186 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



tiferous 2-fid at apex. Ovules solitary in cells ; myeropyle oxtrorse 

 superior obturated. Fruit^ fleshy- capsular ; exocarp subdrupaceous 

 solute; cocci 2-5, 1-spermous. Seeds" exarUlate;^ cotyledons of 

 thickly albuminous embryo foliaceous orbieulate-ovate, digitinerved 

 at base. — Trees ; indumentum stellate or of simi^le or 2-fid hairs, 

 constant ; leaves alternate long petiolate, entire or thickly dentate 

 or lobed, digitinerved at base, 2-glanduIar above ; petioles often 

 articulate at base; stipules usually 0, sometimes small inconspicuous 

 or sooner or later caducous ; flowers * in terminal racemes or axillary 

 to the upper leaves, many times ramified cymiferous ; the central 

 in cymules often female more thickly stipitate.^ {Trop. Eastern 

 Asia, Continental and ins. Trop. Oceania.^) 



16. Sagotia H. Bn.'' — Flowers monoecious, 5-merous ; sepals same 

 in number in both sexes and petals longer imbricated. Glands (in 

 female flower 0) same in number alternating with petals. Stamens c», 

 free, inserted on convex receptacle ; filaments short erect ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose. Germeu 3-locular, cells 1-ovulate ; style 

 branches 3, 2 -fid stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule furnished with 

 long persistent perianth, 3-coccous ; seeds axarillate. — A tree; leaves 

 petiolate alternate, 2-stipulate, simple penninerved veined ; flowers 

 racemose. {Guiana, North Brasil.^) 



17. Chsetocarpus Thw.» — Flowers dioecious apetalous ; sepals 4, 

 decussate imbricated. Glands of disk 4, opposite petals. Stamens 

 8-16 ; filaments connate at base with rudimentary germen, pilose ; 

 anthers introrse, 2-rimose. Germen 3-locular; branches of 3-partite 

 style stigmatiferous, 2-partite at apex ; ovules solitary in cells obtu- 

 rated. Fruit capsular ; seed smooth arillatc at microi^yle. — Trees ; 

 wood hard ; leaves alternate stipulate petiolate entire penninerved ; 



1 Large; pericarp thict. ^ gpej,, 3_ l Sjjcc. 1000 Jntropha.—'LovR. }'l. 



' Large globosi', outwardly fleshy. Cochinch. 673 {Jiigkois). — Kjempf. Amccii. Krol. 



3 Kxterior cuat, suLequaDy incrassate fleshy ; 7S9 (^ijwii;)).— Blanco, Fl. de Filip. 755 ; ed. 2, 



interior veiy hard. 719.— H. Bn. in Adaiisonia, i. 146, 316; vi. 



•* White or pink ; the female larger. 297. 



' Sict. (ex M. Akg.) 3 : 1. Camirium. An- ? In Adansonin, i. 53 (nee Walp.).— M. Arc. 



thera always erect; germen 2-loeular; indu- Piodr. 1113. 



mentum stellar.— 2. Dryaiidra. Anthers erect, ^ Spec. 1. S. racemusn H. Bn. op. cit. i. 51 ; 



then oscillating-extrorse reflexed and suhpen- vi. 15. 



dulous; hairs at base 2-partite or subsimple.— » In Mook. Joiirii. (1851), 300, t. 10; Eiiiini. 



S. limtiales. Anthers few, 2-verticillate ; ger- Fl, Zeijl. 274.— H. Bn. Eitphorhiac. 223.— JI. 



men 3, 4-locular ; indumentum stellar. Aug. Prodr. 1121. 



