280 A FLORA OP MANILA 



6. Fruit a berry 8. Phyllanthus 



6. Fruit of 3 to 6 cocci enclosed in a fleshy pericarp-. 

 7. Calyx truncate or minutely toothed, enlarged in fruit. 



5. Breynia 



7. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, not enlarged in fruit. 6. Fluggea 



5. Flowers in axillary or terminal spikes; fruit a small drupe, 



endocarp 1-celled 7. Antidesma 



5. Flowers in elongated racemes which are fascicled on the branches 

 below the leaves ; fruit a drupe, the endocarp 3- or 4-celled. 



8. Cicca 

 4. Leaves digitately compound, 3-foliolate; flowers panicled. 



9. Bischofia 

 1. Cells of the ovary 1-ovuled. 

 2. Petals present. 



3. Flowers in terminal or axillary cymes or panicles. 



4. Shrubs or suffrutescent herbs; monoecious 10. Jatropha 



4. Trees; dioecious 11. Aleuritea 



3. Flowers in axillary racemes. 



4. Glabrous; calyx-lobes imbricate.— 12. Codiaeum 



4. Stellate-tomentose ; calyx-lobes valvate 13. Sumbavia 



2. Petals wanting. 



3. Styles very long-flmbriate or lacerate; flowers in long spikes, the 



females often with numerous large bracts 14. Acalypha 



3. Styles not fimbriate. 



4. Leaves 3-foliolate - 15. Hevea 



4. Leaves simple. 



5. Stamens numerous. 

 6. Filaments free. 



7. Anthers 2-celled 16. Mallotus 



7. Anthers 3- or 4-celled 17. Macaranga 



6. Filaments variously united in bundles. 



7. Flowers in axillary spikes; leaVtes narrow, entire. 



18. Homonoia 

 7. Flowers in terminal panicles or racemes; leaves large, 



deeply palmately lobed., 19. Ricinua 



5. Stamens 10, in 2 rows; flowers racemose or paniculate; leaves 



deeply lobed 20. Manihot 



5. Stamens 8; flowers small; the males in dense spikes; leaves 



toothed 21. Alchomea 



5. Stamens 3; flowers small; leaves entire; shrubs with abundant 

 milky sap 22. Excoecaria 



1. EUPHORBIA Linnaeus 



Annual or perennial spreading or erect herbs or shrubs, with milky 

 juice, sometimes fleshy and cactus-like. Inflorescence of many male and 

 one female flower in a small, 4- or 5-lobed, turbinate or campanulate, 

 perianth-like involucre, the lobes with thick glands at the sinuses, the 

 glands often with a petal-like, spreading, white or colored limb, the involu- 

 cres fascicled or cymose. Male flower a pedicelled stamen without floral 

 envelopes. Female flowers a pedicejled, 3-celled, 3-ovuled ovary in the 

 center of the involucre, also without floral envelopes; styles 3, free or 

 united, simple or 2-fid. Capsule of 3, 2-valved, dehiscent cocci, separating 



