EUPHORBIACEM. 317 



articulate and genuflexo-ineurved. Female calyx 3-merous, imbri- 

 cated. Germen 3-lociilar; cells oppositipetalous, 1 -ovulate; style 

 soon divided into 3 branches very thick simple, 3-agonal dorsally 

 carinate inwardly 2-seriate thickly denticulate, suberect and conni- 

 veut in much thicker germen mass. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds sub- 

 globose lacerate-arillate. — A scandent subtomentose shrub ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate simple denticulate ; flowers racemose ; 

 the female 1 or few inferior subsessile ; others male longer pedicel- 

 late. {Eastern India, Java}) 



70. Tragia Plum.- — Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious apeta- 

 lous ; male calyx usually 3-partite, more rarely 4-5-partite, valvate. 

 Stamens inserted round 3-agonal rudiment of gynteceum or central 

 {Agirta ^), usually 3, alternating with the sepals or more rarely 1, 

 2 sometimes, very rarely 6, 2-seriate [Adenotragia *), 4-8 {Leucandra^\ 

 or 8-15-20 {Bicf') ; filaments free or partly 2-nate connate [Leiicandra), 

 sometimes 1-adelphous at base {Lcptohotygs^ Lassia^), not incrassate- 

 glandular at base or sometimes incrassate {Ratiga ^) ; glands of recep- 

 tacle 0, or equal in number to the stamens and alternating with 

 them, fi-ee or more or less connate with base of filaments, some 5-10, 

 subcylindrical or 2-lobed {Bia), more rai'oly all coalescing in short 

 thick cupulc. Anthers dorsiflxed, usually short ; cells subspherical 

 or ovoid, introrsely, laterally or extrorsely rimose, sometimes sessile 

 and horizontally rimose at summit of column dilatated-3-angular 

 (Lassia). Female calyx 3-8-partite, imbricate or rarely subvalvate. 

 Germen 3- or rarely 5-locular ; ^" cells 1-ovulate; style branches 3 

 or rarely 5, siinple, inwardly stiginatiferous. Fruit capsular, gene- 

 rally furnished with ample urent-setose calyx ; cells iisually 3 ; 

 seeds subglobose exarillate. — Herbs undershrubs or shrubs, some- 



• Spec. 1. C. Jartdiica Bl. Bijdr. — Tragia ^ Kl. in R-ichs. Arch. (1841), 188. — Endl. 



macrophylla Wall. Cat. n. 7793 B. — T. rugom Oen. Suppl. ii. 88. — H. Bn. Enphorb. 477, t. 4, 



W*LL. Cat. n. 7794 B.— r. /(ff,s^ff/ft Reinw. in fig. 6-9. — M. Arg. in Liimxa, xxxiv. 180; 



flVwvA PI. liar. 245. Prodr. 929, sect. 4. 



^. Oen. 14 ; Icon. t. 252.— L. Gen. n. 1048.— « Kl. loc. cit. 189.— Endl. hic. cit. 89.— II. 



J. Omi, 390 (part.).— Lamk. I/l. t. 754.— rom. Bn. Eaplwr/i.oO\.—M. Aug. Prodr. 928, sect. 2. 



Diet. vii. 722; Suppl. v. 328.— Endl. Gen. n. ? H. Bn. Euphorh. 478, t. 2, fig. 17, 18.— M. 



5782 (part.).— A. Ji'ss. Euphorh. 47 (part.), t. Aug. Pc-rfr. 946, sect. 10. 



45, fig. 49 A.— H. B.v. Euphorh. 459.— M. Aug. « H. Bn. Euphorh. 4G4, t. 4, fig. 23-28,— M. 



Prodr. 927. — Schorigcrain Adans. Fam. den PI. Aug. Prodr. 931, sect. 5 (Androceum as in 



ii. 355 (incl. : Agirta II. Bn. Bia Ki.. Las.<tia eomo apec. ot Phgllanthus). 



H. Bn. Liptobotrt/s H. Bn. Leitcandra Kl.). ' M. Aug. in Linuaa, xxxiv. 181 ; Prodr. 



' H. Bn. Euphorh. 463.— M. Aug. Prodr. 946, 931, sect. 6. 



sect. 9. 10 Cells to bo observed in calyx beyond 3-par- 



■* M. Arg. in /.(««««, xxxiv. 179, sect 3. tite exterior opposite sepals, 



vol,, v. 2 F 



