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surface usually lining their inner face. Ovules, 1 or 2 in each carpel, 

 pendulous from the inner angle of the cells, the funicle usually 

 thickened into a cellular mass often termed an oUurator. Fruit 

 either capsular, separating into as many 2-valyed cocci as carpels, 

 leaving a persistent axis, or more rarely succulent and indehiscent 

 with the endocarp, consisting of as many indehiscent nuts qy coccias 

 carpels or cells. Seeds laterally attached at or above the middle with 

 or without an arillus or caruncle, embyro straight, withilat cotyledons 

 and a superior radicle, in a fleshy albumen, or very rarely the cotyledons 

 fleshy, with little or no albumen. Trees, shrubs, or herbs, often 

 abounding in milky juice, exceedingly various in habits. Leaves 

 alternate or opposite, rarely divided or compound, usually with 

 stipules. Inflorescence very varied. Flowers usually small. 



Tribe 1. BtrPHOEBiEiE.— Involucre calyx-like, including several 

 male flowers, each of a single stamen without any perianth, and 

 1 central female one, a single pedicellate pistil without any or rarely 

 with a perianth, the whole . flower-head resembling a single flower. 

 Ovary 3-celled, 1 ovule in each. Capsule 3-eocei. Seeds albuminous, 

 ilmbryo with broad cotyledons and a narrow radicle. Examples: 

 Pedilanihus tithymaloides ; the Slipper-flower, JEupTiorlia, a common 

 fleshy-stemmed garden plant with red slipper-shaped flowers. (See 

 also any of the Utiphorhias, particularly H. {Foinsettid) pulcherrima.) 



Tribe 2. Stenoiobe^. — Plowers distinct, both sexes with a 

 perianth. Ovules 1 or 2 in each cell of the ovary. Embryo linear, 

 the cotyledons not at all or scarcely broader than the radicle. Shrubs 

 often heath-like, with entire coriaceous leaves, or rarely herbs with 

 small membranous leaves. Example : The little weed, Poranthera 

 micropJiylla, will be found always ready to hand. 



Tribe 3. BuxE^. — Flowers monoecious. Sepals imbricate or 

 none. Petals none. Stamens opposite the sepals, or numerous. 

 Female flowers 4 or 6. Ovary 2 or 3-celled, with two ovules in each. 

 Raphe of ovule dorsal. Style undivided. Cotyledons various. 

 Example : See the Garden Box, Buxus sempervirens. 



Tribe 4. PHTiiLANiHEiE. — Flowers distinct, both sexes with a 

 perianth. Embryo with broad cotyledons and a narrow radicle. 

 Trees, shrubs, herbs, or annuals, the flowers small in axillary clusters, 

 solitary, or in catkin-like spikes or racemes. Ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Examples : Take any of the numerous PTiyllanthus, or Petalostigma 

 quadriloculare, the Emu Apple or Bitter-bark ; native name, " Mun- 

 tenpin." 



Tribe 5. Galeame^. — Perianth double, of calyx and corolla. 

 Stamens 4 to 10 ; filaments free. Ovary 1 to 3-celled, with 1 ovule 

 in each. Fruit a small drupe. Probably no examples obtainable in 

 Queensland. 



Tribe 6. Ceotonk^. — ^^Flowers distinct, both sexes with a perianth, 

 sometimes minute in the males. Embryo with broad cotyledons, and 

 a narrow radicle. Ovules 1 in each cell. Flowers, at least males, in 

 spikes, racemes, or panicles. Stamens usually indefinite. Examples : 

 JatropJut, Oroton, Oodiceum (the Crotons of our gardens), Manihot, 

 and Ricinus communis, the Castor Oil plant. 



