EUPHORBIACE. 915 
several ; ovules 1-2 in each carpel, pendulous from the inner angle 
of the cell, funicle often thickened ; styles as many as the carpels, 
: free or united and entire or divided ; stigmas usually on the inner 
face of the styles or style-arms. Fruit usually a capsule of three 
2-valved and 1-2-seeded cocci separating from a persistent axis, or 
a drupe with 1-3 cells, or of one or more combined nuts. Se 
talus attached at or above the middle of the cells, with or 
without an arillus or caruncle at the hilu um; umen fleshy ; 
embryo straight, enclosed in the aibistat cotyledons flat, leafy, 
and radicle superior; rarely albumen 0 and cotyledons fleshy. 
ae oa. surrounding a single central, 3-carpelled, sssainelio’ 
female, all enclosed in a pseudo-calycine involucre ; perianth proper 
none, or rarely of 1-3 minute scales at the joint between pedicel and 
flower; cells of ovary l-ovyuled; herbs, shrubs, or trees’ with milky 
tewviens regular, campanulate or turbinate, or slightly irregular ; 
nds free and alternate with segments of involucre ...... Eup 
Involucre arse irregular, slipper-shaped, declinate, produced into 
spur, glandular within Pedilanthus 
Flowers diccious or separate-moneecious; perianth of sepals almost 
always ipmane oie ack also with a corolla; stamens 1-2-seriate or 
all in the centre of th 
"tainene a the outer or only series opposite the sepals, or sco stamens 
in centre of flower, the sae ft the 2-many- -carpelled ov 
1 29 er! 
5; ovary of female 3-4- -carpe iiss d; fruit ¢ a berry ... ..Bischofia. 
Leaves simple, entire or Fare AG yclostemon Rea serrulate, 
alternate or rarely subopposi 
tMale flowers in axillary fascicles or solitary axillary :—[p. 917] 
{Corolla of 5, rarely 6, scale-like petals :—[p- 
Calyx-lobes or iba nts : healed, ; stamens 5; filaments 
united in a column; trees or shrubs :— 
Ovary 2-celled ; gue Dsaclitcegt flowers moneecious or 
dicecious Brideli 
Ovary 3-celled ; fruit dehiscent ; flowers moncecious 
thus. 
Calyx of 5-6 imbricate sepals; stamens 3-6, free or only 
