 sepals 4 to 6 in 2 series with a disk, stamens 3 to 5, fruit gene- 

 rally a capsule, sometimes a berry. 



4. GLOCHIDION. Like the last, but flowers without disk, 

 sepals generally 6 in 2 series, stamens 3 to 8 connate, styles 

 connate in a more or less round column, lobed or toothed at the 

 top, capsule often of 6 or more lobes. 



5. FLUEGGIA. Shrubs, leaves small, flowers dioecious, sepals 

 5, stamens 3 to 5 ; the male flower has a large imperfect pistil, 

 and in the female the long recurved styles are united below 

 into an erect column. 



6. BREYNIA. Shrubs or small trees, flowers minute, calyx of 

 male flower truncate, of female 6-lobed, stamens 3 columnar, 

 anthers adnate to the whole length of the column, styles 3. 



7. PUTRANJIVA. Trees, male flowers clustered, females sub- 

 solitary, calyx unequally 3 to 6-lobed, stamens 2 to 4, styles 

 short, dilated into broad fleshy arms, drupe 1-celled. 



8. APOROSA. Trees, flowers minute, males in dense catkin- 

 like spikes, females larger in short spikes, stamens 1 to 5, anthers 

 twin. 



Note. This genus, differing from the rest of the order by the 

 flowers being in catkins, was formerly in a separate order 



9. ANTIDESMA. Trees or shrubs, flowers dioecious in spikes 

 or racemes, calyx 3 to 8-toothed, stamens 2 to 5 inserted on or 

 round the disk, fruit a drupe crowned with stigmas. 



Note. This genus also belonged to a small separate order 

 Stilaginese connected by some authorities with Urticaceae, and by 

 others with Amentiferaa. 



10. JATROPHA. Trees, shrubs or herbs, often glandular or 

 prickly, leaves often lobed, flowers monoecious, sepals and 

 petals 5, stamens many, anthers erect, fruit a capsule of 2 to 4 

 cocci. 



11. CROTON. Trees or shrubs, leaves with 2 glands at the 

 base, sepals, petals, and disk glands 4 to 6, stamens many on a 



