EUPHORBIACE^. 203 



nate ; inflorescence nearly (longer and more slender) of Bernardia} 

 {Trop. South America.^) 



51. Acidoton Sw.^ — Mowers monoecions apetalous ; male sepals 

 3-5-valvate. Stamens co , the elongated-conical tMok receptacle 

 dilated externally in a spurious-alreolate disk between the filaments 

 at the base ; filaments, etc, free ; anthers extrorse, shortly apiculate ; 

 cells discrete at base, rimose. Female calyx 4-5-partite ; lobes val- 

 vate or subimbricate, scarcely or not contiguous. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary ; style erect rather thick, divided at apex into 3 

 branches simple, erect-patulous, stigmatiferous within. Fruit 

 capsular ; seeds exarillate. — A shrub glabrous or more or less sprinkled 

 with pellucid stinging hairs ; leaves alternate petiolate, stipulate, 

 simple, entire or paucidentate penninerved veined ; flowers spicate- 

 racemose ; racemes 1-sexual ; male axUlary few-flowered ; the female 

 longer, axillary and terminal, naked at base.^ (Jamaica.^) 



52. Cleidion Bl. ^ — Flowers monoecious or dioecious apetalous ; 

 male calyx valvate. Stamens co , inserted on conical or hemispherical 

 receptacle, alternate verticillate and in vertical distinct series ; fila- 

 ments free ; anthers seriato-imbricate compressed inserted at summit 

 of subulate peltate filaments or slightly above the base ; connective 

 (coloured) peltiform, bearing at the margin 4 small cells, afterwards 

 subcruciate confluent-rimose, muticous or apiculate above. Female 

 sepals 8-5, imbricated or 4, decussate-imbricate, Germen -free, 

 sometimes surrounded by hypogynous disk {'Discocleidion') ; cells 

 3 {Redia^) or more rarely 2 {Lasiostyles^), opposite exterior sepals, 1- 

 ovulate ; style branches 2, 3, linear-elongate, more or less deeply 

 2-fid, densely papillose stigmatiferous within. Capsule 2-3-cocoous ; 



1 A genus imperfectly known to ue, formerly t. 83, fig. 1. 

 regarded as a section of Bernardia (M. Akg. in « BijOr. 612.— Endl. Qm. n. 5795.— H. Bn. 



Linniea, xxxiv. 172). Male flower nearly of .BjjpAorJ. 404, t. 9, fig. 3-5. — M. Arg. in iw«eB« 



Tragia. xxxiv. 183 ; Prodr. 983 (incl. ; Lasiostyles Presl, 



' Spec, ad 2. Ki. in Rook. Land. Journ. ii. Fsilostachys Titkoz. Media Casar.). 

 (1843), 46 (2Vffl<?w).— M. Abq. Prodr. 918 (JBer- ? M. Arg. in Flora (1864), iSl; Prodr. 984, 



nardia). sect 1. 



3 JProdr. 83; Fl. Ind. Oec. ii, 962, t. 18.— ^ Casar. Stirp. Bras. Dec. vi. 61. — Endl. 



A. Jnas. Fuphori. 32.— Endl. &en. n. 6822.— Gen. Suppl. v. 89.— H. Bn. Muphorb. 407, t. 21, 



H. Bn. Ftiphorb. 401, t. 18, fig. 10, 11. — M. fig. 1, 2.—Psiloatachys Turoz. ia Bull. Sjc. 



Arg. Prodr. 914. Mosc. (1843). 681, in Flora (1844), 121. 



•• A genus allied to Bernardia, differing by « Presl Bot. Bern. 159. —Endl. Oen. n. 



styles not discrete at 'base. 67951. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 653. — Emleidion 



5 Spec. I. A. wrens %w. loc. cit. — GtBIseb. JV. M. Arg. in Linnea, xxxiv. 184; Prodr. 987 



Brit. W.-Ind.i6; Cat. Pl.Cub. 18. — A.imnocuus sect 3. 

 H. Bn. op. cit. 402. — Urtica, Sloan. Jam i. 126; 



