EUPHORBTAOEM. 187 



flowers iu small cusliions, axillary, densely glomerate, or the female 

 sometimes pedicellate sqiiamnlose-braeteate, {^East India ^ Brazil.-) 



18. Heava Aubl.^ — Flowers monoecious apetalous ; calyx 5-fld, 

 valvate or snbinduplicate, sometimes more rarely sliglitly twisted at 

 apex. Stamens5, 1-seriate^ {Euhevea^), or 6-10,2-seriate(i?/s/);/w?z/«'') 

 verticillate ; the oppositipetalous 5 longer inferior;''' others alternate 

 inserted higher; anthers all extrorse, longitudinally 2-riniose, verti- 

 cally inserted on erect central column. Disk or rudimentary 

 {E'uhevea), oftener variously evolute round base of column (Bisi- 

 j}honia). Germen rudimentary surmounting top of column. Germen 

 of female flowers sessile ; glands distinct or connate, sometimes sub- 

 nil ; cells 3, 1-ovulate ; style column erect or very short, incrassate 

 stigmatiferous lobes 2-lobed at apex. Fruit capsular;^ cocci of 

 solubile ligneous endocarp 2-valved ; seeds " descendent ; microj^yle 

 extrorse arillate. — Large trees; juice copious milky ; leaves alternate 

 long petiolate, digitate 3-foliolate; folioles sessile or petiolulate penni- 

 nerved, patellar-glandulose at base ; flowers ^° in axillary and ter- 

 minal ramified-cymiferous racemes ; female thicker pedicellate central 

 or in each cymule. {North Eastern Trop. 8. America}'^) 



19. Trigonostemon Bl.^'^ — Flowers monoecious ; calyx 5-partite, 

 sometimes shortly 5-dentate in male flower [Dimorphocalf/x.^^) Petals 

 same in number alternate imbricated, sometimes minute or [Sil- 

 vcea^*). Stamens 5 {Telocijjnc'^^) or 3, 1 -verticillate (Silvaa, Eutri- 

 c/onostemon^^), sometimes 2 -verticillate ; verticels sometimes unequal in 



' Roxn. Fl. Iiiil. iii. 848 (AiMici). — Wall. b61 {Siphonia).— }!. 'B.'K. Nuv. Gen. et Spec. vii. 



Cat. n. 7872 {Braclleia .'). 171 ISiphoniii). — Kl. in JIe(/>i. Arzn. xiv. t. i, 5 



2 Spec. 1. C. myrsinites (sect. Amanoella. H. {Siphonia). — Benth. in Hook. Joiirij. (1854), 

 Bn. in Adaiisonia. xi. 94). 369. — H. Bn. in Adaiisonia, iv. 284. 



3 Giiian. 871, t. 335.— M. Aro. Frodr.lKJ.-- >= Bl. S!j(b: 600.— Endl. Geii. n. 5835.— H. 

 Slphmiia Schkeb. ffcH. 656. — A. Jvas. £"p/iori. Bti. Eup/iorli. 3i0, t. 11.— M. Aro. in Liniicca, 

 39, t. 12.— Endl. Oen. n. 5799.— H. Bx. Eii- xxxiv. 212; Prodr. 1105 (incl. : Athroisma 

 phorb. 324, t. 14, fig. 39-41, t. 15, fig. 1-11.— Geifp. Dimorp/iocali/x Thw. EiicJiidioii3\cK (?), 



Cmiitchouc A. Rich, in Jourii. F/ii/s. (1785). — Silvtea Hook, et Aun. Telvgijne H. Bn. Tritaxis ' 



Micrandra R. Br. in Honf. PI. Jav. Rar. 237 H. Bn). 



(nee Benth.). " Thw. Ennm. PI. Zeijl. 278. 



* Alternating with calyx lobes. " Hook, et Akn. in Beech. Voy. Bot. 211. — 

 ^ M. Aro. in imHfflfl, xxxiv. 204. — Sect.fficra. H. Bn. Eup/iorl). HI. 



H. Bn. Euphorb. 326. '•' H. Bn. Euphorb. 327. 



* H. Bn. loc. cit. 320 (sect. B). " M. Aro. in Linmca xxxiv. 214. — Trir/o- 

 ' Alternating with lobes of disk and calyx. stcmon Bl. Fl. Jav. Prafat. viii. — ? — Enchidioit 



* Exocarp often fleshy before maturity. Jack, in Hook. C'omp, to Bo/, .l/a?. ii. 257.— Endl. 

 ' Large dusky-spotty. Gen. n. 5838. (Etiehidiiim)—H. Bn. Eaphorb. 

 w Greenish or yellowish, small. 652. — M. Aro. Frodr. 1256. — Athroisma Gripf. 

 " Spec, .ibout 8. L. p. Siippl. 422 {Jatropha). Notul. iv. 477. 



— Per8. Syn. ii. 688 [Siphonia). — W. Spec. iv. 



