E UPHOBBIA CE^. 255 



sepsis'^) or exarillate [Melanthesa^). — Shrubs or small trees ; alternate 

 leaves ^ and inflorescence of Phyllanthus. {Asia and trop. Oceania.*) 



148. Sauropus Bl.^ — Flowers (nearly of Breynia and Phyllanthus) 

 monoecious ; glands extrastaminal opposite sepals. Male calyx de- 

 pressed-turbinate ; disk adnate introrsely 6-lobed free. Fruit and 

 other characters of Phyllanthus ; seeds exarillate. — Shrubs or under- 

 shrubs ; leaves and inflorescence of Breynia (or Phyllanthus) ; flowers 

 axillary very shortly racemulose ; rachis of racemules generally 

 densely imbricate bracteolate. (Asia and trop. Oceania.^) 



149. Agyneia Vent.'^ — Flowers monoecious (nearly of Sauropus 

 or Phyllanthus) ; male calyx 6 -partite. Extrastaminal glands of adnate 

 extrorsely 6-liber-lobate male disk opposite sepals. Germen (of 

 Phyllanthus) usually depressed at apex. Fruit and other characters 

 of Phyllanthus ; seeds exarillate. — Herbs annual or suffrutescent at 

 base; habit and leaves of Phyllanthus ;^ branches procumbent or 

 ascendent compressed-angular or 3, 4-agonal ; flowers axUlary cymu- 

 lose sometimes, from the leaves being scarcely developed in slender 

 racemose-cymose branches; cymes in axils of bracts 1- or 2-sexual ; 

 female flowers usually few or 1, central ; others smaller, more slender 

 pedicellate male. ( Trop. Asia and Oceania, South Bast. Cont. and Ins. 

 Africa.^) 



■ M. Aro. in Linnaa. xxxii. 74 ; Frodr. 436. 1951, 1952.— Hassk. PI. Jm. Ear. 268.— Mia. 



2 Bl. Bijdr. 590.— Endl. &en. n. 5848.— H. M. Ind.-Bat. i. p. ii. 366, 367 {Jgymia). 



Bn. Buphorb. 634. ' Jard. de Cels, 23, t. 23. — ^A. Jess. Ihtphorb. 



' Dry, usually nigrescent. 24, t. 6, fig. 19. — Endl. Gen. n. 5843.— H. Bn. 



* Spec, atout 15. Pom. Diet. v. 296 ^PMjl- Eu^horb. 630, t. 24, fig. 10-14.— M. Aro. Trodr. 



— KuEZ, in Teyam. et Bmn. PI. Nov. 237.— Baker, Fl. Maurit, 312.— Siplomorpha 



Eort. Sog. 35 (Jf<?aMi!Aes«).— Bbnth. Fl. Songk. Gkipf. Notul. iv. 479. 



312 (Melanthesa) ; Fl. Austral, vi. 113.— Thw. " Of which it is much better made a section. 



Emm.. PI. Zeyl. 285 {Melanthesa). — H. Bn. in ' gpgg 2. L. Syst. ed. 13, 707 ; Sttppl. 415 



Adansonia, loc. cit. 346. {Phyllamthm). — Spreno. Syst. iii. 20 {Embliea). 



'^ Bijdr. 595.— Endi. Gen. n. 6842.— H. Bn. — W. Spec. iv. 568 (pait.).— Bl. Bijdr. 594.-- 



Euphorb. 634, t. 27, fig. 19-22.— M. Aru. Prodr. Wight, Icon. t. 1893.— Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. 



239, 1269.— Ceratogynum Wight, leoti. t. 1900. ii. 367.— Thw. Fnum. Fl. Zeyl. 283.— KuKZ in 



" Spec, ad 12. W. Spec. iv. 585 {Phyllanthus). Teysm. et Binn. Fl. Nov. Sort. Bog. 84. H. Bn. 



— Thw. Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 284. — Wight, loon. t. in Adansonia, ii. 54. 



