178 XaTURAL HlSTOIiY OF PLANTS. 



2. Pedilanthus Neck.^ — Flowers nearly of Eiiphorhld ; perianth 

 irregular, usually oblique, calciform (Eiiju'di/anf/nis),- accrescent at 

 back, with lobe-shaped appendage entire or 2-fld, nioi'c rarely 

 (Cuhant/iiis),^ subequal-urceolate and accrescent at back, in shield- 

 shaped appendage, sometimes 2-lobcd at back [Calccrjlas'nnn)^ 

 Glands at the bottom of the appendage 2-6, or more rarely 0. 

 Generative organs and other characters as in Euphorhia ; stipes of 

 germen extrorscly declinate. Fruit capsular, seeds exarillate. — 

 Fleshy shrubs; leaves alternate; stipules small, glanduliform , 

 or 0; inflorescence^ and other characters of Euphorhia. — {Trap. 

 America).^ 



II. RlCmE^E. 



3. Ricinus T. — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; calyx 5-partite, 

 finally valvate. Stamens in male flower cd, inserted on rather convex 

 receptacle ; filaments cc, ramified, many times divided above ; 

 anthers small 2-dymo-giobose ; cells laterally or extrorsely rimose, 

 longitudinally adnate to thin connective. Germen (in male flower 0), 

 ;3-locular subsessile ; style branches 3, afterwards beyond middle 

 2-partite, within and on all sides much papillose stigmatiferous (red). 

 Ovules in cells solitary descendent ; micropyle extrorse superior ; 

 obturator thick subhemispherical. Capsule 3-locular ; exocarp finally 

 solute, externally smooth or echinate ; cocci solute from axis. 

 Seeds smooth (more or less spotted) ; aril of exostome depressed, 

 conical, obscurely 2-lobed ; cotyledons of large embryo foliaceous, 

 subelliptical, equal in breadth to albumen — Arborescent or tall 

 herbaceoiis plants ; leaves alternate stipulate ; petiole long at ventral 

 line, bearing glanduliform tubercles ; limb wide, usually peltate, 

 palmatinerved, 7-15-lobed, unequally dentate; flowers in terminal, 

 contracto-ramified cymiferous racemes ; female superior ; inferior 

 male, 1-bracteate and 2-bracteolate ; pedicels articulate. [All warm 

 regions.) Sec p. 109. 



1 Elem. ii. 354.— A. Juss. EiipJioi/iliie. 6d. — " Boiss. he. cit. 1261, sect. ii. 



Endl. Gill. n. 5765. — H. Bn. EKplwrbiac. '■> Flowers often red sometimes spotted with 



56,287, t. 3, fig. 1-15. — Boiss. Prodi: 4, 1261. — rod and green, or violet. 



Tilln/mahiides T. Inst. 654. — Crepicluria Haw. '• Spec, about 18. Spueng. Sysf. iii. 802. — 



Si/ii. sm-c. G7. — ifcj«(/(;«/ff Kl. et Grcke, 7V/CWC PoiT. in Aim. JIIus. xi.\. 388, t. 19. — Bentk. 



19. — i)i«rf( »i7na Kl. et GncKE, ?■->('. ciV. Sidp/i. iO, t. 23; in Soo/,-. Joiini. vi. 321. — 



2 Boiss. foe. cit. 4, sect. i. Kl. et Gucke, I'ricoec. 106. — Ghiseb. in Mem. 

 '' BoTss. !nc. cit. 7, scpt. iii. Am. Ae. (1860). ICl. H. Bn. in Aihiiisoiiin, i. 340. 



