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14. Johannesia Vellos.^ — Flowers monoecious ; calyx gamo- 

 jAyllous, shortly 3-5-dentate at apex, valvate. Petals 3—5, imbri- 

 cated or contorted. Glands alternipetalous -3-5. Stamens 8-10, 

 2-seriate, of which 5 are shorted exterior oppositipetalous ; others 

 longer 3-5, alternipetalous ; filaments all connate at base in central 

 column ; anthers introrse, 2-rimose, finally versatile extrorse. ' Sta- 

 minodes in female flower 3-5, shortly tongue-shaped, or sometimes U. 

 Germen 2- or more rarely 3-locular ; ovules solitary in cells ; micro- 

 pyle extrorse superior obturated ; style 2, 3-partite ; branches twice 

 2-chotomous, 2-lobed, stigmatiferous at apex. Fruit capsular, fleshy ; 

 cocci 2, 3 with cUfliculty separating ; cocci outwardly at apex porous ; 

 seeds albuminous. — A large rather milky tree ; indumentum simple ; 

 leaves alternate digitate-compound, 3-7-foliolate ; petiole at apex 

 2-glandular ; secondary petiole naked ; folioles penninerved ; stipviles 

 linear -lanceolate ; flowers in compound axillary corymbiform cymes ; 

 female in each cymule central; bracts often 2-glandular at base. 

 {BrazU?) 



15. Aleurites Forst.^ — Flowers monoecious ; calyx valvate, un- 

 equally broken. Petals 5, contorted or imbricated. Male glands 5, 

 sub-free or connate in ui'ceolum, alternating with petals. Stamens tx, 

 inserted on conical receptacle, 2-co -verticillate ; filaments sub-free or 

 synadelphous towards base ; anthers introrse or more rarely extrorse,^ 

 2-rimose. Perianth of female flowers as in male, but longer. Glands 

 hypogynous 5, alternipetalous. Staminodes 0, or more rarely few.'' 

 Germen free, 2-5-locular ; "^ style branches same in number, stigma- 



1 Alograf. (1798), 199.— M. Abg. Frodr. 715. in Aim. Mus. viii. 69, t. S-l.— Vernicia Lour. FI. 



— Joannesia GoM. Olis. MtfK Bot. 2, t. 1 (part. Cochinch. (ed. 1790), 586. — Tdopea Sol.ind. (ex 



nee Peb8.). — A»(la A. Juss. E'tphorb. 39, t. 12, Ct.ehtn. Fruct. ii. 195). — Carda Nokonh. (cx 



fig. 37. — "^Iaki. Ainwii. Monac.t.X. — Enul. Gra. Hassk. Cat. Sort. Bog. 236). — imbiiiu.>: CoM- 



n. 5801.— H. Bn. Euphorb. 316, t. 12, fig. 38- mer8. (ex J. Geii. 389).— £teoracc« Co.mmeks. 



34. — Andiscus\-EhijO&. Fl. Fluiii. ii. t. 86. (ex A. Juss. Eaphnrb. 38, t. 11). — Endl. Gcii. 



- Spec. 1. /. princeps Vellos. he. cit.—Aiida n. 5804.— H. Bn. Etiph rb. 318, t. 12, fig. 33-36. 



G'Jtnesii A. Juss. Inc. cU. — A. S. H. PL Us. Bras. — EUcococcus Spkexo. Sijst. iii. 884. — Camiriiim 



t. 64, 55. — A. Brasilicnsis Radd. Mem. Qiiar. RuMPH. Rcrb. Amboiii. ii. ISO, t. 5. — G.eutn. 



Plant. Bras. 25. — Aiidiscns peittap/ii/llus Vel- Fruct. ii. 194, t. 125. 



LOS. FL Flum. ii. t. 86. — Aleurites pentuplujlln ^ In A. Trisperma (Blanc. FL d. Filip. ed. 1. 



Wall. Cat. n. 7959 (ex H. Bn. Euphorb. 317 ; 755. — M. Aug. Frodr. 724, sect. 3 (Seuttales).— 



in Adaiisonia, iv. 284). A. ISapoiiaria Blanc, op. cit. ed. ii. 519). 



' Char. Gen. (1776), n. 56. — J. Gen. 389. — * Sometimes but rarely fertile; hence a few 



Lamk. Diet. i. 80 ; Suppl. i. 289. — A. Juss. Eu- flowers are hermaphrodito. 



phorb. 38, t. 12, fig. 36.— Endl. Gen. n. 6802. — " Stellate indumentum entangled solubile 



— H. Bn. Euphorb. 345, t. U, fig. 19, 20, t. 12, from seed, and often (ex M. Ako.) t-ikon for 



fig. 1-15. — M. Alto. Frodr. 722. — Dri/aiidra sacciform disk. 

 Thunk. FL Jap. 267, t. 27 (nee R. Br.).— CoKU. 



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