EUPHORBIAOE^. 211 



{Claoxjjlon)\ leaves opposite {Linozostis) or alternate ;i stipules mem- 

 braneous or glandular, sometimes indurate and spinescent {Erjjthroc- 

 coca) ; flowers ~ axillary or terminal, in simple or more or less rami- 

 fied-cymiferous or more usually glomeruliferous spikes.^ {All ivarm 

 and tern. rcg. of the Old Worlds) 



67. Tetrorchidium Poepp. and Endl.^ — Elowers dioecious, ape- 

 talous, 3-merous ; male sepals valvate or slightly imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 6," in parrs opposite sepals ; filaments free short, inserted below 

 rudimentary gynaeceum (sometimes wanting), eacli bearing at apex 

 4 discrete peltate fi.nally ascendent cells, extrorsely rimose. Female 

 calyx imbricated. Germen 3-locular; 1-ovulate, alternating with 

 sepals ; style branches short thick subsessile, reflexo-adpressed at 

 summit of germen. Glands of disk .3, hypogynous linear subpeta- 

 loid, alternating with cells and sepals. Fruit capsular; columella 

 small very little or scarcely evolute ; cocci 3 or 2, 1 -spermous ; seeds 

 short foveolate submembraneous-arillate ; embryo albuminous. — Trees 

 and shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire or crenate ; petiole patelliform- 

 glandiliferous on both sides below apex ; flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 female simple, male ramified-glomeruliferous ; bracts patelliform 

 2-glandular. {Tr op. America Cont. and AntillP) 



68. Hasskarlia II. Bn.* — Flowers (nearly of Tetrorchidium) dioe- 

 cious ; male calyx valvate. Germen cells opposite sepals (hence 

 alternating with glands of disk). Other characters as in Tetrorchi- 

 dium. — A shrub; leaves alternate stipulate subentii'e penninerved ; 

 male flowers in spikes opposite leaves naked glomeruliferous, naked 

 at base ; female in 1 or few flowered cymes, opposite leaves.^ ( Trop. 

 West. Africa.''') 



1 Like nearly the whole plant, dry, cierules- Fl. Ind.-ISat. i. p. ii. 386 [C'laoiylon). — Hook. f. 



cent. Some parts imbued with blackish juice. in Jonrii. Linn. Hoc. vi. 20 (Claorijlm). — M. 



- Usually very small virescent ; lutescent or Alio, in Xi/(«(E«, xxxir. 163; in Flora (1864), 



more rarely purpurescent. 318, 436 ; in Sesm. Jotirn. i. 333 {Claoxiilni). — 



' Sect, in gen. 7 (H. Bn.), scil. : 1. Linozoatis H. Bx. in Ar/aiisoiiin, i. 70 {Mici-ococca), 76. 125, 



(Endl.) ; 2. Trixmeijista (Endl.) ; 3. Scidclia 279, 350; ii. 227 (CV«o.!7//oh); iii. 1.58, 167; vi. 322. 



(H. Bn.) ; 4. Parailcnocliiie (SI. Aro. Prodr. '' Nov. Gen. et .S/itc. in. 23, t. 227. — Endl. Cc/;. 



1141) ; 5. Claoxijlon (A. Juss.) ; 6. Athroandra n. 5818 '.— H. Bn. Euphorh. 439, t. 21, fig. 14- 



(HoOK. F.) ; 7. £ii/thrococca {BeriTH.). 18; in Adansonia, xi. 101. — Ako. Piodr. 1132 



* Spec, ad 55. L. Spec. 1036, cd. 3, 1391 {Tetrorchidion) . 



(rro^io).— Thl-nh. Ft. Cap. (ed. Sen.), 546 » Or 3 ; anthers 4-celled (Aro.). 



[Acali/p/ia). — PoiK. Diet. vi. 204 (Acaltjpha) ; ? Spec, ad 3. H. B.v. in Adniisonii, v. 225. — 



Suppl. i. 132 {Adeliii).—'REu:HB. Ic. Fl. Qerm. M. Auo. in Flora (1864), 538. 



fig. 4801-4804.— (xREN. et GoDR. hi. de Fr. iii. 8 jn Adannonia i. 52; xi. 101.— Aug. Frudr. 



98.— Coss. Fl. Crit. 63.— SiEB. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. 774. 



Fain — Meisbn. in Iluok. Joiirn. (1843), 557. — ' A genus nearly allied to jfV(r«ir/(iV/i'«wi,diiri.'r- 



E. Mey. in Luniica, iv. 237. — SoNi). in Linmca, ing by oppositisepalous ovary cells and oppo- 



xxiii. 111. — KiNZE in Linnaa, xx. 65; xxiv. sitifolius inllorcsccnce. 



162.— Bo.i. Hort. Muiir. 284 [Claor!/lan).—Uia. i" Spec. 1. B. didi/nioxUinon 11. Bn. loc. oil. 



