EUPHOEBIAOE^. 239 



flowers ^ at summit of brandies racemose or subumbellate, solitary in 

 axils of superior leaves or bracts ; inferior female, others male. 

 [Australia?') 



120? Lachnostylis Turcz.^ — Flowers (nearly of Andrachne or 

 Amanoa *) ; receptacle subplane or very shortly cupular. Sepals and 

 petals 5, imbricated. Disk extrastaminal. Stamens 5, alternating 

 with petals, verticillate, inserted below 3-fld rudiment of gynseceum 

 at summit of central column; anthers introrse, 2-rimose. German 

 3-locular ; cells 2-ovulate; obturator thick; style-branches 2-fid. 

 Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds . . . ? A densely ramified shrub ; leaves 

 alternate penninerved entire subcoriaceous minutely stipulate ; 

 flowers axillary ; male cymose ; female solitary,^ {South Africa.^) 



121, Payeria H. Bn.'' — Flowers dioecious ; male . . . ? Female 

 calyx gamophyllous campanulate, shortly 5-dentate, valvate (?). 

 Petals 5, alternating with teeth of calyx, shorter included squami- 

 form imbricated. Disk hypogynous evolute subcampanulate, entire 

 or unequally lobed, adpressed to germen. Germen ^ free ; cells 5, 

 2 -ovulate, ^ opposite teeth of calyx ; style erect subentire stigmatife- 

 rous at apex. Capsule 6-cocoous, lO-costate, surrounded by persistent 

 perianth and disk ; cocci 1-2-spermous ; radicle of albuminous curved 

 embryo conical superior. — Trees ; leaves alternate or opposite exstipu- 

 late(?) entire penninerved; female flowers in axillary racemes more 

 or less ramifled cymiferous. {Malaccassia, Mascarene Is}°) 



122. Oaletia H. Bn." — Flowers monoecious ; sepals 6, alternately 

 verticillate imbricated; the interior larger subpetaloid. Stamens 6, 

 2-seriate, opposite sepals, fllaments free inserted round rudiment of 



' Small white, sepals subpetaloid. * Agenusbettermadeaseotionof jiOTa»oa (?). 



2 Spec. 5, 6. Ad. Ba. in Voy. Cog. Sot. 218, t. « gpeo. l. i. Mrta M. Abg. — Z. capensis 

 50. — Kl. in Lehm. PI. Preiss. ii. 230. — Hheg. in Tuacz. — X. minor Sdnd. — Clutia hirta L. buppl. 

 Pot. Arch. t. 8. — SoND. in lAnncea, xxviii. 567. 432. — Vahl, Symh. ii. 101. — C. acuminata 

 — Benth. Fl. Austral, vi. 54. — H. Bn. in Adan- Thune. Prod/r. 63 ; Fl. Vap. ed. Son. 272. 

 sonia, vi. 331. '< In Adansonia,i. 50, t. 3. — M. Aeg. in Lin- 



3 In Bull. Mose. (1846), 503 ; in Flora (1848), naa, xxxiv. 65 ; Prodr. 226. 

 300 ; in Linncca, xxiii. 131.— Sond. in Zinntea, ' Nearly of Glochidion. 



xxiii. 131. — H. Bn. Ewphorb. 224. — ^M. Akg. " Ovula subhemitropous descendent. 



Prodr. i'Mi. 'o 2 8peciee,of wMolione (borbonioa) is distin- 



■* Especially allied to Stenonia ; receptacle the guished by the aureate hairs of germen. 



same; differs principally by aestivation of " -E««pAo?'4. 653, t. 26, fig. 1-18. .. . M. Aro. 



calyx. Prodr, 194, 



