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usually few, inferior iii raceme, or central in small cyme ; others 

 male," all sometimes largely bracteate. {Warm America.^) 



8 ? Tannodia H. Bn." — Flowers (nearly of Jatropha) monoecious ; 

 male calyx 5-partite, valvate. Petals 5, alternate, imbricated. 

 Stamens 10, 2-seriate verticillate ; filaments connate at base, and 

 siUTOimded by o alternipetalous glands, afterwards free ; anthers 

 rimose, 2-locular ; the oppositipetalous shorter introrse ; the 

 alternipetalous extrorse. Female calyx 5 -dentate, imbricated. 

 Petals 5, alternate. Disk hyjjogynous, membranous urceolate. 

 Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; microj^yle extrorse superior ; 

 obturator rather thick ; style branches 3, short, reflexed, 2-fid. 

 Fruit (?) — A glabrous shi-ub ; leaves alternate petiolate, 2-stipulate, 

 entire penninerved ; flowers m spike-shaped racemes ; bracts 2- 

 glandular cymose-3-flowered.^ (Malaeassia.*) 



9. Tournesolia Scop.-^ — Flowers nearly of Jatropha^ often 

 monoecious, more rarely dioecious ; receptacle convex, or sometimes 

 slightly concave (an insertion whence perianth and disk are sub- 

 perigynous). Male calyx 5- or more rarely 3, 4-partite, valvate or 

 reduplicate. Petals same in number alternate, finally valvate, more 

 or less evolute, sometimes very small or entii-e {CrosopJiora^ Ditaxis^ 

 Philyra^)^ or crenate-dentate ( »S^;era«-S/(7«), ° sub-3-lobed or 3-lobed 

 {Avgi/thamnia),^^ sometimes palmate-3-7-fid [Chiroj}etalum),^^ rarely 

 unequal, imbricated or more rarely contorted, sometimes subvalvate, 

 not contiguous. Glands 5, alternipetalous, more or less distinct, 



' Spec, about 40. L. Sjkc. 1007 (Jatropha). — Chiropetalum A. Juss. Chlorocaulon Kl. Sesfonlc- 



PoHL. PI. Hills, i. 27, t. 10-48. — M. Arc. in lua Vellos. Bifaxis Vahl, Lcpulucocca Tukcz. 



Liuiiaa, xx.\iv. 205. — H. B.\. in Adaitsoiiin, i. Lepuhci'oton Presl, Philijrii Kl. Phijlera Exdl. 



G6, 145,343; iii. 149; iv. 27G. Schinza Denxst. SerophijUm Be.nth. Spciiin- 



- In AiliiHsonitt, i. 251. — M. Arg. Proilr. 728. skia H. Bx. Steiioiiia Didr.). 



— Taiidoiiia H. Bn. op. cit. i. 184, t. 7, fig. 1, 2 ^ As to sj-mmetry, much smaller however, 



(nee Mou.) ? A. Juss. Euphorh. 27, t. 7, fig-. 24.— Endl. 



^ A genus on account of the sestivation of the Gen. n. 5833. — H. Bn. Euphorh. 298, t. 15, fig. 



calyx allied to7«/TOyy/(ff, and hence to 7b!(n(«so?i«, 23-29. — AiMcanthimn (sect.) H. Bn. in Adaii- 



approximate as it appears to HiircocUnum and mnia, iv. 270. 



Paiimndrii. 8 Kl. in Erichs. Arch. (1841), 199.— H. Bn. 



^ Spec. 1. T. cordifolia H. Bn. loe. cit. Ei/phork 297, t. 12, fig. 16-22.— P/ii/lera Enul. 



■^ LUrod. 243, n. 1097 (1777).— H. Bn. in Goi. Suppl. ii. 91. 



Adansonia, xi. 89. — Crozophora Neck. E/em. ii. ' H. Bn. Etiphorh. 388. 



337, n. 1127 (1790).— A. Juss. Euphorbiac. 27, "' P. Bii. /«m. 339.— Sw. Prarfc. 39.— A. Juss. 



t. 7. — Neeb, Oen. ii. t. 37. — Payee, Onjnnvg. Eiiphnrh. 26, t. 7. — Argi/rothamnia M. Arc. in 



526, t. 110. — H. Bn. Euphorhiae. 321, t. 15, Liiinaiii, -xxxiv. 144 ; Prodr. 732. — Eiianjijro- 



fig. 12-22.— Endl. Geii. n. 5829.— M. Akg. thamiiia 11. Aro. loc. cit. 148. 



Prodr. 746 (incl. : Androphoi us Kahst. Aphora '' A. Juss. in Aim. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, xxT. 21. — 



NuTT. AiffotJiamnia Si'KENO. Ari/i/rothamiiia'M.. Endl. Geit. n. 5830. — H. Bn. Euphorh. 336, t. 



Aro. Argijthamnia Sw. Caperoiiia A. 8. H. 15. — CAforocffKfc« Kl. in .B«rf/. ff«i. Suppl. v. 89. 



