Euphorbia.) EUPHORBIACEA. 921 
male calyx minute; flowers monecious, in slender ter- 
minal, axillary, or lateral racemes ; males m inute, 1-3 in 
each bract ; females solitary at base of raceme or lower 
and long-pedicelled on the stem; fruit crustaceous 
Sebastiania. 
811. Euphorbia Linn. 
Herbs, shrubs, or small trees; stems pies pul or thick, 
fleshy, and sometimes leafless or near y so; lea low or 
ternate, or upper or all opposite, entire or sien toothed ; 
stipules Teter: juice copious, milky, usually acrid. Flowers 
combined in an SE Brat of many male florets surrounding a 
solitary female, within a small, 4-5-lobed, turbinate or campanu- 
late, regular perianth- like involuere ; lobes of involucre with thick 
ceous or 0. Perianth 0, or of minute scales. ¢ Stamen solitary; 
laments jointed on a pedicel ; anther 2-celled, erect; cells usually 
aan sen longitudinall ? Carpels 3, connate in a 
J: 
3-celled ovary on an ultim imately suatesa pedicel in the centre of 
OCC] 
Ventrally or both ventrally and dorsally. Seeds albuminous; 
cotyledons broad, flat, 
*Perennial shrubs or small trees ; leaves scattered, at least below ; glands 
of the involucre without any petaloid appendage :—{[p. 
tStems thick and fle eshy ; leaves all green, alternate, deciduous, floral 
hone :—[p. 92 2] 
tem reduced to a longish, stout, cylindric underground stock, 
6-10 in, long; leaves all oe subsessile, obovate or oblanceo- 
late; cymes after leaves from the crown of the stock ......fusiformis. 
Stem above ground well develop a _— 
{Branches ascending, armed with aired short, stipulary 
thorns: 
Styles 2- cleft ; branches prominently 3-, sometimes 4-6-angled, 
the angles Seah, sinuately repand; leaves few, small, very de- 
ci antiquorum 
— uitmsle, thickened at the base ; 2 terete or slightly 
ngled ; leaves many, large, 6-12 in. lo 
