masskanbi. | EUPH. ACALYPHE/E (avcr. MULLER) — 775 
nuda, circ. 15-2 cm. longae, 3 mm. late, pallide vitellino-lutescentes. Flores 
masc. sessiles, fceminei pedicello calycem demum pluries aquante valido 
prediti. Calycis utriusque sexus lacinize late triangulari-ovatee, acutze, exiguze, 
fceminei herbacec, masculi membranaces, subpetaloidez. Disci hypogyni 
glandule ovata, laminares, virides, calyce paulo breviores. Antherze crasse. 
Ovarium glabrum. Fructus 6 mm. longi. Semina 4 mm, longa, 25 mm. lata, 
oblongo-ovoidea, utriusque subacuta, asperrima, pallida. — Folia speciminum 
fructigerorum accrescentia Tabernemontanas grandifolias Americe cequato- 
rialis simulant. (v. s.) 
LXXXIX. CLAOXYLON Müll. Arg. in Linnza, v. 35. p. 163. — Claoxylon Adr. 
Juss. Tent. Euphorb. p. A3. t. 14. fig. 43.— Erythrochilus Reinw. ap. Blume 
Biüjdr. p. 615. — Athroandra Hook. f. in Journ. of the Proceed. of the Linn. 
Soc. vol. 6. p. 21. — Micrococca Benth. in Hook. Niger Flora p. 503. — 
Mercurialis Baill. Etud. gén. Euphorb. p. 490 pr. p. et Rec. d'obs. bot. vol. 3. 
p. 115 pr. p. 
Calyx masc. valvaris. Petala utriusque sexus 0. Disci hypogyni glan- 
dulz evoluta, cum laciniis calycis et carpidiis (si isomera) alternantes. 
Stamina in receptaculo elevato centralia; antheree birimosze, loculi basi 
fixi, erecti, preter basin inter se liberi. Rudimentum ovarii 0. Ovarii 
loculi 1-ovulati, laciniis calycis oppositi v. iis pauciores, unus posterior. 
Fructus capsularis. Semina ecarunculata. — Frutices et arbores v. ra- 
rius herbz orbis antiqui, presertim in insulis sundaicis, Oceani Pacifici, 
masearenis, in Madagasearia et in Africa occidentali calidiore erescen- 
tes. Folia alterna, stipulata, petiolata, penninervia, sepe purpurascentia 
v. subviolaceo-rubentia, basi supra plus minusve distincte denticuli- 
formi-2-4-stipellata, subtus nunquam maculato-glandulosa. Flores dioici 
v.casu monoici, raro normaliter monoici, parvi, in racemos axillares 
simplices fasciculigeros v. glomeruligeros dispositi. Calyx masc. 8-v. 
rarius &-partitus, feemineus 3-2-partitus. Disci hypogyni glandule vulgo 
inter se libere, florum masculorum varie, nune totum receptaculum 
legentes, inter bases filamentorum disperse, nune circa receptaculum 
in discum coalitee, nunc utroque modo. simul in floribus evolutze. Sta- 
mina 200-6; filamenta libera, brevia; antherz nune introrsum nune ex- 
irorsum aperientes. Ovarium 3-2-loculare, loculus unus primum dis- 
tinete anterior, in pedicellis dein plus minusve tortis quoad situm vix 
certe observandus. Styli loculis ovarii isomeri, simplices, breviusculi, 
patuli, intus grosse papilloso-stigmatosi, rarius sublzves. Capsula 3-2- 
€0coz2, 3-2-spermz. Semina epidermide mox plus minusve relaxata, seepe 
puniceo-colorata, involuta, globosa; testa foveolato-depressa, nunc scro- 
bieulato-aspera. — Genus antherarum structura ei Mercurialis et Aca- 
lypha plane opposita insignitum. Species nonnulle iis Malloti primo 
intuitu satis similes sed defectu giandularum hypophyllarum et dein 
certe loculis antherarum liberis supra basin nonnihil divergentibus ana- 
lysi subjectz statim discernuntur. — Cum ipso genere Mercuriali hoc 
genus et Erythrococcam aliaque subsimilia capensia Hippomanearum 
coacervavit cl. Baillon Rec. d'obs. bot. vol. 3. p. 175. — Obs. Glandulz 
florum masc. hujus generis non nisi gravissima lente observari possunt. 
Sect. I. ADnENOCLAOXYLON JMüll. Arg. in Flora vatisb. 1865. p. 536. 
Receptaculum masculum urceolo cinctum et tota superficie glandulis (angu- 
losis piligeris) inter stamina sitis preeditum. Antherae extrorsum birimose. — 
Gemma perulata ut in sect. Athroandra. — Species A[rice austro-orientalis. 
