EUPHORBIACE^. 237 



NanopetaJum^ Ckistanthm ~). Petals alternating with sepals, gene- 

 rally small short, often subrhoniboirl, vnriously o-o-lobed, attenuated 

 at base, often subspathulate, usually not contiguous, more rarely im- 

 bricated. Disk subsimple or duplex, covering interior of receptacle, 

 outwardly more or less prominent-lobed between the petals, ascend- 

 ing within female flower generally high, more or less loosely en- 

 circling gcriuen, finally persisting round the base of fruit, o-angular 

 5-lobed or dentate. Stamens (in female flower i-udimentary, sterile 

 or 0) equal in number to petals at summit of central of elongated 

 thin or more rarely thick short column, verticUlate inserted 

 below rather long rudimentary gyna3Ceum ; filaments free ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-riinose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) 2-3- 

 locular ; cells 2 -ovulate ; style branches 2, 3 stigmatiferous at 

 apex, 2-lobed or 2 -fid. Fruit 2-3-coccous, either capsular ( C'leistan- 

 thiis, NanojjefalKiii, Zcbidicropsis), sometimes outwardly more or less 

 fleshy, with ditficulty or late dehiscing (Eiianiaiioa), or more rarely 

 fleshy or subbaccate, indehiscent (BridcUa). Seeds impressed at 

 hilum or not impressed, exalbuminous (Buamanoa, Nanopetalum\ 

 or albuminous (C7e/sfoH?'/^Mi', Bridclia, Lcbidierojjsis) oxavillatc ; cotyle- 

 dons of more or less evoluke embryo in exalbuminous seed thick 

 flat {Lcbidieropsis), foliaceous-complauate, straight {Bridella) or folded 

 {Cleistanthus), — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate or sessile, 

 entire or dentate, glabrous or pilose, pcnninerved-veined, 2-stii3ulate ; 

 flowers in axUs of leaves or sometimes evolute leaf-shaped bracts, 

 cymose or glomerulate, bracteate ; inflorescence simple or ramified, 

 sometimes spike-shaped or substrobiliform ; bracts and bractlets 

 imbricated^. {All trap, regions^) 



lis. Andrachne L. '" — Flowers monoecious, sometimes apetalous 



' Hassk. in Verb. Kan. Ac. Amst. iv. 140; in * Spec, about 50. L. Spec. 1475 {Clutia). — 



Bull. Sue. Bot. deFr.vi. 716; in Bot. ZcU. RoxB. PI. Coromantl. \i. 37, t. 169,170; iii. t. 



(1858), 803 ; in Flora (1857), 534 ; Retzia, 65.— 171-173 {Clutia) .—Bi.. Bijilr. 597 {Bndclia).— 



M. Arc. Prodr. 510. Pl. in Hook. Icon. t. 797.— Wight, Icon. t. 1911. 



- Hook. f. in Hook. Icon. t. 779. — Cande- — Beutol. f. Mozamb. 4, 16, t. 6. — M. Aro. in 



labiia Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, ii. 264 (nee Seem. Journ. i. 327 ; in Flora (1864), 515 [Bric- 



BocusT.). —lebidiera H. B.v. Euphorb. Atl. 50, rfe?ert).— Thw. ;Eiium. PI. Zci/I. 274 {Briedclia), 



t. 27, fig. l-i.—Leiopyxis Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 280.— Benth. FI. Auatral. vi. 119 {Briedclia), 



Suppl. 445. 121 {Ckistanthun). — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 79 ; 



:< Seet. 7 ; 1. £«ama«oo (H. Bn.) ; 1. Penta- ii. 30, 37 {ISrkdelia), 229 (^rierff/m) ; iii. 164 



brachium (M. Alio.); 3. Stcnoiiia (H. Bn.) ; {ISriedelia) ; vi. 346; vi. 335. 



4. Nanopetttlum (Uassk.) ; 5. Candelabria ' Gen. n. 709. — J. Gen. 387. — Gjbrtn. Friict. 



(HociiST.) ; 6. Ltbidicropsia (M. Aro.) ; 7. /Iri- ii. 124, t. 108. — T,amk. I^ict. i. 152; Suppl. i. 



*''« (VV.). 348 ;iH. t. 797.— A. Jvss. Eup/wrb. 2i, t. 6, 



