EUPHOBBIAOE^. 253 



Stamens generally 3, more rarely 5, or 2, 4, 6, very rarely 7-15-20 

 {Asterandra} Pleiostemon^ Oxalistylis^ Orhicularia^^ WilUamia^ Chori- 

 sandra''), central, inserted on rather convex receptacle; filaments free 

 or more or less high l-adelphous, equal or unequal {Kirganelia''); 

 anthers 2-locular extrorse, longitudinally or horizontally rimose, much 

 varied in form, muticous or apiculate. Glands of disk equal in number 

 to and alternating with the sepals free or unequally or equally 1- 

 adelphous, in female flower sometimes connate in urceolate disk, 

 soYdQiime^ Q {Glochidion^). Germen sessile; cells usually 3, more 

 rarely 2 or 4, very rarely 5-15; style branches equal in number 

 to cells, entii-e or oftener 2-lobulate or 2-fid stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Ovules in each cell 2, collateral, or descendent, more or less com- 

 pletely anatropous or peritropous, or more rarely suborthotropous 

 subadseendeut ; micropyle extrorse superior. Fruit capsular ; exo- 

 carp sometimes subfleshy or fleshy often soluble ; cocci (usually 

 3) 2-valved, 1, 2-spermous. Seeds smooth verrucose or costulate; 

 external coat thin or more or less fleshy (arillate) ; outer coat 

 more or less thick, often crustaceous ; hilum subbasilar (in seeds 

 suborthotropous) or more or less high impressed, at internal angle 

 small or more or less depressed subregular, or more rarely very 

 unequal, irregular and concave ; micropyle not carunculate ; cotyle- 

 dons of straight or arched copiously albuminoiis embryo rather wide 

 complanate. — Trees or oftener shrubs, undershrubs or herbs ; habit 

 much varied ; branches usually alternate, sometimes 2-morphous ; 

 twigs sometimes cladodiform subaphyllous {Xylophylla^)^ oftener 

 when leaves are evolved, simulating a compound pinnate leaf 

 and frequently (like the leaf) articulate at base, and finally solute from 

 branch ; leaves alternate or rarely opposite, often 2-stichous, some- 

 times reduced to squamules, shortly petiolate or sessile, 2-stipiilate, 

 penninerved, often unequal at base ; flowers (small, often white or 

 piirplish-virescent) in axils of leaves or sometimes bracts, solitary or 



1 Kl. in Erichs. Arch. vii. 200.— H. Bn. Eh- ' Forst. Char. Gen. 113.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 



phorb. 610, t. 27, fig. 5, 6. 18, t. 3.— Endl. Gen. n. 5857.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 



■ SoNU. in Ziiincca, x-xiii. 135. 636, t. 24, fig. 1-9 ; 27, fig. 12-15. 



3 H. Bn. Euphorb. 628, t. 24, fig. 15-19. ' L. Oeii. 511.— Sw. Obs. 114, t. 10.— Gjertn. 



* H. Bn. Euphorb. 616. Frucl. t. 108.— A. Juss. Euphorb. 23, t. 5, fig. 



s H. Bn. Euphorb. 559, t. 27, fig. 9, 10. 17.— Endl. Gen. n. 5847 a.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 



6 Wight, Icon. t. 1994. 623.— M. Ana. Prodr. i21 .—Oenesiphylla Lhék. 



' A. Juss. Euphorb. 21, t. 4, fig. 14.— H. Bn. Sert. 29, t. 39. 

 iiiphorb. 612, t. 23, fig. 18-21 ; 24, fig. 26-27. 



