EUPHORBIACEM. 



Styles distinct, often, 2-fid. multifid 

 or papillosely fimbriate : 



Filaments free : 



Stamens few ; anther cells united 

 by their bases only ; styles 

 very long, laciniate or fim- 

 briate ; fruit a capsule. 

 Herbs . . . . .15. ACALYPHA. 



Stamens many ; anther-cells 



attached by a narrow or broad 



connective : 



Leaves opposite ; flowers dioe- 

 cious, rather large, appearing 

 before the leaves ; anther- 

 cells oblong ; fruit a drupe. 

 A soft-wooded tree . . 16. TREWIA. 



Leaves alternate or opposite ; 

 flowers minute, dioecious ; 

 anther-cells globose ; fruit 

 a capsule. A small ever- 

 green tree . . .17. MALLOTTJS. 



Filaments connate in bundles or 

 branched ; fruit a capsule : 



Flowers dioecious, male and fern, 

 in axillary or infra-axillary 

 spikes ; seeds with a thin fleshy 

 coat ; fruit a capsule. An 

 evergreen willow-like shrub . 18. HOMONOIA^ 



Flowers monoecious, in terminal 

 subpaiiicled racemes, the 

 upper ones male and crowded, 

 lower fern. ; seeds with a firm 

 coat ; fruit a capsule. A tree- 

 like annual herb with palmate 

 serrate-lobed leaves . . 19. RICINUS. 



Styles united below in a stout column / 

 and continuous with the body of 

 carpels ; male calyx valvately 3-5- 

 partite ; stamens 3 ; fruit a cap- 

 sule. Twinning perennial herbs . 20. TBAGTA- 



