EUPHORBIACE^. 205 



55 ? Ditta Geiseb/ — Flowers dioecious ; male , . . ? Disk and 

 calyx of female flowers 0. Germen 2-locular; o^nile in cells 1 (of 

 Euphorbiaceee) ; branches of thick style short, 2-partite ; erect 

 slightly conical. Fruit drupaceous-capsular without columella ; seeds 

 scrobiculate exarillate. — A glabrous resinous slirub ; - leaves alternate 

 spathulate-lanceolate dentate-crenate penninerved articulate-yeiaed, 

 shortly petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers axillary, congesto-glomerulate 

 on conmion peduncle ; pedicels imbricate-bracteolate below flower ; 

 bracts opposite few, entire or the lower palmate-2, 3-partite.^ [Cuba.*) 



56. Adriana Gatjdich.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous eglandular ; 

 male calyx o-5-partite, valvate. Stamens co, inserted on shortly 

 conical receptacle ; filaments short erect ; anthers adnate, extrorsely 

 2-rimose, connective produced beyond cells, entire or serrate, acumi- 

 nate. Sepals in female flowers 3-8, imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary ; branches of scarcely 3-partite style long 2-fld linear 

 densely stigmaliferous. Capsules 3-coccous, vcrrucose-rough ; seeds 

 arillatc foveolate albumiaous. — Shrubs ; indumentum stellate,** some- 

 times scanty; leaves opposite [Trachycarijon''^ or oftener alternate 

 {Euadriana *), entii'e lobed or dentate ; stipules often glandulilbrm ; 

 flowers entire lobed or dentate ; stipules often glanduliform ; male 

 flowers iiiterrupted-giomerate-spicate ; female racemose. {Justralia.^) 



57 ? Keoboutonia M. Arg.^" — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; 

 male calyx 2-partite, valvate. Stamens co, central ; filaments free 

 inserted on convex pilose receptacle ; anthers basifixed ; cells adnate 

 iatrorse, rimose. Female calyx quincuncially-imbricate. Germen 

 3-locular; style branches 3, 2-partite. Fruit...? — A tree or 

 shi-ub (V) ; indumentum stellate radians ; leaves alternate long 

 petiolate, entire or repando-sublobed, 7-9-nerved reticulate veined ; 

 flowers terminal and axUlary ; male " in compound ramified spikes ; 

 female spicate-racemose. {Trop. West. Africa}") 



^ PI. Wright. 160.— M. Akg. Prodr. 1138. » H. Bx. Euphorb. 406 (sect, including 1 species, 



" In some respects with the habit of very variable, F. Muell. Trans. Soc. Hot. Edhtb. 



Myricaria. vii. 482). 



•* A genns of uncertain position placed hero ' Spec. 3, v. 4, 6. Labill. PI. N^mv.-IIoU. 



in Prodrom. ii. 73, t. 223 {^Crotoii).— Hook, in MilcJi. Trup. 



* Spec. 1. D. mi/ricoides GiiiSEii. he. cil. Austral. 124, 371. — F. Muell. in Hook. Jourii. 



' In Anil. Sc. Nat. sii. 1, v. 223 ; in Freycin. viii. (18.36), 209 ; in Tram. Phil. Soc. Vict. i. 



Voy. Ura/i. JSol. 486, t. 116.— E.ndl. Oeii. n. 16.— Bexth. Fl. Austral, vi. 133.— H. Bx. in 



6820.— H. B.v. Eupliorb. 40.5, t. 2, fig. 19-22 ; t. Adaiiaoiiia, vi. 311. 



18, fig. 12.— SI. Aug. Prodr. 890. " In Seem. Journ. of Bot. i. 336 ; Prodr. 



' In caly.x often simple. 892. 



' Kl. in Lehm. PL Prciu. i. 175. — Crotolerum ^ Minute. 



Desvx. herb, (ex II. Ex.). i- Spec. 1. X. afrtcaiia M. Ako. fcc. 



