180 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



or partly latemlly rimosc ; interior sometimes efitetc or abortive. 

 Germen 3-locular (more rarely 2- or 4-locular); ovule in cells 

 solitary ; obturator usually thick ; style branches generally at 

 apex fctigmatilerous, 1- or 2-fid. Staminodes hypogynous, sometimes 

 3-10 interior to disk. Fruit capsular sometimes subfleshy 

 at maturity, or very rarely fleshy ; cocci generally solute from 

 columella and dehiscent. Seeds usually smooth ; micropyle arillate ; 

 cotyledons of richly albuminous embryo foliaceous palmatinerved. 

 Shrubs or small trees sometimes lU'ent-setose ; leaves alternate 

 petiolate, 2-stipulate, entire, dentate or lobed, penninerved or 

 oftener digitinerved ; flowers usually in compound-cymiferous 

 racemes ; female flowers central ; male more numerous pheripheric. 

 {Wafm reg. of America, Asia, and Africa.) See j). 112. 



7. Manihot Plum.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous (nearly of 

 Cnidoscolus) \ male calyx more or less deeply 5-fid, quincuucially 

 imbricated. Stamens 1 0, 2-seriate ; filaments free, slender, inserted 

 between the marginal teeth or lobes of thick fleshy-glandular wide 

 disk ; anthers dorsally affixed ; cells lateral or oftener (in shorter 

 stamens alternating with leaves of calyx) more or less extrorse, 

 longitudinally rimose. Female calyx 5-fid or oftener S-j^artite 

 deciduous. Disk hypogynous, thick, subannular, often furnished 

 outwardly with 10 very short staminodes. Germen 3-locular ; 

 ovules solitary in cells descendent ; micropyle extrorse superior ; 

 obturator thick ; * style afterwards divided into 8 thick lobes, shortly 

 repeatedly 2-lobed, papillose, undulate. Fruit capsular, 5-coccous ; 

 cocci 2-valved ; exocarp usually solute ; seeds oi Jatroj_)ha ; micro2:)ylc 

 thick, arillate. — Herbs, undershrubs, or more rarely trees ; root (?) 

 sometimes tuberose ; often glabrous glaucescent ; abounding in a 

 hyaline juice ; leaves alternate (of Jatropha), simple or digitate- 

 compound ; stipules usually small, deciduous flowers in simple or 

 ramified racemes sometimes cymiferous, often terminal ; female 



1 Cat. 20 (part.). — T. Inst. 658, t. 438. — times with pale purple stripe. 



Adans. F<im. cles PI. ii. 356. — Endl. Gen. n. ■■• In the centre, at an eai-ly age, an abortive 



8508. — H. Bn. Jiuplwrb. 305, t. 19, fig. 12-17. — germen may he seen. 



M. Alio. Piijih: 1057. — Camagnoc Auiil. Oiiiaiu ''An elongated process is present, rising fi-om 



iii. Trois Mem. 65. — Junipha H. B. K. Nov. Ocii. the top of the nut, and more or less compressed 



ct Spec. ii. 106, t. 109. — A. Juss. Etiphorb. 37, at the apex or spathulato attached to the back 



t. 10, fig. 33. — Aijpi C. Bauh. Pill. 91. of the obturator (sometimes taken for a middle 



^ Usually coloured bluish or purplish, some- lobe of the obtui-ator itself) . 



