EUPHORBIACEJi. 17U 



4. Homonoya Loue.^ — -Flowers (ucarly of Ricinus) mono3cious 

 or dioecious ; male calyx 3-partitc, valvate. Stamens co, polya- 

 delijhous (of Ricinus) ; more iuterior filaments antherless ; cells of 

 siibglobose anthers confluent, shortly rimose. Calyx of female 

 flowers 5 partite, imbricated. Germen 2-4, oftener o-loculav ; ~ 

 style branches same in number, sinaple, densely papillose. Germen 

 and ovule, as in Ricinus, Capsule small ; seeds smooth membra- 

 nous-arillate. — Vii'gate-ramose shrubs ; leaves alternate sessile 

 or petiolate, 2-stipulate pennincrved entire or dentate coriaceous ; 

 inflorescence spicate or racemose axillary, sometimes 2-sexxial, 

 floriferous at base, not ramified; bracts usually 1-fioAvered. {South 

 West. Trap. Asia., cont. and ins?) 



5. Ccelodiscus, H. Bn.^ — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; male calyx 

 4-5-partite, valvate. Stamens cc, round central concave glandular 

 disk ; filaments more or less high polyadelphous ; anthers introrsc, 

 2-rimose. Female calyx 3-5-fid, hence deeply open. Germen 

 3-5-ocular ; cells 1-ovidate; styles 3-5, simple, stigmatiferous 

 within. Fruit ...? Trees (?) or shrubs;^ leaves alternate or opposite, 

 palmate-3-nerved petiolate exstipulate (?) ; flowers in axillary 

 racemes, 1, 2-scxual, glomerulate or cymulose. (Las tern India.'') 



III. JATK0PHEJ5. 



G. Jatropha L. — Flowers monojcious or more rarely dioecious, 

 generally .j-merous ; calyx imbricated. Petals imbricated, free or 

 connate in gamopetalous corolla, discrete, imbricated or contorted 

 more rarely 0. Glands of disk alteruipetalous, free or connate iu 

 orbicular disk. Stamens generally 10, 2-verticillate, or more 

 rarely 11-30, 3-6-verticillate; filaments more less high connate 

 in central column, more rarely inserted rouud minute rudimout of 

 gynseceum ; exterior 5, oppositipetalous ; anthers 2-locular introrsc 



' I'l. Cochinch. (cd. 1790), 636.— EsDL. Ocii. Koth Nov. PI. Sj>. 375 {Adelin).— Wight, Icon. 



n. 588.5.— M. Aro. in Liimcea, xxxiv. 200; t. 1868, 1869 (^*//(j).— Hassk. JIor(. 7%. 237, 



Prodr. 1022.— SpaHiioslemoit Bi.. 7_;yV;y. 621.— 2lji {Riciiiii«).—iha. Fl. Iiu/.-Bat.Su\ti-\\. i. i-')2 



Endl. Oeii. n. 6810.— H. Bn. Euphorl. 292.— {Spa//iiostciiwii). 



lumaniija Blanco, Fl. Filip. 821. — Hicmalo- * Eiiptunb. 293. — 51. Aug. Prodr. 7o8. 



spermuia Wall. Cut. n. 7953. — Lindl. ^al. ^ llaliit of /iV7/(';i(M. 



A>(. 116. « Spec. 3. Wall. 6V((. n. 7723 (6Vo/oh), 7728 



^ Anterior cells, 2. [liiciinis). — M. Aug. in Litiiiaii, xxxiv. 151. 



■'' Spec, about 3. Gkis. Crot. Moii.G{Crolijii). — 



