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hairy receptacle, petals sometimes absent in female flowers, 

 capsule of 3 cocci. 



12. CHROZOPHORA. Herbs or undershrubs, rough or hairy; 

 flowers in racemes with bracts, males crowded in the upper 

 parts, females solitary stalked, male calyx round or ovoid, 

 female of 5 narrow sepals ; petals 5, in female flowers some- 

 times wanting, stamens 5 to 16, styles bifid, capsule of 3 cocci. 



13. CLAOXYLON. Flowers in spikes or racemes, calyx 

 roundish of 3 or 4 segments, stamens various, anthers erect, 

 styles spreading, fringed, capsule various. 



14. ACALYPHA. Flowers generally dioecious, male flowers 

 very minute without bracts, females often at the base of large 

 increasing bracts, stamens many or 8, styles long, fringed. 



15. MALLOTUS. Trees or shrubs, leaves sometimes opposite, 

 often with glands at the base, flowers racemed, males clustered, 

 females solitary in the bracts, stamens 20 or more, capsule of 2 

 or 3 cocci. 



16. MACARANGA. Trees or shrubs, flowers racemed, generally 

 dioecious, males many clustered, females solitary or few under 

 each bract, stamens 1 or more, styles entire. 



17. HOMONOIA. Kigid shrubs, flowers usually dioecious, 

 stamens numerous in a dense round head of branched filaments 

 and anthers, styles spreading, capsule of 3 cocci. 



18. BALIOSPERMUM. Erect shrubs, male flowers round, 

 with 4 to 6 membranous sepals, females of 5 or 6 lanceolate 

 sepals, stamens 10 to 30, anthers with a broad connective, styles 

 stout bifid, capsules of 3 cocci. 



19. TRAGIA. Twining herbs, flowers monoecious in racemes, 

 male above, female few below ; calyx of male flowers round or 

 obovoid, 3 to 5 partite, sepals of female flowers 6 ; stamens 1 to 

 3, styles spreading above, capsule of 3 cocci. 



' 20. SEBASTIANIA. Flowers monoecious, males minute, 1 to 3 

 in each bract, females solitary or at the base of the raceme, 

 male calyx unequally 5-lobed, female 3-lobed ; stamens 2 to 4, 

 capsule round of 3 cocci separating from a central column. 



1. EUPHORBIA. 



Note. I believe that the name dudhi is commonly applied to all 

 small species of this genus. H. has 52 species, of which 15 are found 

 in W. India. 



I. Leaves opposite. 



1. E. elegans (E. strobilifera, D.) Two or three feet high, 



