EUPHORBIACEJE. 183 



10. Pausandra Eadlk.' — Flowers diœeious, 3-5-mGrous ; calyx 

 lobed, imbricated. Petals 3-5, coutorted or imbricated. Stamens 

 few (4-8), inserted round more or less conspicuous central concayitj' 

 of receptacle, clothed with glandular sometimes inwardly undulate- 

 cristate disk, the exterior 3—5 opposite petals. The interior 1-4, 

 alternating with the preceding ; filaments all free, finally siibex- 

 sertcd ; anthers 2-locular sub-4-locellate, introrsely rimose. Eudi- 

 ment of gyuœceum 0. Perianth of female flowers as in male ... ? 

 Germon 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds 

 glabrous ; " micropyle extrorse arillate. — Small trees glabrous or 

 villulose; leaves alternate elongated-oblong subentire or dentate 

 penninerved petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers in simple axillary spikes 

 simple or few times ramified glomeruliferous.^ (Trojy. South America.*) 



11. Monotaxis An. Be.^ — Flowers monoecious or more rarely 

 dioecious ; male 4-5-merous ; sepals valvate or scarcely imbricated 

 {Linidion), " sometimes oftener scarcely contiguoixs, subvalvate, or 

 more or less closely quincuncially-imbricated {Beisstpa).'' Petals 

 same in number alternate ; leaf more or less hastate-2 -lobed and 

 imbricated, or more rarely contorted. Stamens 8-10, 2-seriate ; 

 filaments free or connate at base, anthers 2-locular, extrorse or sub- 

 introrse ; cells discrete from apex of connective transversely 

 pendulous 2-armed, rimose. Glands 5, alternating with exterior 

 stamens. Female calyx 4, 5-merous. Petals simjjle {llcissipa), or 

 more rarely 0. Glands hypogyuous 3, 5, sometimes 2-lobed. 

 Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style nearly to base S-jxartite ; 

 branches more or less high 2-fid ; lobes stigmatiferous at apex, 

 variously lacinate. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds arillate from exostome ; 

 embryo albuminous, thin, subcylindrical. — Small undershi'ubs ; leaves 

 alternate, opposite or ternate, subulate-stipulate, shortly petiolate, 

 linear or lanceolate, eutii-e reciu'ved or revolute at margin, muticous or 

 apiculato ; flowers cymulose terminal {Linidion)^ or terminal but with 

 lateral habit {Beissipa), and surrounded at base with younger lateral 

 branches. {Australia.^) 



1 In Flora (T870), 81, t. 2.— H. Bn. in Aclan- Gen. n. 5833.— H. Bn. Etiphorbiac. 307, t. 16, 

 sonia, xi. 91. fig. 22-25.— M. Aug. Prodr. 212. 



2 Dusky-spotted. « H. Bn. in Adansoiiia, vi. 291. 



2 Proximate to TournesoUa sect. Ary;/- ' Stevd. cxK'L.in Lefim. Fl, Pieiss. ii. 2S0.— 



tlinmiiitt. Hippocrejiaiidra M. Arg. in Limited, xxxiv. 61 ; 



■• Spec. 2, 3. Casar. Nov. Stirp. £ras. Sec. I'rodr. 207. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 292. 



75.— Walp. Mcp. V. 365 [Thouinia). » Spec, about 7. Endl. Eiitim. PI. Sucg. 19. 



5 In Biipcrr. Voi/. Coq. Sot. t. 49 B ; in Avii. — Nees in PL Preiss. ii. 230.— H. Bn. in Adaii- 



Se. N<(1. ser. i. xxix. 386.— Enul. Alukt. 8, t. 8 ; sonia, vi. lue. cit. 



