EUPHORBIAOE^. 215 



exserted introrse ; cells pendulous, saccate dilated below, shortly 

 acuminate at apex. Disk perigynous annular. Female calyx 5-6- 

 partite, imbricated. Germen 3-locular ; cells 1-ovulate ; style . . . ?" 

 Fruit' subligneous, indebisoent (?), albumen of thick seed oily (sapid); 

 cotyledons of foliaceous embryo large. — A tree ; wood bard ; juice 

 watery ; leaves alternate large entire penninerved ; stipules lanceolate 

 entire ; flowers terminal spicate ; male spikes ramified subpyramidal ; 

 female simple bracteate ; female pedicels finally thick short. {N. 

 Granada. **) 



75. Platygyne Merc.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; male 

 calyx 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens subdefixute in number, usually 

 5-8 ; filaments free erect, inserted above the base of truncate- 

 excavate and rufescent-strigose receptacle, slightly recurved at 

 apex ; anthers adnate extrorse ; cells at base and apex discrete rimose. 

 Female calyx unequally 5-7-phyllous ; leaves imbricated or sub- 

 valvate. Germen 3 -loeular ; cells 1-ovulate; style larger than ger- 

 men erect-3-lobed from obconical base ; lobes thick inwardly 

 subangular-compressed, emarginate-2-lobed at apex, much lacerate- 

 papillose within. Capsule 3 -coccous; seeds exarUlate albuminous. — A 

 volubile shrub, sprinkled with more or less urent rufescent hairs ; stem 

 sympodiale ; leaves alternate penninerved dentate petiolate, rigidly 

 stipulate ; flowers terminating short oppositifoUous or lateral twigs, 

 usually oligophyllous ; male racemose ; female subspicate. ( Cula. *) 



76. Amperea A. Jtjss.^ — Flowers usually dioecious or more rarely 

 monoecious, apetalous, 3-5-merous. Male-sepals free or slightly 

 connate at base, valvate. Disk membraneous; glands lanceolate 

 membraneous 4, 5 (Euamperea^), or more rarely (Monotaxidium''). 

 Stamens central twice as numerous as the sepals, 2 -seriate ; filaments 

 free or connate at base erect ; anther cells sacciform pendulous from 

 connective glandular-incrassate or cristate in bud; the oppositi- 

 sepalous longer, extrorsely rimose ; the alternisepalous shorter 

 introrse. Female calyx 5-merous ; leaves free or subfree imbricated. 



1 The shapeless nut of /«ytorf ovoid-globose appropriate, the flower heing rarely 6-aiidrous). 

 smooth, shortly apiculate. —Tragia hexandra 3 kco.. ^mer. 245,t. 173, fig. 



2 Spec. 1. C. orinocensc Kabst. loe. cit. 63. — T. pruriena W. (ex. Ki. in Endl. Qen, loc. 

 - In Ser. Bull. Bot. i. 167. — H. B^ . Euphorb. cit.). 



453, t. 4, fig. 18-22.— M. Aeg. Prodr. 913.— » Euphori. 36, t. 10, fig. 22.— Endl. Gen. 



Aemthocaulon Kl. in Endl. Gen. Suppl. T. n. 5813. — H. Bn. Ewphorh. 464, 1. 14, fig. 1-9. — 



88 n. 67841. M. Asa. Pradr. 214. 



* Spec. 1. P. pruriena. — P. wrens Meec. loc. « M. Aeq. loc. cit, 214, sect. 2. 



cit. P. hexandra M. Aug. (a name scarcely ' M. Ak&. Uc. cit. 213, sect. 1. 



