EUPHORBIAGE^. 221 



Female calyx 5-6-partite, imbricated. Germen 2-3-locular ; style 

 branches divaricate-patent, inwardly densely papillose-fimbriate. 

 Capsule ratber fleshy, 1-spermous by abortion, mature? — Shrubs 

 sub-2-chotomous ramified ; leaves alternate or collected at summit of 

 twigs, falsely verticillate-stipulate, often subsessile, enth-e or 

 denticulate penninerved ; flowers in terminal ramified spikes, usually 

 glomeruliferous ; female in each inferior or in the axils of upper 

 leaves few.i {East India?') 



87. Sphssrostylis H. Bn.^ — Flowers monœcious; male calyx 

 valvate, 3-partite ; sepals at base inwardly horizontally finally 

 (in false annular disk) plicate-prominent. Stamens 3, alternating 

 with sepals ; filaments central, 1-adelphous ; anthers inserted at 

 summit of column, introrse finally subhorizontally-reflexed, longi- 

 tudinally rimose. Female calyx 5-6-partite, valvate or slightly 

 imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells opposite exterior sepals 1-ovu- 

 late. Style many times larger than germen globose, fleshy, 3-sulcate 

 at apex ; fuiTOWS alternating with cells radiant from centre and 

 stigmatiferous. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds smooth. — A scandent 

 shrub ; leaves alternate ovate 3-plinerved petiolate ; stipules articu- 

 late ; flowers in spicate axillary or terminal racemes ; male bracts 

 superior oo, 1-florous ; inferior few female. {Madagascar^) 



88. Astrococcus Benth.^ — Flowers monœcious ; male calyx 

 valvate, 4-partite. Stamens 4-8, central inserted iu concave receptacle 

 or round rudiment of gynœceum ; filaments free or 1-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers introrse emargiiiate ; cells all longitudinally adnate, 

 longitudinally rimose. Disk round urceolate androceum, thick 

 4;-agonal, 4-lobed, or {Hœmatostemon.'^) Female calyx 4-7-partite, 

 imbricated. 'Germen 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style thick obovoid, 

 concave and outwardly unequally- 6-sulcate stigmatiferous at apex ; 

 Capsule horizontally saccate-l-3-coccous, narrow and subpyramidal 

 at apex ; cocci and back thickly cornute-2-cristate. Seed descendent, 

 more or less oblique, albuminous. — Trees ; leaves alternate ; shortly 



' A genus allied to Cephalocroton, diifering ■• Spec. 1. S. Tulasneaiia H. Bn. lue. cit. 467 ; 



by constitution of anthers, fruit, habit and in Adansunia, i. 276. 



inflorescence. ' In Uook. Joitni. (1854), 327.- -H. Bn. 



2 Spec. 2. Wall. exs. n. 9095 {Cliaia).—M. Etqihorb. 476, t. 22, fig. 22-24.— M. Arc. Prodr. 

 Arg. in Linnœa, xxxiv. 166. 766. 



3 Eiiphorb. idd, t. 21, fig. 19-21.— M. Alia. " II. Auu. in Liiniœa, xxxiv. 157; Prodi. 

 Prodr. 768. 767, sect. 2. 



