MACLOSKIE : EUPHORBIACE^G. 55 1 



inner sepals large, wing-like ; the lateral petals wanting or scalelike ; the 

 2 upper petals and the lowest one partly united to the staminal tube. 

 Capsule long-cuneate. Seeds hairy. 



Species 50; section Etibredemeyera (15 sp.) and Hiialania (4) in S. 

 Amer. The others (Comespermd] in Australia. 



BREDEMEYERA MICROPHYLLA Hier. 



(Only the fruit.) Capsule obovate-oblong ; slightly emarginate, crowned 

 by the persistent style, attenuate at the base ; laterally compressed, 2- 

 celled ; the cells i -seeded. Seeds n mm. long, suspended, appressed 

 silky ; with endosperm. Embryo thick, fleshy, green. 



N. Patagon., by Rio Colorado & Rio Negro. 







3. MONNINA Ruiz. & Pav. 



Annuals or perennials, with spike-like racemes. Sepals free, or the 

 anterior pair partly united ; the wings small.. Anterior petal sessile, free 

 from the staminal tube ; lateral petals short, adnate to the tube. Carpels 

 2, one of them mostly rudimentary. Fruit a key or a drupe. Seeds 

 smooth. 



Species 60, in Mexico and along the Andes. 



I. M. ANGUSTIFOLIA DC. 



Woody perennial. Lowest leaves soon vanishing. Branches and 

 branchlets pubescent. 

 Patagon. 



2. M. DICTYOCARPA Griseb. 



Undershrub branching at base ; 30 cm. high ; the branches leafless 

 above, ending in a short-flowered raceme. Leaves shortly lance-linear, 

 mucronulate. Wings rounded. Keel 3-lobed. Stamens 8. Fruit i- 

 celled, glabrous, orbicular, winged, reticulate, the veins prominent towards 

 the margin and forked. 



(Chilian Andes ; Argentina) ; N. Patagon. 



Family 58. EUPHORBIACE.E. Spurge Family. 



Monoecious or dioecious plants with acrid, often milky, sap, and of 

 varying habit. Flowers apetalous or petaliferous, sometimes much re- 



