EUPHORBIACE^. 306 



65 ? Ditta Griseb.' — Flowers dioecious ; male ... ? Disk and 

 calyx of female flowers 0. Germen 2-locular ; oviile in cells 1 (of 

 Euphorbiacese) ; branches of thick style short, 2-partite ; erect 

 slightly conical. Fruit drupaceous-capsular without columella ; seeds 

 scrobiculate exarillate. — A glabrous resinous shrub ; ^ leaves alternate 

 spathulate-lauceolate deutate-crenate penninerved articulate-veined, 

 shortly petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers axillary, congesto-glomerulate 

 on common peduncle ; pedicels imbricate-bracteolate below flower ; 

 bracts opposite few, entire or the lower palmate-2, 3-partite.^ ( Cuha.*) 



56. Adriana Gaudich.^ — Flowers diœcious apetalous eglandular ; 

 male calyx o-5-partite, valvate. Stamens co, inserted on shortly 

 conical receptacle ; filaments short erect ; anthers adnate, extrorsely 

 2-rimose, connective produced beyond colls, entu'e or serrate, acumi- 

 nate. Sepals in female flowers 3-8, imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary ; branches of scarcely 3-partite style long 2-fld linear 

 densely stigmatiferous. Capsules 3-coccous, verrucose-rough ; seeds 

 arillate foveolate albuminous. — Shrubs ; indumentum stellate," some- 

 times scanty; leaves opposite [Trachycarijon'^) or oftener alternate 

 {Eiiadriana *), entii'e lobed or dentate ; stipules often glandulilbrm ; 

 flowers entire lobed or dentate ; stipules often glanduliform ; male 

 flowers inteiTupted-glomerate-spicate ; female racemose. {Justralia.^) 



57 ? Neoboutonia M. Aeg.^*^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; 

 male calyx 2-partite, valvate. Stamens oo, central ; filaments fi-ee 

 inserted on convex pilose receptacle ; anthers basifixed ; cells adnate 

 introrse, rimose. Female calyx quincuncially-imbricate. Germen 

 3-locular ; style branches 3, 2-partite. Fruit . . . ? — A tree or 

 shrub (?) ; indumentum stellate radians ; leaves alternate long 

 petiolate, entire or repando-sublobed, 7-9-nerved reticulate veined ; 

 flowers terminal and axillary ; male " in compound ramified spikes ; 

 female spicate-racemose. {Trop. West. Africa.^") 



1 n. Wright. 160.— M. Arg. Prodi: 1138. 8 il.hs.Euphorb. 406 (sect. iucluOing 1 species, 



" In some respects with the habit of very variable, F. Muell. Traits. Soc. Bot. Ed'mb. 



Myricaritt. vii. 482). 



^ A genus of uncertain position placed here ' Spec. 3, v. 4, 5. Labill. Fl. Nouv.-Roll. 



iaProdrom. ii. 73, t. 223 {Crotoii).— Hook. in. Mitch. Trop. 



* Spec. 1. -D. myricoides Griseb. loc. cit. Austral. 124, 371. — F. Muell. in Book. Journ. 



* In Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 1, v. 223 ; in Freycin. viii. (1856), 209 ; in Trans. Fhil. Soc. Viet. i. 

 Voy. TJran. Bot. 486, t. 116.— Endl. Qen. n. 16.— Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 133.— H. Bn. in 

 5820.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 405, t. 2, fig. 19-22 ; t. Adansonia, vi. 311. 



18, fig. 12.— M. Arg. Frodr. 890. i" In Seem. Journ. of Bot. i. 336 ; Prodr. 



' In caly.x often simple. 892. 



' Kl. in Lehm. PI. Freiss. i. 175. — Crototerum " Minute. 



Desyx. herb, (ex H. Bn.). >■ Spec. 1. N. afruana M. Arg. loc. cit. 



