488 EuniOKBiACE^ (Prain). [Adenodine 



XXXIII. ADENOCLINE, Turcz. 



Flowers dkecious, very rarely moua^cious ; petals ; disc g]an- 

 dular. Male : Calyx deeply 5-lobed, open in bud ; lobes imbricate. 

 Stamens usually 10, sometimes fewer or more (6-12) ; filaments 

 short, free, the outer alternate with the calyx-lobes, inserted round 

 the central gland-bearing receptacle ; anthers terminal, 2-celled ; 

 cells distinct, globose, divaricate, opening from the apex, and each 

 at length 2-valved, Rudimentai-y ovar)/ 0. Female : Calyx deeply 

 5-lobed ; lobes as long as the ovary, imbricate. Dise of 3 broad 

 glands alternating with carpels. Ovary 3-celled ; ovules solitary in 

 each cell ; styles slender, 2-partite, recurved, slightly united at the 

 base. Capsule 3-dymous, breaking up into 2-valved cocci. Seeds 

 globose; testa thinly crustaceous ; albumen fleshy; cotyledons 

 leather narrow, flat. 



Slender, erect or diffuse, usually firm, rarely svicculent herbs ; lea\-es alternate 

 or iu one species opposite, narrow or broad, entire or toothed ; flowers very .small, 

 in axillary cymule^ often passing luto a terminal raceme or panicle ; male flowers 

 usually several ; female flowers few or solitary, usually forming uniparou.s cymes, 

 their pedicels abiniptly reflexed, 



DisTRiB. Eight endemic species. 



Dicccious plants ; leaves herbaceous. 

 Leaves alternate : 



Leaves all sessile, ovate, serrate ; stipules large, 

 foliaceous 



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(1) stricta 



Leaves petioled below ; 



Upper leaves petioled as w oil as the lower : 



Stipules rather large, foliaceous (2) ovalifolia. 



Stipules very small (3) humilis. 



Upper leaves sessile or subsessilo : 



Lower petioled leaves narrow-lanceolatCj acute : 



Upper sessile leaves entire (4) segsilifolia. 



L'pper sessile leaves serrate (5) serrata. 



Lower petioled leaves orbicular or ovate, obtuse (6) bupleuroides. 



Leaves opposite, petioled (7) Mercurialis. 



Mona^cious plants ; leaves flaccid, below subopposite ... (8) procumbeus. 



1. A. stricta (Prain in Kew Bulletin, 1912, 338); a dicecioua 

 liei'l), woody below, strictly virgately braucliing uj)wardsj 8-9 in. 

 high; int^rnodes l-l in. long ; leaves alternate, sessile, firmly mem- 

 branous, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, acute, base broad confluent 

 with the stipules, margin sharply serrate, -J-?, in. long, 1— ^ ^^^- wide; 

 stipules like the leaves but slightly smaller, i-^ in. long, J— 5 ii^- 

 wide ; male flowers not seen ; female flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, 

 their pedicels abruptly reflexed ; calyx-segments 5, their margn^s 

 seiTate ; ovary glabrous; capsule 11 lin. wide, 3-dymous, smooth. 

 Praht in Ann. Bot, xxvii, 406. 



