70 EUPHORBIACE&. 



Disk present in the fern, and 

 often in the male flowers ; 

 filaments free or united ; 

 fruit usually a capsule, 

 rarely a berry or drupe. 

 Herbs, shrubs or trees . 8. PHYLLANTHUS, 



Style much dilated ; fruit a 1 -seeded 

 drupe : 



Stamens 2-4, central. An ever- 

 green tree . . . .9. PUTRANJIVA. 



Stamens 4-many, surrounding 

 a broad disk. An evergreen 

 tree . . . . .10. CYCLOSTEMON, 



Male flowers in axillary panicled spikes 

 or racemes ; stamens free round a 

 rudimentary pistillode ; fruit a 

 drupe. Trees or shrubs with dioecious 

 flowers . . . . . .11. ANTIDESMA. 



Stamens of the outer or only series alternate 

 with the sepals, or, if stamens are all in 

 the centre of the flower the cells of the 2-3- 

 (rarely 4-) carpelled ovary are each 1- 

 ovuled ; petals, if present, often exceeding 

 the sepals : 



Petals present in both sexes ; fruit a cap- 

 sule : 



Flowers solitary or clustered on the 

 rhachis of a terminal raceme. Trees 

 or shrubs, rarely herbs . . .12. CROTON. 



Flowers in axillary bracteate racemes ; 



leaves sinuate -toothed or lobed ; fruit 



a capsule. Hispid or stellately tornen- 



tose herbs . . . . .13. CHROZOPHORA. 



Petals none in either sex ; male sepals 4-5, 



imbricate, free ; fruit a capsule. A 



stout undershrub .... 14. BALIOSPERMUM, 



Male calyx closed in bud, usually mem- 

 branous, splitting valvately into 3-5 

 concave sepals, the sepals of the fern, 

 calyx sometimes imbricate : 



