EUPHORBIACEM. 235 



2-lobe(l at apes. Fruit 5-coccous. . . . — A glabrous shrub ; leaves 

 alternate jietiolate, 2 -stipulate, entire peuninerved ; flowers iu short 

 axillary racemes alternately cymose ; cymes in axils of bracts or 

 small leaves 1-2-sexual ; female cymose or central in 2-sexual cymes; 

 male more numerous slender and shorter pedicellate. {Insular 

 Eastern trop. Africa^ India ^i) See p. 142. 



114. Savia W.^ — Flowers (nearly of W/'r/aiiJ/f/) monoecious or 

 dioecious {Eusavia '■''); calyx imbricated. Petals 5, or fewer by 

 abortion, sub-orbiculate((7/MnV/«a ^)or narrow [Petalodiscus,'^ Eusavia.) 

 Disk annular {Eiisnvia), or of 5 glands, short thick (Char/'d/a), some- 

 times wide -petaloid (PctalodiscNs) constant. Ancboceum of IFielnndia. 

 Female perianth and disk as in male flower. Gormen o-locular. 

 Capsular 3-locular ; cocci 2-valved. Seeds exarillate ; cotyhxlons 

 of albuminous embryo flat or more or less corrugate, wider than 

 albumen. — Small trees or shrubs; leaves alternate stipulate (of 

 Wielandia) ; flowers in racemes sometimes short cymiferous ; female 

 longer and thicker pedicellate than male ; rachis of racemes some- 

 times ancipiti-complanate. {West. India^ Malacassia.^) 



115 ? Actephila Bi,.'' — Flowers (nearly of Havia) monœcious 

 or dioecious ; receptacle sub-plane or rather convex ; sepals and petals 

 (whence sometimes perigynous) imbricated. Disk extrastaminal, 

 5-lobed. Stamens 5, inserted round rudiment of 3-lobed gymeceum ; 

 filaments free or more or less high connate ; anthers sub-globose ; 

 cells short long adnate, usually introrsely rimose. Perianth and 

 disk of female flower as in male. Germen^ 3-locular ; cells 2- 

 ovulate ; obtiu-ator thick ; style branches 3, 2-fid. Capsule 3-coccate ; 

 cocci 2-valved. Seeds exarillate ; albumen 0, slightly mucous between 

 folds of embryo, radicle short ; cotyledons unequal thick ; one 

 dorsally convex, the other dorsally wide refracted concave at margin, 

 long sub-involved ; or sometimes {Lithoxi/lon) alternately long 



1 Spec. iv. 771 (nee Rafin.). — A. Juss. 32; in Nachr. d. Ges. Uiiiv. Oœtt. (1865), 163. 



Eaphorb. 15, t. 2.— Endl. Gen. n. 5866.— H. — H. Bn. in Adait.ioii.iit, ii. 33 ; yiii. 345. 



Bn. Euphorh. 569 (part.).— M. Arg. Frody. 228 " Bijdr. 581.— Endl. Gen. n. 5867.— M. Arc. 



(part.). Prodi: 224. — ^H. Bk. in Adaiisoiiia, vi. 360, t. 



- H. Bn. Jiuphorb. 570, t. 26, fig. 20-23. lO.—LUhoxijlon Endl. Gen. n. 5863.— H. Bn. 



^ H. Bn. loc. cit. 572. JEtiphoyh. 590. — Anomospermum Dalz. in Hook. 



^ H. Bn. loc. cit. 671, t. 22, fig. 11-14. Joiini. (1851), 228. 



* Spec, ad 12. Sw. Prodi-. 100 ; Fl. Iiid. Occ. ' Sometimes surrounded at base by sterile or 



1179 {Crotoii). — Spkeng. Sijst. iii. 903. — A. fertile stamens, 1- or few with short filament 



EiCH. Cuba, iii. 216, t. 70 {PhijUaiithus). — and exti-orse anther. {Adaiisoiiin, vi. t. 10, 



Griseb. PL Wright. 157 ; Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. fig. 6.) 



