Eopiioi 



PA( I. 1 



• 







XCI. SCEPACEjE.— s 



! , alternate, with membr I pules wh 



l.uls. Flowers <J $ — ,' ■ Calyx - 



minute ami membi 

 ments short, straight, 

 !. opening by I-'; 

 Qnectiv< inc i 

 axillary racemes. < 'ah 

 whorls, free ; tin- inner ones in i 



• ►vary 2-celli 

 ma with two short emarginat ! with 



; ' qua) fringed ones ; ovules in ; 

 ml, pendulous, anatropal, with a bi 

 projecting from the plac< i 



the foramen ; their ends oft< n buried in 

 hairs projecting from the the cell. 



[In Lepidostachys Roxburghii thee 



lied, 4-valved ; t] 

 thin, tough, ai from the friable 



sarcoc rp. Seeds single or t\^". i m • 



ulent aril ; embryo grei n in 

 of albumen, with obovate <-"i_\: ad a 



radicle next the hilum. 



1 li re it is that the Euphorl 

 touches the Amenta] ; for the plants of the 



: 1 ordi r may be regardi 

 Spurgeworts. In their mal tey have 



much the I Mastwi rts r Birchw 



and one <>f them has actual 

 an Alnus by Roxburgh ; but the 

 more the appearance of Antiaris, 

 such Urtical genus. The fruit, which if 

 very remarkable, 1 only know from I 

 burgh's account, the - 

 quoted from the Flora I 1 : 



in which the plates of th 

 tho foramen >1 believe not till after impregnation) is exceedingly curious : th 

 doubt what ultimately become the aril. In th< - i the ends ol thi 



buried in a thick mass of hairs proceeding from the placentary suture n< 

 the fill. Foreetiera does not appear to differ from Scepads more than the . 

 Spurgeworts from each other. It has do aril, and its fruit is indi 

 it is amentaci ous. Piptolepis i f Bentham, placed m \t it bj Endhcher, 

 vir\ different, on account of it-- hermaphrodite flowi re. 

 Nativi > of thi- tropica] forests of India. 



The \\ 1 of the lv kra, Lepidostachys Roxbuj 



various economical purpoa 



Tu' 



V V. 



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I 

 1 1 





a 

 raid. 



X i ' v 



- 

 sition. — Euphoi 3 • — 



S 



:. ovary ; 6. a > • of it ; 7 t 



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