316 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen sessile, 3-locAilar ; ovulos solitary ; micropyle extrorse supe- 

 rior obtected by rather thick obturator ; style afterwards 3-partite ; 

 branches short, 3-lobed or sometimes 3-fld stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Capsule o-coccous, 6-valved ; seeds albuminous; micropyle aril late ; 

 cotyledons of cylindrical embryo narrow semi-terete and subequal to 

 radicle. — TJndershrubs, usually spartoid ; branches narrow com- 

 pressed ; leaves alternate, 2-stipulate, usually narrow subsossile ; 

 flowers ^ axillary ; female cymose or glomerulate, sometimes solitary; 

 male contracto-cymose. {Australia. ") 



77 ? Calycopeplus Pl.'^ — Flowers monoecious ; male naked, 1- 

 androus. Filament erect articulate at middle. Anthers 2-locular 2- 

 rimose, inserted at summit of attenuated filament ; clefts extrorsely 

 spectant Calyx of female flower 4- or oftener 6-lobed ; the 3 interior 

 lobes alternating with the exterior, imbricated. Germen sessile ; cells 

 3, opposite interior sepals, 1-ovulate ; style branches 3, stigmatiferous, 

 entire or 2-lobed. Capsules 3-coccous ; seeds glabrous, arillate at 

 micropyle ; embryo ? — Shrubs or undershrubs usually subaphyllous ; 

 juice milky ; twigs angular ; leaves opposite or verticillate ; stipules 

 lateral small; limb usually narrow usually 2, sometimes 3, 4glandu- 

 liferous ; flowers terminal and axillary in cymes; female 1, central. 

 Male peripherical, inserted in axil of 3,. 4 bracts, connate in involucre 

 at base alternate with the same number of cupular stipules, simple 

 or 2-plicate, cymose in the axil of each ; cymes sometimes small 

 generally 2-parous.* ( West Australia!') 



78. Cnesmone Bl.*"'— Flowers monœcious apetalous ; ''' male calyx 

 3-fid shortly subturbinate at base. Stamens 3, alternate, inserted 

 round germen rudimentary or subuil ; filaments free ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose ; connective long produced beyond cells. 



1 Minute, virescent, more rarely bluish or * 2, 3 species, of which 1 is better known : 

 reddish. C. paucifolimn H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 319. — 



2 Spec. 5, 6, Ad. Bb. in Dupen: Vol/. Coq. C. ephedroides Pl. loc. cit. 31. — Benth. Fl. 

 Bot. t.i9. — A.Rich, rti.v. ^.«(lo^. .Bft<. 53, t. 20. — Austral, vi. 53. — Euphoi-hla pnucifolia Kl. in 

 Speeng, Syst. iv. 109 {Leptomeria) . — Kx. in Zehm. PI. Preiss. i. 174.— Boiss. Piodr. 175; 

 Leiim. Fl. Pcciss. i. 176.- Benth. Fl. Austral. Fuph. Ic. t. 120.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 

 vi. 8.— H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 318. 291. 



3 In Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. viii. 30. « Fl. Jar. Prœjat. vi.— Endl. Gen. n. 5783. 

 ■• A genus therefore allied to ^(«ijerea, thence — H. Bn. Euphorb. 458, t. 4, fig. 14-1 7.— 



to the Jlfo«ff<«j-if//«)«., among the2-ovulate genera M. Aug. Prodr. 926. — Cnesmosa Bl. Bijdr. 



according to us much farther removed from 630. 



Euphorbia to which it has been united by other ' The males very similar to Tragia, scarcely 



authors. distinct by the stamens. 



