EUPHOUBIAGEM. 183 



10. Pausandra Eadlk.' — Flowers dioecious, 3-5-merous ; calyx 

 lobed, imbricated. Petals 3-5, contorted or imbricated. Stamens 

 few (4-8), inserted round more or less conspicuous central concavity 

 of receiitacle, clothed with glandular sometimes inwardly undulate- 

 cristate disk, the exterior 3-5 opposite petals. The interior 1-4, 

 alternating with the preceding ; filaments all free, finally subex- 

 serted ; anthers 2-locular sub-4-loeellate, introrsely rimose. Eudi- 

 raent of gynteceum 0. Perianth of female flowers as in male . . . ? 

 Germen 3-locular ; cells 1 -ovulate. Capsule 3-coccous ; seeds 

 glabrous ; " micropyle extrorse arillate. — Small trees glabrous or 

 villulose ; leaves alternate elongated-oblong subentire or dentate 

 penniuerved petiolate, 2-stipulate ; flowers in simple axillary spikes 

 simple or few times ramified glomeruliferous.^ ( Tvop, South America.'^) 



11. Monotaxis Ad. Be.'' — Flowers monoecious or more rarely 

 dioecious ; male 4-5-merous ; sepals valvate or scarcely imbricated 

 (Liiu'dion), ^ sometimes oftener scarcely contiguous, subvalvate, or 

 more or less closely quincuncially-imbricated {Eeissijxc). '' Petals 

 same in number alternate ; leaf more or less hastate-2 -lobed and 

 imbricated, or more rarely contorted. Stamens 8-10, 2-seriate ; 

 filainents free or connate at base, anthers 2-locular, extrorse or sub- 

 introrse ; cells discrete from apex of connective transversely 

 pendulous 2-arraed, rimose. Glands 5, alternating Avith exterior 

 stamens. Female calyx 4, 5-merous. Petals simple {Jlc/ssipa), or 

 more rarely 0. Glands hypogynous 3, 5, sometimes 2-lobed. 

 Germen 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style nearly to base 3-partite ; 

 branches more or less high 2-fid ; lobes stigmatiferous at apex, 

 variously lacmato. Capsuh^ 3-coccous ; seeds arillate from exostome ; 

 embryo albuminous, thin, subcylindrical. — Small uudershrubs; leaves 

 alternate, opposite or ternate, subulate-stipulate, shortly petiolate, 

 linear or lanceolate, entire recurved or revolute at margin, muticous or 

 apiculatc ; flowers cymulose terminal {L/'ii id/on'), or terminal but Avith 

 lateral habit {I'em/pa), and surroiinded at base with younger lateral 

 branches. (Jiis/ral/a.'*) 



1 In Flora (1870), 81, t. 2.— K.Ba.'m Adan- Oeii. n. 5833.— H. Bx. Eiqyhurbiac. 307, t. 10, 



tonia, xi. 91. fig. 22-2o.— M. Ano. Prodr. 212. 



* Dusky-spotted. '' If. 1!n. in AdaiiKonia, vi. 291. 

 'Proximate to TimrnrsnHa sect. Argij- ' Steud. ex Ki,. in ic/im. P/. P/r/.*.?. ii. 230.— 



thamiiia, irippocirpandni M. Auo. in Liiniien, xxxiv. 61 ; 



* Spec. 2, 3. Casar. Kov. Stirp. Sras. Dec. I'rmlr. 207.— II. Bn. in Adaiisonia, vi. 292. 

 75.— Walp. Ilej). V. 3G5 {Thouinia). ' Spec, about 7. Endl. Eniim. PI. Jliicg. 19. 



' In Diipcn: Voy. C<iq. Bot. t. 49 B ; in Ann. — Nees in PL Preiss. ii. 230. — H. Bn. in Adaii- 

 Se. Nat. ser. i. xxix. 386. — Endl. AUikt. 8, t. 8 ; HMiin, vi. loc. cit. 



