EUPHORBIACÉES. 237 
talum ‘, Cleistantlus”). Petala cum sepalis alternantia, plerumque parva 
brevia, sæpe subrhombea, varie 3-5-loba, basi attenuata, sæpe subspathu- 
lata, sæpius inter se haud contigua, rarius imbricata. Discus subsim- 
plex v. duplex, receptaculum intus vestiens, extus inter petala plus 
minus prominulus v.lobatus, intus in flore fæmineo adscendens, germen 
alte plerumque plus minus laxe cingens, demum circa fructus basin 
persistens , 3-angulari-5-lobus v. dentatus. Stamina (in flore fœmineo 
rudimentaria, sterilia v. 0) petalorum numero æqualia, summæ co- 
lumnæ centrali elongatæ tenui v. rarius crassæ brevissimæque (Euama- 
noa, Stenonta) verticillatim sub gynæceo rudimentario longiuseulo 
inserta ; filamentis cæterum liberis; antheris introrsis, 2-rimosis. Ger- 
men (in flore masculo rudimentarium) 2-3-loculare; loculis 2-ovu- 
latis; styli ramis 2, 3, apice stigmatoso 2-lobis v. 2-fidis. Fructus 2, 
3-COCCus, aut capsularis (Cleistanthus, Nanopetalum, Lebidieropsis), 
nunc extus plus minus carnosus, ægre v. tarde dehiscens (Æ£wamanoa), 
aut rarius carnosus v. subbaccatus, indehiscens (Brédelia). Semina ad 
hilum impressa v. haud impressa, exalbuminosa (Æuamanoa, Nanope- 
lalum) v. albuminosa (Cleistanthus, Bridelia, Lebidieropsis) exarillata ; 
embryonis plus minus evoluti cotyledonibus in seminibus exalbuminosis 
plano-convexis crassis; in albuminosis crassis planis (Lebidieropsis). 
foliaceo - complanatis, rectis (Bridelia) v. plicatis (Cleistanthus). — 
Arbores v. frutices; foliis alternis, petiolatis v. sessilibus, integris 
v. dentatis, glabris v. pilosis, penninerviis venosis, 2-stipulatis ; floribus 
in axillis folitrur v. bractearum interdum evolutarum foliformium 
Cymosis v. glomerulatis bracteatis; inflorescentia simplici v. ramosa, 
AunC spiciformi v. substrobiliformi; bracteis bracteolisque imbricatis *. 
(Orb. tot. reg. trop.*) 
118. Andrachne L. 5 — Flores monœæeci, nunc apetali (Cluytian- 
1. Hassk., in Verk. Kuæn. Ac. Amst., IV, ; Spec. ad 50. L. Spec., 1475 (Chut. _ 
140 ; in Bu/{. Soc. bot. de Fr., NI, 746; in Bot.  Roxs., PL fradidhe ch 11, 37,t. 469, 470; 
Zeit. (4858), pe in For (1857), 534: ot 171173 (Clutia). — BL., Bijdr., ses es 
en 65. — M. AR dr. delia). — PL., in Hook. Icon.,t, 797.— WiGT, 
Hook. F., in ok. ion de Érte Icon., t. 4911, — BERTOL. r., Mozamb., 4, 16, 
Gand abria PL., in HI, t.6. — M. RG, in Séem. Journ., I, 827: in 
264 (nec Hocusr. ). — Lebidiera ré Euphorb rs Sr 515 (Bridelia), — Taw., Enum. 
AU., S0, t. 27, fig. 4-4. — Leio iopy yris Mio. pl. , 274 (Briedelia), 280. — BE : F1. 
ind. bat. x Suppl, 445 PA VI, 419 (Briedelia), 121 ere 
3 Sect. : 4. Loé (H. Bx) ; 2, Penta- thus), — MH. BN, in Adansonia, 1, 79 
brachium æ ARG ); 3. Slenonia (H. Bx); 37 EAN de . one HI, 164 brie, 
+ Nanopetalum (HASSK.) ; 5. D Fa VE sv 
cores ST.); 6. Lebidieropsis (M. ARG.); 7. Bri- jen, 
delia a (W.). 
& 
F ni: ge Gen., 387. — 
caieits F Mon "5, 12, t. 108, — LaAux, 
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