EUPHORBIAOE^. 265 



sopsis^) or exarillate {3fclanthesa "). — Shrubs or small trees ; alternate 

 leaves^ and inflorescence of Phyllanthus. {Asia and trop. Oceania.*) 



14 S. Sauropus Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Breynia and Phyllantlms) 

 monœcious ; glands extrastamiual opposite sepals. Male calyx de- 

 pressed-turbinate ; disk adnate introrsely G-lobed free. Fruit and 

 other characters of Phyllantlius ; seeds exarillate. — Shrubs or under- 

 shrubs ; leaves and inflorescence of Breynia (or Phyllantlms) ; flowers 

 axillary very shortly raceniulose ; rachis of racemules generally 

 densely imbricate bracteolate. [Asia and trop. Oceania.^) 



149. Agyneia Vent.' — Flowers monœcious (nearly of Sauropus 

 or Phyllantlms) ; male calyx G-partite. Extrastamiual glands of adnate 

 extrorsely G-liber-lobate male disk opposite sepals. Germen (of 

 Phyllantlius) usually depressed at apex. Fruit and other characters 

 of Phyllantlius ; seeds exarillate. — Herbs annual or suffrutescent at 

 base ; habit and leaves of Phyllanthus ; ^ branches procumbent or 

 ascendent compressed-angular or 3, 4-agonal ; flowers axillury cymu- 

 lose sometimes, from the leaves being scarcely developed in slender 

 racemose-cymose branches ; cymes in axils of bracts 1- or 2-sexual ; 

 female flowers usually few or 1 , central ; others smaller, more slender 

 pedicellate male, ( Trap. Asia and Oceania., South East. Cant, and Ins. 

 Africa.^) 



• M. Akq. in Linnœa. xxxii. 74 ; Prodr. 436. 1951, 1952. — Hasbk. PI. Jav. Par. 268.— Mia. 

 2 Bl. Bijdr. 590.— Endl. Gen. n. 5848.— H. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 366, 367 {.Agyneia). 



Bn. Euphorb. 634. ' Jaid. de Cels, 23, t. 23. — A. Juss. Euphorb. 



•• Dry, usually nigrescent. 24, t. 6, fig. 19. — Endl. Gen. n. 6843. H. Bn. 



* Spec, about 15. Poir. Diet. v. 296 [Phijl- Euphorb. 630, t. 24, fig. 10-14.— M. Aro. Prodr. 

 lanthus). — KuKZ, in Teysm. it Biim. PL Nov. 237.— Baker, Fl. Mauril, 312. — Diplomorpha 

 Sort. Bog. 35 {Melanthesa).—'R^^'vn. Fl. Mongk. Griff. ISIutul. iv, 479. 



312 (Melanthesa) ; Fl. Austral, vi. 113.— Thw. « Of which it is much better made a section. 



Enum. PI. Zeyl. 285 {Melanthem).—R. Bn. in ' Spec. 2. L. Syst. ed. 13, 707 ; Suppl. 415 



Adansouia, he. cit. 345. {Phyllanthus).— ^vb-^vo. Syst. iii. 20 {Emblica). 



' Bijdr. 595.— Endl. Gen. n. 6842.— H. Bn. — W. Spec. iv. 568 (part.).— Bl. Bijdr. 694.—' 



Euphorb. 634, t. 27, fig. 19-22.— M. Aru. Prodr. Wight, Icon. t. 1893.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. 



239, 1269.— Ccrafo<7,v«!«» Wight, Icon. t. 1900. ii. 367.— Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 283.— KuEz, in 



s Spec, ad 12. W. Spec. iv. 585 {Phyllanthus). Teysm. et Binn. PI. Nov. Sort. Bog. 84.— H. Bn. 



—Thw. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 284.— Wight, Icon. t. in Adansoniu, ii. 54. 



