EUPHORBIACE^. 237 



Nanopetalum^ Cleistdnthus ^). Petals alternating with sepals, gene- 

 rally small short, often subrhomboid, variously 3-5-lobed, attenuated 

 at base, often subspathulate, usually not contiguous, more rarely im- 

 bricated. Disk subsimple or duplex, covering interior of receptacle, 

 outwardly more or less prominent-lobed between the petals, ascend- 

 ing within female flower generally high, more or less loosely en- 

 circling germen, finally persisting round the base of fruit, 3-angular 

 5-lobed or dentate. Stamens (in female flower rudimentary, sterile 

 or 0) equal in number to petals at summit of central of elongated 

 thin or more rarely thick short column, verticillate inserted 

 below rather long rudimentary gynseceum ; filaments free ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germen (in male flower rudimentary) 2-3- 

 locular; cells 2 -ovulate ; style branches 2, 3 stigmatiferous at 

 apex, 2-lobed or2-fid. Fruit 2-3-coccous, either capsular {Cleistan- 

 thm, Nanopetalum^ Lebidieropsis)^ sometimes outwardly more or less 

 fleshy, with difficulty or late dehiscing {Euamanoa\ or more rarely 

 fleshy or subbaccate, indehiscent [Bridelia). Seeds impressed at 

 hilum or not impressed, exalbuminous {Euamanoa, Nanopetalum), 

 or albuminous ( Cleistanthus, Bridelia, Lehidieropsis) exarillate ; cotyle- 

 dons of more or less evoluie embryo in exalbuminous seed thick 

 flat {Lehidieropsis)^ foliaceous-complanate, straight (Bridelia) or folded 

 ( Cleistanthus). — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate petiolate or sessile, 

 entire or dentate, glabrous or pilose, penninerved- veined, 2-stipulate ; 

 flowers in axils of leaves or sometimes evolute leaf-shaped bracts, 

 cymose or glomerulate, bracteate ; inflorescence simple or ramified, 

 sometimes spike-shaped or substrobiliform ; bracts and bractlets 

 imbricated^. {All trop. regions.''') 



118. Andrachne L. ^ — Flowers monoecious, sometimes apetalous 



1 Habsk. in Verh. Kan. Ac. Amst. iv. 140; in * Spec, about SO. L. Spee. 1476 {Clutia). — 



Sull. Soc. Bot. rfe Fr. vi. 716 ; in Sot. Zeit. EoxB. Fl. Coromand. ii. 37, t. 169, 170 ; iii. t. 



(1868), 803; inFlora (1857), 5Zi ; Betzia, 66.— 171-173 (Clutia).— Bi,. mjdr. 697 (Bridelia).— 



M. Aro. Frodr. 510. Pl. in Sook.Icon. t. 797.— WianT, icom. t. 1911. 



- Hook. r. in Hook. Icon. t. 779.—Cande- — Beiitol. p. Mosamb. 4, 16, t. 6. — M. Abg. in 



labria Pl. in Ann. Sc. Nat. sir. 4, ii. 264 (nee Seem. Journ. i. 327 ; ia Fhra (1864), 616 (Brie- 



HocHST.). — Lebidiera H. Bn. Enphorh. Atl. 60, deUa). — Thw. '.JSnimt. Fl. Zeyl. 274 [Briedelia), 



t. 27, fig. 1-4. — Leiopgxis Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. 280.— Bbnth. Fl. Austral, vi. 119 



Suppl. 446~. 121 (Cleistanthus). — H. Bn. in Adansonia, i. 79 ; 



» Sect. 7 : 1. Fmmanoa (H. Bn.) ; 2. Fenta- ii. 36, 37 {Briedelia), 229 (Briedelia) ; iii. 164 



brachium (M. Arg.) ; 3. Stenonia (H. Bn.) ; (Briedelia); vi. 346;vi. 336. 



4. Nanopetalum (Hassk.) ; 6. Candelabria ' Oen. n. 709. — J. Oen. 387. — GriERTN. Fruct. 



(HocHST.) ; 6. Lebidieropsis (M. Arg-) ; 7. Bri- ii. 124, t. 108. — Lamk. Diet. i. 162 ; Suppl. i. 



deliaCW.). 348;/?/. t. 797.— A. Juss. Evphorb. 2i,t. 6, 



