EUPHORBIAOEA^. 201 



sepals generally 5, imbricate. Stamens «3 ,' inserted on convex re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments erect ; anthers introrse apiculate, 'J-rimose. Disk 

 glandular, exterior to androceum, outwardly hirsute. Germen 

 rudimentary central, 2-3 -fid at apex, sometimes obsolete. Female 

 calyx 5 or more rarely 5-G-merous. Disk shortly urceolate, often 

 inwardly with oo unequal stipitate staminodes. Germen 2-4-locular ; 

 ovule solitai-y obturated ; style afterwards 2-4-lobed ; lobes thick 

 (colom-ed), stigmatiferous 2-fid. Fruit 2-4-coccous subdrupaceous ; 

 seeds pulpose-arillate. — A tall tree ; leaves alternate, sometimes at 

 apex falsely vcrticillate long petiolate, 2-stipulate, above the base 2- 

 glandular, entire penninerved ; flowers in axillary or superaxillary 

 ramified -cymiforous corymbiform clusters; the female few central 

 larger. {Java, Malacca."^) 



47 ? Acidocroton Griseb. ^ — Flowers monœcious, 5-6-merous; 

 sepals imbricate. Petals contorted, rudimentary in female flower. 

 Stamens ^ ,* free, inserted on eglandular slightly elevated receptacle 

 (the apex being nearly where the rudimentary vestige of germen 

 terminates) ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose ; connective caudate ; cells 

 adnate. Germen 3-5-loeular; style afterwards divided into 3-5 

 branches, fleshy-petaloid, canaliculate within, 2-fid ; ovule solitary in 

 cell. Capsule 3-5-coccous ; seeds oblong-ovoid arillate at micropyle. 

 — 'A diffuse shrub ; ^ leaves alternate small crowded ; stipules 2, 

 lateral elongate, spinescent ; flowers in unisexual branches terminal 

 to pulviniforra twigs, solitary or few cymose pedicellate. ( Cuba.^) 



48. Ricinella M. Abg. ' — Flowers diœcious apetalous, o-merous ; 

 calyx valvate. Disk adnate to calyx more or less perigynous ; lobes 

 opposite sepals. Stamens oo (8-15), central free or 1-adelphous at 

 base; anthers 2-locular, long affixed at middle, externally 2-rimose; 

 connective narrow not produced. Germen rudimentary minute or 0, 

 in female flower 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style short central, scarcely 

 divided into 3 branches, internally papillose-laciniate. Capsule 3-coc- 

 cous ; seeds smooth subglobose exarillate ; cotyledons foliaceous wider 



1 Sometimes sub-definite 10-16, of which 5 are * Exterior altemipetaloiis. 



altemisepalous, shorter ; same number opposite " Aspect of Seettrincga spinescent. 



Spec, 1. A. adelioides Griseb. loc. eit, — A. 



- Spec. 1. E. Tiipos Bl. loc. cit. — Miq. Fl. Acidoton L. (ex. M. Ako. Prodr. 924). 

 /«(/,-£«(. i. p. ii. 412 ; Suppl. 460. 'In Liiintra, xxxiv. 133; Prodi; 729. — 



■> Fl. BHt. W.-Iud. 42.— M. Akq. Prodr. Adelia L. Gen. n. 1137 (part.).— Endl. Oen. n. 

 1042. J825 (part.).— H. Bn. Euphorb. 417 (part.). 



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