CIX. EUPIIOllBIACEiE. 341 



E. fflohosa, Lamb, is a slimb or small tree, with corky branches, opposite 

 or subverticillate, entire, thick, penninerved leaves, and axillary hiflores- 

 cence ; the females on short, few-flowered peduncles ; the males in longer, 

 dense racemes. Nuts very poisonous. Native of the Western districts. 



19. BRIEDELIA, Willd. 



Elowers monoecious.— ^lale : Calyx 5-fid ; the lobes thick, 

 triangular, valvate in bud. Petals 5, alternating with the 

 calyx-lobes, perigynous, small, oval or spathulate, imbricate in 

 bud. Disk of 5, "rigid, pubescent lamelUe, opposite the calyx- 

 lobes. Stamens 5, united in a central column, at the summit 

 of which is a rudimentiiry pistil. — Female : Calyx and corolla 

 as in the male. Ovary immersed in a 5-fid disk, 2-3-celled ; 

 cells 2-ovuled; style 2-3-parted, the branches 2-fid. Fruit 

 fleshy, 2-3-celled, in the persistent calyx. — I^ndl. Gen. n. 6839 ; 

 Baill. Euph. p. 582. t. 25. f. 25-31 ; DO. I. c. p. 492. 



Trees or shrubs of the Old World, sometimes scandent. Leaves alter- 

 nate, entire or toothed, short-petioled, stipuled, penninerved. Flowers in 

 axillary tufts, small. — B. micrantha, PL, occm-s at Natal. 



20. ANTIDESMA, Burm. 



Flowers dicecious.— Male : Calyx 3-6-cleft or -parted, im- 

 bricate in bud. Disk annular, 3-6-lobed. Stamens 2-6, op- 

 posite the calyx-lobes; filaments filiform; anthers 2-celled, 

 the cells widely spreading. A rudimentary pistil.— Female : 

 Calyx of male. Ovary 1-celled, on a fleshy disk ; ovules 2 ; 

 stigma subsessile, 3-5-raved. Drupe fleshy or dry, 1-seeded, 

 crowned with the ^ijl^.—Endl. Gen. 7i. 1892 ; Baill. Euph. p. 

 601 ; Harv. Thes. t. 169 ; DC. I. c. p. 217. 



Trees or shrubs of warm latitudes in the Old World. Leaves alternate, 

 simple, entire, stipuled. Inflorescence terminal or axQlary, in spikes or 

 glonierules. — A . venosum is found at Natal. 



21. PLEIOSTEMON, Send. 



Flowers monoecious.— Male : Calyx 5-6-parted, in 2 rows, 

 imbricate in bud. Stamens 6-8-10; filaments free, on a 

 convex, glandular receptacle; anthers extrorse.— Female : 

 Calyx as in the male. Ovary on a glandular disk, 3-celled ; 

 cells 2-ovuled ; style 3-parted, the branches 2-fid. Capsule 

 3-celled.— >Sonf/. m Linn, xxiii. p. 135 ; Baill. I. c. p. 615 ; DC. 

 I. c. p. 333 (Phyllanthus, sect. 20, Pleiostemon). 



P. verrucosum, Sond., the only species, is a shrub, with warted branches 

 alternate, oval, obtuse, glabrous, finely-netted, veined and pemnnerved 

 leaves, and axillary flowers ; the males tufted, females solitary.— Eastern 

 district. 



22. PHYLLANTHUS, Sw. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious. — Male : Calyx 5-6-parted, 



