216 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Germen sessile, 3-locular; ovules solitary; mioropyle extrorse supe- 

 rior obtected by ratber thick obturator ; style afterwards 3-partite ; 

 brancbes short, 3-lobed or sometimes 3-fld stigmatiferous at apex. 

 Capsule 3-coocous, 6-valved ; seeds albuminous ; micropyle arillate ; 

 cotyledons of cylindrical embryo narrow semi-terete and subequal to 

 radicle. — Undershrubs, usually spartoid; branches narrow com- 

 pressed ; leaves alternate, 2-stipulate, usually narrow subsessile ; 

 flowers ^ axillary ; female cymose or glomerulate, sometimes solitary ; 

 male contraoto-cymose. {Australia. ^) 



77 ? Calycopeplus Pl.^ — Flowers monoecious ; male naked, 1- 

 androus. Filament erect articulate at middle. Anthers 2-locular 2- 

 rimose, inserted at summit of attenuated filament ; clefts extrorsely 

 speetant Calyx of female flower 4- or oftener 6-lobed ; the 3 interior 

 lobes alternating with the exterior, imbricated. Germen sessile ; cells 

 3, opposite interior sepals, 1-ovulate ; style branches 3, stigmatiferous, 

 entire or 2-lobed. Capsules 3-coccous ; seeds glabrous, arillate at 

 micropyle ; embryo ? — Shrubs or undershrubs usually subaphyllous ; 

 juice milky ; twigs angular ; leaves opposite or verticillate ; stipules 

 lateral small; limb usually narrow usually 2, sometimes 3, 4-glandu- 

 liferous ; flowers terminal and axillary in cymes; female 1, central. 

 Male peripherical, inserted in axil of 3, 4 bracts, connate in involucre 

 at base alternate with the same number of cupular stipules, simple 

 or 2-plicate, cymose in the axil of each ; cymes sometimes small 

 generally 2-parous.* ( West Australia.^) 



78. Cnesmone Bl.®~ Flowers monoecious apetalous ; ''' male calyx 

 3-fld shortly subturbinate at base. Stamens 3, alternate, inserted 

 round germen rudimentary or subnil ; filaments free ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose ; connective long produced beyond cells. 



1 Minute, vires cent, more rarely tluiali or s 2, 3 species, of -wMcli 1 ia better known : 

 reddisli. C patwifolimn H. Bn. in Adamonia, vi. 319. — 



2 Spec. 5, 6, Ad. Bb. in Dupen: Voy. Coq. C. ephedroides Pl. loc. cit. 31. — Benth. Fl. 

 Bot. t. 49. — A.Rich. Voy. Astrol. Bot. 53, t. 20. — Austral, vi. 53. — Euphorbia paucifoUa Kl. in 

 SpbenO, Syst, iv. 109 {Leptotneria). — Kl. in Zehm. PI. Preiss. i. 174. — Boies. Prodr. 175; 

 Lehm. PI. Preiss. i. 176.— Benth. Fl. Austral. Euph. Ic. t. 120. — H. Bn. in Adamonia, i. 

 vi. 8. — H. Bn. in Adansonia, vi. 318. 291. 



3 In Bull. Soc. Bot. de Fr. viii. 30. " Fl. Jew. Prajat. vi.— Endl. Gen. u. 5783. 

 ■* A genus therefore allied to ^»8?!e/ea, thence — H. Bn. Fuphorb. 458, t. 4, fig. 14-17. — 



to the 3fo««<aa:J*«m, among the 2-0 vulate genera M. Aug. Prodr. 926. — Gnesmosa Bl. Bijdr. 



according to us much farther removed from 630. 



Euphorbia to which it has been united by other ^ The males very similar to Tragia, scarcely 



authors. distinct by the stamens. 



