EUPHORBIAOEJE. 209 



subpeltatft at back. Cells 3 [Pachysfemon ^) or constantly 4 {Eumaca- 

 ranga^ Mappa^), sometimes anthers heteromorphous, partly 3 or 4 

 [Dimorphanthera *) ; valves in dehiscence extrorse same in number 

 (3 or 4). Female calyx imbricate. Germen free ; cells 1 {Eumaca- 

 ranga), 2 {Mappa) or partly 2, 3 [Dimorphanthera), sometimes 4-6 

 (Pachystemon) ; 1 ovule in each, descendent ; more or less anatro- 

 pous ; micropyle extrorse superior ; obturator generally small ; the 

 more or less lateral branches of central or excentric style equal in 

 number to cells {Eumacaranga) inwardly and at apex laterally stig- 

 matiferous. Fruit capsular, 1-6-coccous; cocci dehiscent or indihes- 

 cent, outwardly unarmed or more or less aculeate, often (as several 

 parts of the plant) sprinkled with granular punctiform, red, yellow, 

 or ferruginous glands. Seed usually incompletely anatropous, pla- 

 centas laterally adnate to elongate linear hilum, exarillate ; the folia- 

 ceous cotyledons of albuminous embryo much longer and wider than 

 radicle. — Trees or shrubs; leaves usually alternate petiolate; sti- 

 pules lateral, sometimes large foliaceous or membraneous ; limb en- 

 tire or lobed, penninerved or at base palmatinerved reticulate- 

 veined ; flowers (male) minute glomerulate or eymose in subsimple or 

 more or less ramified axUlary racemes, iuvolucrate with small or 

 sometimes large foliaceous bracts. [All Trap. Regions of the Old 

 World ^). 



65. Dysopsis H. Bn.^— Flowers monoecious apetalous; male 

 calyx valvate 3-fid. Stamens 3 or oftener 6, 2-seriate inserted on 

 short receptacle; filaments central, connate at base; anthers in- 

 trorse or in smaller stamens ^ sublateral ; cells divergent below and 

 free at middle between themselves. Female flowers (nearly of Mer- 



' Bl. Bijilr. 626. — Endl. Qm. n. 6778. — H. in linntsa, xxviii. 311 (JRottlera). — Ebinw. Cat. 



Bn. Euphorb. 551, t. 20, fig. 38-41. — M. Akg. Bog. 108 (^Ricinus). — Zoll. in Linnaa, xxix. 



mMem. Gen. xvii. p. ii. 454. 464 (Adisea), 465 {Mappa). — Hassk. Sort. Bog. 



2 M. Ab&. Prodr. 1008, sect. 4. — Maoaranga 238 {Sottlera). — Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 

 Dup.-TH.foc.C8i. — i'a«%)MNoH.MSS.(exDup.- 403 ; Suppl. Sttmat. 456 (Mappa). — Thw. -E»«)«. 

 Is. loc. eit ). — Bniea G/lVBICB. in Freyein.Yoy. PI. Zeyl. 273 (Sottlera). — M. Arg. in Limtsa, 

 Bot.5ll.^U. Bn. in Adanaonia, vii. 96.— Me- xxxiv. 197; in Mora (1864), 466; in Seem. 

 vostglisKvBZ,in.T(t/sm. et Binn. JPl. Nov. Sort. Journ. of Bot. i. 337 ( Jf (<?;)«).— Benth. Fl. 

 2og. 30. Austral, vi. 144.— H. Bn. in Sortie. Franc, xt. 



3 A. Juss. Euphorb. 44, t. 14, fig. 44.— Endl. 234; in Adansonia, i. 69, 260, 349 (Mappa) ; 

 <?«». n. 5788.— H. Bn. £»pAo?-J. 428, t. 20, fig. ii. 223 (Mappa) ; iii. 155 (Mappa); vi. 316 

 1-7. (Mappa). 



* M. Arg. Prodr. 990, sect. 2. ^ Euphorb. 435 ; in Adansonia, xi. 128. — M. 



5 Spec, ad 80. L. Spec. ed. 2, 1430 {JRicinus). Aug. Prodr. 94,9.— Molina G. Gat, Fl. Chil. v. 



—W. Spec.iY. 526 (Acak/pha).—BoTa. Fl. Ind. 345, t. 61 (not Pav. nor Less, nor Cav.).— 



iii. 690 (Bieinus). — Bl. Bijdr. 2iS (Zanthoxglon). Mirabellia Beht. MSS. 



-Blanco, Fl. de Filip. ed. 2, 517 (Croton).— 7 Exterior. 

 Wight, 7co». t. 1883, 1949.— Beichb. et Zoll, 



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