EUPHOUBIACE^. 239 



flowers ^ at summit of branches racemose or subiimbellate, solitary in 

 axils of superior leaves or bracts ; inferior female, others male. 

 [Amtmlia.') 



120? Lachnostylis Tuecz.-^ — Flowers (nearly of Andraclme or 

 Amanoa ^j ; rcueptacle subplane or very shortly cupular. Sepals and 

 petals 5, imbricated. Disk extrastaminal. Stamens 5, alternating 

 with petals, verticillate, inserted below 3-fi.d rudiment of gynaeceum 

 at summit of central column ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 3-locular ; cells 2-ovulate; obturator thick; style-branches 2-fid. 

 Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds . . . ? A densely ramified shrub ; leaves 

 alternate penninerved entire subcoriaceous minutely stipulate ; 

 flowers axillary ; male cymose ; female solitary.^ [South Africa.^) 



121. Payeria II. Bn.''' — Flowers dioecious ; male...? Female 

 calyx gamophyllous campanulate, shortly 5-dentate, valvate (?). 

 Petals 5, alternating with teeth of calyx, shorter included squarai- 

 form imbricated. Disk hypogynous evolute subcarapauulate, entii'e 

 or unequally lobed, adpressed to germen. Germen ^ free ; cells 5, 

 2 -ovulate, '^ opposite teeth of calyx ; style erect subentire stigmatife- 

 rous at apex. Capsule 5-coccous, lO-costate, surrounded by persistent 

 perianth and disk ; cocci 1-2-spermous ; radicle of albuminous curved 

 embryo conical superior. — Trees ; leaves alternate or opposite exstipu- 

 late(?) entire penninerved; female flowers in axillary racemes more 

 or less ramified cymiferous. {Malaccassia^ Mascarene Is}") 



122. Caletia H. Bn." — Flowers monoecious ; sepals 6, alternately 

 verticillate imbricated ; the interior larger subpetaloid. Stamens 6, 

 2-8eriate, opposite sepals, filaments free inserted round rudiment of 



' Small wliite, sepals subpetaloid. * Agenusbettermadeasection of .4»iffMo« (h). 



^ Spec. 5, 6. Au. Bu. in Voi/. Cuij. Hot. 218, t. ^ Spec. 1. L. hirta M. Aeq. — L. cajwiisis 



50. — Kl. in Lchiii. PL Prciss. ii. 230. — HiEo. in TuRCz. — X. minor SoNn. — Cltdw hi) la L. auppl. 



But. Arch. t. 8. — SoNU. in Liimaa, xxviii. 567. 432. — Vahl, Si/inb. ii. 101. — C. acuminata 



— Besth. Fl. Austral, vi. 51.— H. Bn. in .Ic/im- Thunb. rrodr. 53 ; Ff. Cap. ed. Sen. 272. 



soiiia, vi. 331. ' In Adansoiiia, i. .50, t. 3. — M. Anc. in Lin- 



3 In Bm«. Mosc. (1840), 503 ; in Flora (1848), iicca, .\xxiv. 65 ; Fndr. 226. 



300; \n Liniicea, xxiii. 131. — So.vn. in Linnmi, " ISviiTly ol O'lac/iii/ioii. 



xitiii. 131. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 224. — M. Aro. " Ovula subhomitropous desccndent. 



Prodr. 224. '" 2 species, of which one (borhoniea) is distin- 



* Especially allied to Stciinnia ; receptacle the guished by the aureate hairs of germen. 



same; differs principally by ai.stivation of " Unphori. 553, t. ZG, Rg. l-lfi. ... M. Aito. 



calyx. Prodr. 194. 



