EUPHOBBIAOEM. 201 



sepals generally 5, imbricate. Stamens oo / inserted on convex re- 

 ceptacle ; filaments erect ; anthers introrse apicnlate, 2-rimose. Disk 

 glandular, exterior to androcenm, outwardly hirsute. Germen 

 rudimentary central, 2-3 -fid at apex, sometimes obsolete. Female 

 calyx 5 or more rarely 5-6-merous. Disk shortly urceolate, often 

 inwardly with co unequal stipitate staminodes. Germen 2-4-locular ; 

 ovule solitary obturated ; style afterwards 2-4-lobed ; lobes thick 

 (coloured), stigmatiferous 2-fid. Fruit 2-4-ooccous subdrupaceous ; 

 seeds pulpose-arillate. — A tall tree ; leaves alternate, sometimes at 

 apex falsely verticillate long petiolate, 2 -stipulate, above the base 2- 

 glandular, entire penninerved ; flowers in axillary or superaxillary 

 ramified -cymiferous corymbiform clusters; the female few central 

 larger. {Java, Malacca?) 



47 ? Acidocroton Griseb. * — Flowers monoecious, 5-6-merous; 

 sepals imbricate. Petals contorted, rudimentary in female flower. 

 Stamens ^ ,* free, inserted on eglandular slightly elevated receptacle 

 (the apex being nearly where the rudimentary vestige of germen 

 terminates) ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose ; connective caudate ; cells 

 adnate. Germen 3-5-locular; style afterwards divided into 3-5 

 branches, fleshy -petaloid, canaliculate within, 2-fid ; ovule solitary in 

 cell. Capsule 3-5-coceous ; seeds oblong-ovoid arillate at micropyle. 

 — A diflFuse shrub ; ^ leaves alternate small crowded ; stipules 3, 

 lateral elongate, spinescent ; flowers in unisexual branches terminal 

 to pulviniform twigs, solitary or few cymose pedicellate, ( Cuha.^) 



48. Biciuella M. Aeg. '' — Flowers dioecious apetalous, 5-merous ; 

 calyx valvate. Disk adnate to calyx more or less perigynous ; lobes 

 opposite sepals. Stamens oo (8-15), central free or 1-adelphous at 

 base ; anthers 2-loeular, long affixed at middle, externally 2-rimose ; 

 connective narrow not produced. Germen rudimentary minute or 0, 

 in female flower 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style short central, scarcely 

 divided into 3 branches, internally papillose-laeiniate. Capsule 3-coc- 

 cous ; seeds smooth subglobose exarillate ; cotyledons foliaceous wider 



* Sometiines sub-definite 10-15, of which 5 are ■• Exterior altemipetalous. 



altemisepalous, shorter ; same number opposite ° Aspect of SecMnwe^ffi spinescent. 



longer. 6 Spec. 1. A. adelioides Gbiseb. loe. eii. — A. 



2 Spec. 1. H. Tapos Bl, loe. c»V.— Miq. Fl. Aeidoton L. (ex. M. Akg. Prodr. 924). 

 7«rf,-5«<. i. p. ii. 412 ; Suppl. 460. 'In Linnaa, xxxiv. 153; Frodr. 729. — 



3 Fl. Brit. W.-Ind. 42.— M. Abo. Frodr. Adelia L. Gen. n. 1137 (part.) .— Endl. Oen. u. 

 1042. 6826 (part.).— H. Bn. Euphorb. 417 (part.). 



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