188 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



number^ {Anisotaxis'^), or oftener 2, 3-verticillate ; verticels equal or 

 the third superior incomplete ( Z>mo/7j/wc«/y*', Trituxis^^ Ckeilosops/s*); 

 central filaments more or less high, sometimes all connate ; anthers 

 introrse, 2-rimose (I)mo?-p/wcalyw, 2'ntaxis, Jnisofaxis,) or extrorse 

 ( C/ieiloj)sis), sometimes patulous above and subhorizontally adnate to 

 the margin of 3-agonal connective {Eiitrigonostemon). Disk in flowers 

 of both sexes evolute, sometimes minute or [Tritaxis). Germen 

 3-locular; style branches varied in form 1 or 2-chotomous ; cells 

 1 -ovulate. Fruit capsular, sometimes furnished at base with accres- 

 cent calyx; cocci 3, 1-spermous; seeds exarillate. Trees or shrubs; 

 leaves alternate 2 -stipulate, usually shortly petiolate oblong penni- 

 nerved, entire or serrate, often falsely vorticillate, congested at 

 summit of twigs ; flowers axillary or terminal in subsimple or more 

 or less ramified. {Asia and Trop. N. Oceania.'') 



20. Cluytia Martyn.'' — Flowers dioecious ; receptacle rather eon- 

 vex or ofteuer slightly concave ; sepals 5 and petals same in number, 

 alternate imbricated, finally slightly perigynous. Glands varied 10, 

 2 -seriate, of which 5 alternipetalous are 2, 3-lobed. Germen sessile ; 

 cells 3, 1 -ovulate ; style more or less high, 3-lobed ; the opposite simple 

 or sometimes 2-lobed, usually smaller. Stamens 5, oppositipetalous ; 

 filaments hypogynous inserted on central column bearing at apex 

 rudimentary germen entire or 2-3-lobed ; anther introrse, 2-rimose. 

 Glands in female flower 5, alternipetalous, usually 2-lobed, lobes 2-fid 

 or 2-partite, stigmatiferous at apex. Capsule 3-coccous, furnished 

 at base with persistent perianth ; seeds albuminous descendent ; micro- 

 pyle arillato. — Shrubs or undershrubs, glabrous or pubescent (hairs 

 simple) ; leaves alternate entire penninerved ; stipules ; flowers ^ 

 solitary or cymose or glomerulate, axillary; female pedicels longer 

 and thicker.'^ {South Eastern Africa, South West Asia.^) 



1 Inferior 5-merous ; superior 3-merous. 411. — A. Juss. Euphorb. 25, t. 6, fig. 21. — 



2 M. Ako. in Zi««(Sff, xxxiv. 213;P/W/-. 1107, Endl. Gch. n. 5840.— H. Bn.£«/)//ot-*. 328, t. 16, 

 sect. 4. fig. 1-21.— M. Arc. Prodr. 1043. — Clutia Boerh. 



^ H. Bk. Euphorb. 342, t. 11, fig. 8-11.— M. Lugd.-Bcit. ii. 260.— L. Oen. n. 1140.— J. Gm. 



Akg. fof. ciif. sect. 3. 387.— G-iiRTN. Fruct. ii. 117, t. 107.— Lamk. 



■■ M. Aro. Prndr. 1106, sect. 2. Sid. ii. 53 ; Suppl. ii.302.— ^ftora Adans. Fam. 



' Spec. 15, 16. KoxB. Ft. Imt. iii. 733 {Cluytia). des PI. ii. 356. 



—Wall. Cs/. n. 7717, 7740, 7849, 7997 (C/-o<(i«), ' Usually whitish or greenish, sometimes 



788G {C/iii/tia), 7852 {A</!/neia).—NmMO, App. rather purple. 



Cat. Bomb. PI. 251 (Craloii). — p Miq. Fl. liid.- ' For genera, localities, and distinctive charac- 



at. i. p. ii. 363 {Eiichidion).— P Eumph. Etrb. ters, see H. Bn. he. cit. 329. 



Amboin. iii. 167, t. 160 {Arbor Spiciilarum) . ' Spec, about 30. Thunb. Fl. Cap. (ed. ScH.), 



« Ex. Bit. Reg. t. 779.— Ait. Mart. Eew. iii. 160 {Pencea) .—3 xcn. Sort. Schashr. ii. 67, t. 250. 



