EUPHORBIACEJE. 109 



m\oi\xQXQ {Cyaildum'). Each stamen constitutes a male monandrous 

 flower, whose lower portion at the articulation of the filament would 

 represent a receptacle. The alternate scales with the staininal 

 bundles would form the calyces or epicalyces of the male flowers. 

 The gyufeccum, constituting a central female flower, the disk, 

 which is sometimes observed below the ovary, would be a calycule or 

 female calyx. This interpretation, which we consider inadmissible 

 and useless, is the fashion at present, and most authors ^ follow it, 

 and will follow it doubtless for some time in their works. 



II. EICINUS SERIES. 



In Hicinus- (fig. 153-162), the flowers arc regular and mono?- 

 eious. On the convex receptacle of the male flower is inserted a 

 calyx, formed of five sepals (or more rarely of a smaller number), 

 definitely disposed in valvate pra'floration. "Within are very 

 n\imerous stamens, whose ramified filaments in poljadelphous bundles 

 arc terminated by fine divisions, supporting at the apex a small 

 bilocular extrorse anther, with short almost globular cells, dehiscing 

 lengthwise.^ In the female flowers there is only a calyx and a gynee- 

 ceum, The former is similar to that of the male flower. The fi-ee, 

 glolmlar ovary has three cells, two of which are anterior. It is sur- 

 mounted by a cylindrical style, soon divided into three elongated 

 branches, flattened bi-partite, all bearing on their internal face and 

 reflexed edges large stigmatic papillsB coloured red. In the inner 

 angle of each cell is a desccndcnt ovule, directed like that of 

 Enphorhia. and capped by an analogous obturator. The fruit is 

 three-shelled,^' smooth, or generally covered with prickles, which 



LiNNE, Adaxsox, B. Mikhel, Tayeu. etc., M. - Jlinmis, T. Inst. 532, t. 307. —L. Orii. n. 



HiEitox-iMvs (in i;o<. ifiji. (1872), n. 11-13) yet 73.5.— J. Uni. 383.— G.iiUTX. i^/vrci. ii. UG, t. 



defend.s this opinion. V 7.— liAMK. III. t. 792.— Pom. Vict. vi. 200 ; 



I A. L. DE Jlssieu {Gcii. 380) has spoken of Siippl. iv. 678.— Tuki-. in DM. Sc. Xat. Atl. t. 



this inter] rotation doubtfully after Lamauck 276. — .\. Jias. Eiipjiorb. 36. — Nees, Ocn. ii.t. 



{Dirt. ii. 412). II. Kuowx definitely adopted SS {63).— Hvach, Suit, a Hiiffiw, ii. .'iOG, t. 1G.— 



itiiiisil [Ocii. Rem. oo6 ; MiiC. IFuikx [e.i. Exi)L. (Tc«. n. 5809. — Paver, Oiganog. 525, t. 



liicw.], i. 32, this opinion is shared hy A. i>E 110.— H. Bx. Enphnrhinc. 289, t. 10. 11.— M. 



•li-.ssiiir, ItiKi'En, WvDLEU, etc. (see Fl. in Ano. 7'yW/-. 1016. — Bakeii, F/. J/nwii. 316. 



Bull. ISoc. Hot. (!e I'r. viii. 29. — Boiss. rro/U: 8. 3 The pollen is " ellipsoid ; three furrows ; in 



— Waiim. Hi: Knpp. has Wortim ...Copcnh. -nater, spherical with tliree hands" (H. Muiil 



[1871] ; in Atlaiixonia, x. 197.— F. Scum, in in .\nn. .S>. 'Sot. ser. 2, iii. 338). 



Flnra [1871], n. 27, 28.- lI.Aur;.in Flura [1872], * Or exceptionally 1-coeoate. 

 1872], 153, etc.) 



