ErPHORBT .[('!<:,¥,. 



articulate and genuflexo-incurved. Female calyx 3-merous, imbri- 

 cated. Germen 3-locular ; cells oppositipetaloiis, 1 -ovulate; style 

 soon divided into 3 branches very thick simple, 3- agonal dorsally 

 carinate inwardly 2-seriate thickly denticulate, suberect and conni- 

 vent in much thicker germen mass. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds sub- 

 globose lacerate-arillate. — A scandent subtomentose shrub ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate simple denticulate ; flowers racemose ; 

 the female 1 or few inferior subsessile ; others male longer pedicel- 

 late. {Eastern India, Java}) 



79. Tragia Plum.'^— Flowers monoecious or rarely diœcious apeta- 

 lous ; male calyx usually 3-partite, more rarely 4-5-partite, valvate. 

 Stamens inserted round 3 -agonal rudiment of gynseceum or central 

 {Jgirta ^), usually 3, alternating with the sepals or more rarely 1, 

 2 sometimes, very rarely 6, 2-seriate [Adenotragia^ 4-8 [Leucandra^\ 

 or 8-15-20 {Bké'') ; filaments fi-ee or partly 2-nate connate {Leucandra), 

 sometimes 1-adelphous at base {Leptohotrys^ Lassia ^), not incrassate- 

 glandular at base or sometimes incrassate {Ratiga ^) ; glands of recep- 

 tacle 0, or equal in number to the stamens and alternating with 

 them, free or more or less connate with base of filaments, some 5-10, 

 subcylindrical or 3-lobed {Bia), more rarely all coalescing in short 

 thick cupule. Anthers dorsifixed, usually short ; cells subspherical 

 or ovoid, introrsely, laterally or extrorsely rimose, sometimes sessile 

 and horizontally rimose at summit of column dilatated-3-angular 

 (Lassia). Female calyx 3-8-partite, imbricate or rarely subvalvate. 

 Germen 3- or rarely 5-locular ; ^^ cells 1 -ovulate; style branches 3 

 or rarely 5, simple, inwardly stigmatiferous. Fruit capsular, gene- 

 rally furnished with ample urent-setose calyx ; cells usually 3 ; 

 seeds subglobose exarillate.— Herbs undershi-ubs or shrubs, some- 



i Spec. 1. C. jocniiica Bl. Bijdr. —Tragia ' Kl. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), 188.— Endl. 



macrophijlla Wall. Cat. n. 7793 B.— T. rugosa Gen. Suppl. ii. 88.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 477, t. 4, 



Wall. Cat. n. 17^i'Ë.— T. liastata Keinw. in fig. 6-9.— M. Akg. in Limioea, xxxiv. 180; 



Hassle PI. Ear. 245. Prodr. 929, sect. 4. 



2. Qen. 14 ; Icon. t. 252.— L. Gen. n. 1048.— « Kl. loc. cit. 189.— Endl. Uc. cit. 89.— H. 



J. Qen, 390 (part.).— Lamk. III. t. 754.— PoiR. Bn. Euphorb. 5Q\.—M. Arc. Prodr. 928, sect. 2. 



met. ™. 722; Suppl. v. 328.— Endl. Gen. n. ? H. Bn. Euphorb. 478, t. 2, fig. 17, 18.— M. 



5782 (part.).— A. Juss. Euphorb. 47 (part.), t. Aug. Piwfr. 946, sect. 10. 



45, fig. 49 A.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 459.— M. Arg. ' H. Bn. Euphorb. 464, t. 4, fig. 23-28.— M. 



Prodr. 927.— Schorigeram Adans. Earn, des PL Arg. Prodr. 931, sect. 5 (Androceum as in 



ii. 355 (incl. : Agiita H. Bn. Bia Kl. Lassia aome S]iec. ot Phgllanthus). 



'S.Bs. leptobotrgs 'H.Bs. Leucandra Kl.). ' M. Arg. in Linneea, xxxiv. 181; Prodr. 



^ H. Bn. Euphorb. 463.— M. Arg. Prodr. 946, 931, sect. 6. 



sect. 9. '0 Cells to be observed in calyx beyond 3-par- 



* M. Aro. in Linneea, x-z-xiv. 179, sect 3. tite exterior opposite sepals. 



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