EUPHORBIACE. 917 
§Stamens 4 or more ; ovary 2-4-celled ; drupe 2—-4-seeded ; 
trees, dicecious ; leaves some‘imes crenulate [p. 916] 
yclostemon. 
tMale flowers in axillary spikes, racemes, nicles ; stamens 
free round a rudimentary pistillode ; anthers didymous wet inde- 
hiscent; trees or shrubs, wi beies rarely monecious :—{p. 915] 
eeds without an aril 
Ovary 1-celled; drupe nied rugose, somewhat compressed ; 
a oros 
Seeds with an arillus; ov ary 2-3-celled; flowers in racemes 
capsule fleshy, often rupturing irregularly, but not truly dats 
cent ; trees, dicecious, rarely moncecious; stamens 4-8; fila- 
‘iol short Baccaurea 
*Stamens of the outer or only series alternate with the sepals, or if 
stamens all central, the cells of the 2-3-, rarely 4-carpelled ovary each 
Lovuled ; ; petals, if present, often exceeding the sepals ; inflorescence 
axillary or terminal :—[p. 91 
‘Flowers in terminal tpikon, racemes, OF panicles, almost always 
ogynous; petals present, at least in the male flowers, or if 
absent from both sexes (Manihot), then ith a saat ogy nous 
disk j in both male and female flowers, and stamens definite, 2-seriate, 
J 
2-3-chotomously ame panicles ; stamens erect ; 
leaves always digitately lobed :— 18} 
Calyx imbricate in bud, pe N 5- ott fruit dry, capsular ; 
each carpel 2-valvyed :— 
Stamens 10, inserted in two series round the lobes of a hypo- 
gynous disk; petals none in either sex; shrubs or trees, 
flowers dicecious, occasionally moncecious ..........-. Manihot. 
Stamens many, the outer 5 in a series opposite the petals, the 
rest in a column in centre of flower; petals 5; shrubs or 
small trees, flowers monecious, the central ones female 
atropha. 
tha irregularly seine ke ges into 2-3 lobes; fruit a 
; Stamens 8-20, the outer 5 in a series opposite petals, the 
rest fe in centre of anak — flowers monoecious or 
iceei Aleuri 
