EUPHOEBIACE^. 217 



articulate and genuflexo-ineurved. Female calyx 3-merous, imbri- 

 cated. Germen 3-locular ; cells oppositipetalous, 1 -ovulate; style 

 soon divided into 3 branches very thick simple, 3-agonal dorsally 

 carinate inwardly 2 -seriate thickly denticulate, suberect and eonni- 

 vent in much, thicker germen mass. Capsule 3-ooccous ; seeds sub- 

 globose lacerate-arillate. — A scandent subtomentose shrub ; leaves 

 alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate simple denticulate ; flowers racemose ; 

 the female 1 or few inferior subsessile ; others male longer pedicel- 

 late. {Eastern India, Java}) 



79. Tragia Plum.^ — Flowers monoecious or rarely dioecious apeta- 

 lous ; male calyx usually 3-partite, more rarely 4-5-partite, valvate. 

 Stamens inserted round 3-agonal rudiment of gynseceum or central 

 {Jgirta ^), usually 3, alternating with the sepals or more rarely 1, 

 2 sometimes, very rarely 6, 2-seriate {Adenotragia'^), 4-8 {Leucandra% 

 or 8-16—20 (Bia^) ; filaments free or partly 2-nate connate (Leucandra), 

 sometimes 1-adelphous at base {Leptobdtrys,'' Lassia ^), not incrassate- 

 glandular at base or sometimes incrassate [Ratiga ^) ; glands of recep- 

 tacle 0, or equal in number to the stamens and alternating with 

 them, free or more or less connate with base of filaments,- some 5-10, 

 subcylindrieal or 2-lobed (Bia), more rarely all coalescing in short 

 thick cupule. Anthers dorsifixed, usually short ; cells subspherical 

 or ovoid, introrsely, laterally or extrorsely rimose, sometimes sessile 

 and horizontally rimose at summit of column dilatated- 3 -angular 

 (Lassia). Female calyx 3-8-partite, imbricate or rarely subvalvate. 

 Germen 3- or rarely 5-locular ; ^° cells 1 -ovulate; style branches 3 

 or rarely 6, simple, inwardly stigmatiferous. Fruit capsular, gene- 

 rally furnished with ample urent-setose calyx ; cells usually 3 ; 

 seeds subglobose exarillate. — Herbs undershrubs or shrubs, some- 



> Spec. 1. O. javanloa Bl. Bijdr. — Tragia ' Kl. in Eriehs. Arch. (1841), 188. — Endl. 



maeropJiylla Wall. Cat. u. 7793 B. — T. mgosa Gm. Suppl. ii. 88. — H. Bn. Euphorb. 477, t. 4, 



Wall. Gat. n. 7794 B. — T. hastata Eeinw. in fig. 6-9. — M. Abg. in Linnaa, xxxiv. 180 ; 



Sassk Fl.'Mar. 245. Prodr. 929, sect. 4. 



3. Om. 14 ; Icon. t. 252.— L. Gen. n. 1048.— « Kl. loe. eit. 189.— Endl. loc. cit. 89.— H. 



J. Qen, 390 (part.).— Lamk. III. t. 764.— Pom. Bn. Eiiphorb. 601.— M. Arq. ProOr. 928, sect. 2. 



Diet. vii. 722; Suppl. v. 328.— Endl; Gen. n. ' H. Bn. Mphorb. 478, t. 2, fig. 17, 18.— M. 



5782 (part.).— A. Jues. Euphorb. 47 (part.),.t. Akg. Frodr. 946, sect. 10. 



45, fig. 49 A.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 459.— M. Akg. ^ h. Bn. Euphorb. 464, t. 4, fig. 23-28.— M. 



Prodr. 927.— Schorigeram Adans. Earn, des PI. Arg. Prodr. 931, sect. 6 (Androceum as in 



ii. 356 (iucl. : Agirta'S. Bn. Bia Kl. Lassia some apeo. oi Phyllanthus). 



B..Bn. Zeptobotri/sB..'Bs. ZeuoandraKi,.). ' M. Arg. in Linniea, xxxiv. 181; Prodr. 



" H. Bn. Euphorb. 463.— M. Akg. Prodr. 946, 931, sect. 6. 



sect. 9. 1" Cells to te observed in calyx beyond 3-par- 



* M. Arq. in Linnasa, xxxiv. 179, sect 3. tite exterior opposite sepals. 



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