EUPHURDIACE.TE. 



while wlieu cultivated with us it presents all the characters of a tall 

 annual herb with fistulous glabrous stem. At each node an alter- 

 nate long petiolate leaf is inserted, peltate or not, paluiatinerved or 

 palmatilobed. The lobes are from five to eleven in number, dentate, 



Riciiiti.i ca.niiiHn 



Fig. 157. Female flower. Fig. 155. Expanded Fig. 1.56. Bundle Fig. 1.58. Long. sect, of 

 male flower. of stamens. female flower (f). 



Fig 1.59. Fruit. 



Fig. 160. Seed. 



Fig. 161. Long, 

 sect, of seed. 



Fig. 162. Embr)-o (t). 



often glanduliferous, like the petiole. At the base of the petiole are 

 found two lateral stipules, generally united in one membranous 

 caducous sac, enveloping the young leaves at first. The inflo- 

 rescence is terminal or oppositifoliate, in racemes of mu.ltiflowered 

 cymes alternate and situated in the axils of bracts furnished with 

 stipular lateral glands. The inferior cymes are normally male, 

 and the superior female,^ with sometimes mixed cymes between the 

 two, in which the female flower is central. ' The pedicels are 

 articulate, 



BuEM. — R. speetahilisVj-L. — li. tuniseiisùDEST. — 'This becomes accidently hermaphrodite 



S. undulatus Bess.^JÎ. virklis'W. — R. vulgaris (.see H. Bx. in Adansoiiia,Y. 65) like those of 



Moms. — Catapwitia major Ludw. — ? Croton many Euphorhiacea;. 

 spiiiosus L. Spec, 1005. 



