Sphyranthera.] CXXXV. EUPHORBIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 411 
77. SPHYRANTHERA, Hook. f. 
An evergreen bush; branches slender, puberulous. Leaves alternate, 
petioled, elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, entire, penninerved. Flowers 
minute, dicecious ; males subumbellately crowded on the top of a slender 
solitary axillary peduncle, emerging from a capitate cluster of very minute 
pubescent imbricating bracts; bnds globosely ovoid. Sepals 4, broadly 
ovate, acute, concave, pubescent without, valvate. Petals? much smaller 
than the sepals, membranous, variable, entire or cleft to the base into two 
lanceolate segments. Stamens about 29, in the centre of the flower, filaments 
filiform, free; anther-cells globose, distant, divaricate, one at each end of the 
rather dilated connective. Fem. fl. and fruit unknown. 
S. capitellata, Hook. f. Ic. Plant. t. 1702; Codizeum ? lutescens, 
Kurz For. Fl. ii. 405. 
MIDDLE ANDAMAN ISLAND; in bamboo jungles along the Middle Straits, 
urz. 
A bush, 10-12 ft., of a yellowish green. Leaves 3-5 in., rather membranous, 
straight or subfalcate, narrowed into a petiole $ in. long; nerves 10-15 pairs, slender. 
Peduneles 4 in., slender, pubescent, pedicels -4 in., decurved. Petals or disk-glands 
sometimes subspathulate.—I am quite uncertain as to the affinities of this curious 
plant. I had named, figured, and described it before recognizing it as Kurz's 
Codiewm ? lutescens, or I should have adopted his specific name. 
Orper CXXXVI. URTICACZJE. 
Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves rarely opposite, often oblique. Stipules 
various. Inflorescence cymose or clustered; flowers usually minute, mono- 
or di-cecious, rarely unisexual, often crowded on the surface of a fleshy flat 
concave or globose involucre, or on (in Ficus) the inner walls of a closed 
receptacle. Perianth equally or unequally toothed, lobed or partite. 
tamens as many as and opposite the perianth divisions, or fewer; anthers 
2-celled. — Pistillode small or 0. Ovary superior, l-celled, style often 
excentric, simple or 2-fid with stigmatose arms, or stigma sessile 
plumose or penicillate; ovule solitary. Fruit simple, a drupe or samara 
or of small indehiscent free achenes, or compound as a confluent mass of 
perianths and pericarps. Seed erect or pendulous, testa membranous ; 
albumen copious, scanty or 0; embryo various.—Genera 108; species 1500, 
chiefly tropical. 
The seven tribes of Urticee here adopted (following Gen. Plant.) are by many 
considered as 2 or more Orders. 
Phenax Sonneratii, Wedd. (DC. Prod. xvi. i. 23537), a S. American herb, differing 
from Maoutia in the filiform stigma, is, according to Sonnerat, an Indian plant; if so, 
no doubt introduced. 
Trize I. Ulmesze. Trees, sap watery. Flowers usually 2-sexual or 
polygamous, appearing before the leaves. Anthers erect in bud. Style 
-id. Ovule pendulous, anatropous. Fruit dry. 
Leaves serrate. Cotyledons flat . eo] on not 
“aves entire (serrate in young plants) Cotyledons 
SC , , .,., 7. 2... lle. 
1. ULMUS. 
2. HOLOPTELEA. 
Trix II. Celtidese. Character of U/mee, but fruit a drupe. 
Male sepals imbricate. Stipules free. Cotyledons broad 3. CELTIS. 
