EUPHORBtAOBM. 211 



{Claoxylon); leaves opposite {Linosostis) or alternate;^ stipules mem- 

 braneous or glandular, sometimes indurate and spinescent {Erythroc- 

 coca) ; flowers ^ axiUary or terminal, in simple or more or less rami- 

 fied-cymiferous or more usually glomeruliferous spikes.^ {All warm 

 and tern. reg. of the Old World.^) 



67. Tetrorchidium Poepp. and Endl.^ — Flowers dioecious, ape- 

 talous, 3-merous ; male sepals valvate or slightly imbricate. Sta- 

 mens 6,® in pairs opposite sepals ; filaments free short, inserted below 

 rudimentary gynseceum (sometimes wanting), each bearing at apex 

 4 discrete peltate finally ascendent cells, extrorsely rimose. Female 

 calyx imbricated. Germen 3-locular; 1 -ovulate, alternating with 

 sepals; style branches short thick subsessile, reflexo-adpressed at 

 summit of germen. Glands of disk 3, hypogynous linear subpeta- 

 loid, alternating with cells and sepals. Fruit capsular; columella 

 small very little or scarcely evolute ; cocci 3 or 2, 1 -spermous ; seeds 

 short foveolate submembraneous-arillate ; embryo albuminous. — Trees 

 and shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire or crenate ; petiole, patelliform- 

 glandUiferous on both sides below apex ; flowers in spikes or racemes, 

 female simple, male ramified-glomeruliferous ; bracts patelliform 

 2-glandular. {Trop. America Cont. and AntilV) 



68. Hasskarlia II. Bn.* — Flowers (nearly of Tetrorchidium) dioe- 

 cious; male calyx valvate. Germen cells opposite sepals (hence 

 alternating with glands of disk). Other characters as in Tetrorchi- 

 dium. — A shrub; leaves alternate stipulate subentire penninerved; 

 male flowers in spikes opposite leaves naked glomeruliferous, naked 

 at base; female in 1 or few flowered cymes, opposite leaves.® {Trop. 

 West. Africa}^) 



1 Like nearly the whole plant, dry, cserules- JV. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 386 {Claoxi/lon). — Hook. f. 

 cent. Some parts imbued with hlaoHsh juice. in Jowm. Lmn. Soc. vi. 20 (Claoxylon). — M. 



2 Usually very small virescent ; lutescent or Arg. in Linncea, xxxxv. 163; in. Fbra (1864), 

 more rarely purpurescent. 318, 436 j in Seem. Journ. i. 333 {Claoxi/lon). — 



' Sect, in gen. 7 (H. Bn.), scil. : 1. Zinozostis H. Bn. in Adaiisonia, i. 70 [Micrococca], 76, 125, 



(Endi,.); 2. Trismegista (Endl.) ; 3. Seidelia 279, 350; ii. 227(Ctooa:y?o«);iii. 158, 167;Ti.322. 



(H. Bn.); i. ParadenocKne (M. Abo. Prodr. ^Nov.Gen.etSpec.m.2Z,t.2'i,l.—S,isi>^.Oen. 



1141) ; 6. Claoxylon (A. Juss.) ; 6. Athromdra n. 5818 i.— H. Bn. Ewghorb. 439, t. 21, fig. 14- 



(HoOK. p.) ; 7. Erythrocoeca (Benth.). 18 ; in Adansonia, xi. 101. — Akq. Prodr. 1132 



* Spec, ad 56. L. Spec. 1036, ed. 3, 1391 {Tetrorchidion). 



(Trajia).— Thunb. Fl. Cap. (ed. Sch.), 546 « Or 3 ; anthers 4-oelled (Abg.). 



(^Aealypha). —Poiv.. Bid. vi. 204 {Aealypha) ; ? Spec, ad 3. H. Bn. in Aianamia, v. 225.— 



Suppl. i. 132 (il*?8fl).— Reiohe. Ic. Fl. Oerm. M. Abo. in Flora (1864), 638. 



fig. 4801-4804.— Gben. et Godr. Fl. de Fr. iii. "In Adansonia i. 62; xi. 101.— Arg. Prodr. 



98.— Goss. PI. Grit. eS.—SiBS. et ZvcG. Fl. Jap. 774. 



J'am.— Meissn. in Sook. Journ. (184.3), 557.— ' Agenua nearly allied to rriro)c;(««wn,differ- 



B. Mey. in Liinicca, iv. 237.— Sond. in Liuiicea, ing by oppositisepalous ovary cells and oppo- 



xxiii. 111.— Kcnze in Linncea, xx. 65; xxiv. aitifoUus inflorescence. 



162.— Boj. HorU Maur. 284 {Claosc4/lon).—Miii. i" Spec. 1. B. didymostemon H. Bn. loc. cit. 



