EUPHORBIACE^. 203 



nate ; iufloi'escence nearly (longer and more slender) of Bernardia} 

 {Ti'oj}. South America.^) 



51. Acidoton Sw. ^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male sepals 

 3-5-valvate. Stamens co , the elongated-conical thick receptacle 

 dilated externally in a spurious-alveolate disk between the filaments 

 at the base ; filaments, etc., free ; anthers extrorse, shortly apiculate ; 

 cells discrete at base, rimose. Female calyx 4-5-partite ; lobes val- 

 vate or subimbricate, scarcely or not contiguous. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary ; style erect rather tbick, divided at apex into 3 

 branches simple, erect-patulous, stigmatiferous within. Fruit 

 capsular ; seeds exarillate. — A shrub glabrous or more or less sprinkled 

 with pellucid stinging hairs ; leaves alternate petiolate, stipulate, 

 simple, entire or paucideutate penninerved veined ; flowers spicate- 

 racemose ; racemes l-sexual ; male axillary few-flowered ; the female 

 longer, axillary and terminal, naked at base.* {Jamaica}) 



52. Cleidion Bl. " — -Flowers monoecious or dioecious apetalous ; 

 male calyx valvate. Stamens oo , inserted on conical or hemispherical 

 receptacle, alternate verticillate and in vertical distinct series ; fila- 

 ments free ; anthers seriato-imbricate compressed inserted at summit 

 of subulate peltate filaments or slightly above the base ; connective 

 (coloured) peltiform, bearing at the margin 4 small cells, afterwards 

 subcruciate confluent-rimose, muticous or apiculate above. Female 

 sepals 3-5, imbricated or 4, decussate-imbricate. Germen free, 

 sometimes surrounded by hypogynous disk {DiscocleidM) ; cells 

 3 {Redia^) or more rarely 2 {Lasiostyles^), opposite exterior sepals, 1- 

 ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, linear-elongate, more or less deeply 

 2-fid, densely papillose stigmatiferous within. Capsule 2-3-coccous ; 



' A genus imperfectly known to us, formerly t. 83, fig. 1. 

 regarded as a section of _B«-««)-(fifl (M. Arg. in ' ByV/c. 612.— Endl. Oeti. n. 6795. — H. Bn. 



liniiaa, xxxiv. 172). Male flower nearly of £uphoib. iOi, t. 9, &g. S-5. — M. Arg. in ZinntBa 



Tragia. xxxiv. 183 ; Prodr. 983 (incl. : Lasiost //les Presl, 



' Spec, ad 2. Kl. in Hnuk. Loud. Jour», ii. Psilostachys TuRCZ. Eedia Casar.). 

 (1843), 46 {Tra(jia).—M.. Arg. Prodr. 918 {Ber- ' M. Arg. in Flora (1864), 481 ; Prodr. 984, 



nardia). sect 1. 



3 Prodr. 83; Fl. Ind. Occ. ii. 952, t. 18.— s Casar. Stirp. Bras. Dec. vi. 51. — Endl. 



A. Juss. Euphorb. 32.— Endl. Oeii. n. 5822.— Geii. Suppl. v. 89.— H. Bx. Eaphorb. 407, t. 21, 



H. Bn. Euphorb. 401, t. 18, fig. 10, 11.— M. fig. 1, ■l.—Fsilostnchijs TuRcz. in Bull. Sjc. 



Aro. Prodr. 914. Mosc. (1843). 581, in Flora (1844), 121. 



■• A genus allied to Bernardia, diflering by s Prksl Bot. Bern. 159. — Endl. Oeii. n. 



styles not discrete at base. 5795'. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 653. — Eucleidion 



' Spec. 1. A. urens fivf. loc. cit. — Gbiseb. J"/. M. Arg. in Liiinœa, xxxiv. 184; Frodr. 987 



Brit. W.-Iiid. iH; Cat. Pl.Cub. 18. — A. innocuus sect 3. 

 H. Bn. op. cit. i02.— Urtica, Sloan. Jam i. 125; 



