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CCII. EUPHORBIACE^E. 



or didymous, free or coherent, opening longitudinally, obliquely or horizontally by 

 2 (or 1) extrorse orintrorse slits or oblong pores, connective polymorphous. OVARY 

 superior, 3- (rarely 1-many-) celled, whorled around a central column which is persis- 

 tent after the fall of the fruit when it is a capsule ; style various, usually short, with 

 as many branches as there are cells, often again divided, more or less reflexed and 

 papillose above ; ovules solitary or geminate, pendulous from the inner angle of the 

 cells, sessile, usually operculate by a cellular development from the placenta, usually 

 anatropous or semi-anatropous ; raphe ventral, rarely dorsal. FRUIT various, usually 

 a capsule, opening in 3, or 2-oo usually 2-valved cocci which separate from a per- 

 sistent axis [or drupaceous]. SEEDS pendulous; testa crustaceous, very often arillate 

 or carunculate ; albumen fleshy, more or less copious. EMBRYO various ; cotyledons 

 large or small ; radicle superior. 



[In the classification of this family I have followed J. M. Miiller's learned monograph, in 

 De Candolle's ' Prodromus.' Each of the below-mentioned tribes subdivides naturally into 

 sub-tribes, the characters of which are given, with the most important genera in each.] 



SERIES I. STENOLOBE^E. 



Amperea. 



Tart of inflorescence. Young 

 J flower. 



Amperea spartioides f. 



Amperea. Diagram g. Ricinocarpus. Pistil (mag.). 



Ricinocarput. 

 Flower expanded (mag.) 



Ricinocarpus. Diagram <J . Ricinocarpus. Spiral andrcccium. 



