EUPHURBIACE^. 215 



exserted introrse ; cells pendulous, saccate dilated below, shortly 

 acTiminate at apex. Disk perigynous annular. Female calyx 5-6- 

 partite, imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style ... ?" 

 Eruit' subligneous, indéhiscent (?), albumen of thick seed oily (sapid); 

 cotyledons of foliaceous embryo large. — A tree ; Avood hard ; juice 

 watery ; leaves alternate large entire penninerved ; stipules lanceolate 

 entire ; flowers terminal spicate ; male spikes ramified subpyramidal ; 

 female simple bracteate ; female pedicels finally thick short. [N. 

 Granada. ^) 



75. Platygyne Merc.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens subdefinite in number, usually 

 5-8 ; filaments free erect, inserted above the base of truncate- 

 excavate and rufescent-strigose receptacle, slightly recurved at 

 apex ; anthers adnate extrorse ; cells at base and apex discrete rimose. 

 Female calyx unequally 5-7-phyllous ; leaves imbricated or sub- 

 valvate. Germen o-locular ; cells 1-ovulate; style larger than ger- 

 men erect-3-lobed from obconical base ; lobes thick inwardly 

 subangular-compressed, emargiuate-2-lobed at apex, much lacerate- 

 papillose within. Capsule 3-coccous; seeds exarillate albuminous. — A 

 volubile shi-ub, sprinkled with more or less ureut rufescent hairs ; stem 

 sympodiale ; leaves alternate penninerved dentate petiolate, rigidly 

 stipulate ; flowers terminating short oppositifolious or lateral twigs, 

 usually oligophyllous ; male racemose ; female subspicate. ( Cuba. *) 



76. Amperea A. Juss.^ — Flowers usually dioecious or more rarely 

 monoecious, apetalous, 3-5-merous. Male sepals free or slightly 

 connate at base, valvate. Disk membraneous ; glands lanceolate 

 membraneous 4, 5 (Enamjjerea^), or more rarely {3IonotaxitUum''). 

 Stamens central twice as numerous as the sepals, 2-seriate ; filaments 

 free or connate at base erect ; anther cells sacciform pendulous from 

 connective glandular-incrassate or cristate in bud ; the oppositi- 

 sepalous longer, extrorsely rimose ; the alternisepalous shorter 

 introrse. Female calyx 5-merous ; leaves free or subfree imbricated. 



1 The shapeless nut of /H(;^aH(? ovoid-globose appropriate, the flower being rarely 6-androus), 

 smooth, shortly apiculate. — Ti-agia hexaiidra jAca. Amer. 24.5, t. 173, fig. 



2 Spec. 1. C. oriiioceiisc Kaest. loc. cit. 63. — T. prurieiis W. (ex. Kl. in Endl. Gen. loc. 



3 In Ser. Bull. Bot. i. 167.— H. H^.Euplwrb. cit.). 



453, t. 4, fig. 18-22.— M. Aug. PjW;-. 913.— ^ Euphorb. 35, t. 10, fig. 22.— Endl. Oen. 



Acanthocaulon Kl. in Eiidl. Goi. Suppl. v. n. 5813.— H. Bn. £k^Aoc4. 454, t. 14,fig. 1-9.— 



88 n. 57841. M. Arg. Prodr. 214. 



'' Spec. 1. P. prnrieiis. — P. ureiis Meec. loc. 6 M. Akg. loc. cit. 214, sect. 2. 



cit. — P. hexandra M. Aeg. (a name scarcely ' M. Arg. loc. cit. 213, sect. 1. 



