E UPEORBIA GE^. 



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while wten cultivated with us it presents all th.e characters of a tall 

 annual herb with fistulous glabrous stem. At each node an alter- 

 nate long petiolate leaf is inserted, peltate or not, palmatinerved or 

 palmatilobed. The lobes are from five to eleven in number, dentate. 



Micimis communis. 



Fig. 154. Male 

 flower. 



Fig. 157. Female flower. Fig. 155. Expanded 

 male flower. 



Fig. 156. Bundle Fig. 158. Long. sect, of 

 of stamens. female flower (|). 



Fig 159. Fruit. 



Fig. 160. Seed. 



Fig. 161. Long, 

 sect, of seed. 



Fig. 162. Emtryo (f). 



often glanduliferous, like the petiole. At the base of the petiole are 

 found two lateral stipules, generally united in one membranous 

 caducous sac, enveloping the young leaves at first. The inflo- 

 rescence is terminal or oppositifoliate, in racemes of multiflowered 

 cymes alternate and situated in the axils of bracts furnished with 

 stipular lateral glands. The inferior cymes are normally male, 

 and the superior female,^ with sometimes mixed cymes between the 

 two, in which the female flower is central. The pedicels are 

 articulate. 



BuKM. — JR.spectabilis'BL. — M.ttimsensis'D:EaF. — 'This tecomes aooidently hermaphrodite 



S. undulatiis Bess.— iJ. viridis W.— iJ. vulgaris (see H. Bn. in Adansonia, v. 65) like those of 



Moms. — Catajmntia major LuDW. — ? Croton many Euphorbiacese. 

 spinosua L. Spec. 1005, 



