EUPHORBIACE^. 



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sopst's^) or exarillate [3Idanthesa ~). — Shrubs or small trees ; alternate 

 leaves ^ and inflorescence of Phyllanthus. [Asia and trop. Oceania,*) 



148. Sauropus Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Breynia and PhyUanthiis) 

 monoecious ; glands extrastaminal opposite sepals. Male calyx de- 

 pressed-turbinate ; disk adnate introrsely 6-lobed free. Fruit and 

 other characters of Phyllanthus ; seeds exarillate.— Shrubs or iinder- 

 slirubs ; leaves and inflorescenjce of Breynia (or Phyllanthis) ; flowers 

 axillary very shortly racenuilose ; rachis of racemules generally 

 densely imbricate bracteolate. {Asia and trop. Oceania.''') 



149. Agyneia Yent.'' — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Sauropus 

 or Phyllanthus) ; male calyx G-partite. Extrastaminal glands of adnate 

 extrorsely G-liber-lobate male disk opposite sepals. Germen (of 

 Phyllanthus) usually depressed at apex. Fruit and other characters 

 of Phyllanthus ; seeds exarillate. — Herbs annual or suffrutescent at 

 base; habit and loaves of Phyllanthus ;^ branches procumbent or 

 ascendent compressed-angular or 3, 4-agonal; flowers axilhiry cymu- 

 lose sometimes, from the leaves being scarcely developed in slender 

 racemose-cymose branches ; cymes in axils of bracts 1- or 2-sexual ; 

 female flowers usually few or 1, central ; others smaller, more slender 

 pedicellate male. ( Trop. Asia and Oceania, South Bast. C'ont. and Ins. 

 Africa.^) 



MlQ. 



' M. Abg. in LlnncBa. xxxii. 7-1 ; Prodr. 436. 



2 Bx. BijdT. 590.— Endl. Gen. n. 5848.— H. 

 Bn. Euphorb. G34. 



^ Dry, usually nigrescent. 



* Spec, atout 15. Pom. Diet. v. 296 [Phyl- 

 laiithiis). — KuHZ, in Ttijsm. it Biiiii. PI. Nuv. 

 Burt. Bog. 35 [Mclanlhesa). — Bextii. Fl. Hoikj};. 

 312 (Mdanthesa); Fl. Austral, vi. 113.— Thw. 

 Eiiiim. PI. y.eyl. 285 {Melanthem). — H. B.v. in 

 Adansonia. loc. cit. 345. 



'- Bijdr. 595.— Endl. Gen. n. 5842.— H. Bn. 

 Euphorb. G34, t. 27, fig. 19-22.— M. Aro. Prodr. 

 239, 1269.— (>)•«%;/«?(»! WiriHT, Icon. t. 1900. 



« Spec, ad 12. W. Spec. iv. 685 [PJiijllant/iiis). 

 — Tiiw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 284.— Wioht, Icon. t. 



1951, 1952.— Hassk. PI. Jar. Bar. 268.- 

 Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 366, 367 (^Jgyiieia). 



' Jard. de Cels, 23, t. 23.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 

 24, t. 6, fig. 19.— Endl. Gen. n. 5843.— H. Bx. 

 Euphorb. 630, t. 24, fig. 10-14.— M. Akg. Prodr. 

 237.— Bakek, Fl. Unurit, Sl2.—Diplomurpha 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 479. 



* Of which it is much better made a section. 



» Spec. 2. L. Si/st. ed. 13, 707; iSuppl. 415 

 (Phi/llaiithus). — Spreng. Si/st. iii. 20 {Emblica). 

 — W. Spec. iv. 568 (part.).— Bl. BiJdr. 694.- 

 WiGHT, IcH?i. t. 1893.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. 

 ii. 367.— Thw. Entim. PI. Zeyl. 283.— Kurz, in 

 Teysm. ct Binn. PI. Nov. llort. Boy. 84. — H. Bx. 

 in Adanaonia, ii. 54, 



