EUPHORBIACE^. 203 



nate ; inflorescence nearly (longer and more slender) of Bernardia} 

 {Trop. South America.'^) 



51. Acidoton Sw. " — Flowers monoecious apetalons ; male sepals 

 3-5-valvate. Stamens co , the elongated-conical thick receptacle 

 dilated externally in a spurious-alveolate disk between the filaments 

 at the base ; filaments, etc., free ; anthers extrorse, shortly apiculate ; 

 cells discrete at base, rimose. Female calyx 4-5-partite ; lobes val- 

 vate or subimbricate, scarcely or not contiguous. Gernien 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary ; style erect rather thick, divided at apex into 3 

 branches simple, erect-patulous, stigmatiferous within. Fruit 

 capsidar ; seeds exarillate. — A shrub glabrous or more or less sprinkled 

 with pellucid stinging hairs ; leaves alternate petiolate, stijiulate, 

 simple, entu-e or paucideutate penninerved veined ; flowers spicate- 

 racemose ; racemes 1 -sexual ; male axillary few-flowered ; the female 

 longer, axdlary and terminal, naked at base.* (Jamaica.^) 



52. Cleidion Bl. " — -Flowers monoecious or dioecious apetalous ; 

 male calyx valvate. Stamens cc , inserted on conical or hemispherical 

 receptacle, alternate verticUlate and in vertical distinct series ; fila- 

 ments free ; anthers seriato-imbricate compressed inserted at summit 

 of subulate peltate filaments or slightly above the base ; connective 

 (coloured) peltiform, bearing at the margin 4 small cells, afterwards 

 subcruciate confluent-rimose, muticous or apiculate above. Female 

 sepals 3-5, imbricated or 4, decussate-imbricate. Germen free, 

 sometimes surrounded by hypogynous disk (Discockidion') ; cells 

 3 {Redia^) or more rarely 2 (Lasiosti/les^), opposite exterior sejmls, 1- 

 ovidate ; style branches 2, 3, linear-elongate, more or less deeply 

 2-fid, densely papillose stigmatiferous within. Capsule 2-3-coccous ; 



1 A genus imperfectly known to us, formerly t. S3, fig. 1. 

 regarded as a section of 7?fr««rrfi« (M. Arg. in ' Bijdr. 612. — Endl. Oe». n. 579o. — H. Bn. 



Ziniitea, xxxiv. 172). Jlale dower nearly of Hup/tori. iOi, t. ^J, Hg. 3-5. — M. ARo.in i.!'««(Eo 



Tragia. xxxiv. 183 ; Prodr. 983 (incl. ; Lrisiosti/lix Puesl, 



- Spec, ad 2. Kl. in Hook. Loud. Jouni. ii. I'silostachys Turcz. Rediit Casar.). 

 (1843), 4G {Tra(jia).—U. Kno. Prodr. 918 {Ilcr- ' M. Aug. in Flora (1864), 481 ; Prodr. 984, 



; nardia). sect 1. 



:' Prodr. 83; Fl.Ind. (he. ii. 952, t. 18.— 8 Casar. Stirp. Urns. Die. vi. 51. — Endl. 



A. Juss. Eiiphor/j. 32.— Endl. Ooi. n. 6822.— Gen. Suppl. v. 89.— H. Bn. Enphorb. 407, t. 21, 



H. Bn. Eupliorb. 401, t. 18, fig. 10, 11.— M. fig. 1, 2.—Psilostiicliijs Turcz. in Bull. Sjc. 



Aug. J'rodr. 914. Mo.k. (1843). 581, in Flora (1844), 121. 



•' A genus allied to Ih-rtwrdin, differing by » Prksl liol. Hem. 159. — Endl. Oeii. n. 



|8tj-les not discrete at base. 6795'. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 653. — Eiicleidion 



Spec. 1. /t. KrcHs. Sw. foe. ct<.— Gbiseii. Z'/. M. Aro. in Liimaa, xxxiv. 184; Prodr. 987 



' Bril. W.-I)id.ib; Cat. Vl.Ciii. IH.—A. iiinocHHn sect 3. 

 i H. Bn. op. ait. i02.— Uitica, Sloan. Jam i. 126; 



