834 cxxii. EUPHORBiACEiB (prain). [Caperonm, 



irile Iiand. Galabat : near Matamma, Schtoeinfurth, 870 ! 871 ! Kordofan : 

 Arashkol Mountain, Kotschy, 69 I 113 ! Dinka : Nassar on the River Sobat, Broun, 

 1728 I Jur: Abu Gurun's Sereba, Schweivfurth, 4266 ! 



50. CHROZOPHORA, Neck. ; Benth. et Hook. f. 

 Gen. PI. iii. 305. 



Flowers monoecious, dichlamydeous. Male : Calyx closed in bud, 

 ovoid or globose, splitting into 5 valvate lobes. Petals 5, usually sliorter 

 than the calyx-lobes. Disk inconspicuous. Stamens 5-15 ; filaments con- 

 nate below in a column, more or less distinctly 1-3-seriate ; anthers ob- 

 long, erect ; cells parallel, opening longitudinally. Rudimentary ovary 0. 

 Female : Calyx 5-lobed ; lobes narrow. Petals 5, narrow, usually small, 

 occasionally obsolete. Disk-glands alternate with the petals, short and 

 broad. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules in each cell solitary ; styles erect, 2-fid, 

 the arms entire, rather stout, sometimes at length spreading. Capsule 

 rather coriaceous, 3-dymous, breaking up into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds 

 ovoid, without a caruncle ; testa smooth or slightly rugose ; albumen 

 thick, fleshy ; cotyledons broad, flat. — Diffuse or erect herbs, rarely 

 shrubby, harshly or softly stellate-pubescent. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 often plicate, sometimes bullate. Racemes rather dense, usually short, 

 from the axils of the upper leaves ; their upper flowers male, the lower 

 female. Capsules sometimes stellate-pubescent, sometimes lepidote. 



Species about 7, extending to the Mediterranean region, throughout the Orient 

 and to India and Indo-Cliina. 



Prostrate herbs with stellate-pubescent but not lepidote 



capsules; stamens usually more than 10 ; seeds rough 1. C. pUcata. 

 Erect or suberect shrubs or undershrubs, with lepidote, 

 but not stellate-pubescent capsules ; stamens not more 

 than 10. 

 Seeds rough ; capsules muricate ; leaves oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, longer than broad ; scales on ripe capsules 



rather loose and remote, their margins pectinate . 2. C. ollongifoHa. 

 Seeds smooth ; capsules not muricate ; leaves rhomboid 

 or subhastate, nearly as broad as long ; scales on 

 ripe capsules rather close set, their margins undu- 

 late or subentire. 

 Fruiting sepals lanceolate, ^\ in. long . . .3. 6\ senegalenHs. 



Fruiting sepals linear, ^ in. long . . . .4. C.hrocchiana. 



1. C. plicata, A. Juss. ex Sjyreng. Syst, Veg. iii. 850, excl. syn. Lam. 

 A prostrate herb with diffuse much-branched stems, softly white stellate- 

 pubescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, ovate or ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, 

 base somewhat unequally truncate, 2-glandular, margin undulate, plicate 

 and somewhat buUately rugulose, thinly stellate-tomentose above, more 

 densely so beneath, J-lJ in. long, J-| in. wide; petiole \-\ in. long, 

 densely tomentose ; stipules linear, 1 lin. long, deciduous. Racemes 

 short- ped uncled, rather dense, often leafy below ; lower female pedicels 

 in fruit sometimes ^-| in. long. M;ile calyx globose in bud, densely 

 stellate-pubescent ; lobes ovate. Petals pink, lanceolate, shorter than 

 the calyx-lobes. Stamens 12-15, 3-verticillHte. Female sepals lanceolate. 



