E UPHORBIA OEM. 243 



free inserted below rudimentary gynfeceum, finally much superior 

 to calyx ; anther cells 2, in bud pendulous from apex of introrse or 

 extrorse filament, in flowers evolute oscillatiug-superior free, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Glands of disk more or less, sometimes very 

 little ( Cyaihogijne ') evolute, alternating with calyx lobes and 

 stamens, free or more or less connate among themselves, outwardly 

 from calyx more or less prominent. Germen rudimentary simple or 

 at apex 2-3-lobed, sometimes meagre [Leptonema ^) or dilated rather 

 concave, sometimes large evolute cyathiform ( Cyathogyne). Perianth 

 of female flowers as in male. Glands of disk usually connate in 

 continuous disk more rarely free. Germen central, 3-5-locular 

 {Thecacoris^ Leptonema* Cyathogyne) or 2-locular {^Hicro7iyma ^) 

 usually 1-locular {8tilugo)\ style erect; lobes or branches 2, 3, 

 more or less elongated and variously 2-fid inwardly stigmatiferous. 

 Ovules in cells 2, collaterally descendent ; microj^yle extrorse 

 superior obturated. Fruit iudehiseent ; more or less fleshy or more 

 rarely capsular-dehiscent {Tliecacoris^ Leptonema), 1-3-5-locular ; 

 seeds albuminous exarillate. — Trees or shrubs, sometimes rarely 

 subherbaceous, at base lignescent ( Cyathogyne) ; leaves alternate 

 simple penninerved,'^ shortly petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers spicate 

 or racemose small ; pedicels articulate, bracteate at base.''' {All trop. 

 and subtrop. regions.^) 



129. Aporosa Bl." — Flowers dioecious apetalous, eglandular, 3-G- 



1 M. Aro. in J'/ocfl, ?o<;. ca. 636.— P™*'. 226. 3. Antipetalum (M. Arc); 4. Thecacoris (A. 

 H. Bn. in Adausonia, xi. 97. Juss.) ; 6. Leptoncma (A. Juss.). 



2 A. Juss. Euphorh. 19, t. 4, fig. 12.— Endl. s Spec, about 70. PoiR. Diet. vi. 204, n. 5 

 (?«(. n. 5852.— H. Bn. jEKp/wri. 609.— M. Arc. {Acali/phri). —Gms. Crot. Moii. 42 {Crotoii).— 

 Prodi: 445. (Anthers quite the same as in 'Bl. Bijdr. 1123, — Jack, in Cah. Juiii-n. ofNal. 

 Antideama. Stamens said to bo central, but Hint. iv. 229. — Roxii. PI. Curomaiid. ii. 35, t. 

 certainly to be observed in 3 slender partite 167 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 709. — Presi., Epimcl. 232. — 

 branches below rudiment of gynasceum.) >Sieii. et Zucc. Fl. Jup. Fum. 88. — ^TuL. in Mnrt. 



3 A. Jess. Eiiphorb. 12, t. 1, fig. 1. — Endl. i'/. 5ra.s. fasc. xxvii. 331 (ZfJerwiyHis). — Griser. 

 G'w. n. 5871.— H. Bn. ii'^/MocA. 605; in A dan- Fl. Brit. W.-Iud. 32; PI. Wriyht, 157 

 aonia, xi. 97. — M. Arg. in Linncea (1864), 519 ; (Hieroiii/ina). — Thw. Enitm. PL Zeijl. 289. — 

 Prodr. 245, Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. i. 465 ; in Ann. Mm. 



* In Lcptonema, cells 3-5. Lugd.-Bal. i. 218. — M. Arg. in Linmca, x.xxiv. 



' AlLEM. in Truh. Soc. Vellos. (1848), c. ic. ; 66, 157 {Hieroni/ma) ; in Flui-a (1864), 529 ; in 



in 2(o<. 7fi<. (1854), 456. —H. Bn. Euphorb. 658 ; Seem. Juimi. (1864), 328 {Thecacoris).— liv.m\i. 



in Adanaonia, xi.9G. — M. Aro. Prodr. 268. — Fl. Austral, vi. Si. — H.Bn. in Adan.iouia,i.S2; 



StiUginella TuL. in Ann. Sc. Nat. S(Sr. 3, xv. 240. ii. 44, 40 {Thecacoris), 47 {Lcptonema), nee. 234 ; 



— H. Bn. in BM. Soc. Bot. de Fr. iv. 990; iii. 164; v. 349 {Hieronijma) ; vi. 337. 



Euphorb. 003. s Bijdr. 614.— Enul. Ocn. n. 7877.— H. Bn. 



« Secund ribs usually joined among thorn- Eujihorb. GiS. — M. Aro. Pro*-. 469. — Zeiocarpits 



selves at margin and arched-ascendent. Bi,. liijdr. 581. — II. Bn. op. eit. G55. — Hassk. 



" Sect, according to us 6, i.e.: 1. Bnnius in Bull. Soc, Bot.dc Fr. vi, 7l4i. — Scepa LtNDl.. 



[Antideama Avctt.) ; 2. Hieronyma (Allbm.) ; Nat. Syst. od. 2, 411 ; Vcff. Kingd. 283, fig. 95. — 



