EUPHOHBIACE.3^. 239 



flowers ' at summit of branches racemose or subumbellate, solitary in 

 axils of superior leaves or bracts ; inferior female, others male. 

 {Australia") 



120? Lachnostylis Turcz.^ — Flowers (nearly of AnJraclme or 

 Amanoa *) ; reco^jtacle snb plane or very shortly cupular. Sepals and 

 petals 5, imbricated. Disk extrastaminal. Stamens 5, alternating 

 with petals, vcrticillate, inserted below o-fid rudiment of gynasceum 

 at summit of central column ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 

 3-locular ; cells 2-ovulate; obturator thick; style-branches 2-fid. 

 Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds ... ? A densely ramified shrub ; leaves 

 alternate penninerved entire subcoriaceous minutely stipulate ; 

 flowers axillary; male cymose; female solitary.^ {South Africa!') 



121. Payeria H. Bn.'' — Flowei-s dioecious ; male...? Female 

 calyx gamophjdlous campanulate, shortly 5-dentate, valvate (?). 

 Petals 5, alternating with teeth of calyx, shorter included squami- 

 form imbricated. Disk hypogynous evolute subcampanulate, entire 

 or unequally lobed, ■ adpressed to germen. Germen ^ free ; cells 5, 

 2-ovulate, ^ opposite teeth of calyx ; style erect subentire stigmatife- 

 rous at apex. Capsule 5-coccous, 10-costate, surrounded by persistent 

 perianth and disk ; cocci 1-2-spermous ; radicle of albuminous curved 

 embryo conical superior. — Trees ; leaves alternate or opposite exstipu- 

 late (?) entire penninerved ; female flowers in axillary racemes more 

 or less ramified cymiferous. {Malaccussia., 3Iascarene Is}°) ' 



122. CaletiaH. Bn." — Flowers monoecious; sepals 6, alternately 

 verticillate imbricated ; the interior larger subpetaloid. Stamens 6 , 

 2-seriate, opposite sepals, filaments free inserted round rudiment of 



' Small white, sepals subpetaloid. '" A genus better made a section of .^wffnM (f). 



'^ Spec. 5, 6. Ai). Br. in Voy. Ovq. Bot. 218, t. ' Spec. 1. L. hirta M. Aeg. — L. mjiensis 



50. — Kl. in Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii. 230. — Hueg. in TuHcz. — Z. minor Sond. — Cliitia hi) ta L. auppl. 



But. Arch. t. 8. — Sond. in Liiniœa, xxidii. 567. 432. — Vahl, Sijmh. ii. 101. — C. acuminata 



— Benth. Fl, Austral, vi. 54. — H. Bn. in Adaii- Thunb. Prodr. 53 ; Fl. Cap. ed. Sch. 272. 



snnia, vi. 331. ^ In Adaiisovia, i. 50, t. 3. — M. Akg. in Lin- 



3 In BxiU. Mosc. (1846), 503 ; in Flora (1848), nœa, xxxiv. 65 ; Prodr. 226. 



300 ; in Linnœa, xxiii. 131. — Sond. in Xinnœa, ^ Nearly of Glochidion. 



xxiii. 131. — H. Bn. Eiiphorb. 224. — M. Aeg. ' Ovula subhemitropous descendent. 



Prodr. 224. '" 2species, of whichone (borbonica) is distiu- 



* Especially allied to Stenonia ; receptacle the guisbed by the aureate hairs of germen. 



same; differs pi-incipally by œstivation of " iw^'oci. 553, t. 26, fig. 1-18. .. . M. Aeg. 



calyx. Prodr. 194. 



