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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



12. Sarcoclinium Wight i. — Flowers (nearly of Jafrofhu) 

 dioecious ; male sepals 5 or more rarely 3, 4, valvate. Petals same 

 iu number alternate, shorter than calyx, or sometimes twice as 

 numerous as se23als, imbricated. Stamens central, 2-verticillate, 

 twice as numerous as sepals, or more rarely 12-15 ; the more 

 interior alternipetalous ; filaments surrounded at base with 5 alter- 

 nipetalous glands, subfree or oftener connate. Germen 3-locular ; 

 cells 1-ovulate;" style erect, afterwards 2-fid ; branches 2-4-fid, 

 stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule 3-coccous; seeds albuminous 

 exarillate. — Shrubs ; branches thick ; leaves ^ alternate petiolate 

 2-stipulate, penninerved, cutii'e or serrate coriaceous ; flowers axillary 

 or supra-axillary spicate racemose, 2-6-stichous ; bracts alternate 

 imbricated, sometimes scarious, 1-3-flowered ; pedicels cymose 

 articulate. {South Jsia and trap. JFest jlfrica^) 



13. Galeria Zoll. and Mok.^ — Flowers dioecious; sepals 5, free 

 or connate at base, valvate.^ Petals 5, alternate, concave or subgaleate- 

 cucullate, induplicate-valvate. Stamens 10, 2-seriate ; exterior alter- 

 nipetalous ; filaments inserted below rudiment of gynajceum, connate 

 at base ; anthers introrse ; the oppositipetalous nestled in the cavity 

 of the petals ; cells free, introrsely rimose, finally emarginate. 

 Germen 2, 3-locular ; ovules solitary ; style afterwards divided into 2, 

 3 lobes 2-partite stigmatiferous at apex. F'ruit coriaceous, irregularly 

 compressed, non-valved, 1-spermous by abortion ; seed albuminous ; 

 cotyledons of transverse embryo flat, wider than radicle.- — Small 

 trees ; ^ leaves alternate, 2-stipidate entire penninerved veined ; 

 flowers in long pendulous terminal racemes. Male racemes fasciculate 

 cymiferous ; female simple.^ [Java, Malaisla.'') 



1 Icon. t. 1S87, 18SS.— H. Bn. Eiiphnrbiac. 

 309, t. 11, fig. 17, 18 ; in Admisonia, xi. 93.— 

 M. Arg. Prodi; 726. — Af/rosh's/iichi/s Dalz. in 

 HooJ:. Joui-ii. (1850), 41.— H. Bn. Eiiphorhiae. 

 310.— M. Aim. op. fit. 725. 



2 Ovules usually descendent ; micropyle cx- 

 trorse superior or sometimes (in .S'. Hool:eri) 

 ascendent ; micropyle introrse inferior. 



^ Usually largo. 



■• Spec. a. Thw. Eunm. PI. Znjl. 279.— M. 

 Aug. in Flura (1804), 534 ; in Liiiiiaa, xxxiv. 

 144 [Agrostistachi/.'^). 



■' Si/sl. Verzn. (1846), 19 (nee Heist, nee 

 Presl). — Endi.. Oen. Suppl. v. 94.— Pi., in 



Aiui.Sc. Nat. ser. 4,;ii. 25^.~I!aiiwttui E. Br. in 

 Moi-sf. n. Jar. Jtiir. (1852), 249, 50 (nee Mia.).— 

 H. Bn. Eiipliivl. 311. — Schnizl. Icoiwg. t. 

 172 * ».— M. Arg. Prodr. \Oi&.—Crcmostach,,s 

 TuL. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, xy. 259. 



' Not contiguous in young bud," ex directione 

 pilorum marginum et ex forma ijubricatis." 

 (M. Arg.) 



^ Indumentum simple. 



^ A genus formerly connected -with Aii/idesmrt. 



' Spec, about 12. Bl. Sijdr. 1124 (Aiiti- 

 *»■(««).— MlQ. FL Iiid.-Bat. Suppl. 471.— M. 

 Arg. in Liimcen^ xxxiv. 204 [Ben net (i a). 



