EUPRORDlACE.Ti. 



Ill 



while when cultivated with us it presents all the characters of a tall 

 annual herb with fistulous glabrous stem. At each node an alter- 

 nate long petiolate leaf is inserted, peltate or not, palmatinerved or 

 palmatilobed. The lobes are from five to eleven in number, dentate, 



Jiiciitus co.nmunis. 



Fig. 1.54. Male 

 flower. 



Fig. 157. Female flower. Fig. 155. E.^panded Fig. 156. Bundle Fig. 15S. Long. sect, of 

 male flower. of stamens. female flower (f). 



Fig 159. Fruit. 



Fig. 160. Seed. 



Fig. 161. Long, 

 sect, of seed. 



Fig. 162. Embryo (f). 



often glanduliferous, like the petiole. At the base of the petiole are 

 found two lateral stipules, generally united in one membranous 

 caducous sac, enveloping the young leaves at first. The inflo- 

 rescence is terminal or oppositifoliate, in racemes of multiflowered 

 cymes alternate and situated in the axils of bracts fiu'iiished witli 

 stipular lateral glands. The inferior cymes arc normally male, 

 and the su[)cri(ir female, ^ with sometimes mixed cymes between the 

 \\\o, in which the female flower is central. . The peiliccls are 

 articulate. 



BcuM. — Ii.spcclaf/i!isV>L. — Jl. tunisensis'DESF. — 'This becomes accident!)- lurmaphrodite 



II. iiiiditlalHs Bess. — R. vii-ldU W. — R. vulgaris (see H. B.\. in Aiianmnin, v. 65) like those of 



Mollis. — Catapwitia major Lvi>w. — ? Croton many Euphorbiaceic 

 spiitosus L. $tx'C, 1005. 



