EVPHORBIAGEM. 221 



Female calyx 5-6-partite, imbricated. Germen 2-3-locular ; style 

 branches divaricate-patent, inwardly densely papillosc-fimbriate. 

 Capsule rather fleshy, 1-spermous by abortion, mature? — Shrubs 

 sub-2-chotomous ramified ; leaves alternate or collected at summit of 

 twigs, falsely verticillate-stipulate, often subsessile, entire or 

 denticulate penniuerved ; flowers in terminal ramified spikes, usually 

 glomeruliferous ; female in each inferior or in the axils of upper 

 leaves few.i {East India?') 



87. Sphsarostylis H. Bx.^ — Flowers monoecious; male calyx 

 valvate, 3-partite ; sepals at base inwardly horizontally finally 

 (in false annular disk) plicate-j)rominent. Stamens 3, alternating 

 with sepals; filaments central, 1-adelphous ; anthers inserted at 

 summit of column, introrse finally subhorizontally-reflexed, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Female calyx 5-6-partite, vah'ate or slightly 

 imbricated. Germen 3-lociilar ; cells opposite exterior sepals 1-ovu- 

 lato. Style many times larger than germen globose, fleshy, 3-sulcate 

 at apox ; furrows alternating with cells radiant from centre and 

 stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coceous ; seeds smooth. — A scandent 

 shi-ub ; leaves alternate ovate 3-plinerved petiolate ; stipules articu- 

 late ; flowers in spicate axillary or terminal racemes ; male bracts 

 superior cc, 1-florous ; inferior few female. {Madagascar.*) 



88. Astrococcus Benth.^ — Flowers monoecious; male calyx 

 valvate, 4-partite. Stamens 4-8, central inserted in concave receptacle 

 or round rudiment of gynteceum ; filaments free or 1-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers introrse emarginate ; cells all longitudinally adnate, 

 longitudinally rimose. Disk round urceolate androceum, thick 

 4-agonal, 4-lobed, or {Hccmatostemon^) Female calyx 4-7-partite, 

 imbricated. 'Germen 3-locular; cells 1 -ovulate ; style thick obovoid, 

 concave and outwardly unequally- G-sulcate stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 Capsule horizontally saccate-l-3-coccous, narrow and subpyramidal 

 at apex ; cocci and back thickly cornute-2-cristate. Seed descendent, 

 more or less oblique, albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate ; shortly 



' A genus allied to Cephaloeroton, diiForing ■* Spec. 1. S. Tulasncana H. Bn. loc. cit. -167 ; 



by constitution of anthers, fruit, habit and in Adansonia, i. 276. 



inflorescence. * In Hook. Journ. (1854), 327. — H. Bn. 



■ Spec. 2. Wall. exs. n. 9095 (C?m<i«).— M. Euphorb. 476, t. 22, fig. 22-24.— M. Arq. Prodr. 



Abo. in Limiaa, xxxiv. 166. 766. 



'■> Eiiphorb. 4G6, t. 21, fig. 19-21. — 31. Aui. " II. Ako. in LiiiiKca, xxxiv. 157; Vrody. 



Prod,: 768. 767, sect. 2. 



