EUPHOBBIAQB^. 193 



3-coccous ; seeds descendent arillate at micropyle ; albumen copious ; 

 cotyledons of straight embryo scarcely or not at all wider than long 

 cylindrical radicle, semi- terete or sligMly complanate. — Shrubs or 

 undershrubs often viscous; leaves alternate narrow entire coria- 

 ceous exstipulate, articulate at base ; flowers axiUary solitary or 

 scantily cymose. {Justralia.^) 



30. Alphandia H. Bn.^ — Flowers monceeious (nearly of CodicEum); 

 calyx gamophyllous, variously 5-dentate, valvate. Petals 6, imbri- 

 cate. Glands of disk 5, alternipetalous membranous, free or connate 

 in short ring. Stamens oo (of Codiceum) ; filaments shortly geniculate- 

 recurved ; an]thers small extrorse ; cells discrete above but adnata 

 to the connective below. Female calyx gamophyllous, valvate, 5- 

 dentate or unequally torn. Petals 6, larger rather thick imbricated, 

 finally recurved. Hypogynous glands of disk 5, sometimes very 

 small. Germen of Codiceum', style afterwards 3 -fid, branches 2 -fid. 

 Capsule elastically 3-coccous, cocci at back vertically 2-carinate-cos- 

 tate; seeds terete,^ oonoid-arillate at apex; cotyledons of copiously 

 albuminous embryo elliptical foliaceous much wider than terete 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs scantily furfuraceous or luteo-resinous 

 punctuate ; leaves alternate petiolate exstipulate entire penniuerved 

 reticulate ; flowers in terminal racemes or axillary to upper leaf ; the 

 lower flowers of the racemes female, others male ; bracts of inflo- 

 rescence 1-flowered or cymose-pluriflorous.* {ISew Caledonia^) 



31 ? Cocconerion H, Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious ; male ? . . . Female 

 calyx 5-merous ; sepals oblong, coriaceous, valvate. Petals and 

 disk 0. Germen sessile, 2- or oftener 3-locular; ovules solitary; 

 micropyle extrorse superior protected by obturator ; style afterwards 

 2-3 -branched ; branches 2 or 3 stigmatiferous, 2 -fid at apex. Capsule 

 furnished at base with calyx, 2-3-coccous; seeds glabrous; micro- 

 pyle arillate ; cotyledons of copious oleose-albuminous embryo many 

 times wider than radicle. — Trees or shrubs branches nodose ; leaves 

 verticillate(6-10-nate) shortly petiolate or subsessile, elongate-lanceo- 



1 Spec, ad 12. Labill. PI. Noim.Soll. ii. ' Nigrescent-spotted. 



72, t. 222 {GrotorC). — DO. Syst. Veg. i. 444; * A genus, having muoli affinity with. C?o<?j««WM, 



Prodr. i. 71 (Hemistemma). — Sond. in Zinncea, sect. Steigeria, differs particularly in aspect and 



xxviii. S04. — Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 388. — Benth. by gamophyllous valvate calyx not imbricate. 



Fl. Austral, vi. 63.— P. Mueli. in Trans. Phil. ^ Spec. 2. H. Bn. loc. cit. 86. 



See. Vict. i. 16. — H. Bn. in Adcmsmia, vi. 304. ' In Adanamia, sd. 87. 



' In Adamsonia, xi, 86» . . . 



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