EUPHORBIAOJS/jE. 183 



10. Fausandra Eadlk.' — Flowers dioecious, 3-5-merous ; calyx 

 lobed, imbricated. Petals 3-5, contorted or imbricated. Stamens 

 few (4-8), inserted round more or less conspicuous central concavity 

 of receptacle, clotbed with, glandular sometimes inwardly undulate- 

 cristate disk, tbe exterior 3-5 opposite petals. The interior 1-4, 

 alternating with the preceding ; filaments all free, finally subex- 

 serted ; anthers 2-locular sub-4-locellate, introrsely rimose, Kudi- 

 ment of gynseceum 0. Perianth of female flowers as in male . . . ? 

 Germen 3-loeular ; cells 1-ovulate. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds 

 glabrous ; ^ micropyle extrorse arillate. — Small trees glabrous or 

 villulose; leaves alternate elongated-oblong subentire or dentate 

 penninerved petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers in simple axillary spikes 

 simple or few times ramified glomeruliferous.^ {Trop. South Jmerica.*) 



11. Monotaxis An. Be.^ — Flowers monoecious or more rarely 

 dioecious ; male 4-5-merous ; sepals valvate or scarcely imbricated 

 (Limdion), * sometimes oftener scarcely contiguous, subvalvate, or 

 more or less closely quincuncially-imbricated {Reissipa).'^ Petals 

 same in number alternate ; leaf more or less hastate-2 -lobed and 

 imbricated, or more rarely contorted. Stamens 8-10, 2-seriate ; 

 filaments free or connate at base, anthers 2-locular, extrorse or sub- 

 introrse ; cells discrete from apex of connective transversely 

 pendulous 2-armed, rimose. Glands 5, alternating with exterior 

 stamens. Female calyx 4, 6-merous. Petals simple {Eeissipa), or 

 more rarely 0. Glands hypogynous 3, 6, sometimes 2-lobed. 

 Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style nearly to base B-partite ; 

 branches more or less high 2-fid; lobes stigmatiferous at apex, 

 variously lacinate. Capsule 3-ooccous ; seeds arillate from exostome ; 

 embryo aibuminous, thin, subcylindrical.-r-Small undershrubs ; leaves 

 alternate, opposite or ternate, subulate-stipulate, shortly petiolate, 

 linear or lanceolate, entire recurved or revolute at margin, muticous or 

 apiculate ; flowers cymulose terminal (Lmidion), or terminal but with 

 lateral habit [Reissipa], and surrounded at base with younger lateral 

 branches. (Jmtralia.^) 



1 In Flora (1870), 81, t. 2.— R.Bn. in Admt-J Gen.n. 5833.— H. Bn. JBuphorbiac. 307, t. 16, 



sonia, xi. 91. flg- 22-25.— M. Akq. Frodr. 212. 



» t)usky-spotted. * H, Bn. in Adansmiia, vi. 291. 



3 Proximate to Tournesolia sect. Argy- ' Stevd. ex KL.in Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii. 230.— 



thamnia. Bippoorepandra M. Aug. in Zimtoea, xxxiv. 61 ; 



* Spec. 2, 3. Oasar. iV<w. Stirp. Bras. Dec. Prodr. 207. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 292. 



75._Wai.p. Eep. v. 365 {Thouinia). " Spec, atout 7. Endl. JEmim. PI. Btteg. 19. 



» In Pitperr. Voy. Coq. Pot. t. 49 B ; in Ami. — Nees in PI. Preiss. ii. 230.— H. Bn. in Adan- 



Se. Nat. ser. i, xxix. 386.— Enpl. Atakt. 8, t. 8 ; soma, vi. loo. cit. 



