Acali/pha.] 



CXXII. EUPHORBIACE.E (hUTCHINSON). 



883 



Female bracts crenate or dentate. 



Female bracts ratber small, usually 

 crowded and overlapping in tbe 

 leaf-axils. 

 Inflorescences collected towards the 

 ends of the shoots ; femnle 

 bracts with numerous long 

 gland-tipped hairs . . 32. A. gJomerata. 



Inflorescences not collected towards 

 the ends of the shoots; female 

 bracts ciliate, with no or very 

 few gland-tipped hairs . . 33. ^. crenata. 



Female bracts large and foliaceous, 

 very Lixly arranged. 

 Female bracts dentate, more or less 

 reniform when spread out ; 

 an erect usually unbranched 



herb 34:. A. indica. 



Female bracts crenate, more or less 

 ovate when spread out, often 

 with a few gland -tipped 

 hairs; a small herb, often 

 much branched from the hase 35. A. segelalift. 

 ft Perennials; stems herbaceous and arising 

 from a rhizome, or much-branched 

 woody shrubs. 

 Stems herbaceous, arising from a woody 

 rhizome. 

 Leaves linear, linear-oblong or oblong, 

 not densely villous. 

 Male portion of inflorescence long and 

 very slender and usually long- 

 pedunculate ; leaves nearly glab 

 rous above 

 Male portion of inflorescence short 

 and nearly sessile ; leaves more 

 or less setose-pubescent above . 37. 

 Leaves ovate, densely whitish villous . 38. 

 Shrubs with woody branches. 

 Ovary tubercnlnr. 



Leaves subsessile ; inflorescence short ; 

 bracts of the female flowers very 

 small, inconspicuous . . . 39. A. ftiibsessilis. 



Leaves distinctly petiolate ; inflores- 

 cence elongated; bracts of the 

 female flowers foliaceous, con- 

 spicuous ..... 40. A. vepiunii-a. 

 Ovary not tubercular. 



Leaves cordate at the base; female 

 bracts inserted at the base of the 

 axis supporting the male flowers .41. .4. Volkenxii, 

 Leaves rounded, truncate or sub- 

 cuneate at the hase ; temale bracts 

 inserted about the middle of the 

 axis supporting the nnde flowers . 42. A. hipartitn. 



36. A. StuolmatmiL 



A. amhiqua. - 

 A. eriopfiijlla. 



